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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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The
guards
disappeared;
the
Moon
man,
as
if
propelled
by
some
invisible
force,
moved
forward
jerkily
to
the
lake's
edge.
Instantly
one
of
the
saurians
had
seized
him
in
its
jaws,
and
another
had
wrenched
half
the
body
away,
and
the
whole
fighting,
squirming
mass
vanished
in
the
depths.
And
from
far
away
came
the
screeching
chant
of
the
Moon
men,
as
if
in
invocation
to
some
hideous
deity.
And,
moving
perceptibly,
the
huge
black
orb
of
Eros's
dark
satellite
crept
over
the
sky,
completely
covering
it.
Axelson
stepped
forward
to
where
Nat
stood,
supporting
Madge
in
his
arms.
The
girl
had
fainted
with
horror
at
the
scene.
"Your
answer
Nathaniel
Lee,"
he
said
softly.
"I
know
you
have
been
postponing
the
decision.
Now
I
will
take
the
girl,
and
you
shall
give
me
your
answer.
Will
you
and
these
men
join
me,
or
will
you
die
as
the
Moon
man
died?"
He
spoke
wheezily,
as
if
he,
like
Nat,
had
a
cold.
And
he
put
his
arm
around
Madge.
Next
moment
something
happened
to
him
that
had
never
happened
in
his
life
before.
The
Black
Caesar
went
down
under
a
well-directed
blow
to
the
jaw.
He
leaped
to
his
feet
trembling
with
fury
and
barked
a
command.
Instantly
the
old
guards
had
hurled
themselves
forward.
And
behind
them
a
horde
of
Moon
men
came,
ambling.
While
the
guards
covered
their
prisoners
with
their
ray-rods,
two
Moon
men
seized
each
of
them,
imprisoning
him
in
their
unbreakable
grasp.
Axelson
pointed
upward.
"When
the
reign
of
Erebos
is
past,"
he
said,
"you
become
food
for
the
denizens
of
the
lake,
unless
you
have
agreed
to
serve
me."
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