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DOUBLE TROUBLE
by CARL JACOBI
Grannie Annie, that waspish science-fiction writer, was in a jam again. What with red-spot fever, talking cockatoos and flagpole trees, I was running in circles--especially since Grannie became twins every now and then.
Flagpole trees. They rose straight up like enormous cat-tails, with only a melon-shaped protuberance at the top to show they were a form of vegetation. Everything else was blanketed by the sand and the powerful wind that blew from all quarters.
As we reached the first of those trees, Grannie came to a halt.
"This is the Baldric all right. If my calculations are right, we've hit it at its narrowest spot."
Ezra Karn took a greasy pipe from his lips and spat. "It looks like the rest of this God-forsaken moon," he said, "'ceptin for them sticks."
Xartal, the Martian illustrator, said nothing. He was like that, taciturn, speaking only when spoken to.
He could be excused this time, however, for this was only our third day on Jupiter's Eighth Moon, and the country was still strange to us.
"Glad to meet you," he said cordially. "I've just been trying to persuade Miss Flowers not to attempt a trip into the Baldric."
"What's the Baldric?" I had asked.
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