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The wires felt over the batteries and their connections softly eagerly. The whine changed to a purr of enjoyment. The thing fed. And slowly the pointer upon the volt-meter moved over to zero. Nea raised a tiny whistle to her mouth. There was no sound, but the copper-studded globe seemed to hear. It raised itself back into the air. The silken wires wrapped themselves about the round body.
They drew closer together as though afraid of the dark. Then smoldered and flickered. Then they were gone. And all that was left was one dark cloud that slowly drifted away. "It was an artificial explosion," Nea murmured in a puzzled voice. "Grim Hagen's ship and ours destroyed the balance and caused a premature burst. There must be some law some time and weight factor that governs these things.
"Eh!" she said, "sticks is heavy and I'm none so young as I was." "You have no business in the wood," said Osborn sternly. "There's nea place else where we can pick up sticks." "That is your affair. You know you're not allowed to gather wood in my plantations." "We canna gan withoot some kindling; when you canna keep it dry, peat is ill to light.
The Kalis began purring contentedly, as though space were no more than a huge living room, and they were beside a comfortable fireplace, looking up at their all-powerful mistress. The dust-cloud was farther away than Ato had guessed. Long before they reached it, his instruments began to waver. He looked at a star-map. Meanwhile, Nea fed rows of figures into a humming calculator.
Might mak' a fair landlord if he was letten and had t' money; but oad Hayes is grasping and always at his tail." "The rent-roll's good. The estate could be managed well." "There's t' mortgages and Osborn canna keep money. When he has it he must spend. There would be nea poor landlord's, if I had my way. I'd let them putten rents up if they had money and spent it on the land.
She had almost hypnotized him with her weary, earnest voice. For a moment, it had seemed that all this frantic quest was nothing. That it would be far, far better to find a home with Nea and build a world of his own than to go on searching the stars. Then he answered slowly, trying to measure his words, for he did not want to hurt her feelings. "No, Nea.
Behind it Maya's face, outlined in black curls, seemed to peer at him and her pouting lips parted as she smiled. He stared and shook his head. The dream-vision vanished from the screen. Someone had entered the room. It was Nea. Dressed in slacks once more, she slouched over to his chair and drew a hassock up beside it. As she looked at him, Jack Odin saw that her eyes were tired tired tired.
A hill-billy band was playing, and a comic was singing: "So I kissed her little sister and forgot my Clementine." He turned off the radio with a curse and finally got to sleep, and dreamed of star spaces and emerald worlds ruled by beautiful Brons girls who looked like Maya or maybe a bit like Nea. Until the worlds streaked across the dark sky like comets.
I asked for a live thing, but Ato would not agree." Again Ato was on the defensive. "There are not a dozen pets on the ship. I do not approve of such experiments. Besides, the batteries are already set up." He pointed to a row of dry-cells, connected together and wired to a large volt-meter upon the wall. "All right." Nea threw a switch that put the batteries in circuit.
"If he puts us oot, there's nea place we'll can gan." Mordaunt hesitated. He imagined Shanks had had something to do with the accident to Jim's car, and it was obvious that the fellow was bitterly revengeful. At the beginning, Mordaunt had not meant to work upon his vindictive feelings; he had done so half-consciously, but now he meant to go on.
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