10. THE LADY GOES WILD
“Beat you into the pool,” Patch called a little while later.
He dashed out of the dressing room and dove, with hands outstretched, into the water. Garry followed right behind, tumbling into the spray left by Patch’s dive.
“Say, this is nice and warm!” Garry said. “And we’ve got it all to ourselves!”
A little way back from the pool’s edge, Mac and Isaac were lifting weights. This exercise was to help them keep in good physical trim.
Garry and Patch swam and splashed to their hearts’ content. It was the most fun they had had in a long time. They knew no one would ever believe their story of swimming in a pool in deep space! It was almost too difficult for them to believe themselves. But they did not care if they were never believed.
They frolicked in the water for about an hour and then climbed up on the pool’s edge to catch their breath for a few minutes.
“Boy, I could spend twenty-four hours a day in there,” Patch said, flicking water from his face.
“I could too, almost,” Garry agreed. “But I would be satisfied if I could spend twenty-four hours a day aboard the Carefree doing anything. Gee, it’s going to be hard leaving here to go back to the orphanage.”
“Yeah,” Patch said sourly. “Gee whiz, Garry, why can’t they let a couple of guys live the way they want to?”