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The two brothers shook hands and Quent turned away, hurriedly leaving the control deck. Ross walked over to Tom and Roger, who watched the scene with anxious eyes. "I really hate to do this, boys," he said, "but as you can see, things are pretty tight!" With that, he suddenly brought the butt of his ray gun down hard on Roger's head. The blond-haired cadet slumped to the floor.
"But, sir " Roger started to say. "Close your exhaust, Manning!" snapped Strong. "I'm doing the talking!" "Yes, sir," stammered the blond-haired cadet. "Well, Cadets," asked Strong in a silken voice, "if I sent you to Commander Walters' office on the double, do you think I could trust you to get there on the double?" "Oh, yes, sir," replied Tom. "Yes, sir!" The other two boys nodded violently.
Connel and the blond-haired cadet rushed forward, stopping beside Tom to stare in amazement. Before them, a large area of the jungle was pounded down and lying amidst the tangle of giant creepers and uprooted bushes was the remains of a giant snake. "By the rings of Saturn!" gasped Connel, walking forward to inspect the clearing. Tom and Roger followed, breaking to the side, their rifles at ready.
Already, however, a few pretty houses, with green lawns in front, peeped out from the bushes of lilac and clematis. Before the green railings of one of these a gentleman played hoop with a very young, blond-haired child. His age belonged in that uncertain area which may range from twenty-five to forty.
But with Astro missing and Roger unconscious the thrill of victory was somehow missing. He turned and headed back down the trail. Connel had finished the litter by the time Tom returned, and the officer was leaning over the blond-haired cadet, examining his back again. "We'd better move out right away, Tom," said Connel. "I still can't tell what's wrong.
"The natural human constitution," said the blond-haired man, "is perfectly simple, with one simple condition you must leave it to Nature. But if you mix up things so distinctly and essentially separated as the animal and vegetable kingdoms for example, and ram that in for it to digest, what can you expect? "Ill health! There isn't such a thing in the course of Nature.
But when Astro failed to reply in kind, the blond-haired cadet realized he was serious. "What is it?" he asked. "Why, in the name of the moons of Mars, would Barret want to do the things he did to us?" "Simple," said Roger, beginning to sweep industriously as he saw the guard walking toward them. "He didn't like the way we manhandled him."
"Go on and tell us about it," urged Sandy. "Tell us just what you want us to do, and then we'll tell you whether we think we can do it or not." "You've got to find two boys!" replied Canfield. "Mother of Moses!" exclaimed Tommy. "I hope we haven't got to go and dig up blond-haired little Algernon, or discover pretty little Clarence, and turn a bunch of money over to him!"
The blond-haired cadet looked around at the faces of his friends. There was no reply to his question. Every citizen of Roald, man, woman, and child, was at the spaceport to watch the giant cruiser Orion settle slowly to the ground. Vidac watched it through squinting eyes.
They wanted to shake hands with and congratulate the new father, after their fashion, upon the advent of the blond-haired baby. Their great hearts went out to him, and they vied with each other in doing the handsome thing by him, in a manner according to their lights, and their ideas of wishing well to a man; a manner, sometimes, alas! disastrous in its results to the man!
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