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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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The
Black
Caesar's
voice
was
almost
friendly.
He
clapped
Nat
on
the
shoulder
again,
and
called
the
graybeard
to
conduct
him
back
to
his
prison.
"Oh,
Captain
Lee,
I'm
so
glad
you're
back!"
exclaimed
Madge.
"We've
been
afraid
for
you.
Is
he
such
a
terrible
man,
this
Black
Caesar?"
Nat
sneered,
then
grinned
malevolently.
"Well,
he's
not
exactly
the
old-fashioned
idea
of
a
Sunday-school
teacher,"
he
answered.
Of
course
he
could
not
tell
the
girl
about
Axelson's
proposal.
The
little
group
of
prisoners
stood
on
the
upper
deck
of
the
black
ship
and
watched
the
Moon
men
scurrying
about
the
landing-stage
as
she
hovered
to
her
position.
Axelson's
father
had
not
erred
when
he
had
called
the
tiny
planet,
Eros,
a
heavenly
paradise,
for
no
other
term
could
have
described
it.
They
were
in
an
atmosphere
so
similar
to
that
of
Earth
that
they
could
breathe
with
complete
freedom,
but
there
seemed
to
be
a
lightness
and
a
vigor
in
their
limbs
that
indicated
that
the
air
was
supercharged
with
oxygen
or
ozone.
The
presence
of
this
in
large
amounts
was
indicated
by
the
intense
blueness
of
the
sky,
across
which
fleecy
clouds
were
drifting.
And
in
that
sky
what
looked
like
threescore
moons
were
circling
with
extraordinary
swiftness.
From
thirty
to
forty
full
moons,
of
all
sizes,
from
that
of
a
sun
to
that
of
a
brilliant
planet,
and
riding
black
against
the
blue.
The
sun,
hardly
smaller
than
when
seen
from
Earth,
shone
in
the
zenith,
and
Earth
and
Mars
hung
in
the
east
and
north
respectively,
each
like
a
blood-red
sun.
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