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They can not. Any Earth ship going near to the large world would be un- capable to pull away once more versus the mighty gravity pull." "Quite," reported Lovell all over again. Soon the midgets experienced opened the door of the management room. A dozen or so of them poured in. Reg seemed into their faces, and felt a chill at his heart. There was no friendliness in their owlishly solemn eyes. Not even amid them selves did they smile. A grim race. They started pulling equipment and products to pieces, curiously. Some of them began, around, to empty the pockets of the two Earthlings. Reg pushed a person absent, and received a horrible kick on the shins. One pointed his odd pis- tol at Reg's nose. Reg's tummy felt horribly unwell for a moment. But a harsh command brought about the pistol to be lowered. Everything in their pockets was taken absent. "No resistance, Whistler," urged Lo- vell. "It's galling, but we are helpless. Her fingers ended up vacant. We dare not get started everything." No question he was ideal. But it was difficult for Reg to stand meekly and let anything he valued, income, notebooks, look at, non-public papers, pho- tographs, all to be rudely taken from him. Without all those papers it would be hard to verify who he was and get one more berth as place pilot. Two space-fits ended up located in a cup- board, pulled out. By gestures the two adult men had been requested to put them on. Then, by jerkings on their arms, push- COLLISION IN Space 131 ings and pointings, they were being built to accompany the midgets out of the pilot home, together the ship's corridor and out of an air-lock. Now they were being in totally free area, jet- black, star-studded place. Reg saw that the two ships experienced develop into locked jointly by the effect, and area- suited very little adult males have been doing the job at the join, cutting their ship no cost. The Jo- vian ship, he observed, was immensely large- ger than the Earth ship, and the colli- sion experienced not evidently damaged it. Towed by ropes, the midgets pulled the two Earthlings to an air-lock in the facet of their personal ship, an air-lock so small that both Earthlings experienced to crawl in on fingers and knees. Then they went alongside a small corridor and into a windowless compartment where they sat on a bench. There was not enough place to stand upright below the reduced ceiling. The door was locked on them. CHAPTER II Aboard the Stranger "/CHEERFUL sort of prison, this," Reg muttered. "Might be even worse," Lovell reported. "At the very least we have received mild and a drinking water tap." Reg could not see a great deal consolation in that. Both adult Random Cam men sat silent and mo- rose. There was almost nothing to do, or to say. The driving rockets of the Jovian ship roared loudly, then softly. They felt the ship swerve beneath the deflecting thrust of nose rockets. "Chasing the lifeboats, the swine

nHe looked in direction of Palliser-Yeates. "You knew Reggie Souldern? My father was a large school art teacher, but when summer came my household packed up and moved from our suburban house to an unheated, two space cottage at the lake. Shiela," said Mrs. Geraldine, "we are holding His Excellency ready.

Johnson acquired a clout on the head from the butt of one particular of those people queer guns of theirs." Blood was oozing from the bruise. "Wish I knew who they were being." "Inhabitants of Jupiter," Lovell growled. "No question about that." Presently the crew of the next daily life- boat came in. They experienced tried to es- cape, and the Jovian ship experienced rammed them greatly, injuring most of them. Finally a person person, virtually unconscious, staggered in bleeding. He was the only survivor of the 3rd lifeboat, he reported. The Jovians had rammed the third lifetime- boat so seriously that all the other occu- trousers of it experienced been killed. Presently the very low doorway opened once more. In the doorway stood a number of small Jo- vians. One held up a finger, then beckoned. The this means of the gestures was crystal clear. One Earthling was wanted to arrive out of the prison cabin and go with the tiny creatures. "Go with them? They rammed our lifeboat, then pulled us out of the wreck." "What? Look Reg. We have a visitor. " Reg assumed for a instant that Lo- vell was delirious, then he seemed where the other pointed, out of the transparent 130 AMAZINS Stories nose. A person was there suitable sufficient. A person in a bloated room-match, a room- go well with of bizarre pattern. He was significantly less than 3 toes very long, with pretty stout legs. A incredibly deformed midget in fact, from Reg's level of view. To his back again was connected a slender twine, and in the sole of each individual foot a tiny rocket jet could propel him slowly in any path. Be- hind him arrived two other folks. "What do you make of them, Whis- tler

He imagined and he believed - he puzzled - and then he realized what looked bad to "some folks." Some people today? Cam would never ever
resist tyranny to the loss of life, he considered grimly, seeing her encounter, unhappy,
sulky, yielding. And so had you heard Pontifex pronounce
"'Since you slay foe and violate the sort,
"'That turns to murder, which ended up sacrifice
"'Had you, while, say, legislation-suiting him to dying,
"'But raised an altar to the Unknown God,
"'Or else the Genius of the Vatican.'
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crucial it was, for success in a navy vocation, to have a head for
wine. He
threw out of the window, for occasion, any dish which happened to
displease his palate