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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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He
led
the
way
to
a
gleaming
circle
of
glass
like
an
inverted
telescope,
about
a
yard
in
diameter,
mounted
in
the
floor.
"Look!"
said
the
dwarf.
Kendrick
did
so--and
there,
spread
below
him,
lay
the
floor
of
the
desert.
His
camp,
his
apparatus,
were
just
as
he
had
left
them.
Cor
now
moved
toward
the
dial.
"Behold!"
he
said,
pulling
a
lever.
Instantly
the
scene
below
was
an
inferno.
Stricken
by
a
blast
of
stupendous
heat,
the
whole
area
went
molten,
lay
quivering
like
a
lake
of
lava
in
the
crater
of
an
active
volcano.
"Suppose,
my
dear
Professor,"
smiled
the
dwarf,
strolling
back
from
the
dial,
"just
suppose,
for
instance,
that
instead
of
the
lonely
camp
of
an
obscure
scientist,
your
proud
city
of
New
York
had
been
below
there!"
Kendrick
shuddered.
Well
he
knew
now
the
terrible
power,
the
appalling
menace
of
this
strange
invader.
"I
would
prefer
not
to
make
such
a
supposition,"
he
said,
quietly,
with
a
last
thoughtful
glance
at
that
witches'
caldron
below.
"Then
let
us
think
of
pleasanter
things.
You
are
my
guest
of
honor,
sir--America's
foremost
scientist,
though
she
may
never
realize
it,"
with
a
piping
chuckle.
"To-night
there
will
be
a
great
banquet
in
your
honor.
Meanwhile,
suppose
I
show
you
to
your
quarters."
Nettled,
fuming,
though
outwardly
calm,
Kendrick
permitted
himself
to
be
escorted
from
the
laboratory
to
an
ornate
apartment
on
one
of
the
lower
floors.
There
Cor
left
him,
with
the
polite
hint
that
he
would
find
plenty
of
attendants
handy
should
he
require
anything.
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