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Updated: May 17, 2025
Silly, of course, but behind the silliness of the thought Jeter thought there might be something of interest, something on which to work. The Jeter-Eyer space ship still was not finished though almost when the world moved into the third week since the disappearance of Franz Kress. An Indian in the Southwest had reported seeing one of those columns of light.
He was dead but had been for less than seventy-two hours! His body was frozen solid. It landed on the roof of the Jeter-Eyer laboratory; had he been alive he couldn't possibly have maneuvered his chute to land him on such a small place. The partners stared at each other.
And was there not something happening to the rind over a wide area, directly above the Jeter-Eyer plane? They could fancy the snapping of ice on a forest lake in mid-winter. They couldn't hear, in their suits. They could only feel. But all at once the outer rind, above their plane, vanished.
Frozen solid ... but that could have been caused by his downward plunge through space. And what had happened to Kress' plane? No word had been received concerning it up to the time of the Jeter-Eyer departure. Had the "enemy" taken possession of it? The whole thing seemed absurd. Nobody knew better than Jeter that he was working literally and figuratively in the dark.
Wang Li was patently trying with all his might to get all four of them before the Jeter-Eyer plane, by shattering the rind, disclosed the inner core to the bombs of the remaining planes. "Lucian!" said the fingers of Eyer. "Can you tell whether anything is happening to the rind?" Jeter hesitated for a long time. There was a distinct and almost nauseating vibration throughout all the space ship.
The substance was rubbery and lifelike in its resiliency, its tenacious grasp upon the Jeter-Eyer plane. By this means the plane was lowered to the "ground." Jeter and Eyer watched, fascinated, as the stuff slipped and lost its grip, and slowly retracted to become part of the dome above.
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