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You can't put in a take-off like that on Tom Ashley. Clear out! My firelock's ready." "Well, this is a fine welcome, I must say," cried Nurse Johnson indignantly. "Write for us to come all the way from Virginia to visit you, and then find a firelock ready for us. I don't think much of such doings, Tom Ashley!" "Why a pox on me!" came in excited accents from behind the closed door.
Rocket flame had splashed it, both at the Cerberus' landing and at the impossible take-off. There was nothing within a hundred yards not burned to a crisp. They searched outside that area. Sergeant Madden rumbled to his companion: "Where'd the other ship land?" Patrolman Willis blinked at him. "There had to be another ship!" said Sergeant Madden irritably. "To bring the extra rockets.
Joe fiddled with his spoon a moment, and then said: "The crewman I was to have subbed for if he didn't get well he did, didn't he?" Sally answered reluctantly: "Y-yes." Joe said measuredly: "Well, then that's that! I guess it will be all right for me to stick around and watch the take-off?" Sally's eyes were misty. "Of course it will, Joe! I'm so sorry!"
Instead of streaking astern in a lance-like shape, they might be pushed out like a rocket blast when it hits the earth in a guided missile take-off. Such a blast spreads out flat in all directions. Here the rocket flames might be spread by wind until they played upon the hull of the ship. If they did, they might melt it as they melted their own steel cases in firing.
Admittedly feeling better, Tom turned to the master switch and found it missing. For a second panic seized him, until he remembered that Major Connel had hidden it. He felt under the pilot's chair and breathed easier, pulling out the vital instrument. "Better get into acceleration chairs," said Tom, strapping himself into his seat. "This might be a rough take-off."
Nissr, staggering, tilted her beak sharply oceanward. At a sick angle, she slid, reeling, toward the burnished, watery floor that seemed surging up to meet her. A hoarse shout from the far end of the take-off drew the Master's eyes thither. With strange agility, almost apelike in its prehensile power, a human figure came clambering up over the outer works, clutching at stays, wires, struts.
It seemed as if the world had dropped away from his feet, leaving him to fall endlessly through nothingness. It was true, of course. It didn't take more than twenty-four hours to unload the ship's holds, and, since there had been no intention of reloading, there was no need to stay. He had long overstayed the scheduled take-off time.
The bugs weren't all out of the Brainchild, by any means, and the men knew it. She had taken a devil of a strain on the take-off, and something was about due to weaken. It was the external field around the hull that had decided to goof off this time. It developed a nice, unpleasant two-cycle throb that threatened to shake the ship apart.
If this fairy story lasts, it'll be your own, Mag a sort of commission you get on my take-off of you. But if anything happens to the world if it should go crazy, or get sane, and not love Nancy Olden any more, why, here'll be a place for me, too. Does it look that way? Divil a bit, you croaker! It looks it looks listen and I'll tell you how it looks.
'Up for it still, boy, be ye? Tom Faggus stopped, and the mare stopped there; and they looked at me provokingly. 'Is she able to leap, sir? There is good take-off on this side of the brook. Mr. Faggus laughed very quietly, turning round to Winnie so that she might enter into it. And she, for her part, seemed to know exactly where the fun lay. 'Good tumble-off, you mean, my boy.
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