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"What are you looking for, exactly?" asked Loring, who was also examining the terrain with a telescope. "They've got some spherical space-ships, like Seaton's. I know they had one, and they've probably built more of them since that time. Their airships can't touch us, but those ball-shaped cruisers would be pure poison for us, the way we are fixed now. Can you see any of them?" "Not yet.

Upon Crane's invitation, Vaneman and his daughter stayed to dinner, and Dorothy played for awhile upon Crane's wonderful violin. The rest of the evening was spent in animated discussion of the realization of Seaton's dreams of flying without wings and beyond the supporting atmosphere. Seaton and Crane did their best to explain to the non-technical visitors how such flight was possible.

Privately he believed them all to refer to one visit, an event of immemorial antiquity periodically brought up to date by Mrs. Seaton's imagination.

The young lady rose, shutting her book with an impatient gesture; and then she saw Christie. "Good morning," she said. "Do you wish to see any one?" "I wish to see Mrs Seaton. Mrs Lee sent me," said Christie. "Oh, the new nurse for Clement. I dare say he won't go into town to-day, Martha. It was only to get him out of the way the young tyrant. Show this girl to Mrs Seaton's room.

Then we'll have everything Seaton's got, but that isn't enough. I want enough more than he's got to wipe him out. Therefore, after we get a ship armed to suit us, we'll visit this strange planet and either come to terms with them or else steal a ship from them. Then we'll have their stuff and that of the Osnomians, as well as our own. Seaton won't last long after that."

A dark flush mounted swiftly into Seaton's brown face and he sought to throw most of the burden upon Crane, but catching upon his face also a look of praise, almost of tenderness, he quickly turned to the controls. "Man the boats!" he ordered an imaginary crew, and the Skylark descended rapidly. Landing upon one of the open spaces, they found the ground solid and stepped out.

"Well, wonder how far I missed it on my first shot?" Seaton's crisp voice broke the stunned silence. "Guess that's our sun, over to the left, ain't it, Mart?" "Yes. You were about right for distance, and within a few tenths of a light-year laterally. That is fairly close, I should have said." "Rotten, for these controls.

After several attempts to steady their whirling senses, the three men finally were able to walk, and, opening a door, they leaped out through the opening in the still glowing wall. Seaton's first act was to wireless the news to Dorothy, who replied that they were coming as fast as they could. The men then removed their helmets, revealing faces pale and drawn, and turned to the helpless space-car.

Every part of the great room was plainly visible, and not a living being was even watching that vast instrument-board. "What do you make of it, Dick?" asked Crane, slowly. "No wiring tight beam transmission. The Fenachrone do it with two matched-frequency separable units. Millions and millions of kilowatts there, if I'm any judge. Absolutely automatic too, or else " Seaton's voice died away.

'Would you like to go with him? 'I always like to ride, sir. 'You have not a horse yet, my dear; that is a difficulty. I do not know this Major Seaton's horses nor himself. 'Quite reliable, sir according to him. Will you let me ride with Mr. Rollo this afternoon? 'I suppose there is no good reason to be assigned against that, said Mr. Falkirk, rather growingly, and after a pause.