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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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His
lungs
were
afire;
it
seemed
that
he
must
open
them
to
the
strangling
water.
The
boat
was
ripping
the
waters
at
such
tremendous
speed
that
he
felt
himself
being
torn
from
his
hold
on
it.
Pain
seemed
poured
like
molten
metal
through
his
chest--he
could
hold
out
no
longer;
and
then
the
boat
stabbed
up
from
the
waters
into
clear
air!
Norman
panted,
sobbed.
Behind
them
rose
the
colossal
metal
dome
of
the
frog-city,
gleaming
dully
in
the
silvery
light
that
flooded
the
far-stretching
seas.
That
light
poured
down
from
a
stupendous
silver
crescent
in
the
night
skies.
Norman
saw
dully
the
dark
outlines
on
it
before
he
remembered.
Earth!
He
laughed
a
little
hysterically.
Sarja
was
driving
the
flying-boat
out
over
the
sea
and
away
from
the
frog-city
at
enormous
speed.
At
last
he
glanced
back.
Far
behind
them
lay
the
great
dome
and
up
around
it
gleaming
lights
were
pouring,
lights
of
pursuing
Rala
boats.
"We
escape,"
Sarja
cried,
"the
city
of
the
Ralas,
from
which
none
ever
before
escaped!"
Remembrance
smote
Norman.
"Hackett!
Held
off
those
frog-men
so
we
could
get
away--we'll
come
back
for
him,
by
God!"
"We
come
back!"
said
Sarja.
"We
come
back
with
all
the
green
men
of
this
world
to
the
Ralas'
city,
yes!
I
know
what
Fallas
has
planned."
"Can
you
find
your
way
to
him--to
your
city?"
Norman
asked.
Sarja
nodded,
looking
upward.
"Before
the
next
sun
has
come
and
gone
we
can
reach
it."
The
boat
flew
onward,
and
the
great
dome
and
the
searching
lights
around
it
dropped
beneath
the
horizon.
Norman
felt
the
warm
wind
drying
his
drenched
garments
as
they
rushed
onward.
Crouched
on
the
boat
he
gazed
up
toward
the
silver
crescent
of
Earth
sinking
toward
the
horizon
ahead.
That
meant,
he
told
himself,
that
the
satellite
turned
slowly
on
its
axis
as
it
whirled
around
Earth.
It
came
to
him
that
its
night
and
day
periods
must
be
highly
irregular.
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