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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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CHAPTER
XVIII
There
were
four
motors
to
pull
the
big
plane
through
the
air,
and
their
roaring
was
a
vast
thundering
noise
which
the
earth
re-echoed.
But
inside
the
cabin
that
tumult
was
reduced
to
a
not
intolerable
humming
sound.
"What'll
I
do
with
this
devil,
Bell?"
asked
Jamison.
"Now
that
we're
aloft,
I
confess
this
grenade
makes
me
nervous.
I'm
holding
it
so
tightly
my
fingers
are
getting
cramped."
"Tie
him
up,"
said
Bell,
without
looking.
"He'll
talk
presently."
Movements.
The
plane
flew
on,
swaying
slightly
in
the
way
of
big
sea-planes
everywhere.
A
williwaw
began
in
the
hills
ahead
and
swept
out
and
set
the
ship
to
reeling
crazily
in
its
erratic
currents.
The
Strait
vanished
and
there
were
tumbled
hills
below
them.
Minutes
passed.
"Got
him
fixed
up,"
said
Jamison
coolly,
"I'll
guarantee
he
won't
break
loose.
Got
any
plans,
Bell?"
"No
time,"
said
Bell.
"I
haven't
had
time
to
make
any.
The
first
thing
is
to
get
where
his
folk
will
never
find
us.
Then
we'll
see
what
we
can
do
with
him."
Paula
looked
at
the
now
bound
figure
of
The
Master.
And
the
little
old
man
beamed
at
her.
"He--he's
smiling!"
said
Paula,
in
a
voice
that
was
full
of
a
peculiar
horrified
shock.
Bell
shrugged.
Punta
Arenas
was
all
of
twenty-five
miles
behind,
and
the
earth
over
which
they
flew
began
to
take
on
the
shape
of
an
island.
Water
appeared
beyond
it,
and
innumerable
small
islands.
Bell
began
to
rack
his
brain
for
the
infinitesimal
scraps
of
knowledge
he
had
about
this
section
of
the
world.
It
was
pitifully
scanty.
Punta
Arenas
was
the
southernmost
point
of
the
continental
mass.
All
about
it
was
an
archipelago
and
a
maze
of
waterways,
thinly
inhabited
everywhere
and
largely
without
any
inhabitants
at
all.
The
only
solid
ground
between
Cape
Horn
and
the
Antarctic
ice
pack
was
Diego
Ramirez
and
the
South
Shetlands....
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