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Martin and Garnet swung into position in the fighting-tanks just ahead of the power rooms; Canning slid rapidly through the engine room, oozed through a tiny door, and took up his position in the stern-chamber, seated half-over the great ion-rocket sheath. "Ready in positions, Captain Kendall," called the war-pilot as the little green lights appeared on his board.
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.
"DON'T!" called Kendall sharply as Cole reached for the ion-rocket control. "Douse those lights!" The ship was dark in dark space. The lighted hull of the T-247 drifted away from the little tender further and further till the giant ship on the far side became visible. "Not a light not a sign of fields in operation." Kendall said, unconsciously speaking softly.
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