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Updated: June 8, 2025
But close. Around thirty thousand miles, maybe. It's Snap Dean calling." The Planetara here within thirty thousand miles! Excitement and pleasure swept the room. The Planetara had for so long been awaited eagerly! The excitement communicated to Grantline.
With forward velocity almost checked, we poised, and Snap began his signals to the unsuspecting Grantline. My work momentarily was over. I sat watching the radio room. Moa was here, close beside me. I felt always her watchful gaze, so that even the play of my emotions needed reining. Miko worked with Snap. Anita too was here.
The astounded Englishman continued to gaze at Anita. But he said, "I mean to say, where to on the Moon? Not to encounter Grantline at once, Miko? Our equipment is not ready." "Of course not. We will land well away " The reluctant Coniston left us. I took the controls. Miko, still holding Anita as though she were a child, sat beside me. "We will watch him, Anita.
They were small, dwarfed by distance, alternately dim and bright as they swayed in and out of the shadows. The duty man could not tell one from the other. To him it was Haljan and Wilks, fighting to the death! The duty man sprang into action. An interior siren call was on the instrument panel near him. He rang it frantically. The men came rushing to him, Grantline among them. "What's this?
I had been planning that we might see the glow of Miko's encampment and decide on some course of action. "But, Gregg, the safety of the treasure of all the Grantline men...." "To the infernal with that! It's you, your safety " "My safety, then! If you put me in the camp and the brigands attack it and I am killed what then?
It was when she was due to return that Halsey would be alert. Grantline used his power far beyond the limits of safety. He cut down the lights; the telescope intensifiers and television were completely disconnected; the ventilators were momentarily stilled, so that the air here in the little room crowded with men rapidly grew fetid.
"The signal from Grantline said, 'Unless you can stop them." It was an appeal to me. But how could I stop them? What could I do, alone out here with Anita, to cope with this enemy? Anita made no comment. I added, "That ship will land near Archimedes, within an hour or two. If Grantline can repair the ports, and I can get you inside...." Again she made no comment. Then suddenly she gripped me.
Our situation here was desperate enough. The passengers soon would be cast upon the asteroid: there would be left only Snap, Anita and myself. We might recapture the ship, but I doubted it now. My thoughts were turning to our arrival on the Moon. We three might, perhaps, be able to thwart the attack upon Grantline, hold the brigands off until help from the Earth might come.
Such was the outer aspect of the Grantline Treasure Camp near the beginning of this Lunar night, when, unknown to Grantline and his men, the Planetara with its brigands was approaching. The night was perhaps a sixth advanced. Full night. No breath of cloud to mar the brilliant starry heavens. The quadrant Earth hung poised like a giant mellow moon over Grantline's crater.
I can't play your cursed game with nothing at stake!" A laugh went up at the sharp look Johnny Grantline flung from where he sat reading in a corner of the room. "Commander's orders. No gambling gold leafers tolerated here." "Play the game, Wilks," Grantline said quietly. "We all know it's infernal this doing nothing." "He's been struck by Earthlight," another man laughed.
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