"I know. I took a run on it!"
Channing was taking a chance, running the little Anopheles to Terra, but he knew his ship, and he was no man to be overcautious. He drove it for Terra at three G, and by dead reckoning, started down into Terra's blanket of air, heading for the Terran Electric plant which was situated on the lake shore.
Then down out of the cloudless sky came the Anopheles in a free fall. It screamed with the whistle of tortured air as it fell, and it caught the attention of every man that was working at Terran Electric.
Only those on the roof saw the egg-shaped hull fall out of the sky unchecked; landing fifteen hundred yards off shore in Lake Michigan.
The splash was terrific.
"Channing—!" said the project engineer, aghast.
"No, look, there—a lifeship!"
