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So you see," Connel concluded, "your summer leave really started the ball rolling against them." "Summer leave!" shouted Roger. "What day is it?" "The twenty-ninth of August," replied Strong. "Oh, no!" moaned the blond-haired cadet. "We start back to class in three days!" "Three days!" roared Astro. "But but it'll take three days to write up our reports of everything that's happened!
Dacie, the younger of the men, was a pleasant, blond-haired fellow who instantly ingratiated himself in the boy's affections by asking him if he collected stamps and bestowing on him two rare ones from China. In fact he seemed to like everything a boy liked and appeared to be almost a boy himself. Mr. Lyman was older but he, too, when he was not being stern and business-like, was very jolly.
"What do you suppose it is?" asked Astro. "I don't know," replied Jeff. "I can't even guess." "I can," said Roger, "and if it's what I think it is well, I just hope it isn't, that's all." The blond-haired cadet stopped talking abruptly. Tom, Astro, and Jeff looked at each other. Finally Tom asked, "Well, what do you think it is?" "There's only one thing I know really well, Tom," replied Roger.
"Who are these strangers?" asked the pretty High Ki, speaking together as all the twins of Twi did; "and why are they not mates, but only half of each other?" "These questions, your Supreme Highnesses," said the blond-haired pair of Ki-Ki, "we are unable to answer."
Tom heard the blond-haired cadet, but his unit mate's excitement did not register. He was staring at the open hatch. "He lost his nerve," said Tom aloud, half to himself and half to Governor Hardy who was unstrapping himself from the acceleration chair. "He quit cold!" "He certainly did," said Hardy. "And if it wasn't for your quick thinking, we'd be spread all over this satellite!"
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