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"I hate people who force a present on one," she continued, "and then, just as one begins to like it, want it back." Before I could speak, she asked hurriedly, "How often do you come to Chicago?" I took that to be a sort of command that I was to wait, and though longing to have it settled then and there, I braked myself up and answered her question.
The huge bird braked savagely, barely stopping before they were under its feet. From its back, a ladder of some flexible material snaked down and men began descending. The first were mandrakes in the uniform of the Satheri, all carrying weapons with evil-looking blades or sharp stickers. The last man off was Bork. He came toward Hanson and Nema with a broad grin on his face.
She got in from fifty-two to a hundred and four calls a year, where one or two would have amply sufficed for all she had to say. It was due to her that Carthage had such a lively social existence for its size. Once, when she fell ill, the people felt suddenly as passengers feel when a street car is suddenly braked back on its haunches.
"But that's all I can guess that those fellows had in mind when they would not answer you good gracious, look at that!" He braked madly. The ambulance rocked and came to an abrupt standstill. Across the track, scarcely two yards before the nose of the car, had dashed a white object, which, soundlessly, was gone in half a minute swallowed up in the shadowy field beside the road.
The airboat braked sharply and settled with a smooth, sickeningly swift rush that left Kennon gasping feeling that his stomach was still floating above him in the middle level. He never had become accustomed to an arbutus landing characteristics. Spacers were slower and steadier.
"I was," said Lockley. "I am. He played it safe, refused to admit that anybody in authority over him could possibly be mistaken. That's sound policy, and I was contradicting the official opinion of his superiors. I've got to find somebody of much lower rank, or much higher. Maybe " Jill said in a strained voice, "Stop!" He braked.
Astro braked the small vehicle and it screamed to a stop. The three cadets hastily piled out and raced for the darkness of the surrounding hills. No sooner had they disappeared than Vidac's jet car slammed to a stop beside the deserted jet car. In a flash Vidac was out of the seat and examining the vehicle. He turned to Winters, holding a small disk in his hand.
The Minister for Health made an inarticulate sound. He literally wrung his hands. "So," said Calhoun, "I want to get back to my ship and see what I can do with the 'vaccine' I took from Dr. Lett. Do you help me, or don't you?" The Minister for Health seemed to have shriveled inside his garments. He wrung his hands again. Then a ground car braked to a stop five yards away.
He pointed to the sea of dense tropical growth that surrounded the house and cleared land. The ship nosed up for a thousand yards and then eased back, smoothly braked, to a concrete ramp a thousand yards from the house. The touchdown was as gentle as a falling leaf, and when Sinclair opened the air lock, a tall man in worn but clean fatigues was waiting for them. "Howdy, Mr.
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