“Marters you dumb bastard! Get back on the raft!” Eric reached over the man and grabbed his bloodied shirt. Pulling on him wasn’t so easy with h...ow it teetered the raft down, and he had to rock it back to keep it from flipping. “Get back on the damn—”An array of jagged, serrated teeth broke through the water, splashing Eric’s face. Wide-eyed, the water hit his eyes, and he fell back with a holler.“Marters! Marters!” He scampered forward, but it was only a few feet to the edge of the worthless. Lucy said it was usually slow during the week and sat down and we talked. She told me she was a dancer up till a few months ago. She mentioned that she was twenty-eight and the club like to keep their dancers younger."I didn't mind since they gave me a job as a waitress. A lot less work and I'm not groped, besides with tips I do rather well. Once in a great while I might dance but not very often." What can you tell me about this place?" Well, it's been here for seven years. I was one of the. " Towards the Louvres." Ah, I know the way--you get good sweetened rum over there." Exactly so; I merely wish to overtake one of my friends, with whom I am going to hunt to-morrow at Chapelle-en-Serval. He should have waited for me here with a cabriolet till half-past eleven; it is twelve, and, tired of waiting, he must have gone on." It is likely." Well, will you try and overtake him?" Nothing I should like better." If you do not overtake him before we reach Bourget you shall have twenty. . one we can afford to lose."Mr. tower officer grinned, "It just so happens..."xXxWhen they were fueled and ready to leave Cheyenne, Wyoming, Junior set the quarter scale RC model transponder to 5150 and launched it. New drones can fly a preset route ... this one was set to overfly Hasty, Colorado and Boise City, Oklahoma at about 25,000 feet. If the drone was still with them, they were to land at the recommissioned base at Dalhart, Tx, leave the drone and fly straight south to Midland, Texas..