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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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At
the
same
time
he
issued
his
commands
to
the
cube
within
his
own
car,
and
to
the
cubes
which
by
now
were
inside
the
other
aircars,
realizing
that
the
cubes
themselves
were
the
motive
power
of
the
aircars--and
that
his
will
was
the
will
of
these
individual
cubes.
"Fly
at
once!
Fly
outward
at
top
speed
toward
the
Earth!"
Instantly,
as
though
a
single
signal
had
started
all
the
cars,
a
dozen
aircars
rose
majestically
from
the
crater,
while
Sarka
studied
the
Gnomes
and
the
cubes
in
turmoil
on
the
rim.
He
noted
then,
a
strange
circumstance:
that
when
he
commanded
the
Gnomes
and
the
pursuing
cubes
to
keep
back,
they
hesitated,
dazedly,
as
though
they
did
not
know
whether
to
advance
or
to
retreat;
that
when
he
merely
watched
them,
they
came
on.
He
laughed
aloud
at
this
measuring
of
mental
swords
with
Luar,
and
with
Dalis.
For
he
could
sense
the
conflict
very
plainly.
She
commanded
the
Gnomes
and
the
cubes
to
attack,
he
commanded
them
to
retreat,
and
they
remained
undecided,
like
people
drawn
between
two
extremities,
and
uncertain
which
direction
to
take.
Upward,
side
by
side
now,
floated
the
aircars
of
the
Moon,
and
in
the
forepeak
of
each,
one
of
the
gleaming
cubes,
like--like
anti-gravitational
ovoids
of
the
Moon!
At
the
fast
falling
rim
of
the
crater
boiled
the
Gnomes
and
the
cubes,
stirring
and
tumbling,
hampered
by
their
very
numbers,
as
they
tried
to
attack
at
will
of
Luar
and
retreated
in
confusion
at
the
will
of
Sarka.
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