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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"He
filled
it
with
the
gang
of
desperate
men
who
had
been
associated
with
him
in
his
successful
escape
from
the
penitentiary.
Together
they
sailed
into
Space.
They
disappeared.
It
was
supposed
that
they
had
somehow
met
their
death
in
the
ether,
beyond
the
range
of
human
ken.
"Thirty
years
passed,
and
then
this
son
of
Axelson,
born,
according
to
his
own
story,
of
a
woman
whom
the
father
had
persuaded
to
accompany
him
into
Space,
began
to
radio
us.
We
thought
at
first
it
was
some
practical
joker
who
was
cutting
in.
"When
our
electricians
demonstrated
beyond
doubt
that
the
voice
came
from
outer
space,
it
was
supposed
that
some
one
in
our
Moon
Colony
had
acquired
a
transmitting
machine.
Then
the
ships
we
sent
to
the
Moon
Colony
for
gold
failed
to
return.
As
you
know,
for
seven
weeks
there
has
been
no
communication
with
the
Moon.
And
at
the
last
full
moon
the--blow--fell.
"The
world
depends
upon
you,
Lee.
The
invisible
rays
that
destroyed
every
living
thing
from
China
to
Australia--one-fifth
of
the
human
race--will
fall
upon
the
eastern
seaboard
of
America
when
the
moon
is
full
again.
That
has
been
the
gist
of
Axelson's
repeated
communications.
"We
shall
look
to
you
to
return,
either
with
the
arch-enemy
of
the
human
race
as
your
prisoner,
or
with
the
good
news
that
mankind
has
been
set
free
from
the
menace
that
overhangs
it.
"God
bless
you,
my
boy!"
The
President
of
the
United
States
of
the
World
gripped
Nat's
hand
and
stepped
down
the
ladder
that
led
from
the
landing-stage
of
the
great
interplanetary
space-ship.
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