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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Bell
saw
arms
waving
wildly
in
the
launch
with
the
uniformed
men.
Sunlight
glittered
suddenly
on
rifle
barrels.
Puffs
of
vapor
shot
out.
Something
spat
through
the
wall
beside
Bell.
But
the
roaring
of
the
motors
kept
up,
and
the
pounding
of
the
waves
against
the
curved
bow
of
the
boat-body
grew
more
and
more
violent....
Sweat
came
out
on
Bell's
face.
The
ship
was
not
lifting....
But
it
did
lift.
Slowly,
very
slowly,
carrying
every
pound
with
which
it
could
have
risen
from
the
water.
It
swept
past
the
police
launch
at
ninety
miles
an
hour,
but
no
more
than
five
feet
above
the
waves.
A
big,
clumsy
tramp
flying
the
Norwegian
flag
splashed
up
river
with
its
propeller
half
out
of
water.
Bell
dared
to
rise
a
little
so
he
could
bank
and
dodge
it.
He
could
not
rise
above
it.
He
had
one
glimpse
of
blonde,
astonished
beards
staring
over
the
stern
of
the
tramp
as
he
swept
by
it,
his
wing
tips
level
with
its
rail
and
barely
twenty
feet
away.
And
then
he
went
on
and
on,
out
to
sea.
He
began
to
spiral
for
height
fully
four
miles
offshore,
and
looked
back
at
the
sprawling
city.
Down
by
the
waterfront
a
thick,
curling
mass
of
smoke
was
rising
from
one
spot
abutting
on
the
water.
It
swayed
aside
and
Bell
saw
the
rectangular
opening
out
of
which
the
plane
had
come.
"Ortiz's
in
there,"
he
said,
sick
at
heart.
"Dying
as
he
planned."
But
there
was
a
sudden
upheaval
of
timbers
and
roof.
A
colossal
burst
of
smoke.
A
long
time
later
the
concussion
of
a
vast
explosion.
There
was
nothing
left
where
the
warehouse
had
been.
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