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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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But
there
might
be
a
way.
"I
wonder,"
he
asked
himself,
"if
the
Earth
people
in
this
crater
could
read
my
thoughts
in
spite
of
their
agonies,
if
I
could
get
my
thought
to
them
through
the
globe?
I
wonder
if,
reading
my
thoughts,
they
would
obey?"
Bit
by
bit,
as
parts
of
a
puzzle
fall
into
place,
he
made
his
plan,
and
his
heart
beat
high
with
excitement.
Jaska
bent
before
him
to
look
into
his
eyes,
and
he
knew
that
she
was
trying
to
read
his
face.
She
knew,
wise
Jaska,
that
this
brilliant
lover
of
hers
was
making
a
plan,
and
she
believed
in
the
sure
success
of
it
because
it
would
be
his!
She
smiled
at
him,
her
courage
high,
and
waited!
Holding
the
ray
director
between
his
body
and
that
of
Jaska,
he
took
a
terrible,
ghastly
chance.
Dalis
had
known
the
secret
sign
manual
of
these
two;
but
would
the
intelligence
of
the
cubes
comprehend
it?
He
must
take
the
chance,
slender
as
it
seemed.
His
free
hand
began
to
spell
out,
with
all
speed,
the
mad
plan
he
had
conceived.
"The
white
flames
are
harmless
if
one
plunges
into
them
voluntarily.
Are
you
afraid
to
attempt
it?
No?
Then
unfasten
your
clothing,
and
have
it
so
arranged
that
you
can
drop
entirely
out
of
it
when
I
give
you
the
signal,
which
will
be
a
mere
widening
of
the
eyes,
like
this!
You
understand?
We
must
go
nude
into
the
flames,
so
that
they
will
bathe
our
whole
bodies!
But,
when
you
slip
out
of
your
clothing,
tear
your
anti-gravitational
ovoid
from
the
skull-pan
of
your
helmet,
and
hold
it
in
your
mouth!
Then
depend
upon
me,
and
have
no
fear!"
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