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Okay, okay, very funny, very funny. They get over my boy
tomorrow the old ball and chain, eat drink and be merry for tomorrow.
You commit matrimona. Come on, we came down here to Scary Square to
have a little fun. We might as well be at my mother's musical and
Beacon Street all the problems of the ridge. And tell me, Jeff,
just where does the coffin fortune come from? Pirate treasure? Oh? No,
I guess it started in Nantucket. My great great something or other used
to be a whaler. Oh whaler, the rcy blows dead whaler, stove
boat, watch my trusty harpool. Hey, hey, we'll look out at
the porn. Oh and where's the money now? Oh? I don't know.
We've got a lot of commercial holdings, mills, import export outfits,
rocket lines, you know, mere trivia. Alright, look, why don't
we get out of this dumb We go up to the Copley Plaza. May
be stuffy, but at least the glasses are clean. Well, you're all
the condemned man. All right, you two go ahead and get in the
car. I'll settle all right, me jogging right, excuse me? You
want something? But yeah, the check okay, okay, hey Manton check,
he'll be right out right. Thank you had a right nice not hayting.
Oh yeah, I suppose so I've been watching you celebrating sort of am
I just got off a deep space running out the centauris. Oh that's a
fifteen year run, isn't it? Fifteen and three blooming months? Oh June,
now you spaceman. No, no, not exactly. Uh where's that
check? Barkeep? I got your hat, bud Milt and slow but sure
filled up. Charlie say, why don't check John me? Mikeke Yeah,
Charlie, oh no, no, no, thank you. Come on,
we don't take off him. Now we'll celebrate whatever it is you're celebrating on
me. Pauli. Charlie, Well, all right, thank you. I
guess I might as well. Cheers, all right, cheers. Oh what
was that, Charlie, stid Charlie. Yeah, well oh say look Charlie,
would you get that waiter out here? I've got to meet it.
I have watch ready, might say you got plenty of time, right that
daisy? You don't look so good? Oh no, I don't feel so
good. Yeah that's it. Yeah, you feel chipper as the bluemin grasshopper.
And no, I've got to get outside the cars in a hurry up.
Where's the check check? Yeah? Oh oh all right, up on
your feet. Wake wakey, wakey, all right, let go on.
What's the idea? Rise and shine and grate the dawn? What where am
I? What's going on here? Come on that mighty up in there and
wakey, wakey, wake Wait a minute, So you were at that bar
Scarley Square. Come on now, up on decker you'll be in travel What
are you talking about? Where am I? And it's hard to say exactly?
Off end about eight hours out of Atlantic Spiceport, Atlantic Spaceport. Look,
what kind of a joke is this? If if Alan and Peter think
this is funny? What what? What ship is this? R? S?
Michael m Raffitty Coffin line. Oh, Coffin line. Well that makes
it easy. Now you've got to put back the port. I forget your
toothbrush. Bang listen you wy don't you take me to the captain? Jack?
All right, get moving, sure, su my dear, I'll take
you to the captain. But you're going to be sorry. Morton, What
the devil he doing on the bridge? Get below? Only this year,
gentlemen off to see you. That's right there, captain, there's been a
mistake made. I'm afraid it was supposed to be a joke. Oh yes,
you see, I'm going to be married today, and I suppose the
boys thought it'd be funny to make me miss the ceremony. I'm sure it
won't be too much trouble to have you drop me off back at the Atlantic
spaceport. What Morton, what is this? We're simple, Captain. He
wants to tend the shipper and that's all. Look if there's any trouble with
your superior, I'm sure I can fix it up. You see, I'm
Jeff Coffin. Yeah, but you don't understand. My father is cyrus coffin
he owns this shop? Oh he does? Morton? Get this drunk all
in just a minute. I can understand you're not believing me, but I
can identify. Think, where's my wallet? I've been robbed. Wha look,
captain, wait a minute. All you have to do is radio back
and check mister Black remove this man from the bridge. Just but I said
you're the captain, Bustard, Wait a minute, let go on me.
This is no way to treat a passenger. Passenger, huh, wake up,
sonny boy, you're one of the crew. I'll get below all right
now, mate, ready yoursel a buffer, get the works. If they
can't get away with the sisters kidnapping, perhaps, yes, perhaps now I'll
get this here. Take nice and shiny. We might even see about some
crap. I'll be back in two hours, and mind you, I want
to be able to see me blooming reflection in it got to polis that deckplate.
They can't get away with us. Law says, once you sign on,
you're under absolute orders. I looked it up, but I didn't sign
up and I was kidnapped. You won't be able to prove it. Come
on, mister, please, I didn't get anything to eat yet today,
So give me a break. Huh? All right, what do you do?
Run the buffer over it? That's right? Like this? You sign
on? Yeah, I run away from home? How old are you?
Sixteen thirty? When we get back? What do you mean thirty? We're
headed from Mars? Aren't we only the reef you? We're out bound a
centaurus? No, it can't be. Well, that's a fifteen year run.
What I've got to get back? Oh yours, I'm getting married,
my bride to be. I'll think I'm dead? What what? What?
