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Title: Under Arctic Ice

Author: H.G. Winter

Release Date: July 21, 2009 [EBook #29475]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Astounding Stories January 1933.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the
U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

The Table of Contents is not part of the original magazine.

A Sequel to "Seed of the Arctic Ice"

Under Arctic Ice

_A Complete Novelette_

By H.G. Winter

* * * * *

Contents

I An Empty Room
II The Crash
III The Fate of the Peary
IV "No Chance Left"
V Last Assault
VI In a Biscuit Can
VII The Awakening
VIII The Duel

* * * * *

[Sidenote: Ken Torrance races Poleward to the aid of the submarine
_Peary_, trapped in an icy limbo of avenging sealmen.]

CHAPTER I

_An Empty Room_

The house where the long trail started was one of gray walls, gray
rooms and gray corridors, with carpets that muffled the feet which at
intervals passed along them. It was a house of silence, brooding
within the high fence that shut it and the grounds from a landscape
torpid under the hot sun of summer, and across which occasionally
drifted the lonely, mournful whistle of a train on a nearby railroad.
Inside the house there was always a hush, a heavy quiet--restful to
the brain.

But now a voice was raised, young, angry, impatient, in one of the
gray-walled rooms.

"Yes, I rang for you. I want my bags packed. I'm leaving this
minute!"

The face of the man who had entered showed surprise.

"Leaving, Mr. Torrance? Why?"

"Read this!"

[Illustration: _She was fastened in the mud of the gloomy sea-floor._