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That was the last I heard from him until the Patrol ship found him floating in space with a torn-open suit and a ruined scooter floating a few miles away." "Do you think that Jupiter Equilateral knew Dad had found something?" Tom asked. "Who knows? I'm sure that he never told them, but it's awful hard to keep a secret like that, and they sound awful eager to buy that rig," Johnny Coombs said.
"He certainly does whisk," said Tessa. "But then Tommy gave him to me." She spoke with tender eyes upon a young mongoose that gambolled at her feet. "Isn't he a love?" she said. "But he isn't nearly so pretty as darling Scooter," she added loyally. "Is he, Aunt Mary?" "Not yet, dear," said Mrs. Ralston with a smile. "I wish Uncle St. Bernard and Tommy would come," said Tessa restlessly.
Then, slowly shaking his head, Hal Hastings went back to his post. "Do you really think we can beat that scooter to-day, Hal?" inquired the shipbuilder, anxiously. "Yes, sir." "What makes you so certain, lad?" "Why, we'll beat her just because we've got to do it, sir," Hastings replied, then hurried below. "Hal isn't any too sure," muttered David Pollard, restlessly.
Prohack admitted the necessity of machinery, but an automobile had for him the same status as a child's scooter and no higher. It was an ingenious device for locomotion. And there for him the matter ended. On the other hand, Mr. Prohack sympathised with and comprehended his son's general attitude towards life. Charlie had gone to war from Cambridge at the age of nineteen.
I shan't ever be friends with him again if he plays us such a mean trick!" "It's 'coach carriage wheelbarrow truck, it seems to me, the way we're all trotting home!" laughed Edith. "If I could have my choice, I'd sprint on a scooter!" "Next term we'll travel by private aeroplane, specially chartered!" scoffed Noreen. "I don't mind how I go, so long as I get off somehow!" chirped Truie.
But a moment later, when the two were walking gingerly over the ice to the spot where Eph had drawn his scooter to a standstill, Samuel fell into a self-congratulatory chuckle. "He didn't find out though that I had my reasons fer leavin' home tew. Women-folks, be it only one, hain't good all the time fer nobody.
Even as they watched, a pair of scooters broke from the side of the Ranger and slid down toward the sun side of the asteroid. "I don't know," Johnny said. "I think they intended to stay hidden, until Tom lost control of his bumper, and got far enough around there to spot them." He frowned as the first scooter touched down on the asteroid surface. "Can't we fire on them?" Greg said angrily.
At their hasty agreement to that, he laughed. "Well, the Patrol doesn't want the Video spouting about 'high-handed official news suppression' so about an hour or so from now you'll be let out the back way. They put the Queen in a cradle and a field scooter will take you to her. You'll find her serviced for a take-off to Luna City. You can refit there for deep space.
There were hundreds of crevices and caves, half concealed by the loose rock that crumbled under their feet as they moved. They spread out from the scooter for an hour of fruitless searching. Tom spent most of the time pulling his boots free of surface cracks and picking his way over heaps of jagged rock. None of them got farther than a hundred yards from the starting place.
"I shall like that," said Tessa graciously. "Ah, here is Peter! Peter, will you please bring a box for Scooter while I have my dinner? He wants to go snake-hunting," she added to Bernard. "And if he does that, I shan't have him again for the rest of the evening." "You don't get snakes this time of year, do you?" asked Bernard. "Oh yes, sometimes.
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