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"There's skulduggery afoot somewhere in our primary air! Maybe that's the way they got those other two ships pirates! Might have been a timed bomb don't see how anybody could have stowed away down there through the inspections, and nobody but Franklin can neutralize the shield of the air-room but I'm going to look around, anyway. Then I'll join you fellows up there."
The ship was spotless, immaculate. There was the fresh smell of growing things in the air. To save tanked oxygen the air-room used vegetation to absorb CO and excess moisture from the breathing of the crew. There was room to spare everywhere, because unlike aircraft and surface ships, the size of a space-ship made no difference in its speed. There was no resistance due to size.
But there's a sure antidote we all carry it in a lock-box in our armor and we all know how to use it, because crooks all use Vee-Two and so we're always expecting it. But since the air will be pure again in half an hour we'll be able to revive the others easily enough if we can get by with whatever is going to happen next. There's the bird that did it, right in the air-room!
Costigan shut off his beam, and, with not the slightest softening of one hard lineament, stared around the air-room; making sure that no serious damage had been done to the vital machinery of the air-purifier the very lungs of the great space-ship. Dismounting the Standish, he lugged it back up to the main saloon, replaced it in its safe and again set the combination lock.
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