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Updated: May 3, 2025
It was really simple, this far-off world with its standardized life, this petrified civilization in which everything was guaranteed except the one real essential progress. But what was Fort going to do about it? Billie was not the only one who was interested; Van Emmon was equally curious, and Smith privately believed that the geologist was slightly jealous of the distant athlete.
In Van Emmon's case, however, he could occasionally glimpse two loose parts of the machine, flapping and swaying oddly from time to time within the range of the observer, and at the front. Nothing was done about it. Van Emmon came to the same conclusion as Smith; the operator was looking into something like a periscope. Perhaps he himself did not do the driving.
Van Emmon and I," stated Billie coolly, as they put on their bracelets, "have been trying to decide upon the best way of telling them how to obtain fire." Neither Smith nor the doctor showed that he noticed her "Mr. Van Emmon." Evidently the two were still unreconciled. "I argue," remarked the geologist, "that the simplest method will be a chemical one.
He made no protest, but stepped at once to one of the microphones, put on his most impressive professional face, and began: "My friends" and Van Emmon noted a pleased look come into every face about them "my friends, I do not need to state how significant this meeting is to us all.
Van Emmon looked from one to the other, and all of a sudden the thing dawned upon him. This stupendous affair was no mountainside; it was neither more nor less than the head of a colossal statue! A mammoth edition of the Goddess of Liberty; and the aircraft had presumed to alight upon its cheek!
If anything happens to me now, Miss Mona will naturally think of you; for she knows I have come here!" A single exclamation escaped Powart, and from the light in Fort's eyes, Van Emmon knew that the chief was sorely provoked. However, he spoke with his usual coolness and certainty. "Under the circumstances, you will be exempt, Mr. Fort, from the conscription which is now under way.
And Fort said, just as the other fellow had said after talking with Reblong Reblong, the representative Capellan workman; Reblong, who voiced the opinions of his billions of fellow-workmen when he refused to consider a rebellion Fort said: "Well, I'll be utterly damned!" Van Emmon was pretty cross because Billie, through Mona, had told Fort about Powart's game.
"Humans are the ONLY creatures that do not fear fire! Even a tiny baby will show no fear at the sight of it." "Which ought to prove," Van Emmon cut in to silence Smith, "that superiority is due to fire, rather than fire due to superiority, for the simple reason that a newborn child is very low in the scale of evolution." Smith decided not to say what he intended to say.
Van Emmon was strongly reminded of what he had once viewed under a powerful lens. The fragile semitransparent wings, the misshapen legs, and even the jointed body with its scale-like segments, all were carefully duplicated on a large scale. Imagine a bee thirty feet long! At first the geologist was puzzled to find that it carried a pair of many-jointed antennae.
Essentially, Van Emmon was a fighter. At last the four felt their attention lagging. Novelties always pall quickly, no matter how striking. Estra sensed the feeling and inquired: "Which of you will do the honors?" Instinctively the three younger folk turned to the doctor.
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