Bolts by Alexander Key

Author:Alexander Key
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media

6

He Goes Spelunking

High up in the Space Jumper, Big Butch was hovering over the radio with growing concern. “Butch calling Bolts!” he repeated. “Butch calling Bolts! We’ve come to rescue you! Please answer!”

Finally he shook his head. “Something’s sure gone wrong,” he said dolefully.

“He seemed very hard pressed the last time he spoke,” said the commander. “I’m awfully afraid he’s been captured—or worse …”

“Poor little puppy dog,” muttered Butch.

Bingo sat biting his knuckles. Suddenly he looked at the parrot. “What’s happened, Pirate?” he begged. “Bolts isn’t d-dead, is he?”

“Ha!” the jealous parrot cackled happily. “He might as well be dead. He’s deep in the ground where he belongs, and good riddance!”

“Pirate!” snapped the commander. “That’s no way to talk about a new member of the family. Bolts may be ignorant and uncouth, but he’s just as much a member of the Brown family as you are, and that practically makes him your brother.”

“Sorry relation,” grumbled the parrot. “But if you want him, you can have him—if you can get him. He’s crawled into a hole.”

“That’s it!” Bingo cried. “He’s crawled into a narrow hole where he can’t use his radio. What direction is it from here, Pirate?”

“Sou’east by south,” Pirate admitted reluctantly.

“How far?”

“Three hundred and nine and a quarter miles—and that’s all I’m telling you. You’ve strained my second sight to the breaking point!”

Bingo’s fingers flew over the control buttons. The earth seemed to shift, and below them a new range of mountains appeared. Now Bingo pressed the down button, and the Space Jumper, like a falling elevator, began to descend through the atmosphere. Everyone except Big Butch felt an oopity feeling in his stomach, which is the opposite of the umpity feeling of going up.

A half mile above the mountains, Bingo halted the Space Jumper and everyone peered down through the viewing ports. There were wild and barren ridges below them, some topped with snow, but at this height neither Bingo nor the commander could make out details. Big Butch, however, had built-in super vision, and could spot a beetle at a thousand yards.

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