You want me to come as the black a game? You'll give you what?
Listen? Listen to me, listen. I've got to get back to
ear if I can't disappear for fifteen years. Look, we stop at Mars,
right, yes, and you'll be below decks and the lock and case
to me if I can make it worth your while? If will you get
me off at Marsport? Jump and shiver? That's real, naughty mites one
dollars? Why what would I tell me, poor old mother in say,
two thousand five? In advance? What do you mean in advance? You're
probably the one that rolled me for my wallet I'll find a way. They
don't believe your young coffin, but maybe I know better. All right,
it's a deal. Look, mister coffin, can you take me with you?
I didn't realize what it would be like. I can pay my share,
I could work it out for you, or maybe borrow money. I
couldn't stand fifteen years. I'd go crazy. All right, Sure, what
about it? Mortan boil cost you another thousand chief Swing in now, mister
coffin. I'm all that stands between you and a lovely pleasure cruise for fifteen
years. So I'll thank you to treat me with a respect and politeness what
a gentleman like myself deserves. Stand by stand by for landing procedure, all
right, now it's and careful. This is the cable locker for the grappling
anchor. Right when she lands this actual open cables go out. Don't get
yourself caught in them. You'll be tore apart. All right, we've got
the sure we can get out. Now you just do what I say.
We drop down to the last bit. Nobody will be there. I lowen
the pit till dark got that right now, Look, Morton, I'll tell
the patrol. You helped us get away. That'll help you when they catch
up with this game. We thank yourself. Thank you kindly. I've got
to get to my station now lock nice. Thanks mister Morton. There's a
landing point. Keep clear that cable. Joy Here we go on t it
goes to grappling candy. All right, come on, drop through the hatch
just about six feet yeah, all right, it's clear. Hurry upright,
come you? All right, this is my ankle. Sorry, all right,
that's the blast pit. Get going right now. We're all right so
far the ship hides us. Here's the pit. All right, I'll get
down so they can't see you. Wait a minute, here's somebody coming.
Keep still. Maybe we better look up if we stick our heads up over
the edge. I'll say a short Now keeps down and keep still, yoush.
Well, well, well look what we have here, two little babes
in the wood. Now you too moving, I'll shoot you in the belly.
Morten, you got good eye, tell you so. I'm coming this
way, mister Black jumping ship. My, that's a terrible thing today,
mister Black Infarmerships Company, that these two men have been found Gilly of attempted
desertion. Desertion, You kidnap me, your dirty crook. Don't you talk?
The captain holl that way, I'd sending thing them to twenty four hours
hull watch, take them away, but take them to the air block,
I said, you'll calm down after twenty four hours. Held watch? What's
hull? Watch? Any simple? We put you two in spacesuits, shove
you through the air lock on the end of a line. You sit out
there and watch the elf for twenty four hours. No food, no water,
and the eating units in those suits are just a little bit defective.
Makes it interesting. Long about the eighteenth four Yeah, but here we are,
gentlemen. The air lock you get in there, got five minutes to
get into them suits before we blow the air out. See you in twenty
four hours. Maybe. Well, welcome back to all below water. Water
firsty eh, you should control these animal's instincts, right, yeah, yeah,
it's lapping like the bloody hair. Joy joy pasta help him, he'll
be all right. Teach your lesson, both of you. Take my advice
and behave yourself. You've got fifteen years to go on this airship. Your
might as well make the best of it. Hi, Hey, Martin,
what do you call this? That's your supper? Mighty food? Concentrate?
What's the idea? Only two months out? Non concentrates? Already you complaining?
Yeah, I'm complaining. If Captain Howell's chiseling on the manifest, that's
his business. But when he tries to take it up now, I keep
poiet and tading into mister Blake. Concentrate is what you get to eat from
your on at. I'll shove it into your face and keep quiet. Suppose
I shove it into your face and say, are you light your what's going
on in here? What's going on? Morton? He struck me? What
forty eight hours? I'll watch all right, what are you all looking at?
Get back into your places? Morton, bring that man down to the
aft air lock. It's murder, that's what plain murder. Space code gives
a thirty hour limit for punishment. They didn't even have a burial, just
shove them out the lock. If the owners knew about this, they'd stop
it. A fat lad of good that's going to do us during the next
fifteen years. Wait a minute, we get the ship back to Mars Nah
two weeks after we landed, we'd be hung. That's what space code says
about mutiny. And if they catch you in the act, they shoot you
down. And no question right, I'm willing to take that chance. We're
gonna let Black and Howell kick us around for fifteen years. Why don't we
take over and head back? Right, let's go back going, gentlemen,
discussion joking about the camptain. Maybe grab him yet if you want out of
the shifts off for your life, rushing, throw on my own, Rag
Morton. That's done it. He's an officer who cares. We've got to
move now. Joey, Yeah, you get up the radio room and smashed
the set before they can get a message out. Pop, you get a
tell the engine. Watch the rest of us go up in the bridge.
