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They made the rounds of the spacer, checking on each of the semi-conscious men. Ali had ready the artificial oxgy tanks they must move fast once they began the actual task of clearing and restocking the hydro. "Hope you have a good story ready," he commented as the other three joined him by the hatch to don the suits which would enable them to cross the airless, heatless surface of the asteroid.
In some manner he had been carried out of the reach of the aliens, treated for his searing wounds, and now he was led along, fed, tended Why didn't they go away and leave him alone! He had no chance of reaching the spacer It was so easy to remember those mountains, the heights over which he had lifted the flitter.
But there was no reproof in his words. As a spacer pilot he knew that Raf had only done what duty demanded. "We're to remain here for the night." "Where's Lablet?" Soriki wanted to know. "He's staying with Yussoz, the alien commander. He thinks he has the language problem about solved." "Good enough." Soriki pulled out his bed roll. "We're out of touch with the ship "
He stalked angrily away, inwardly raging at this Earther city where things like this could happen. "Don't ever let me catch you around here again!" the parlor man shouted after him. Alan lost himself once again in the crowd, but not before he caught the final words: "You filthy spacer!" Filthy spacer. Alan winced. Again the blind, unreasoning hatred of the unhappy starmen.
Dane, with the now resigned Sinbad in the crook of his arm, had tailed his guest and arrived just in time to see the native come to an abrupt halt before one of the most important doors in the spacer the portal of the hydro garden which renewed the ship's oxygen and supplied them with fresh fruit and vegetables to vary their diet of concentrates.
But now the hollow was filled with rolling waves of golden grass, tossing heavy heads under the flowing touch of a breeze with the exception of a space about a mile ahead where round domes black, gray, brown broke the yellow in an irregular oval around the globular silver bead of a spacer: a larger ship than that which had brought the Apaches, but of the same shape.
The light was golden, the night winds had not yet arisen. He disliked exchanging the freedom of the open for the confinement of the spacer. And, as he hesitated there, two of the juvenile population of Sargol came out of the forest. Between them they carried one of their hunting nets, a net which now enclosed a quiet but baneful eyed captive Sinbad being delivered for nightly ransom.
This is a very easy matter if a wooden spacer, slightly wider than the depth of the drawer, is prepared.
"Yes?" the Queen's Cargo-master prompted politely. But Kallee had taken his Captain's arm and was urging Grange away from the spacer. "You have until noon to lift," was Jellico's parting shot as the three in Company livery started toward the road. "I don't think that they will," he added to Van Rycke. The Cargo-master nodded. "You wouldn't in their place," he pointed out reasonably.
No matter when Dane dropped into the mess cabin, which was the common meeting place of the spacer, he was apt to find others there before him, usually with a mug of one of Mura's special brews close at hand, speculating about their landing date. Dane, himself, once he had thrown off the lingering effects of his Sargolian illness, applied time to his studies.
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