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If only we could somehow open up the outer rind or soften it, so that our friends could see the inner globe and reach it with their bombs!" Jeter's face was now dead white. His eyes were aglow with excitement. "Tema," he whispered, "Tema, that's their vulnerability! That's what they fear!
Their watches and the clock in the plane were synchronized with Hadley's time, which was Eastern Standard, and as soon as the plane had reached eight thousand feet altitude, Jeter spoke into the radiophone and arranged for a connection with the office of Hadley. Hadley himself soon spoke into Jeter's ear. "Yes, Jeter?" "See that someone is always at your radiophone to listen to us.
We should have thought to destroy all dangerous air ports. A fatal oversight!" Sitsumi's eyes were grave. He looked at each of the Three in turn. "God!" said Jeter's whispering lips. "If we could read their minds! If only we could guess what it is they fear, we'd have the secret by which we might destroy them." "They're vulnerable," said Eyer, "but how?" "Watch!" said Jeter. "Listen!
He wasn't belittling their deadly danger. And there was also a chance that Jeter's vibration idea was wrong.
Then, using a series of doors in order to conserve the warmth and oxygen inside their cabin, they let themselves out, closing each successive door behind them, until at last they faced the last door and the grim unknown. They glanced at each other briefly, and Jeter's hand went forth to grasp the mechanism of the last door. Eyer stood at his side. Their eyes met. The door swung open.
A search of the sky above Manhattan failed to disclose any visible substance from which the light beam might emanate. That seemed to indicate some unbelievable height. Yet, Kress must have reached that base. Else why had he been destroyed and sent back to Jeter and Eyer as a challenge? Jeter's mind went back to Kress.
"I feel it, too," said Jeter's fingers. "But I'm not afraid of fingers in the usual sense. I don't think of hands strangling us, or ripping us to shreds, but of questing well, call them tentacles, which may clasp us with gentleness even, and absorb us, and annihilate us!" Now the two faced each other squarely.
Certainly this strange globe was capable of holding a small army at least. Jeter shrugged. Eyer answered it with an eloquent gesture and the two fell in with those who had come to meet them. "How about our plane?" said Jeter. "You need concern yourself with it no longer," replied one. "Its final disposal is in the hands of Sitsumi and The Three." A cold chill ran along Jeter's spine.
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