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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"I
wonder,"
said
Bell
slowly,
and
very
grimly,
"if
that's
The
Master?"
And
then
a
passerby
dodged
quickly
past
his
shoulder,
brushing
against
him,
and
waited
humbly
in
the
street.
Bell
turned.
A
party
of
men
were
taking
up
nearly
all
the
sidewalk.
There
were
half
a
dozen
of
them
in
all.
And
nearly
in
the
middle
was
the
bulky,
immaculate,
pigmented
Ribiera.
Bell
stiffened.
But
to
move,
beyond
clearing
the
way,
would
be
to
attract
attention.
He
backed
clumsily
off
the
curbing
as
if
making
way....
And
Ribiera
looked
at
his
face.
Bell's
hand
drifted
near
his
hidden
weapon.
But
Ribiera
looked
neither
surprised
nor
alarmed.
He
halted
and
chuckled.
"Ah,
the
Senhor
Bell!"
Bell
said
nothing,
looking
as
stupid
as
possible,
merely
because
there
was
nothing
else
to
do.
"Ah,
do
not
deny
my
acquaintance!"
said
Ribiera.
He
laughed.
"I
advise
you
to
go
and
look
at
the
view,
over
the
harbor.
Good
day,
Senhor
Bell."
Laughing,
he
went
off
along
the
street.
And
Bell
felt
a
cold
horror
creeping
over
him
as
he
realized
what
Ribiera
might
mean.
Ribiera
had
entirely
too
much
against
him
to
greet
him
only,
in
a
town
where
even
the
dogs
dared
not
bark
without
The
Master's
express
command.
He
had
guards
with
him,
men
who
would
have
shot
Bell
down
at
a
nod
from
Ribiera.
Bell
burst
into
a
mad
run
for
the
waterfront.
When
the
bay
spread
out
before
his
eyes
he
saw
what
Ribiera
meant,
and
something
seemed
to
snap
in
his
brain.
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