"
"Some heart!"
"What does it look like?" Rip sounded too tired to cross the cabin and
see for himself. "Barren as Limbo?"
"Hardly! Rip, did you ever see a tomato as big as a melon--At least it
looks like a tomato," Dane halted the spy lens as it focused upon this
new phenomena.
"A what?" There was a note of concern in Shannon's voice. "What's the
matter with you, Dane?"
"Come and see," Dane willingly yielded his place to Rip but he did not
step out of range of the screen. Surely that did have the likeness to a
good, old fashioned earth-side tomato--but it was melon size and it hung
from a bush which was close to a ten foot tree!
Rip stumbled across to drop into the Com-tech's place. But his expression
of worry changed to one of simple astonishment as he saw that picture.
"Where are we?"
"You name it," Dane had had longer to adjust, the excitement of an
explorer sighting virgin territory worked in his veins, banishing
fatigue. "It must be the Big Burn!"
"But," Rip shook his head slowly as if with that gesture to deny the
evidence before his eyes, "that country's all bare rock.
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