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Updated: June 4, 2025
Running toward the clump of bushes where Astro and Roger had just disappeared, he dived for cover, just as Vidac's car roared into the clearing. The boys saw Vidac and Bush get out of the car, and after inspecting Jeff's, turn and stride into the house. "Come on," said Tom. "We've got to get to the Polaris!" The three boys turned away and hurried from the farm.
If Vidac holds us for trial here on Roald, and we're convicted, the only place for a review of the case will be the Solar Council Chamber back on Earth." "Well, what's wrong with that?" asked Astro. "I'll tell you what's wrong with it," said Roger. "Before the case would come up for a review, we would have already spent at least two years on a prison rock!"
"Well, Vidac is Hardy's executive officer," said Jeff. "Yeah," muttered Roger. "We're finding that out, the hard way." "I still can't understand why Governor Hardy would make him lieutenant governor, with his background," mused Tom. Jeff grinned. "You three guys have been jockeying with so many space crawlers since you came to the Academy, you're suspicious of everyone you meet.
But if they had known anything about it, reasoned Vidac, it would have been claimed for the Solar Alliance. No, Vidac shook his head. He's not here to investigate the uranium, he's here either to check on the cadets or make a routine inspection of the colony. And if it's the former, he'd give Strong enough proof to bury the cadets on a prison rock for life. Vidac turned to the teleceiver.
Roger referred to a tape recorder that was standard equipment in each of the dormitory rooms, used expressly for messages. "You know something," said Tom. "I think we ought to go directly to Commander Walters about Vidac." "Commander Walters!" growled Astro. "Are you off your rocket?" "Why shouldn't we?" agreed Roger. "I'll tell you why!" said Astro.
"We've refused people for a lot less than that, sir," said Tom emphatically, "before you came." Vidac's face hardened. "I said we were going to give him another chance!" Tom met the lieutenant governor's eyes coolly. "Yes, sir." He stamped the application and handed it to Vidac. "It's pretty easy to sit in judgment of others, Tom," said Vidac, smiling again.
Back in their jet boat a few minutes later, blasting through space on the rest of their tour, Tom turned to his unit mates, a troubled look on his face. "Did you notice anything aboard Number Twelve that looked well, suspicious?" he asked. Astro and Roger shook their heads. "Me neither," said Tom. "Maybe we've got Vidac pegged wrong. Maybe " "I thought of that, Tom," interrupted Roger.
None of them could say a word, for the simple reason that each of them was so boiling mad he couldn't speak. Finally, after they had showered and were climbing into their bunks, Tom spoke for the first time since leaving Vidac. "I have to write a report to Captain Strong," he said, when Roger started to turn out the light. "Better leave it on a while, Roger." "O.K., Tom," said Roger.
And instead of imposing rationing, he's making them pay, but that he wouldn't actually take their profit." "Yeah," growled Astro. "And there's just enough hokum in that to make everyone back at the Academy happy." "I'm afraid we'll have to go on with it," said Tom. "Not only this exploration of the asteroid belt, but we'll have to wait for Vidac to really tip his hand."
Strong continued, "I have absolute proof that Vidac received information about the biggest uranium strike in the history of the universe from Professor Sykes and plans to keep it for himself. His accusation of the cadets is a cover-up to clear himself and to throw you off the track." The word uranium spread through the crowd like wildfire.
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