“Did you see something land a few minutes ago, Daddy?” Beth asked.
Mr. Harrison grinned. “You mean, maybe, a Flying Saucer? No, I’m afraid I didn’t. Are you sure your imagination isn’t working overtime again, Beth?”
As they were about to get into the car, Beth saw a dark object in the distance rise from the ground and move off into the deepening twilight. She was certain she did not imagine this.
“You saw that, didn’t you, Daddy?” Beth asked.
Mr. Harrison nodded. “Probably a hawk. Hmm, it looks like it’s heading right for the Evening Star, doesn’t it?”
Beth gazed at the brilliant light of Sirius, gorgeously bright now with darkness closing in.
“I wish I knew if it really was,” Beth murmured.
GIB TAKES A SPACE TEST
Gib Bromfield was nine, and the thing he wanted to do most was to make a flight into space. A colony on the Moon had already been started for scientific research, and a huge man-made space platform circled the Earth once every twenty-four hours.