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“Hay crosses the gulf, taking with him the cord which controls the electro-magnet.”

RAPPED again!

But this time, Lance swore, they’d not get away without paying dearly for it!

Under the mesh of his gas-mask the lean lines of his jaw went taut. Tense, steely fingers flipped to the knobbed control in- struments; the gleaming single-seater scout plane catapulted in a screaming somersault. Lance's ever-wary sixth sense told him the tongues of disinte- grating flame had licked the plane’s protected belly, and for the fact that it was pro- tected he thanked again his stupen-