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Jeter and Eyer went across to him as he was saying his last words into the microphone before stepping into his sealed cabin for the flight. Kress saw them coming and his face lighted up. "Lord," he said, "I'm glad to see you two. I've something I must ask you." "Anything you ask will be answered," said Jeter, "if Tema and I can answer it. Or granted if it's a favor you wish."
"I shall answer both your questions, Jeter," said Sitsumi. "Step this way, please. The Three should hear our conference." They were conducted into a smaller room. Its floors were covered with skins. There were easy chairs and divans. It might have been their own luxuriously appointed rooms at Mineola.
Then telegraph and radio, at the suggestion of Jeter, instructed the entire civilized world to turn its eyes skyward to watch for the return of Kress. The world obeyed that day ... and the next ... and the next! But Kress did not return; nor, so far as the world knew, did any or all of his great airplane. The world itself began to have a feeling of dread that grew. The Ghostly Columns
He, of all the "lords of the stratosphere," seemed to possess endless courage. His example fired the three. "What do you plan?" asked Wang Li. Jeter and Eyer listened with all their ears. "We have only one weapon in this unexpected emergency," said Sitsumi quietly. "We cannot direct the ray upward or laterally: it is not so constructed. But we can attack with the space ship itself!
Eyer thrust out his hand to cut the motor. Jeter stayed it. "I've an idea," he said softly; "let it run. We'll learn something more about the sensitiveness of this material." The motor was cut to idling. The plane scarcely trembled now in the pull of the motor, so firmly was she held in the grip of the shadowy, vague tentacles. A grim sort of silence had settled in the cabin.
"When the time comes," he said menacingly, "and it appears that we may be in difficulties with the fools who think to thwart Sitsumi and the Three and rescue you, it shall give me great pleasure to destroy you with your own automatic." "Pleasant fellow," said Eyer. "Shall I smash him, Lucian?" Jeter shook his head.
There were a few cynical verses from Heine, and three bitter stanzas on the text from Balzac: "Vous nous promettiez le bonheur, et finissiez par nous jeter dans une précipice;" but not one tender word applied to a woman throughout the book. It was certainly strange; and Lettice felt that her curiosity was natural and legitimate. Alan Walcott, in fact, became quite an interesting study.
In a few minutes every port was covered with a film of the weird stuff. "It may be a foot deep above us," said Jeter. "I don't think we'll be able to tell how thick any bit of the stuff is. The surface of the field may be ten feet above our heads right now. Well, Tema, old son, we're prisoners as surely as though we were locked in a chrome steel vault a thousand feet underground.
Then the motor coughed, coughed again, and broke into a steady roaring. High Chaos The plane moved forward. Its tail swung around. Its wheels headed for the door. They dropped through, into the faces of the foremost pursuers, all of whom were thus effectually blocked off. The plane was held as in a vise. The propeller vanished in a blur as Jeter let the motor out.
Jeter could see Eyer's shudder as he asked the question. Slowly the fingers of his partner spelled out the answer. "I've a feeling of eyes boring into my back. I sense that the substance under us is malignant, inimical. I have the same feeling with every step I take, as though the unseen surface were endowed with arms capable of reaching out and grabbing me."
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