How about this rat tie him up? Speed counts. Now, we've got
to take over before they know what hit him. All right, careful,
we've got to surprise him. Don't worry, we'll get him cool yet quiet.
The box was seving when I got in, but I knocked him out
and smashed the set. We're okay, good boy, all right, come
on right past the bullhead. Look out the blast bullhead were cut off from
the bridge. You gotta get through that. It must have out somehow the
intercom. Black can turn it on from the bridge. You heard the whole
thing. We better get out of here. What do they do? I
don't know. We got all the controls up there. We can shut down
the driver, but we can't steer. You better dog down the hatch behind
us. All right, man, capt'n Howl, giving you one minute to
give up quiet in a pig tie. Black, you'll hang from huting me,
every one of you. We do not quiet. They can hear everything
on the intercom. If I pull a jack out, that's the boy.
Look, we've got to get through to the bridge. It's a Mexican stand
off. We can't get it, then they can't get it. At what's
that? The pruss is down? It's Howl. He blew the hats on
the mess hall section. Just open her up and let the air out.
Morton, do you know what Black's going to do. He's gonna bleed off
the air down here? Say you all right? I admire, we a
see all out on the till your frouz still forgetting something. Morton, you're
back here with us. What you if Black and Howl blow out? Compartments
one, buy one or bleed they're off. You'll get it two. Eh,
they'll take care of me. Don't you worry about that? Oh you
think so? Huh? Joey plug that at a comeback in, right,
Captain happen, give me up. We've got Morton back here. Yeah.
If you try anything on us, he'll get it too. What am I
supposed to do? Praying? You don't care? If he dies, that's
his problem. We're gonna drop the archicon level five percent. Can't do that
to me, Captain kept It's unfortunate that you were, Captain Martin, but
the security of my ship comes first. I mean you don't care. You
see me dead precisely? Well, your can't. It's murdered, that's what.
I'm not one of them. You can't kill me, your cot Joey
Pully in a complut? All right? Tell you are Morton. They'd kill
you just as soon as look at you. Now, listen, we've got
to get through that bulkhead. You know this ship. There must be some
way, Morton were your only chance get us through the bulkhead? All right?
All right? Why shortened I they killed me? Well, and there
is a way they get through an emergency relief the down't tail crewmen about it
to keep him from breaking through in an engine blast and leaking radiation to the
braid. Will and let's get going. We've got to get through that bulkhead
before howl cuts the air down and gets us all. Here's the bulkhead,
Morgan, where's the release under the floor panal? You can pry it up?
All right? Hurry, I got it, I got it. She's
up wax on a key ready, all right? Morton, open it up?
Here it goes what He's dead, electrocuted and the bulkhead still clothed.
They didn't even get to turn that key. It killed him instantly. Harry,
Yeah, have you got your watch gloves they're insulated. Oh yeah,
sure, get Porton out of the way. Don't touch them, Joey,
he's got the current throat. I'll shot him weight with the gloves, all
right, now standing by? Here goes a key. All right, let's
call Kevin, come on stand back there, all right? See how you
like this trap the gun? Joey, look out, Let go that gun?
How all right? Hold them both. You don't have to worry about
Black. I got him square with the ranks we better tie up. The
captain. Well, what do you think you're gonna do now? We're gonna
turn around and go back home. I don't think so. I burned the
navigation tapes and none of you can recalculate them. Why you you're just wandering
space that the fuel gives out. You'll die right here on this ship,
Jeff, Jeff, you have the separate Screenze went on media. No,
no, it's a ship, patrol ship coming up on us. They must
have got an off ye wait a minute, we don't have to worry.
We can just tell them the truth. You're not familiar with space code,
young man. Mutiny is punishable by immediate execution. In other words, they
don't ask questions, they just shoot. He's right, Jeff, that's true.
And we get away, not from a patrol ship already sent us a
heat to flash run. They'll blow us out of space. I'm afraid your
mutiny is about over with. Gentlemen. There'll be a board in an hour.
Ten minutes after that, you'll all be dead. Oberty Booth Sergeant,
take a squad and secure the ship, collect all weapons, and post a
guard in the engine room. Will Well, I'm the law to see you,
Major, I wasn't quite here. My soos had gotten through. Oh
your captain, Howell, that's right, and I can swear out the abidae
of the mutiny. I don't think a mutiny charge will stand up, Howell,
not with the relief of command warrant out for you. I think we'll
just forget about it. But you can't do that. Space Cooat is clear
you recorded my sos. No, we didn't howl. And how'd you get
here? They sent us after you to get Jeff Coffin Where I'm Jeff Coffin.
Jeff, we had a missing person's alarm for you, and then when
a check you signed turned up at mars Port a check m Well, that's
right. I gave one to Morton to help me get away, and he
sold to a fence for half face value. We traced it back to this
ship. I've got orders to escort you personally. We're taking you back to
Worth. Can I send out a message, Major? And of course,
oh, well, that reminds me, Jeff, I've got one for you
from your fiance. She said to tell you that she didn't object a bachelor
party in principle, but she did think six months was stretching it a bit.
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