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He could write his signature, and copy out instructions from the training tape, without a moment's hesitation. Toward dusk, a young Lhari slipped unobserved out of Raynor's house and hiked unnoticed to the edges of a small city nearby, where he mingled with the crowd and hired a skycab from an unobservant human driver to take him to the spaceport city.
"Well, now that we've sweated the old girl through the crisis," asserted Roger, "how's about us concentrating on our vacation?" "Great," agreed Tom. "This is your party, Astro. Lead the way." The three cadets left the spaceport in a jet cab and rode happily into the city of Venusport.
An hour before takeoff a polite acknowledgment came back from the Nucleus assuring them a warm welcome and congratulating them on their marriage. They went at once to the spaceport and took over their stateroom. "Before anything else happens to try to pull us off this investigation," Cameron said.
Send him over if he wants to take the chance, but warn him not to let anybody from his yacht leave the spaceport!" "Yes, sir." Bors made a quick circuit of the Ministry building to make sure the rest of the destruction was thoroughly carried out. He glanced out of a window and saw the other ministries.
He could not see what the change amounted to, but change there was. For one thing "We're going to the spaceport," he told Thal curtly. "We'll recharge our stun-pistols there. I thought those ships had landed. They haven't. Now we'll see if we can keep them aloft! How far to the landing grid?" "You insisted," complained Thal, "that we not go back to Don Loris' castle by the way we left it.
"Steve," he said, "I want you to supervise the evacuation at the spaceport. Since this screen has blown up, those poor people are frightened out of their wits. And they have a right to be. If a major screen blew instead of a small one, we really would be in trouble." "Very well, sir," replied Strong. "Come on, Kit, you might as well blast off with a load of children." "Sure thing."
I took a last swing around, got the spaceport people gathering up wax and hauling it away, and the broken lake of fire that extended downtown from where the stacks had been, and then I floated my jeep over to the sandwich-and-coffee stand and let down, getting out. Maybe, I thought, I could make some kind of deal with somebody like Interworld News on this.
Reluctantly, Bart tore his eyes from the fascinating spectacle, and followed Tommy, stepping onto one of the sidewalks. It bore them down a long, sloping ramp toward the floor of the spaceport, then sped toward the glass skyscraper; came to rest at the wide pointed doors, depositing them in the midst of the crowd.
It reached the spaceport, where enormous metal girders formed a monster frame of metal lace against a star-filled sky. The chief executive strode magnificently into the spaceport offices. There was no news; the situation remained unchanged. A ship from Orede had come out of overdrive and lay dead in emptiness. It did not answer calls. It did not move in space.
In the control tower at the far end of the spaceport, Tom and Astro entered the station commander's office in time to overhear the last of Commander Walters' orders to Captain Strong. " ... might as well give the boys a rest before we begin our investigations, Steve." He looked up as the door opened. "Oh, here they are now." "Cadets Corbett and Astro reporting, sir." Tom and Astro saluted smartly.
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