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And it was being swallowed by some substance concerning which Eyer had no ideas at all and Jeter but a growing suspicion. The plane sank lower and lower. The surface of the field was now almost to the top of the cabin doors. Most of the windows had been erased, but it made no particular difference in the matter of light.
Fliers had departed here for the lands of kings, to be received by them when their journeys were ended. Of course Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer were disappointed that Franz Kress had beaten them out in the race to be first into the stratosphere above fifty-five thousand feet. There was a chance that Kress would fail, when it would be the turn of Jeter and Eyer.
There is one extremity. In a few minutes we can discover exactly how big the thing is. What do you think it is?" Jeter shook his head. There was no way of telling. Jeter nodded agreement to Eyer. Then he spoke into the radiophone, telling Hadley what they had found, to which he could give no name. "The world awaits in fear and trembling what you will have to report, Jeter," said Hadley.
Then man's urge to go places he hadn't seen before would take him away from the Earth entirely when he would begin the task of making even the universe shrink to appease the gods of speed. Somehow the thought was a melancholy one. Now the crowd gave back as Kress speeded up his motor, indicating that he would soon take off. Jeter and Eyer studied the outward outline of Kress' craft.
Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer worked harder than ever, remembering the promise they had made Kress at his take-off. Whatever had happened to him, he seemingly in part had anticipated. And now the partners would go up, too, seeking information perhaps to vanish as Kress had vanished. They were not afraid. They shared the world's feeling of dread, but they were not afraid.
You felt then that you couldn't have broken his preoccupation in any manner at all but that if by some miracle you did, he would wither you with his wrath. Tema Eyer was the good nature of the partnership, with a brain no less agile and profound. He was a swart fellow, straight as an arrow, black of eyes the sort which caused both men and women to turn and look after him on the street.
Eyer thrust out his hand to cut the motor. Jeter stayed it. "I've an idea," he said softly; "let it run. We'll learn something more about the sensitiveness of this material." The motor was cut to idling. The plane scarcely trembled now in the pull of the motor, so firmly was she held in the grip of the shadowy, vague tentacles. A grim sort of silence had settled in the cabin.
Certainly this strange globe was capable of holding a small army at least. Jeter shrugged. Eyer answered it with an eloquent gesture and the two fell in with those who had come to meet them. "How about our plane?" said Jeter. "You need concern yourself with it no longer," replied one. "Its final disposal is in the hands of Sitsumi and The Three." A cold chill ran along Jeter's spine.
Here were the three missing Chinese scientists. Jeter and Eyer had seen many pictures of them. Jeter wondered whether their adherence to Sitsumi were voluntary or forced. But it was voluntary, of course. The three brains of these brilliant men could easily have outwitted Sitsumi had they been unwilling to associate themselves with him. The three Orientals bowed.
He, of all the "lords of the stratosphere," seemed to possess endless courage. His example fired the three. "What do you plan?" asked Wang Li. Jeter and Eyer listened with all their ears. "We have only one weapon in this unexpected emergency," said Sitsumi quietly. "We cannot direct the ray upward or laterally: it is not so constructed. But we can attack with the space ship itself!
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