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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
274
The
first
of
these
questions
was
answered,
staggeringly,
at
a
quarter
after
eleven.
"Kendrick--oh,
my
God!"
cried
Blake,
bursting
into
the
laboratory.
"Marjorie--they've
got
her
again!
Look!
Read
this!"
He
thrust
out
a
piece
of
paper.
Kendrick
took
it,
read:
Your
daughter
will
be
my
queen,
after
this
noon.
"Where'd
you
get
it?"
he
gasped.
"One
of
the
invisible
devils
thrust
it
into
my
hand
right
out
in
the
street,
not
five
minutes
ago,"
Blake
explained,
trembling
with
anguish.
"Do
you
realize
what
this
means,
Kendrick?
She's
on
the
disc
now--and
in
a
scant
three-quarters
of
an
hour...."
"Yes,
I
realize!"
his
voice
came
grimly.
"And
I
realize,
too,
that
they
don't
know
their
fate.
They'll
stay.
There's
forty-five
minutes
yet.
We
can't
abandon
our
defense
against
the
ray,
not
even
for
Marjorie.
But
I'll
go,
I'll
rescue
her--or
die
with
her!"
And
even
as
Blake
mutely
reached
out
his
hand
to
grip
that
of
the
determined
young
man
who
stood
before
him.
Kendrick
touched
his
wrist
mechanism
and
went
invisible.
Once
on
the
street,
he
pressed
the
escalator
button
as
well--and
by
the
strength
of
the
vibrations
that
followed,
he
knew
he
must
be
very
close
within
that
mysterious
lifting
zone.
Running
west
a
block,
he
found
it
growing
stronger.
Fairly
racing
now,
he
continued
on
toward
the
river,
progress
unhampered
in
the
deserted
streets.
Suddenly,
with
a
thrill
of
exultation,
he
felt
himself
swept
up,
whirled
away
toward
that
great
shimmering
hulk
against
the
sun.
"What
hope?"
he
was
thinking.
"What
possible
hope?"
And
the
answer
came:
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