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Jan, suppose you start with the history of the ghost. Then, Barby, you take over and tell what we saw the other night." "All right, Mother," Jan began. "The ghost isn't new, you see. We've had a blue ghost here for centuries!" Rick's eyebrows went up. "A blue ghost?" "Yes. You'll see why in a moment. Anyway, we all knew about the ghost, sort of, and some people were supposed to have seen it.
Anyway, I'd vote for Southern European." "On the button," Scotty agreed. Rick's eyes dropped as the man looked their way. The eyes were dark brown, he saw, with heavy lids. The eyebrows, in startling contrast to the white hair, were dark. The boy looked up again, his glance guarded.
It may be full of coral heads." "I doubt it," Scotty returned. "It would be too dangerous for the boat in this kind of weather, even if they knew a channel." "Rick's right about careful movement, nevertheless," Tony replied. "We must move with care, especially near the reef." He indicated his float. "I'll never be able to tow this through that water, so I'll leave it in the palm grove.
The Earthman's activities had become more than just a challenging puzzle, too. Rick's work on Pegasus had become important in its own right. He was excited at being a part of something so dramatic, and with such far-reaching consequences for the whole future of space travel and high-altitude research. He had become a part of Pegasus.
Of course the moment we get even a slight odor of fish, we run a check. That's why we're working on your barber right now. We're also checking the elevator operator." "All right. I was off base, I guess." "Not at all. I'd be disappointed if you didn't ask for explanations." There was one other question in Rick's mind. "How do you know we weren't followed back to Spindrift?" Steve chuckled.
We can feed normal current in, or 440 volts, and we can cross-link the circuits any way we like." Scotty checked Rick's work, then took the switch handle. He touched the contacts briefly, and there was a quick pulse of light as the roof lighted up and went dark again. "I'll stand by here," Scotty said. "You stand by at the end of the runway. Are we going to use gasoline?" "We'll have to.
He pulled the reserve lever and planed to the surface, Scotty close on his heels. On the Water Witch they stared at each other. "Did you hear that?" Scotty demanded. "I'll say I did!" "That octopus wailed," Scotty insisted. "Twice!" He hesitated, then put Rick's thoughts into words. "Only octopuses don't wail. They don't make noise of any kind." "This one did," Rick said. "A wailing octopus!
"At first the sensation of complete blackness caused an emotional reaction. Then I began to see that we had done a rather foolish thing. And I almost got us into trouble by forgetting that we send up a constant stream of bubbles." He told them of his plan to get under the cave, and of Rick's warning. "We thought of your bubbles," Scotty told them.
It was the best move he could have made, from Rick's point of view. The boy knew he could not compete with either man in strength. He had to depend on speed, and the infighting tricks he had learned from Scotty. He used one now. At the last moment he side-stepped and his hand flashed down. It was a judo chop, the hand held stiff, the blow delivered with the side opposite the thumb.
He planed downward until he touched bottom, then thrust himself with frantic kicks away from the vicinity of the cave. His lungs were about to burst, he felt, when finally he drew a deep breath. The gurgling sigh of his bubbles was sheer relief. He kept moving until he bumped headlong into Hobart Zircon. The scientist reached out and snapped his rope onto Rick's belt, then tugged twice.
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