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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
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Out
of
the
crater
there
came
no
sound
of
heavy
objects
striking,
though
Sarka
felt
there
should
have,
for
the
cubes
were
almost
as
heavy
as
a
man.
Then
his
hair
almost
stood
on
end
under
his
helmet,
for
under
that
first
aircar,
where
he
had
first
seen
it,
the
initial
cube
was
again
gleaming
into
life!
The
thing
had
dissolved
while
being
hurled
over
the
rim,
and
reformed
in
its
proper
place,
its
station
as
silent
sentinel
under
the
aircar!
These
cubes
then,
were
indeed
sentinels--sentinels
impossible
to
injure.
Though
no
force
had
been
used
against
Sarka
and
Jaska,
Sarka
had
the
feeling
that
they
were
powerless,
and
that
here
on
the
edge
of
a
crater
of
the
Moon
awful
forces
were
being
mustered
against
them.
Mustered
slowly,
sluggishly,
yet
surely,
as
though
the
mentality
which
mustered
them
knew
them
helpless,
and
that
there
was
no
need
to
hurry!
As
for
Jaska,
she
merely
clung
to
Sarka
and
waited--trusting
him
no
matter
what
might
transpire.
On
a
blind
chance,
Sarka
brought
out
his
ray
director
again,
turned
its
muzzle
toward
that
invisibly-blue
column,
pressed
with
his
fingers,
moving
the
director
back
and
forth.
Instantly
the
blue
column
seemed
to
break
short
off,
while
the
broken
upper
portion
started
racing
outward
toward
the
Earth.
Sarka
watched
it,
and
noted
that
the
yellowish
glow
on
the
Earth,
even
as
he
watched,
was
fading
out--disappearing!
"If
the
ray
will
smash
the
blue
column,
Jaska,"
he
said,
"it
will
also
destroy
its
source!
Come!
We
will
go
look
for
it!"
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