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Before Strong could reply, a bugle sounded from the field and the group of Solar Guard officers returned to their seats for the final game of the tournament between the Capella and the Polaris units.
"It might have enough range to get a message to the nearest atmosphere booster station." "Nothing but a pile of junk here, Roger," said Tom. "We might find something on the radar deck." The three members of the Polaris unit climbed over the rubble and made their way to the radar deck, and started their search for an undamaged tube. After forty-five minutes of searching, Roger stood up in disgust.
"The Solar Guard coming to the rescue!" "Solar Guard!" chorused the others at the table. "Yes! Solar Guard. I sent for them. I figured if the cadets could build a communicator, I could too. I did it on the Polaris when Hardy went searching for the uranium. I told the whole story to Commander Walters back at Space Academy."
"Permission to touch down granted, Polaris. You are to line up on approach to landing-port seven repeat seven. Am now sending out guiding radar beam. Can you read beam?" Tom turned to the intercom. "Have you got the station's guiding beam, Roger?" "All lined up, Tom," replied Roger from the radar bridge.
His love for the mighty atomic rocket motors, and his ability to repair anything mechanical, was already a legend around the Academy. He cared for the power deck of the Polaris as if it were a baby. "Might as well pack in and grab some sleep before we report to Captain Strong," said Tom.
"When they converted this tub, they had standard exhausts, so it must have the same layout as the Polaris. Suppose I climb in the main exhaust, between the tube and the outer hull, and cut away the cleats that hold the tube to the ship?" "Why, then everything would come out in one piece!" Astro's face lit up. "Reactant mass, tube, control box the works!"
The Polaris is a kiddy car in comparison!" "You're right, Astro," said Connel, "but there's one thing you've forgotten. The copper of the satellite itself. That's going to be the main source of power. The reactant fuel from the Space Devil will serve only as a starter, a trigger, you might say, to make use of the copper as fuel!" Once again Astro gasped.
"Do you know anything about the bomb we found on the Polaris on our trip to Venus?" asked Tom. "I planned that little surprise myself, Corbett," said Sinclair. "Unfortunately our agents on Earth bungled it." "It seems to me that was pretty stupid. There would have been another man sent in Major Connel's place, and we were warned that something big was in the wind."
The fact that he had found no entry of Tom's report to Captain Strong in the log, and the unreasonable annoyance Vidac expressed over his having looked into the logbook, convinced him that the cadets were not wrong in their suspicions concerning the lieutenant governor. Vidac dismissed him and the enlisted sergeant was escorted to the Polaris' brig by two hastily summoned crewmen.
Only a few cadets were still out on the quadrangle, lounging around in the open before returning to their quarters for bed-check. On the forty-second floor of the dormitory building, two thirds of the newly formed Polaris unit, Tom and Astro, were in heated argument. "All right, all right, so the guy is brilliant," said Astro. "But who can live with him? Not even himself!"
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