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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"Quiet
now,"
he
whispered
to
them.
"If
these
others
wake
they'll
make
such
a
clamor
we
won't
have
a
chance
in
the
world.
Ready,
Sarja?"
The
green
man
nodded.
"Yes,
though
I
still
think
such
a
thing's
impossible."
"Probably
is,"
Norman
admitted.
"But
it's
the
one
chance
we've
got,
the
immensely
greater
strength
of
our
Earth-muscle
that
the
frog-men
must
have
forgotten
when
they
put
us
in
here."
They
moved
silently
to
the
room's
great
barred
door,
outside
which
a
frog-guard
paced.
They
waited
until
he
had
passed
the
door
and
on
down
the
hall,
then
Norman
and
Hackett
and
Sarja
grasped
together
one
of
the
door's
vertical
bars.
It
was
an
inch
and
a
half
in
thickness,
of
solid
metal,
and
it
seemed
ridiculous
that
any
men
could
bend
it
by
the
sheer
strength
of
their
muscles.
Norman,
though,
was
relying
on
the
fact
that
on
the
second
satellite,
with
its
far
lesser
gravitational
influence,
their
Earth-muscles
gave
them
enormous
strength.
He
grasped
the
bar,
Hackett
and
Sarja
gripping
it
below
him,
and
then
at
a
whispered
word
they
pulled
with
all
their
force.
The
bar
resisted
and
again,
with
sweat
starting
on
their
foreheads,
they
pulled.
It
gave
a
little.
They
shrank
back
from
it
as
the
guard
returned,
moving
past.
Then
grasping
the
bar
again
they
bent
all
their
force
once
more
upon
it.
Each
effort
saw
it
bending
more,
the
opening
in
the
door's
bars
widening.
They
gave
a
final
great
wrench
and
the
bent
bar
squealed
a
little.
They
shrank
back,
appalled,
but
the
guard
had
not
heard
or
noticed.
He
moved
past
it
on
his
return
along
the
hall,
and
no
sooner
was
past
it
than
Norman
squeezed
through
the
opening
and
leaped
silently
for
the
great
frog-man's
back.
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