Authentic Science Fiction, December 1951 — page 88: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER TEN Knave of Diamonds The moment you start moving you realise you did it too soon. Schnabel has been keeping his eye on the dome even as he sidled up to the generator, He sees you as soon as you make the first move. And, as you'd expected, he turns and flees towards the rocks. Well, it just means that he’s got a little more lead than you’d wanted him to have. Otherwise the position is not much worse than it could ever be. You watch his feet, trying to calculate his stride. It’s a big one and it carries him across the plain at about eight or nine miles an hour. His leg muscles are pretty powerful. But then so are yours. In fact, you make them so and force them to fling your feet against the ground so that your own great lolloping strides are bigger than Schnabel’s. Gradually you gain on him. Even so, it’s too gradual. Before you are within fifty feet of him; he has reached the rocks and with one tremendous bound,, sails up several dozen feet and lands on a ledge. He throws one quick glance behind him, sees you about to jump too, and sets off higher and higher. This is the worst stage almost. Here you have so many factors. You've got to watch out that the rocks don’t tear your suit. You've got to be careful not to smash your helmet against a sharp point, for the plastic probably wouldn’t be, able to withstand that. And you’ve got to keep an eye on, Schnabel so that you don’t lose him, and so that he doesn’t spring out on you as you round a boulder. Higher and higher you climb, until the plain and the dome 86 comicbooks.com