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Updated: June 6, 2025
The plane had come through this white roof, bearing its two passengers, and now above them there was no slightest mark to show where they had come forth. They rested on even keel atop the inner globe which they now could see was attached to the outer globe in countless places. "I wonder if we dare risk getting out," said Eyer. "I think so," said Jeter. "Look there!"
Jeter spelled out the words in the sign language they had both learned as boys. Eyer nodded. They walked more warily when they had, traveling slowly and hesitantly, gone more than a hundred feet from their plane. They kept it in sight by constantly turning to look back. It was now several feet above them. No telling what might happen to them at any moment, and the plane was an avenue of escape.
Jeter broke the connection temporarily. Hadley could get him at any moment. A buzzer would sound inside the almost noiseless cabin when anyone wished to contact him over the radiophone. Eyer was concentrating on the controls. The plane was climbing in great sweeping spirals. Its speed was a hundred and fifty miles an hour.
There were other scientists present, but the fact that Jeter and Eyer, who were so soon to follow Kress into the stratosphere and eternity? held the places of honor near the desk of the spokesman, was significant. "What do you gentlemen think?" asked Hadley quietly. "There is undoubtedly some connection between the two happenings," said Jeter.
Maybe the law has clamped down on some of them. I've a feeling that if everything were told, the whole world would be frightened stiff. And you notice how quickly the papers finished with the Kress' thing." Eyer knew, all right. The papers had broken the story of the return in flaming scareheads. Then the thing had come to a full stop.
"What if you become unable to report, as Kress did?" "Don't worry. We will or we won't. If we succeed we'll be back. If we fail, send up the other.... No, perhaps you hadn't better send up the new planes. But I think Eyer and I have a chance to discover the nature of this strange whatever-it-is. If you can't contact us, delay twenty-four hours before doing anything.
Eyer laughed with him. They didn't fear death, for now they felt they were on the verge of destroying this monster of space. Their pursuers were following them closely. Jeter frantically tried to unfasten the handcuffs as they ran. He didn't manage it until the door was almost reached. He left one cuff dangling on his right wrist. Then, they were through the door.
Later, when your planes which are yet to be built follow us up the sky, perhaps they will be better armed. I hope to be able to communicate information somehow, relative to whatever we find." Hadley thrust out his hand. "Good luck," he said simply. Then he was gone and Jeter and Eyer were dropping swiftly down in the elevator to the street to find that the streets of Manhattan had gone mad.
He talked it over with Eyer and decided to send carefully worded cables to all four. In a few hours he received answers to them: From Japan: "Sitsumi does not care to communicate." There was a world of cold hostility in the words, Jeter thought, and Eyer agreed with him.
We have to get close to this thing to see what it is." "Parachutes?" said Eyer. Jeter nodded. "It would simplify matters if the thing happened to tilt over and spill us off, I think," said Jeter, matching Eyer's grin with one of his own. "I can't think with any degree of equanimity of plunging ninety thousand feet without a parachute." "I'm not sure I'd care for it with one," said Eyer.
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