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Eyer happened to look down at one of the ports in the floor of the cabin. "Good God!" he yelled, "Lucian!" He was pointing. His face had gone white again. His eyes were bulging. Jeter stared down into the floor ports and gasped. "I expected it, but it's a shock just the same, Tema," he said softly. "Get hold of yourself. You'll need all your faculties in a minute or two."
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
In a few minutes every port was covered with a film of the weird stuff. "It may be a foot deep above us," said Jeter. "I don't think we'll be able to tell how thick any bit of the stuff is. The surface of the field may be ten feet above our heads right now. Well, Tema, old son, we're prisoners as surely as though we were locked in a chrome steel vault a thousand feet underground.
You'll remember it broke in the papers simultaneously, in thirty countries of the world!" A cold chill ran down the spine of Tema Eyer. He saw, in a flash, whither Kress' thoughts were tending and when he saw that, it thrilled him, too, for it seemed to be proof of the very thing Kress was saying.
"Now, Tema," shouted Jeter, "if you believe in God if you have faith pray for strength to move this plane!" "Where?" "So that its wheels and nose go through this open door! Then it won't travel forward when we start the motor and our pursuers won't be able to get through to stop us." "You think of everything, don't you?" There was a grin on Eyer's face. But his eyes were stern.
"The outer rind, while capable of being softened in sections at least, with safety for special reasons, such as happened when we were 'swallowed, can be hardened to the point of disruption. It can be shattered, Tema, by vibration! That's why the space ship keeps far above the roar of cities! The humming of countless automobile engines might shatter the rind! God, I hope this is the answer!"
He had longed for it as the parched caravans in the desert for the water-streams, and 'his brethren had dealt deceitfully with him. The brooks, in the cool winter, roll in a full turbid torrent; 'what time it waxes warm they vanish, when it is hot they are consumed out of their place; the caravans of Tema looked for them, the companies of Sheba waited for them; they were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and there was nothing. If for once these poor men could have trusted their hearts, if for once they could have believed that there might be 'more things in heaven and earth' than were dreamt of in their philosophy but this is the one thing which they could not do, which the theologian proper never has done or will do.
Jeter and Eyer went across to him as he was saying his last words into the microphone before stepping into his sealed cabin for the flight. Kress saw them coming and his face lighted up. "Lord," he said, "I'm glad to see you two. I've something I must ask you." "Anything you ask will be answered," said Jeter, "if Tema and I can answer it. Or granted if it's a favor you wish."
If only we could somehow open up the outer rind or soften it, so that our friends could see the inner globe and reach it with their bombs!" Jeter's face was now dead white. His eyes were aglow with excitement. "Tema," he whispered, "Tema, that's their vulnerability! That's what they fear!
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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