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But if I'd been hungry for a couple of years, and was despised to boot by the people who kept me hungry, I suppose I might react the same way. No," he said curtly as she opened her lips to speak again. "Don't tell me the trick. Considering everything, there's only one trick it could be. But I doubt profoundly that it would work. All right." He slid the door back and returned to the control-room.
That is another thing you have given us. Attend!" At one end of the room, as upon a three-dimensional screen, the four Terrestrials saw themselves seated in the control-room of the Skylark.
The camera panned slowly, and showed such open spaces as very few humans had ever seen unencumbered by buildings, and mountains of a grandeur difficult for most people to believe in. The scene cut to the space-ship's control-room and Al the pilot acted briskly as the leader of an exploration-party just returned though he actually hadn't left the ship.
His wife Alicia looked out of the same port without seeming to share his excited approval. Bell had dragged a camera across the control-room and was in the act of focussing it through a particular window. "What's the matter?" demanded Cochrane. He struggled out of his chair. And Johnny Simms' pleasure evaporated abruptly. He swore nastily, viciously, at something outside the ship.
There comes a sudden vagueness on the glass into which the observer has been gazing. "The periscope has been hit." Thoughts of launching the torpedo vanish. Safety first is now the dominant emotion. Additional water flows into the tanks and the craft begins to settle. But as she does so there is a sudden flood of water into the control-room; a hoarse cry goes up from the crew.
So the ship rose lightly, almost skittishly. When gyros turned to make it drift sidewise as a helicopter tilts in Earth's atmosphere it fairly swooped to a new position. Somebody jockeyed it this way and that. Cochrane got to the control-room by holding on with both hands to railings. He was angry and appalled.
He got an emergency message that had been waiting for him. Seconds later he fought his way frantically through no-weight to the control-room again. "Jamison! Bell!" he cried desperately. "We've got a broadcast due in twenty minutes! I lost track of time! We're sponsored on four continents and we damwell have to put on a show! What the devil! Why didn't somebody "
The rockets ran on, drumming ever-so-faintly, for a little longer. Then they cut off. "We're landed again! Let's see where we are!" They went up to the control-room. Johnny Simms stood against the wall, sulking. He had managed his life very successfully by acting like a spoiled little boy. Now he had lost any idea of saner conduct. At the moment, he looked ridiculous.
He introduced Jamison, wearing improvised leggings and other trappings appropriate to an explorer in wilderness. Jamison began to extrapolate from his observations out the control-room port, adding film-clips for authority.
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