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Pull in my drag line as I said over there, and I'll help you land her." Inside the Forlorn Hope the mass of metal was urged into the shop, where Stevens clamped it immovably to the steel floor, before he took off his space-suit. "Why, it's getting covered with snow, and the whole room is getting positively cold!" Nadia exclaimed. "Sure.
I know my men said no one had arrived at the ranch in a suit like these we've got on but, hell, if his whole asteroid's invisible, why couldn't he make his space-suit invisible, too?" "I don't think he's done that. Otherwise he would have " The adventurer's level tone raised incisively. "Now, both of you, still! Conceal yourselves with great care Jupiter's rising!"
He stared, and in its brief maximum saw before him a high, bare rectangular room, hewn out of the rock and at its far side a man in a space-suit. Ku Sui, brought to bay! But Carse, for one of the few times in his life, doubted his eyes. What trick were they playing him? For it was not a real, sharp figure that he saw; it was an indefinite one, shimmering and elusive, like a mirage.
So you might as well sleep in your own room, as usual, and I'll camp here right under the panel until we get to Ganymede. There's a couple of little things I just thought of, though, that may help some; and I'm going to do 'em right now." Putting on his space-suit, he picked up a power drill and went out into the bitter cold of the outer structure.
He went back down to the communicator to contact the chlorella companies of Earth, to find out if there was any special data they would need to pass on the proposal. And so presently the ship took off for home. It landed on the moon first, and Johnny Simms was loaded into a space-suit and transferred to Lunar City, where he could live without being extradited back to Earth. He wouldn't stay there.
Ban Wilson, hot, itching and uncomfortable inside the heavy space-suit that he wore, and supremely aware of his consequent awkwardness, watched the ranch's beacon sweeping past him thirty or more yards away, and again sought relief from the tedium in conversation. "Jupiter should be rising soon, Carse. It's the darkest hour seems to me he'll come now if he comes at all. What do you think?"
He was sitting upon a crystal bench beside the fountain, talking with Stevens, who, dressed in his bulging space-suit, stood near an airlock of the Forlorn Hope. "It seems a shame that you should face again those unknown, monstrous creatures who so inexcusably attacked us both without provocation." "I'm not so keen on it myself, but I can't see any other way out of it," the Terrestrial replied.
Dressed in his heavy space-suit and supported by a tractor beam well out of range of what seemed to him terrific heat radiated by the bodies of the Terrestrials, he floated along unconcernedly; while over the multiplex cable of the thought-exchanger he conversed with the man and woman seated just inside the open outer door of their air-lock.
He might have sniped the guards anyway, but he had it easier. From fifty yards away, prone and carefully sighting, he took the three lives that had been so viciously, so subversively altered by Ku Sui. A moment later, the way cleared, he was inside the ship and his space-suit lay on the ground outside. Rapidly the three groups of guards closed in on Leithgow and Friday.
The job of getting into the dome was a hazardous one. About every thirty seconds the asteroid described a complete rotation, making the rim turn at a speed of half a mile a second, and that made the task of entering extremely dangerous to a man whose only protection was the metal and fabric of a space-suit. Misjudgment would either rip the suit or dash him to instant death.
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