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It was John Ozanne, and presently he recovered sufficiently to get his other arm up and draw himself chest-high to look about him. The light spar would not support us both, and I let myself sink into the water, with only a grip on a hanging rope's end to keep in tow with it.
I'll heave the anchor over and the wind pressure on the boat can set it. But keep the motors turning over in case it doesn't hold." "Got it," Scotty agreed. Rick stepped out of the cockpit onto the catwalk. The cabin top was just chest-high, and he could hold on by grabbing the safety rails that ran along the sides of the large sun deck.
It looked like a chest-high ball as it came, and was so slow that Hi threw back his bat to slam it. "A home run on this!" thought Hi exultantly. From the sides of the field came a mocking laugh, for the ball had dropped, leaving Hi pounding wildly at the air. "Strike one!" called Ben Tozier, slipping a pebble to his other hand. Dick smiled quietly as the ball came back to him.
That was as far as he got; Dave fired toward the light. It went out, and there was a sharp "crack" as air imploded where the rebel had been. There was a brief silence, then someone cursed, and half a decade blaster-bolts seared past Dave's hiding place, about chest-high. He dropped to the cave floor and fired back without looking.
Zanders led the way through a dark, somber hall, wide and high-ceiled, to a farther gate, where a second gateman, trifling with a large key, unlocked a barred door at his bidding. Once inside the prison yard, Zanders turned to the left into a small office, presenting his prisoner before a small, chest-high desk, where stood a prison officer in uniform of blue.
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