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By now Williams who, judging by certain rappings, hammerings and clankings heard through the cabin walls back and above the engine-rooms, had been at work much of the night had reported, and much to my pleasure had said he thought we could make it in at least to the Manning dock before further repairs would be needed.
The air bottle filled the lock behind me. Naturally I'd fasten the door after I came out! One must be intelligent!" Joe heard Brent muttering, "Yes, he'd do that!" "Somebody check it!" snapped Joe. "Make sure! It might amuse him to watch us die while he knew we could get back in if we were as smart as he is." There were clankings on the hull.
Their searchlight beam glared into it. They saw the metal floor, and the bulging plastic sidewalls, restrained by nets. They saw the inner lock-door. It seemed that men should be visible to welcome them. There were none. The airlock swallowed them. They touched against something solid. There were more clankings. They seemed to crunch against the metal floor magnetic flooring-grapples.
Just look in at that institution it's a terrible place to kill folks off! and if she be not there then come to me. Don't let the keepers put you off. Then you must descend into a sort of grotto, or sickly vault, which you will cross and find yourself in a spacious passage, crawling with beetles and lizards. Don't be frightened, sir; keep on till you hear moanings and clankings of chains.
Followed a series of clankings still more familiar to the watcher the ting of metal upon metal, as of crow-bars and other tools cast carelessly, one upon the other, in the loading of the shadowy vehicle.
Just look in at that institution-it's a terrible place to kill folks off! and if she be not there then come to me. Don't let the keepers put you off. Then you must descend into a sort of grotto, or sickly vault, which you will cross and find yourself in a spacious passage, crawling with beetles and lizards. Don't be frightened, sir; keep on till you hear moanings and clankings of chains.
Though I could no longer doubt they were nothing mortal, they were altogether unlike what I had imagined ghosts. Like the generality of people who are psychic and who have never had an experience of the superphysical, my conception of a phantasm was a "thing" in white that made ridiculous groanings and still more ridiculous clankings of chains.
He glared around again, just as a metallic rapping came upon the Niccola's air-lock door. The skipper nodded: "Let him in the lock, Mr. Baird." Baird obeyed. The humming of the unlocking-system sounded. There were clankings. The outer air lock dosed. There was a faint whistling as air went in. The skipper nodded again. Baird opened the inner door. It was 08 hours 10 minutes ship time.
"Chee?" he asked shrilly. She shook her head. It became a habit to act as if Murgatroyd were a human being. "No," she said unsteadily. "Not yet." More time passed. An unbearably long time. Then there was the faintest of clankings. It repeated. Then, abruptly, there were noises in the airlock. They continued. They were fumbling noises. The outer airlock door closed. The inner door opened.
Perhaps an hour later the train came to a stop, and he heard some one walking by the track. He hid in a corner, ashamed of being there. Some one stopped before the car, and the door was rolled shut. Then the footsteps went on. There came clankings and jarrings, as of cars being shifted, and then these ceased and silence fell. Samuel waited for perhaps an hour.
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