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A wash of ions was curling around her, splitting, and passing on. The pinprick explosions of the Garnell shells dotted space around her but never on her. Cole was already racing for the tender lock. In an instant Kendall piled in after him.
Kendall watched the instruments as one after another of the weapons were tested on momentary full discharge titanic flames of five million volt protons. Then the ship thudded to the chatter of the Garnell rifles. Tensely the men watched the planet ahead, white, yet barely visible in the weak sunlight so far out. It was swimming slowly nearer as the tiny ship gathered speed.
The ion-rocket flames swirled abruptly toward her, the proton-guns whined their song of death in their housings, and the heavy pounding shudder of the Garnell guns racked the ship. Strangely, Kendall suddenly noticed, there was a stillness in the ship. The guns and the rays were still going but the little human sounds seemed abruptly gone. "Talbot Garnet " Only silence answered him.
Her various weapons had stopped operating now, the hoppers of the Garnell guns exhausted, the charge of the accumulators aboard the ship down so low the proton guns had died out. "Lord they're taking the whole ship!" "Say Cole, is that any ship you ever heard of before? I don't think that's just a pirate!" "Not a pirate what then?" "How'd he get inside our detector screens so fast?
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