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Eyer was making his dislike entirely too plain. Jeter nudged him, but the question had been asked. "With this space ship and others which are building," replied Sitsumi. "Haven't you guessed at any of our methods?"
If we're above the enemy, perhaps we can look down upon him. We know he can't be seen from below, perhaps not even from above. If we are below him we'll try to fly into that column of his. What they'll do to us I.... You're not afraid to find out, are you?" Eyer grinned. Jeter grinned back at him. "What they'll do to us if we fly into them I'm sure I don't know.
"I think Eyer and myself will be able to make some report on the matter soon. We will, take off for the stratosphere day after to-morrow." "Then you think the same thing I do?" said Hadley. "If that is so, can't you start to-morrow?
The repeated shocks must almost have shaken Manhattan Island on its foundations. They saw what had caused the sudden stiffening of the Three. Sitsumi, busily engaged at something else nearby, quietly approached the Three. "What is it?" he asked. "Rescue planes," said Wang Li. "New York City sends six fliers to rescue Jeter and Eyer. New planes. They'll reach us, Sitsumi.
They fell into the great aperture. Jeter and Eyer flung themselves flat. But the bombs had worked sufficient havoc. They had removed all protection from the low-pressure stratosphere. The air inside the space ship went out with a rush.
The tale of the missing steers hit the headlines, but so far nobody had thought of this disappearance in connection with Kress'. How could any one? Steers and scientists didn't go together. But it still was strange. At least so Jeter thought. His mind worked with this and other strange happenings even as he and Eyer worked at top speed.
"If we could somehow cut our landing gear free," began Jeter, "but " "But it's too late, Lucian," said Eyer quietly. "Look at the window." They both looked. Countless fingers of shadowy gray substance were undulating up the surface of the window, like pale angleworms or white serpents of many sizes, trying to climb up a pane of glass. "Well," said Jeter, "here we are! You see?
"I deeply deplore your inclination to levity, Tema Eyer," said the man in the doorway. "It is not seemly in one whose intelligence entitles him to a place in our counsels." Eyer looked at Jeter. What was the meaning of Sitsumi's cryptic utterance? "Bring them in," snapped Sitsumi. Jeter studied the man with interest.
The three Chinese could not answer, according to advices from Peking, because they could not be located. Jeter called the publisher of the leading newspaper for a conference. "Strange that you should have called just now," said the publisher, "for I was on the point of calling you and Eyer and inviting you to a conference to be held this evening at my office in Manhattan."
The buzzer sounded at the very moment Eyer uttered an ejaculation. "The Jersey fellow says there is nothing between his lens and your plane to obstruct the view." "O.K.," retorted Jeter. "At the moment your buzzer sounded our plane suddenly jumped upward. That means an upcurrent of air indicating an obstruction under us. It must however, be invisible." He severed the connection.
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