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Updated: May 27, 2025
His voice sounded: "Gregg Haljan, do you yield?" Carter leaped up from where he and I were crouching. Against all reason of safety he leaned from the low window, waving his hamlike fist. "Yield? No! I am in command here, you pirate! Brigand murderer!" I dragged him back sharply. "For God's sake " He was spluttering; and over it Miko's sardonic laugh sounded. "Shall we argue about it?" I stood up.
"Wie a normal head o' water, the lads'll move them, but wi' the wee drappie we have the noo " He threw up his hamlike hands despairingly.
"Why, that's adding insult to injury!" the mate declared sympathetically. The youthful master threw up both hamlike hands in token of complete surrender and profound disgust. "There's the gratitude of an owner!" he raved. "He wires me my loading orders and never says a word about docking though as managing owner it's up to him to know when the vessel needs docking.
The hulking cadet lunged at Manning, but Tom quickly stepped between them. "Stow it, both of you!" he shouted. "We're in this room together, so we might as well make the best of it." "Of course, Corbett of course," replied Manning easily. He turned his back on Astro, who stood, feet wide apart, neck muscles tight and hands clenched in hamlike fists.
"When did he begin?" Doble slammed a hamlike fist on the table. "Spit it out, or I'll tear yore arm off." Steelman told all he knew and a good deal more. He invented details calculated to infuriate his confederate, to inflame his jealousy. The big man sat with jaw clamped, the muscles knotted like ropes on his leathery face.
With a hamlike hand Astro suddenly grabbed for Roger's neck, but the wiry cadet dashed along the slidewalk out of reach and the big Venusian rumbled after him. Tom roared with laughter.
At the end of three hours he returned, his hamlike hands thrust deep into empty pockets, and the look in his eye of one who has watched rosy dreams vanish. "Where you been all this time?" snapped his employer wrathfully. "'As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to them that send him. I declare, Solomon must have had some black stable boys!
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