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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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The
roof
and
the
combat
on
it
dropped
back
and
beneath
them
like
a
stone
as
their
craft
ripped
across
the
silvery
dusk
over
the
mighty
frog-city.
They
were
shooting
toward
the
city's
center,
toward
the
green
pool
that
was
the
entrance
to
the
water-tunnel,
while
behind
and
beneath
an
increasing
clamor
of
alarm
spread
swiftly.
Norman
raged
futilely.
"Hackett--Hackett!
We
can't
leave
him--"
"Too
late!"
Sarja
cried.
"We
cannot
help
him
but
only
be
captured
again.
We
escape
now
and
come
back--come
back--"
The
truth
of
it
pierced
Norman's
brain
even
in
the
wild
moment.
Hackett
had
fought
and
held
back
the
frog-guards
only
that
they
might
escape.
He
shouted
suddenly.
"Sarja--the
water-tunnel!"
A
half-dozen
boats
with
frog-guards
on
them
were
rising
round
it
in
answer
to
the
alarm!
"The
force-gun!"
cried
the
green
man.
"Beside
you--!"
Norman
whirled,
glimpsed
the
long
tube
on
its
swivel
beside
him,
trained
it
on
the
boats
rising
ahead
as
they
rocketed
nearer.
He
fumbled
frantically
at
a
catch
at
the
gun's
rear,
then
felt
a
stream
of
shells
flicking
out
of
it.
Two
of
the
boats
ahead
vanished
as
the
shells
released
their
annihilating
force,
another
sagged
and
fell.
From
the
remaining
three
invisible
force-shells
flicked
around
them,
but
in
an
instant
Sarja
had
whirled
the
boat
through
them
and
down
into
the
water-tunnel!
Norman
clung
desperately
to
his
seat
as
the
boat
flashed
down
through
the
waters,
and
then,
as
Sarja
sent
it
flying
out
through
the
great
tunnel's
waters,
glimpsed,
close
behind,
the
beams
of
the
three
Rala
boats
as
they
pursued
them
through
the
tunnel,
overtaking
them.
Could
the
force-shells
be
fired
under
water?
Norman
did
not
know,
but
desperately
he
swung
the
force-gun
back
as
they
rushed
through
the
waters,
and
pressed
the
catch.
An
instant
later
beams
and
boats
behind
them
in
the
tunnel
vanished.
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