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I will apologize to the captain about this last-minute change, but I want no delay in take-off. It is absolutely vital that I reach D'Graski's Planet quickly!" The lieutenant blanched a little. "Sorry, great sir! I'll see that the orders are taped. You wish a cabin?" "Certainly. I presume you have an adequate one?"
I passed the City of Jackman, crossing full over it to take no chances of annoying the border officials; and a few miles further, I dropped to the glaring lights of International Inspection Field. The formalities were soon finished. I was ready to take-off when Alan rushed at me. "George! I thought I could connect here." He gripped me. He was wild-eyed, incoherent. He waved his taxiplane away.
In that belief, let it be assumed, Daedalus made his wings; the boy, Icarus, learning that his father had determined on an attempt at flight secured the wings and fastened them to his own shoulders. A cliff seemed the likeliest place for a 'take-off, and Icarus leaped from the cliff edge only to find that the possession of wings was not enough to assure flight to a human being.
"And I, who admired your business sagacity in holding off, Nance!" he said. "I thought you admired my take-off! of Mademoiselle Picotte." "Well?" "Well, why don't you make use of it? Take me round to the theaters and let me mimic all the swell actors and actresses. I've got more chance with you than with that Trust gang.
Those in the blockhouse had no way of knowing that it had been out of operation since before the take-off. To them, the sudden switch in signal meant something had gone wrong in flight. Rick vaguely realized that the light must have changed, but he didn't think about it. Now he had to find the proper terminal for the input wire. He should know where it was. He had wired this circuit himself.
Miss Symes did not for a moment expect to find Betty in such an animated, lively, almost noisy group. To her amazement, however, she was attracted by peals of laughter; and looking in the direction whence they came, she perceived that Betty herself was the center of a circle of girls, who were all urging her to "take-off" different girls and teachers in the school. Betty was an inimitable mimic.
When their path intersected that of the Platform, the two velocities should be exactly equal. Major Holt's voice came on the Communicator. "Joe," he said harshly, "I have very bad news. A message came from Central Intelligence within minutes of your take-off. I ah with Sally I had been following your progress. I did not decode the message until now.
Prepare for take-off acceleration of one and one-half gravities; that is, everyone will weigh one-half again as much as his normal Earth weight for about fifteen minutes. We lift in twenty seconds; I will count down the final five seconds.... Five ... Four ... Three ... Two ... One ... Lift!"
Only three members of the ship's company had been inside when Babs and Cochrane left to stroll for the two hours astronomers on Earth had set as a waiting-period. Jones had been in the ship, and Holden, and Alicia Simms. Everybody else had been exploring. Their attitude had been exactly that of sight-seers and tourists. But they could have gotten back before the take-off. Apparently they had.
Mostly she just kept out of everybody's way. Very slick at it! We would have got her fairly fast because we were preparing for take-off to Luscious by then. But she spilled it herself." "How?" "I located her finally again, on transmitter screen. There was no one on her side to impress. She took a sniff of porgee." Trigger laughed delightedly. "Good old porgee pouch! It beat them twice.
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