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  reflecting dimly back to the sleek ovoid lines glassite prow. Alf Mason hung there, eyes

  of the moored Space Guard vessel. Two shot through with fear and desperation. In his grotesque figures, clad in transparent bell-like hand he held destruction—the dissembler—

  helmets with shoulder tanks, came cautiously

  not only for those within, but for himself as

  out of a low airlock, each with dissembler at

  well. If he shattered the glassite, the inner air hip. The Mason brothers distrusted the air of

  would escape, leaving them in a vacuum. So

  Vaporia. They took no chances. Like divers on

  he hesitated.

  an ocean floor, they ventured through the

  Over his helmet the pinkish rays of

  wreckage. Hermer writhed inwardly with Rigel had ballooned to white hot intensity.

  disgust. Avarice had brought the Mason Vaporia’s atmosphere was left behind.

  brothers down, a hope that treasures might be

  Lieutenant Hermer looked sternly ahead, set

  gutted from the derelict, and need of water.

  the controls at full acceleration. Alf Mason

  All at once something was happening. grinned, knowing his body would be Brackish shadows were moving into the light,

  accelerated along with the space ship.

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  Darting across vacuum now. Alf’s lips

  bodies to the rear had shot the patrol vessel

  were moving. At a sideport, Mope cringed, his

  into that “no man’s land” of space, and the

  fat sweating face a terror mask. Demanding.

  Mason brothers had been plucked away by an

  Pleading. Screaming that they be let in. And

  invisible repelling force.

  Rigel’s blinding flames expanded, became

  He turned to explain what had

  more intense. Suddenly it seemed as if a happened to Jewel, but found her staring back gigantic hand clutched at the men on the outer at a black dead world outlined vaguely against hull. They were scraped away and back into

  Rigel’s rays. “I’m glad to get away,” she said, space. Alf’s incredulous face gyrated away as

  “but somehow it makes me feel a little blue to his space togged body was ripped back.

  leave the Vaporians.”

  Out around Rigel. Out where the

  Off to one side of the stern, two bright

  intense light pressure exceeded the gravity of flashes appeared against space, so close

  a giant sun. Even old Sol had light pressure, as together as to look like eclipsing binaries, or was evinced by tails forming on near comets,

  double suns. They twinkled momentarily, and

  but this was two hundred and fifty-six times as were gone, like instantaneous novas. Only

  great. Yet the gravitational thrust of astral

  Hermer knew what they signified.

 

 

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