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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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The
lower
portion,
he
noted,
was
in
the
main
flat,
though
a
number
of
wartish
protuberances
jutted
down
from
it,
ejecting
a
pale
violet
emanation.
Whatever
this
was
it
seemed
to
have
the
effect
of
holding
the
thing
motionless
in
the
air,
for
it
hovered
there
quite
easily,
a
hundred
yards
or
so
above
the
ground.
But
what
was
it?
Where
was
it
from?
What
had
brought
it?
Those
were
the
questions
he
wanted
answered;
and
they
were
to
be,
sooner
than
he
knew.
As
he
stood
there
speculating,
a
device
like
a
trap-door
opened
in
the
base
of
the
disc,
and
creatures
resembling
human
beings
began
descending.
Began
floating
down,
rather.
Whereupon
Kendrick
did
what
any
sensible
man
would
have
done,
under
similar
circumstances.
He
reacted
into
motion.
In
short,
he
ran.
Glancing
back
over
his
shoulder
after
a
minute
or
two,
however,
he
drew
up
sheepishly.
Of
that
strange
apparition
and
those
who
had
descended
from
it
there
was
not
a
trace,
not
a
shadow!
But
the
peculiar
humming
had
recommenced,
he
realized
in
the
next
breath--and
at
the
same
instant
he
felt
himself
seized
by
invisible
hands.
There
was
a
struggle,
but
it
was
brief
and
futile.
When
it
was
over
his
captors
became
visible
once
more.
They
were
singular
little
beings
about
four
feet
tall,
with
strange,
wise,
leathery
faces,
their
heads
grotesquely
bald.
The
humming
had
ceased
again.
The
disc,
too,
was
once
more
visible.
What
happened
next
was
something
even
more
astounding,
if
there
could
be
any
further
degrees
of
wonder
possible
for
the
utterly
baffled
young
scientist.
He
felt
himself
lifted
up,
leaving
the
desert
floor,
whirling
away
toward
that
incredible
phenomenon
hovering
there.
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