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Updated: June 19, 2025
And the Lord knows, my dear, that a woman without a sense of humor is worse than a dipper without a handle." Dinky-Dunk sat studying me. "I guess it was my own sense of proportion that got out of kilter, Gee-Gee," he finally said. "But there's one thing I want you to remember. If I got deeper into this game than I should have, it wasn't for what money meant to me.
Six minutes later, correct to a buckle and a puttee-fold, he salutes his commanding officer, nodding pleasantly to him from Nixey's roof, and buckets down the street at a tremendous gallop, the happiest man in Gueldersdorp, with this shout following him: "My regards to Lady Hannah. And tell her that the Staff dine on gee-gee at six o'clock sharp, and I shall be charmed if she'll join us."
The three were amusing themselves with a game of three-handed bridge, while the marmoset occasionally made things lively by stealing cards. Rick watched for a few minutes, then wandered into the empty Orion shed, abandoned now that its crew and rocket had moved to the firing pad and blockhouse. As he stood looking at the complex test equipment a sedan pulled up and Gee-Gee Gould got out.
The electronics chief waved at him and trotted by into the project office. He returned in a moment with a portable tube and circuit tester under his arm and paused to ask, "What's up, boy-oh?" Rick answered briefly, "No transistors, no work." "Bored?" "Not exactly, sir. But I wish I could do something useful instead of just hanging around." Gee-Gee stroked his magnificent mustache.
The information from the marmoset's instruments would appear as a series of waves on continually moving strips of special paper, in a machine called the display. Finally Rick and Gee-Gee left the nose section and started to work down. It was already dark outside. The nose section was finished. The cameraman had arrived and loaded the cameras and departed.
We go to the top and work down." Rick went. He was too excited to be afraid. The first stage was by elevator. Then he and Gee-Gee climbed thin steel rungs to the very tip of the great rocket. Not until he reached the shaky, wind-blown, postage-stamp-size platform at the top did he take time to look down. The thin steel web was no barrier to vision.
Gee-Gee looked at him in astonishment, then slowly grinned. He thrust out a grimy hand. "You're my boy, young Brant. Who taught you about polarization?" Rick was about to say, truthfully, "My father." But he caught himself in time. "A boss I had at Spindrift." "He taught you well, and you're right. I did goof on that one. I'll check, and you recheck."
Rick's chin dropped on his chest and stayed there. Finally he gasped, "You mean the wings are to turn the upper section into a glider in order to land it again?" Dr. Gould put a hand on his shoulder and nodded gravely. "Ole Gee-Gee is pleased with you. You have demonstrated something between the ears besides strawberry Jello. You have just described the objective of Project Pegasus.
"Come with me, there's a good chap, and what's she like?" As they went on into the drawing-rooms Mr. Bry dropped out: "Some people say she's like Lady Holme." "Like Vi! Is she? Laycock's been simply ravin' simply ravin' and Laycock's not a feller to where is she? "We shall come to her. So there was no gee-gee to look at in the country to-night?" Lord Holme burst into a roar of laughter.
He's a her and her name's Adeline. Where's the boys, Uncle Gee-gee?" "Hey? Oh, away down in the breaks after their cattle that got away. You keep still and never mind where they've gone."
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