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Updated: May 15, 2025
That Hadley, down in New York City, and all the best minds who were cooperating with Jeter and Eyer in their mad effort to avert world catastrophe, would make every effort to come to their assistance by sending up the planes which must even now be nearing completion, they hadn't the slightest doubt. Would they arrive in time?
There was contempt in it and an assumption of personal superiority which galled the independent Jeter. He grinned a little, looked at Eyer. "I wonder if we have to take it," he said softly. "It seems we might expect a little respect, at least," Eyer grinned in answer. The guard suddenly caught Jeter by the shoulder. "I said to come along!"
"Yet nobody seems to have wakened at that ranch when and it must have happened the herd stopped making any noise whatever. The utter silence should have wakened seasoned cowhands. It didn't. Why? What happened to them that they slept so soundly they heard nothing?" Eyer did not answer. It wasn't the first time he had been called upon to hear Jeter think out loud.
If the man had been intending to provoke a fight he couldn't have gone about it in any better way. Jeter suddenly, without a change of expression, sent a right fist crashing to the fellow's jaw. "Don't use your gat, Eyer," he called to his partner. "We may kill a key man who may be necessary to our well-being later on. But black eyes and broken noses should be no bar to efficiency."
The plane had come through this white roof, bearing its two passengers, and now above them there was no slightest mark to show where they had come forth. They rested on even keel atop the inner globe which they now could see was attached to the outer globe in countless places. "I wonder if we dare risk getting out," said Eyer. "I think so," said Jeter. "Look there!"
"If we could somehow cut our landing gear free," began Jeter, "but " "But it's too late, Lucian," said Eyer quietly. "Look at the window." They both looked. Countless fingers of shadowy gray substance were undulating up the surface of the window, like pale angleworms or white serpents of many sizes, trying to climb up a pane of glass. "Well," said Jeter, "here we are! You see?
That Sitsumi and the Three would not hesitate was amply proved. Already they were guilty of the death of thousands. They were in deadly earnest with their scheme for a world government. Jeter and Eyer were kept shackled together, and were, in addition, chained to the floor of the main room of the white globe with leg irons.
They could quarter the country, winged bloodhounds of space, seeking their quarry. Jeter studied the sky above them through their special telescopes, seeking some hint of the location of the point of departure of that devastating column of light.
There were many strange things happening lately, too, and the queer things kept on happening, and in ever-increasing numbers, during the second week of Kress' impossible absence in the stratosphere. Or was he there? Had he ever reached it? Had he Jeter and Eyer had noticed his utter gloom at the take-off merely, climbed out of sight of the Earth and then slanted down to a dive into the ocean?
So off he started this morning the first thing. What a man, Mamma! crying like a child! His mother and the Baronne are very anxious about him, as if he really decides to "jeter le manche après la cognée," who is to pay his debts! But, as it is, the contrast between us Victorine and me whom he cannot obtain is too great, and the sooner I am out of his sight the better!
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