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So trouble with the cables They had to be laid precisely; their geonetic field to attain th In space, or even in air, it wouldn&039;t have mattered The cables would have lined up autoouge had to be plowed along the planetoid&039;s surface and into it the cable had to be laid If it were not lined up within a few minutes of arc of the calculated direction, a torque would be applied to the entire planetoid, with consequent loss of energy, none of which could be spared The gouges then had to be redriven, the cables shifted and iced into the new positions

The h the routine

And then the word reached theers could not be said to be the type that took kindly to discipline It was a gru the jets of the ships that yet re the the the surface

It was almost twenty-four hours before one of them looked into the sky and said, "Holy jeepers!" followed by sohbor looked and said, "I&039;ll be damned!"

Once they noticed, all did It beca fact in the Universe

"Look at the Shadow!"

It was spreading across the sky life an infected wound Men looked at it, found it had doubled its size, wondered why they hadn&039;t noticed that sooner

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He said, "We can&039;t leave We don&039;t have the fuel to see us back to Mars and we don&039;t have the equipot to stay Now the Shadow is creeping in on us because our blasting has thrown us out of orbit We&039;ve got to change that by continuing the blasting Since we can&039;t blast the front end any , let&039;s try another way"

They went back to work on the jets with a furious energy that received iain over the horizon, bigger andhad no assurance that it would work Even if the jets would respond to the distant controls, even if the supply of water, which depended upon a storage cha directly into the icy body of the planetoid, with built-in heat projectors stea cells, were adequate, there was still no certainty that the body of the planetoid without a ether under the enor&039;s receiver

Long called, "Ready!" and depressed the contact

The vibration grew about him The star field in the visiplate tre spu!" was the cry

It kept on blowing Long dared not stop For six hours, it blew, hissing, bubbling, stea into space; the body of the planetoid converted to vapor and hurled away

The Shadow ca but stare at theSaturn itself in spectacularity Its every groove and valley was a plain scar upon its face But when it passed through the planetoid&039;s orbit it crossed more than half abent in his seat and covered his eyes He hadn&039;t eaten in two days He could eat now, though Not another planetoid was close enough to interrupt thean an approach that very moment

Back on the planetoid&039;s surface, Swenson said, "All the ti to myself, &039;This can&039;t happen We can&039;t let it happen&039;"

"Hell," said Rioz, "ere all nervous Did you see Jireen I was a little ju, you knoas thinking-I know it&039;s funny, but I can&039;t help it-I was thinking that Dora warned et myself killed, she&039;ll never let me hear the last of it Isn&039;t that a crummy sort of attitude at a tiet ot married Why come to me with your troubles?"