CHAPTER NINE
“Eddie,” Teena said, “what are you going to do?”
Already Eddie had pulled off his shoes and T shirt. He slipped off his blue jeans, and stood in his bathing trunks ready to dive overboard.
“I’m going down and get that thing,” he said.
“Why?”
“Something’s mighty crazy about all this,” Eddie said.
“Maybe so,” Teena agreed. “But Eddie, isn’t it dangerous? If that thing’s radioactive—”
“No. It’s not that radioactive,” Eddie said. “Those two men handled it all right. It’s some special kind of a tube. I’m going to take it to my dad.”
“Why?”
“Why!” Eddie repeated impatiently. “Because it must have something to do with that stolen radioisotope, that’s why.”