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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"Bell,"
said
Jamison
dryly,
"considering
that
I'm
prepared
to
be
blown
apart
on
three
seconds
notice,
it
is
peculiar
that
this
mob
frightens
me."
The
Master's
eyes
twinkled
benignly.
He
seemed
totally
insensible
to
fear.
"You
need
not
be
afraid,"
he
said
gently.
"They
will
not
touch
you
unless
I
order
them."
Jamison
stared
down
at
the
little
man
whose
collar
he
held
firmly,
with
a
Mills
grenade
dangling
down
at
the
base
of
his
neck.
"I
wouldn't
order
them
to
attack,
if
I
were
you,"
he
said
coldly.
"I
haven't
Bell's
brains,
but
I
have
just
as
much
dislike
for
you
as
he
has."
They
came
to
the
harbor.
Bell
spoke
again.
"The
carriage
is
to
drive
out
to
the
end
of
one
of
the
docks,
and
no
one
else
is
to
go
out
on
that
dock."
The
Master
relayed
the
order
in
his
mild
voice,
but
as
the
coachman
obeyed
him
he
clucked
his
tongue
commiseratingly.
"Senor
Bell,"
he
protested
gently.
"You
do
not
expect
to
escape!
Not
after
killing
me!
Why
that
is
absurd!"
Bell
said
nothing.
He
alighted
from
the
carriage,
his
face
set
grimly,
and
stared
ashore
at
the
long,
long
row
of
terrified
faces
staring
out
at
him.
The
whole
waterfront
seemed
to
be
lined
with
staring
faces.
Wails
came
from
that
mass
of
enslaved
human
beings.
"Hold
him
here,
Jamison,"
he
said
drearily.
"I'm
going
out
to
look
at
that
big
plane.
There's
a
rowboat
tied
to
the
dock,
here."
He
swung
down
the
side
into
the
dock
and
rowed
off
into
the
harbor,
while
the
horses
attached
to
The
Master's
carriage
pawed
impatiently
at
the
wooden
flooring
of
the
dock.
Bell
reached
the
two
planes
anchored
on
the
still
harbor
water.
The
smaller
one
had
brought
them
down
from
Buenos
Aires.
The
larger
one
had
gone
after
the
beached
amphibian
and
brought
it
and
Paula
on
to
the
city.
Bell,
from
the
shore,
was
seen
to
be
investigating
the
larger
one.
He
came
rowing
back.
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