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"He really slipped one over on Benjy Edwards all right," muttered Strong, his voice tinged with pride. In front of the Council platform, Alfie turned to the judge. "I would like to call to the stand, if the court please," he said in a clear voice, "Cadet Tom Corbett." Tom walked to the chair, was sworn in, and sat down, facing Alfie.
They had a job to do, and they went about it silently, efficiently, and surely. Astro stood up, the small spade in his hand hanging loosely at his side. He watched Roger and Alfie bring the last of the reactor units from Major Connel's jet boat. They gently lowered it into the hole and stepped back while Shinny, under the watchful eyes of Major Connel, set the fuse.
"All clear forward and up," Alfie reported in a high squeaking voice. "Energize the cooling pumps," shouted Tom. Astro had already started the mighty pumps, their vibrations rocking the ship, and Tom began counting the seconds. "Stand by to raise ship. Minus five four three two one zeeroooooo!"
Virginia arrived, using her own eyes for the first time in years, and the sisters and their mother laughed and cried together over the miracle of the cure. When Alfie and Freda came there was more hilarity. Freda very prettily presented her mother-in-law, whose birthday chanced to fall on the day, with a bureau scarf.
And furthermore, mister, I want to know how I'm to keep this house a-lookin' like anything an' you a-trackin' in snow like that. Just look at you. I sh'd think you'd know enough to stomp your feet before you come in. Luanna May, you come grind the coffee. Alfie, run git your Pa his old slippers." That set both of them to giggling, and Mrs.
Connel glanced around the table. "Well?" he asked. "This is your first struggle with justice. Each of you, Tom, Roger, Astro, Alfie, will be faced with this sort of thing during your careers as spacemen. What would you do?" The four cadets looked at each other, each wondering what the other would say. Finally Connel turned to Alfie. "You're first, Alfie," said Connel.
Paying scant attention to the crush of sudden acceleration, Tom gave the ship all the power she could take for the climb out of Tara's atmosphere, and soon they were rocketing through the airless void of space. Alfie and Connel hurriedly swept the area with the radar scanner for the attacking intruder. "There she is!" roared Connel. "There!" He placed a finger on a white blip on the scanner.
"Why, boy, he is only an interloper", said O'Hara: "I meant the money to be divided fairly between you and me. Why should this Jew come in?" "All right", said Harris: "I don't mind". "And I know a little castle in Granada, Alfie, which we'll buy " "All right: you go away. It's agreed".
Connel, his eye on the clock, his sharp tongue lashing out when he thought he detected unclear thinking, raced from one department to another while the incessant work continued. On the morning of the fourth day he walked into the radar bridge where Roger and Alfie had been working steadily for seventy-two hours on an electronic fuse to trigger the reactant units.
"Alfie's busy with a special scanner, sir, one that's especially sensitive to copper. Since the sun is composed mostly of gas, with this filter only Junior will show up on the screen." "By the rings of Saturn," exclaimed Connel, "you mean to tell me that Alfie Higgins is building a new radar scanner, just like that?" "Why, yes, sir," answered Roger innocently. "Is there something wrong with that?"
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