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Anyway, I'm sure that we'll get back safely." "Why so sure? Have you something up your sleeve?" "No or yes, in a way I have, though nothing very definite. I'm Dorothy Vaneman, and I am engaged to the man who discovered the thing that makes this space-car go...." "That's why they kidnapped you, then to make him give up all his rights to it. It's like them." "Yes, I think that's why they did it.
After we get back I will take the guns away from both of you if I think it desirable. In the meantime, play with them all you please." "Has Perkins any more knives or guns or things in his room?" demanded Dorothy. "How should I know?" indifferently; then, as both girls started for Perkins' room he ordered brusquely: "Sit down, Miss Vaneman. Let them fight it out.
"I don't know what general name should be applied to them, but for this one there is only one possible name, 'The Skylark." "Exactly right, Dorothy," said Crane. "Fine!" cried Seaton. "And you shall christen it, Dottie, with a big Florence flask full of absolute vacuum. 'I christen you "The Skylark." As the guests were leaving, at a late hour, Vaneman said: "Oh, yes.
"It can't be done, Miss Vaneman. You'll have to drink it through a straw. That will work, since our air pressure is normal. Be careful not to choke on it, though; your swallowing will have to be all muscular out here. Gravity won't help you.
"Richard Seaton and Martin Crane, exchange the plain rings with Dorothy Vaneman and Margaret Spencer." They did so, and repeated, after the Karbix, simple vows of love and loyalty. "May the First Cause smile upon this temporary marriage and render it worthy of being made permanent. As a lowly servant of the all-powerful First Cause I pronounce you two, and you two, husband and wife.
He saw that they were all sitting up, the girls resting, Perkins removing his aviator's costume. "Good morning, Doctor DuQuesne. What happened when I kicked your friend?" DuQuesne smiled. "Good morning, Miss Vaneman. Several things happened. He fell into the controls, turning on all the juice. We left shortly afterward.
"Show us where it is!" exclaimed Dorothy. "Now that you mention it, I find that I am starved to death." DuQuesne looked at her keenly. "I admire your nerve, Miss Vaneman. I didn't suppose that that animal over there would show such a wide streak of yellow, but I was rather afraid that you girls might go to pieces."
I might not trust either of them alone, but together they are invincible. Good-night, children. I wish you success, Dick," as he turned away. Seaton took a lover's leave of Dorothy, and went into the lawyer's study, taking an envelope from his pocket. "Mr. Vaneman," he said in a low voice, "we think the Steel crowd is still camping on our trail.
"But suppose they try to fight?" asked Brookings. Perkins slid down into his chair in deep thought, his pale eyes under half-closed lids darting here and there, his stubby fingers worrying his watch-chain restlessly. "Who is the girl?" he asked at last. "Dorothy Vaneman, the daughter of the lawyer. She's that auburn-haired beauty that the papers were so full of when she came out last year."
"While we were unconscious, Miss Vaneman, we had probably attained a velocity of something like seven billion four hundred thirteen million miles per second, and that is the approximate speed at which we are now traveling.
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