Inside the space suit it was warm, and the air was clean. When he had
fallen a few miles farther he would open the glider wings, that were
built into all Orthan suits instead of parachutes, and land on Long
Island. But not until he was sheltered by the clouds from the view of
the space cruiser.
He was going back to Ellen and the children with the knowledge that
Earth was saved from the Horde--saved by nothing more deadly than a lie!
And the part of Thig's brain that was Lewis Terry was already busying
itself with the plotting of a Western novel about the handcart
pioneers.... Once he had rescued Brazos from that Apache-ringed mesa,
he would get to work on it....
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Quest's End, by Basil Wells
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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