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Kennon here. I've just had some news. Alexander's on Beta! Yes he served me with a summons. Can you get a restraining order to prevent him from leaving? You can? Good! Here's his address." Kennon rattled off the location. "Yes I'm taking the next airboat to Beta City. This should simplify things considerably. Of course it should. He was a fool to have come here.
Jack guided the big airboat down onto it, and put his airjeep alongside with the canopy up. There were two men on the forward deck of the boat, Kellogg and another man who would be Ernst Mallin. A third man came out of the control cabin after the boat was off contragravity. Jack didn't like Mallin. He had a tight, secretive face, with arrogance and bigotry showing underneath.
Lieutenant Lunt will have a couple of troopers here, too. I'll expect you to have your personal things aboard your airboat when they arrive." He blanked the screen while Kellogg was trying to tell him that it was all a misunderstanding. "I think that's everything.
"However, even that fact doesn't make it go down easy. Well, we're done with this projector. From now on it's strictly up to us and Skylark Three. Let's beat it over there and see if they've got her done yet they were due to finish up today, you know." It was a silent group who embarked in the little airboat. Half way to their destination, however, Seaton came out of his blue mood with a yell.
First thing in the morning, he'd unpack that trunk and go over all those maps. There were half a dozen spaceports and maintenance shops and shipyards within a half-day by airboat, none of which had been looted. He'd look them all over; that would take a couple of weeks. Pick the best shipyard and concentrate on it. Kurt Fawzi'd be the man to recruit labor.
"Move away from me quickly!" "But " "Do as I say!" Kennon's voice was sharp. "And keep that hood over your face." The airboat settled softly on the ash in front of him, the door snapped open and Douglas dropped to the ground, Burkholtz jutting from his pudgy fist. "My, my," Douglas said, "what have we here? Dr. Kennon and a woman! I thought better of you than that, Doctor.
"This is going to be a job, Mart," he went back to it as soon as they were seated in the airboat, flying toward "home." "I can nail them, with an increasing shift in azimuth, up to about thirty thousand light-years, but after that it gets awfully hard to get the right shift, and up around a hundred thousand it seems to be darn near impossible gets to be pure guesswork.
"That's letting me down easy," Seaton grinned, "but you don't need to be afraid of hurting my feelings I know just exactly how ignorant and dumb I am compared to you. There's a lot of things I don't get at all. First, and nearest, this airboat. It has no power-plant at all. I assume that it, like so many other things hereabouts, is riding on the end of a rod of force?" "Exactly.
He was needed here and his prolonged absence would cause suspicion and investigation. Something would have to be done but what? He couldn't take Copper off the island in an airboat. They were checked with microscopic care by Otpen One's IFF. A jeep didn't have enough range to take them to the mainland. And even if they got there they couldn't get off the planet.
"The maestro is thinking, I perceive," remarked Dorothy, sweetly, entering the projector from an airboat. "You must all be blind, I guess you no hear the bell blow, what? I've come after you it's time to eat!" "'At-a-girl, Dot never miss the eats! Thanks," and Seaton put his problem away, with perceptible effort.
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