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"They can pick up the pieces down there, what there is left of them," said Redgrave, still holding Zaidie tight to his side with one hand and working the wheel with the other, "and now we'll teach them another lesson." "What are you going to do, dear?" she said, looking up at him with somewhat frightened eyes. "You'll see in a moment," he said, between his shut teeth.
"Oh, very well then," said Zaidie, interrupting him with a pretty little gesture of impatience, "and now suppose you let me see what the Astronef's commander can do with her." "Certainly," replied Redgrave, "and with the greatest pleasure but, by the way, that reminds me you haven't paid your footing yet."
The air about her had suddenly grown bitterly cold, and she saw that the stars and planets were shining with a brilliancy she had never seen before. Redgrave came back to her, and laying his arm across her shoulder, said: "Well, have you said goodbye to your native world?
The moon-like disc of Venus grew swiftly smaller, and the black spot on the face of the Sun larger and larger as the Astronef rushed silently and imperceptibly, and yet with almost inconceivable velocity towards doom or fortune. Neither Zaidie nor Redgrave spoke again for nearly three hours hours which to them seemed to pass like so many minutes.
Used to see him at B. F.'s, you know, and one or two other places where I went with Sibyl. Thought him rather a snob. But I was quite mistaken. He's a very nice fellow when you get near to him. Harvey's surprise was increased. For his own part, he still thought of Redgrave with the old prejudice, though he had no definite charge to bring against the man.
Strangeways' invitations, though she continued to speak of her slightingly; and Redgrave had known the lady for a long time even, it appeared, before her first marriage. In a year's time Alma had made and renewed a large number of acquaintances.
This time Redgrave did not wait upon accident; he sent a note, begging that he might have the pleasure of another talk with her. He would call at a certain hour, and take his chance of finding her at home. When he presented himself, Alma was sitting in the common room of the pension with two German ladies; they in a few minutes withdrew, and familiar conversation became possible.
What they saw then was the strangest sight they had beheld since they had left the Earth. As far as their eyes could reach the surface of the Ganymede was covered with vast orderly patches, mostly rectangular, of what they at first took for ice, but which they soon found to be a something that was self-illuminating. "Glorified hot-houses, as I'm alive," exclaimed Redgrave.
"There must be something nice under all those lovely colours." Redgrave checked the R. Force and the Astronef fell obliquely across the pole towards the equator. As they approached the luminous clouds Redgrave turned it on again, and they sank slowly through a glowing mist of innumerable colours, until the surface of Ganymede came into plain view about ten miles below them.
The sun climbed quickly up through the star-strewn, mid-day heavens, and the full earth sank more swiftly still behind them. Another hour of silent, entranced wonder and admiration followed, and then Redgrave said: "Don't you think it's about time we were beginning to think of breakfast, dear or do you think you can wait till we land?" "Breakfast on the moon!" she exclaimed.
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