Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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._] As if, knowing and therefore dreading what he would see, the attendant took the newspaper held outstretched to him and followed the pointing finger to a featured column. He scanned it: Deadline Passed for Missing Submarine Point Barrow, Aug. 17 (AP): Planes sent out to search for the missing polar submarine _Peary_ have returned without clue to the mystery of is disappearance. The close search that has been conducted through the last two weeks, involving great risks to the pilots, has been fruitless, and authorities now hold out small hope for Captain Sallorsen, his crew and the several scientists who accompanied the daring expedition.