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The interstellar liner "Mirasol" settled gently to Sthor, having circled wide of Asthor, and from her hold a cargo of the heavy Jovian elements was discharged, while a mixed stream of Solarians and Mirans came from her passenger quarters. A delegation of Mirans met the new Ambassador from Sol, Commander McLaurin, and conducted him joyfully to the Central Government Group.
Behind his great interstellar cruiser came a long line of similar ships. Each was loaded now not with instruments and pure scientists, but with weapons, fuel and warriors. Colonists too, came in the last ships. One hundred and fifty giant ships. All the wealth of Sthor and Asthor had been concentrated in producing those great machines.
Then Mira would stretch herself a little, move about restlessly and Sthor and Asthor would become uninhabitably hot, anywhere within twenty degrees of the equator.
'If ye insist, says th' Cap, 'I'll take th' dure, he says, 'but ye don't know th' customs iv civilization, he says; an' th' hired man just grazed him on th' dure sthep. "Well, Willum Waldorf Asthor was that mad, he wint down to his pa-aper office, an' says he, 'I want to put in an item, he says, an' he put it in.
'Hinceforth, he says, 'he's ast to no picnics iv th' Buckingham Palace Chowder Club, he says. An' th' nex' day Willum Waldorf Asthor met him at th' races where he was puttin' down a bit iv money an' spoke to him, an' th' Prince iv Wales gave him wan in th' eye. He must've had something in his hand, f'r the pa-aper said he cut him. P'raps 'twas his scipter.
Dooley, "he might be dhrunk." "Well, sir, I guess I'm not up on etiket," said Mr. Dooley. "How's that?" demanded Mr. Hennessy. "I've been readin' about Willum Waldorf Asthor," replied Mr. Dooley, "an' th' throuble he had with a la-ad that bummed his way into his party. Ye see, Hinnissy, Willum Waldorf Asthor give a party at his large an' commodjious house in London.
Even now I can hear the refrain sung by Company Sergeant-Major J.W. Woods: "My heart's far away with the Colleen I adore; Eileen alannah; Angus asthor." At the finish, before singing the National Anthem and the no less popular anthem of the Machine Gun Section, our men always sang: Keep the Home Fires Burning. The soldiers could have no better vesper hymn.
Kendall smiled. "They don't," replied McLaurin. "They're getting more and more and more worried but they've got to keep the IP fleet in such condition that it can at least catch an up-to-date freighter." Gresth Gkae looked back at Sthor rapidly dropping behind, and across at her sister world, Asthor, circling a bare 100,000 miles away.
'Why did ye seek me out? he says. 'Because, says Willum Waldorf Asthor, 'I wish, he says, 'f'r to renounce me sinful life, he says. 'I wish to be bor-rn anew, he says. An' th' clark bein' a kind man helps him out.
As the words came through on a thousand sets, all the little ships began to whirl, dance and break out into glowing, sparkling lights. On Sthor and Asthor even commotions began to be visible. A new planetary system had been found They could move! Their overflowing populations could be spread out! The whole Insthor system went mad with delight as the great Expeditionary Ship settled downward.
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