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Updated: May 15, 2025
"One of the very latest types of battle-wagons," he said, "was steaming this way from the open sea outside the Narrows, ordered here to stand by in case of need, by the Navy Department. She was armed to the minute with the very latest ordnance. She carried a full crew...." Hadley paused. Jeter could hear him take a deep breath, like a diver preparing to plunge into icy water.
Their keys were in the hands of Naka, whose hatred of Jeter for hitting him on the jaw was so malevolent it fairly glowed from his eyes like sparks shot forth. Food was brought them when asked for. It wasn't easy to partake of it, because their manacled hands had to be moved together, which made it extremely awkward.
His huge hand fastened in the throat of their keeper. Nobody neither Sitsumi nor the Three turned as Naka gasped and struggled. Eyer pulled the man back over the table and, his neck thus within reach of both hands, snapped it as he would have broken the neck of a chicken. Jeter was already searching the body for the keys. He found them. Their leg irons were just falling free when Sitsumi turned.
There were articles relative to the treatment and disposition of women, which sometimes depended upon the tossing of a coin, jeter a croix pile, but they need not be repeated: on this point the French were worse than the English.
He was doing little better than guessing. He felt sure of but one thing, that the agency which was wreaking the havoc was a human one, and he was perfectly willing to match his wits and Eyer's against any human intelligence. Jeter slipped into the cushioned seat beside Eyer. The altimeter registered fifteen thousand feet.
"Hadley," Jeter almost whispered, "I'm satisfied we're above the area of force, else we'd have flown into the anti-gravitation field. Get in touch with that Jersey chap by direct personal wire or radiophone if he is equipped with it. See that his watch is set with yours, which is synchronised with ours. Got that?" "Yes."
If you have no interest in our theories there is little need to pursue our plans further, where you are concerned." "We are interested, of course," said Jeter. "We are interested in your theories, without committing ourselves to acceptance of them; and we are naturally interested in saving our lives. Let us say then, for the moment, that we do not refuse to join you." How It Came About
Even Naka's attention was fastened on the five planes and Wang Li's efforts to destroy them. "Gag Naka!" said Jeter. "The keys! In some way we've got to get to our plane. It's barely possible. If we can start the motor.... Hurry! Now, while the whole outfit is watching our friends out there!" Eyer rose and reached for Naka with his right hand. He dared not miss his lunge. He did not.
Many curious ones would stay right here until Kress returned, fearful of being cheated of a great thrill. For Kress was to land right here when, and if, he had conquered the stratosphere. Jeter and Eyer wormed their way through the crowd to the road and found their car in a jam of other cars.
Jeter listened to Hadley's words which were not so frantic now, as though Hadley had been numbed by the awful happenings. "The new bridge between Manhattan and Jersey," said Hadley, "has just been lifted by whatever the unearthly force is. It was pulled up from its very foundations. It was crowded with cars as people fled from New York and cars and people were lifted with the bridge.
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