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Updated: May 4, 2025
Astro was hauled out of the car and Bush reached in the car to get Tom. The boy braced himself and waited as the spaceman grabbed him by the feet. He was pulled roughly out of the door and stood on his feet. Out of the corner of his eye he could see that Astro had been stood up beside the car like a tree. Vidac turned away from the giant cadet and started to give Bush a hand.
"Well," said Tom, when they had reached the safety of their quarters, "I guess that just about does it." "Yeah. We played our last card," grumbled Roger. "Either Hardy is the smoothest crook in the world, or Vidac really has him space happy." "I wouldn't bet that it isn't a little bit of both," commented Astro. The hatch suddenly opened and the cadets spun around nervously.
"I've been thinking, sir," said Jeff. "Do you think we really have enough proof of Vidac's guilt to make the colonists understand it was Vidac and not the cadets who could have done something to the professor?" "We've got to try!" said Strong. "We've got to try!"
"And then he got caught blasting off with false papers and of course that made him a marked man. He developed the nervous twitch right after that. He's a good man, Tom. And I think we ought to give him another chance." Tom gasped. "But, sir, he's broken the space code!" Vidac looked at Tom and smiled. "I know, Tom, and it's a serious thing. But I think he deserves another chance."
I'll confine you to your quarters for ten days for that impertinent request! And if I so much as see your noses outside your quarters, I'll really get tough! Dismissed!" "This is highly irregular, Logan," said Vidac to the Venusian farmer, "but I guess you can see the cadets. Perhaps a little advice from you will help them mend their ways." Logan nodded.
In the corridor they slumped against the wall. "That," announced Roger, "is as close as I ever want to come to getting a rocket shell in the side of the head." "You can say that again, spaceboy," sighed Astro. "Just think what would have happened if we'd opened our mouths about Vidac!" "Come on," said Tom. "We've got twenty-four hours to soak up as much of this Earth as we can.
Each of you will be allowed to borrow against future yields, a maximum amount of five thousand Roald credits. This will be your beginning. If your crops fail" Vidac shrugged his shoulders "you will forfeit your land holdings!" There was a storm of protest from the assembled farmers. They stood up in their chairs and hooted and howled. Vidac faced them coldly.
Strong's plan to follow Vidac in order to locate Hardy had paid off. While Vidac and Bush were rounding up citizens of Roald City and sending them out to search for the Space Cadets, the Solar Guard captain had checked the frequency setting on the communicator in the lieutenant governor's jet car.
"Nothing to worry about." "Has the complete report been sent back?" asked Sykes. "I said it had been taken care of," answered Vidac coolly. "That's all you have to know! Dismissed!" Sykes hesitated, nodded, and finally followed the cadets from the room. Vidac turned and flipped on the intercom. "I want Ed Bush in here and I want him fast!" he barked.
Hardy, the respected Governor of Roald, the man responsible for the welfare of the colony and the lives of the colonists, was really a swindler and a thief. Now if Jeff only had Professor Sykes's journal they could tie everything together, providing he could stop Vidac from sending them off to a prison rock!
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