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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"Earth!"
Norman
was
babbling.
"It's
Earth,
Hackett--above
us;
my
God,
I
can't
believe
even
yet
that
we've
done
it!"
"Then
we're
on--the
satellite--the
second
satellite!--"
Hackett
fought
for
reality.
"Those
winds
that
caught
us--"
"They
were
the
atmosphere
of
this
world,
of
the
second
satellite!
They
caught
us
and
carried
us
on
inside
this
smaller
world's
atmosphere,
Hackett.
We're
moving
with
it
around
Earth
at
terrific
speed
now!"
"The
second
satellite,
and
we
on
it!"
Hackett
whispered,
incredulously.
"But
these
reeds--it
can't
all
be
like
this--"
They
stepped
together
away
from
the
plane.
The
effort
sent
each
of
them
sailing
upward
in
a
great,
slow
leap,
to
float
down
more
than
a
score
of
feet
from
the
plane.
But
unheeding
in
their
eagerness
this
strange
effect
of
the
satellite's
lesser
gravitational
power,
they
moved
on,
each
step
a
giant,
clumsy
leap.
Four
such
steps
took
them
out
of
the
towering
reeds
onto
clear
ground.
It
was
a
gentle,
grassy
slope
they
were
on,
stretching
away
along
a
gray-green
sea
that
extended
out
to
the
astoundingly
near
horizon
on
their
right.
To
the
left
it
rose
into
low
hills
covered
with
dense
masses
of
green
junglelike
vegetation.
Hackett
and
Norman,
though,
gazed
neither
at
sea
or
hills
for
the
moment,
but
at
the
half-score
grotesque
figures
who
had
turned
toward
them
as
they
emerged
from
the
reeds.
A
sick
sense
of
the
unreal
held
them
as
they
gazed,
frozen
with
horror.
For
the
great
figures
returning
their
gaze
a
few
yards
from
them
were--frog-men!
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