Through The Asteroids—To Hell!
BY LEROY YERXA
Blair Freedman had torn that tunnel through
the grinding asteroid wall—with the mighty
Cutter ... he'd die readily enough now to
keep it open—but not with the girl he loved!
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Planet Stories Fall 1946.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Blair Freedman pushed the jet control slightly, sending the X26 into a wide slow arc toward the asteroid tunnel. He sighed and glanced at the chart on the desk. Trip number seven thousand twenty-two. For the rest of his life.
"Come over here, Jerry," he called.
Jerry Graham, short, slight of figure, smiled and left the navigation desk. Graham's face was black where his razor had left heavy hair just below the surface of the skin. His smile was mild and the brown eyes behind heavy spectacles were gentle.
"What is it, Blair?"
He stood beside Freedman, watching the solid, moving wall of the asteroid belt.