Our Pilots in the Air

We’ll have to divide up, and at once, said the captain. In fact, ever since Erwin used that searchlight to show me the way down, I haven’t felt that we were safe here. Therefore I say all aboard just as soon as we can be loaded in –what is that? as a sharp staccato of shocks rose from Brodno’s machine, the result of his tinkering with his air-exhaust. Even as he made haste to stop them, time being all important, Byers was placing the two women in his own plane, saying….