The Rose Cold laughed. "Beads vairy dales, doesn'd id?"
"To a frazzle."
"But the bravesd bad in the world gan'd go all day withoud breathig."
"True enough. But Alton has the same system of oxygen cylinders as the U-boats—only better. More condensed and lasts longer. Uses same air more times without deteriorating."
"Well, whadever habbens, he busd be glever."
"Clever! He beats the devil."
"Will he ever gum bag, Jibby?"
"Dunno."
"I subbose the gradest danger is in being hid by a medeoride. I understand those rogs are always shoodig about in spaze."
"Yep; and all the way in size from a liver pill to a state house. But that isn't what'll knock him out."