"You have the secret of material energy?” “Not that,” the scientist growled, “but I have something else as valuable. I have the secret of Manning's drive: I know what it is that enables him to exceed the speed of light… to go ten thousand times as fast as light… the Lord knows how much faster if he wanted to."
"No ordinary drive would do that.” said Chambers. “It would take more than power to make a ship go that fast."
"You bet your life it would, and Manning is the boy who's got it. He uses a space field. I think I can duplicate it."
"And how long will it take you to do this work?"
"About a week,” Craven told him. “Perhaps a little longer, perhaps a little less. But once we go, we'll go as fast as Manning does. We'll be short on power, but I think I can do something about that, too."
Chambers took a chair beside the desk. “But do we know the way home?"
"We can find it,” said Craven.
"But there are no familiar constellations,” objected Chambers. “He dragged us out so far that there isn't a single star that any one of us can identify."
"I said I'd find the Solar System” Craven declared impatiently, “and I will. Manning started out for it, didn't he? I saw the way he went. The Sun is a type G star and all I'll do is look for a type G star."
"But there may be more than one type G star,” objected the financier.