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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
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Madge
rose
from
beside
him,
and
the
tears
were
streaming
down
her
face.
"He
wasn't
a
bad
man,
Nat,"
she
said.
"He
was--gentle
with
me.
He
didn't
understand;
that
was
all.
When
I
refused
to
be
his
queen,
he
was
overcome
with
bewilderment.
Oh,
Nat,
I
can
never,
never
write
this
story
for
the
Universal
News
Syndicate."
Nat
led
her,
sobbing,
from
the
room.
Soon
he
succeeded
in
getting
into
teleradio
communication
with
Earth.
He
broadcast
the
news
that
the
Black
Caesar
was
dead,
and
that
his
power
for
evil
was
at
an
end
forever.
Then,
in
the
few
hours
of
daylight
that
remained,
he
set
his
men
to
work
to
smash
the
ray
outfit
that
had
destroyed
China.
There
was
some
principle
involved
which
he
did
not
altogether
understand,
though
Brent
professed
to
have
a
clue
to
it,
but
it
was
evident
that,
except
for
the
ray,
Axelson
had
possessed
no
knowledge
superior
to
that
of
the
Earth
scientists.
Of
the
guards,
a
few
were
already
recovering,
principally
those
of
comparatively
younger
age.
Not
a
Moon
man,
on
the
other
hand,
had
survived
the
epidemic.
As
soon
as
Nat
had
got
the
guards
out
of
the
house,
he
reduced
it
to
ashes
by
the
aid
of
an
old-fashioned
box
of
phosphoric
matches.
As
the
dark
satellite
was
again
creeping
over
Eros,
the
black
ship
set
sail.
But
of
the
return
journey
to
the
Moon,
where
they
transferred
to
their
own
ship,
of
their
landing
at
New
York,
and
of
the
triumphal
reception
that
was
accorded
them,
this
is
no
place
to
speak.
Nat's
journey
with
Madge
from
the
center
of
the
city,
in
what
was
the
old
Borough
of
Westchester,
to
his
home
in
the
suburb
of
Hartford,
was
a
continual
ovation.
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