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Updated: May 15, 2025
Other bulldozers began to circle methodically around and around, overturning the earth and burying the hot surface stuff. Water trucks sprayed, and thin steam arose. But also an exit-port opened and Joe stood in the opening. Then Sally began to run again. Joe sat at dinner in the major's quarters. Major Holt was there, and Joe's father, and Sally.
Then he opened the exit-port, and faced armed men in the darkness, with blast-rifles trained on him. There was a portable cannon trained on the Med Ship itself. "Come out!" rasped a voice. "If you try anything you get blasted! Your ship and its contents are seized by the planetary government!" It seemed that the smell of hunger was in the air. The armed men were cadaverous.
Suddenly the Med Ship seemed empty. Then he saw Murgatroyd staring at the exit-port. The inner door of that small airlock was closed. The tell-tale said the outer was not locked. Someone had gone out, quietly. The girl. Of course. Calhoun said angrily; "How long ago, Murgatroyd?" "Chee!" said Murgatroyd indignantly.
The landing-grid crew shifted the ship to one side, and only then did Calhoun stroll in a leisurely fashion toward the Med Ship by the grid's metal-lace wall. The big ship touched ground, and its exit-port revolved and opened, and the student pilot stood there grinning and heaving out handsful of grain.
But it was not easy for him. The ground-car stopped. An exit-port in the space yacht opened and an extension-stair came down. The three of them mounted it. The inner lock-door opened and they entered the Sylva. An incredibly fat woman regarded Bors with warm and sentimental eyes. A man no older than Bors, but with prematurely gray hair, nodded at him.
"We'll see what it looks like outside," he said with a certain grimness. "I don't quite believe what the visionscreens show." Minutes later he stepped down to the ground from the Med Ship's exit-port. The ship had landed perhaps a hundred feet from what once had been a wooden building.
The doctor moved toward the Med Ship's exit-port. "I answered your questions," he said grimly. "But if I talked to anyone else as I've done to you, I'd be lucky only to be driven into exile!" "I shan't give you away," said Calhoun. He did not smile. When the doctor had gone, Calhoun said deliberately; "Murgatroyd, you should be grateful that you're a tormal and not a man.
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