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"What," said Jeter calmly "is Sitsumi's hurry? Why is he scared?" "Scared?" Naka seemed on the point of hitting Jeter for the blasphemy. "Scared? He fears nothing. We'll down your friends long before their motors " Sitsumi suddenly turned and looked at Naka. The look in Sitsumi's eyes was murderous, Naka went dead white.
"I feel as though we were being digested and cast forth," said Jeter. The action of the stuff was something like that. It had swallowed them in their entirety and now was disgorging them. They watched the stuff move off the ports one by one, on either side. The lower ones were free. Then those next above, the gray substance retreating with what seemed to be pouting reluctance.
They held their breath with horror as they saw the smoking devastation which must have buried thousands of people. The wrecking had been all but complete. Only the finest buildings still stood. Jeter wondered why the falling back of the shattered buildings had not shaken down those which the Sitsumi crowd had not wished to destroy.
His scientific eyes were studying the construction of the globe. The idea of escape from the predicament into which he and Eyer were plunged would never be out of his head for moment. "Come along, you!" Jeter started, stung by the savagery which suddenly edged the voice of the man who had first greeted him.
It seemed strange to them indeed that Kress should have come back to land on the roof of the two who had promised to follow him into the stratosphere if he didn't return. Very strange indeed. He had returned, though, releasing Jeter and Eyer from their promise. Strangely enough that fact made them all the more determined to go.
"What's the purpose of your conference? Who will attend?" "I I well, let us say I had hoped to make you and Eyer available to all interviewers on the eve of your flight into the stratosphere." Jeter hesitated, realizing that the publisher did not wish to tell everything over the telephone. "We'll be right along, sir," he said. It took an hour for them to reach the publisher's office.
They fell into the great aperture. Jeter and Eyer flung themselves flat. But the bombs had worked sufficient havoc. They had removed all protection from the low-pressure stratosphere. The air inside the space ship went out with a rush.
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.
The manacles were brought into view again. They looked at each other. Eyer grinned and held out his left hand. Jeter snapped the second cuff to Eyer's wrist. The act was significant. Whatever happened to them, would happen to both in equal measure. It was a gesture which needed no words.
By now the six planes were flying abreast, in battle formation, almost above the space ship, at perhaps a thousand feet greater elevation. A strange humming sound was traveling through the space ship. The whole inner globe was vibrating, shaking and vibration was a menace to glass or crystal! "We've got the answer!" said Jeter.
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