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There was, too, cause for worry in the take-off rockets if the tube linings had shrunk there would be some rather gruesome consequences and there could always be last-minute orders from Washington to delay or even cancel everything. In short, his mind was full of strictly practical details. He didn't have time to feel noble aspirations or sensations of high destiny.
Dark-looking clouds began to efface the moon and stars, whose light had aided in the take-off at Singapore, and within fifteen minutes occasional flashes of sheet-lightning could be seen far ahead, throwing into relief the immense bulk of the foreboding clouds and shedding a pallid gleam over the sea. Occasionally a light zephyr came out of the east, but it would last only a moment.
It was no longer upheld by pushpots. It was free, with its take-off rockets flaming. It plunged on up and out. But the acceleration was less. Nobody can stand six gravities for long. Anybody can take three for a while. Joe's body resisted movement with a weight of four hundred and fifty pounds, instead of a third as much for normal.
They disappear round the next traverse. Our men sing many mad burlesques on their own splendour parodies on their daily fineness. Here's a last example a take-off on "A Little Bit of Heaven:"
They faithfully reported their condition and the direction in which their bows pointed. The radars plotted their position with relation to each other and the mother-ship. Presently Joe cast a glance out of a port and saw that the dark line of sunset was almost below. The take-off had been timed to get the ships into Earth's shadow above the area from which war rockets were most likely to rise.
You're only a few minutes flying time from there. It's now two thirty. Be there at four. I'll have a man meet you. Bring the sample." Rick thanked the agent and hung up. He reported that Steve would send a man to the airport at four o'clock. Scotty asked, "Is the field dry enough for take-off and landing?" "Sure. I hope Steve has a real expert he can send.
The crash of shattered glass mingled with the volley flung by the murderously spitting automatic of the stowaway. From the forward companion, at the top of the ladder, "Captain Alden" fired one shot only. No second shot was needed. For the attacker, grunting, lunged forward, fell prone, sprawled on the down-slanting plates of the take-off platform.
But just here Neil attempted to step from the table and landed in a heap on the floor, and Paul forgot criticism in joyful applause. "Oh, noble work! Do it again, old man; I didn't see the take-off!" But Neil refused, and plumping himself into a wicker rocking-chair that creaked complainingly, rubbed the dust from his hands to his trousers and looked about the study approvingly.
I have little more to tell, and that is of the sort that is best told briefly. The hounds met one morning not far from Kerton. A three-days' frost had broken up; but it was not out of the ground yet, making the "take-off" slippery, and the north side of the fences dangerously hard. Livingstone rode the Axeine that day.
He followed Mother Corey, leaving behind his favorite knife and a brand-new deck of reader cards, marked exactly as the ones Gordon had first used. Gordon dropped into his seat, while the sounds outside indicated take-off time. He had less than a hundred credits, a knife, a deck of phony cards, and a yellow ticket. Mars was leaving him what he'd brought....
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