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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"You'll
look
after
the
ship
and
Paula,"
said
Bell
impatiently.
"All
right?"
Jamison
nodded.
Paula
looked
appealingly
at
Bell,
but
he
had
become
a
man
with
an
obsession.
Perhaps
the
death
of
Ortiz
had
cemented
it,
but
certainly
he
was
unable
to
think
of
anything,
now,
but
the
necessity
of
smashing
the
ghastly
hold
of
The
Master
upon
all
the
folk
he
had
entrapped.
Subconsciously,
perhaps,
Bell
saw
in
the
triumph
of
The
Master
a
blow
to
all
civilization.
Less
vaguely,
he
foresaw
an
attempt
at
the
extension
of
The
Master's
rule
to
his
own
nation.
But
when
Bell
thought
of
The
Master,
mainly
he
remembered
certain
disconnected
incidents.
The
girl
at
Ribiera's
luxurious
fazenda
outside
of
Rio,
who
had
been
ordered
to
persuade
him
to
be
her
lover,
on
penalty
of
a
horrible
madness
for
her
infant
son
if
she
failed.
Of
a
pale
and
stricken
fazendiero
on
the
Rio
Laurenço
who
thought
him
a
deputy
and
humbly
implored
the
grace
of
The
Master
for
a
moody
twelve
year
old
girl.
Of
a
young
man
who
kept
his
father,
murder
mad,
in
a
barred
room
in
his
house
and
waited
despairingly
for
that
madness
to
be
meted
out
upon
himself
and
on
his
wife
and
children.
Of
a
white
man
who
had
been
kept
in
a
cage
in
Cuyaba,
with
other
men....
Bell
trudged
on
through
the
deepening
night
with
his
soul
a
burning
flame
of
hatred.
He
clambered
amid
boulders,
guided
by
the
tall
lighthouse
of
Cape
Possession
with
the
little
white
dwelling
he
had
seen
at
its
base
before
nightfall.
He
fell,
and
rose,
and
forced
his
way
on
and
upward,
and
at
last
was
knocking
heavily
at
a
trim
and
neatly
painted
door.
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