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trickier to put the gases into Wolley's rocket and to put them under
pressure. After their visit at Ashbury's, Mullon invited Chellish to have
dinner at his house, where they could find out what progress the 'commando
team' had made. When they reached Mullon's house they saw Freddy, Mullon's
wife, through the window, walking up and down the room gesticulating her arms;
and when they entered the door of the house they could hear her pleading
voice: "Expressions of belief, ignorance, doubt and so forth are followed by
the subjunctive form of conjugation! Subjunctive! When are you going to get
this through your thick skulls, gentlemen?" Mullon opened the door leading
into her room and was astounded to see nobody in the room except
Freddy. Chellish grinned. "You must have dressed down your students once too
often. They preferred to leave." "Oh no," she replied, annoyed. "I'm only
practicing. These donkheads always make mistakes and I don't have the heart to
reprimand them. So I've got to practice being stem like a teacher in
school." Mullon slouched in a chair. "Is it that bad?" Freddy dismissed it
with a gesture of her hand. "Not really. They've learned more in 2 weeks than
pupils on Earth in 2 years. They're quite enthusiastic about it. Of course,
nobody can learn to speak perfect French in only 4 weeks." "But it won't be
necessary to speak flawlessly," Chellish replied. "As long as the Whistlers
hear another language than the one they already know. In most cases it'll be
sufficient if only 2 or 3 men talk. My pronunciation leaves something to be
desired but my grammar isn't too bad." Freddy looked at him critically and
changed the subject. "Are you going to freeload again here tonight?" she asked
gruffly. Chellish nodded. "Yes. I'm a poor devil who's got to mooch where he
can." "Did you do any good today?" "Of course. I fixed a whole
spaceship." "So that it can fly again?" "Exactly," Chellish replied. Freddy
suddenly was serious. "I know I should be happy about it but I can't make
myself feel elated. How do I know that all this will end well?" Mullon got up
and put his arms around her shoulders. "Wait and see," he comforted her.
"We'll be back in 2 months after raising so much hell among the Whistlers that
they'll lose all desire to ever come back to Grautier." .... 3 months had
elapsed since the explosion of the atom bomb had destroyed the spaceship of
the Whistlers and now the expedition was ready to take off with 13 men. A
great deal of preparation had gone into the expedition. The repair of the
auxiliary ship, which had been given the name Fair Lady; Wolley's trouble with
the garbage can rockets, of which he had built 2; and Ashbury's concern with
the infusion of the oxyhydrogen mixture were only some of the problems that
had to be solved before the start. The settlers of Greenwich on the Green
River now had 2 atom bombs available. They were made with the fissionable
material taken from the reactors of the agricultural multipurpose machines
furnished by the Whistlers. The nuclear material of 4 more reactors had to be
stripped for the construction of Wolley's rockets to be taken aboard the Fair
Lady. A permanent radio connection with Capt. Blailey's Gazelle up in the
mountains had been established so that Blailey could be kept informed during
the time of Lt. Chellish's absence on Peep. Neither Blailey nor Greenwich
would have any contact with Chellish on his mission but Blailey would still be
in a position to come to the aid of the town in case of an attack. A new
script was developed as Chellish assumed that the Whistlers had not only
learned something about their language but also a little about the writing and
printing of the colonists. He didn't want to arouse their suspicion by using