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A thin grin, the ghost of his usual grin wrinkled his taut features. "Don't worry," he said, "they're not policemen." Professor Brierly had stood by, hands clenched, eyes flashing. They had started toward the hangar from which a man was running toward them, Matthews said, banteringly: "What do you think of the relative value of physical as against mental culture now, Professor.
"I beg your pardon I was only looking at it from the purely scientific point of view. Who is it, do you suppose?" "How do I know? Some amateur, I guess. No professional would butt in this way." Kennedy took a leaf out of his note-book and wrote a short message which he gave to a boy to deliver to Norton. "Detach your gyroscope and dynamo," it read. "Leave them in the hangar.
"But you do not deny that you knew about the special unit that Professor Hemmingwell had created," he said. "A unit that only he and I knew about?" "I knew about the unit yes, sir," replied Troy. "How could you?" demanded Walters. "I overheard you both discussing it one day." "Where?" "In the hangar," said Troy.
A young lieutenant solemnly escorted him to the spot where the pushpot had landed, only ten feet from a hangar wall. The impact had carried parts of the pushpot five feet into the soil, and the splash effect had caved in the hangar wall-footing. There'd been a fire, which had been put out. The ungainly flying thing was twisted and torn. Entrails of steel tubing were revealed.
In the alert hangar, the two pilots standing the alert had been listening to a running account of the sighting so when the scramble bell rang they took off for their airplanes like a couple of sprinters. As the two big alert hangar doors swung up the whining screech of the jet starters, followed by thunder of the engines, filled the airfield.
There were no mechanics running out to greet the alighting plane and trundle it into its hangar. Had this been a well-appointed landing field, such absence would have been suspicious. But to Bob and Jack it meant only confirmation of Roy Stone's remark that they were a "careless lot at the ranch." "Now for it," said Jack, clambering out of the plane.
"Wow! what's that mean?" cried Jack, half jumping up as the sound of several shots not far away came distinctly to their ears. "Did those shots seem to be over yonder to the right?" asked the major. "So far as I was able to judge that's where they came from," Tom replied. "Does the hangar lie in that quarter, sir?" "Just what it does!
The next morning at the plant Tom called on Harlan Ames. He told of the sinister hoax by the caller who had passed himself off as Lester Morris. The security chief promised to investigate. "I'll tip off the police about Len Unger," Ames added. "If they can find him, we may be able to crack this case wide open." Tom telephoned Bud, Hank Sterling, and Arv Hanson to meet him at the helijet hangar.
The supper that Elizabeth brought, smoking hot, to the long, board- made table the boys quickly set up in the hangar, did not smack very much of inexperience. Even Budge declared it was well worth the trip across the river.
But at least let's get together all the gear we'll need when we do go to Fearing." "I guess we'll have time for that," Bud conceded with a sympathetic grin. Tom assembled a mass of electronic equipment and phoned various Enterprises' departments for other items. Bud helped to collect them, and the boys trucked the paraphernalia out to a hangar to be loaded aboard a Whirling Duck.
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