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                     MURDER BENEATH THE POLAR ICE

                           By HAYDEN HOWARD

                     _The Arctic Sea was deadly in
                  every way--its icy water, crushing
                   ice, avid beasts. Still something
                  there was more lethal than these!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
               Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Wavelets of cigarette smoke drifted across the comfortably lounging
enlisted men in the air-conditioned compartment of the Fleet Ballistic
Missile submarine, as they sat watching Barney. Sweat streaming from
his swollen-veined forehead, hurried and grotesque in his black rubber
diving suit, exploding triumphant curses like underwat