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hovered and began to settle nearby, and there was
Van Artevelde leaning over its rail and fiddling frantically with
whatever it was that stuck up on it--a weird, angled contraption of pipes
and belts topped by a whirring blade. A boy stood at his shoulder and
tried to help him. As the platform descended to a few meters above
ground, the Dutchman slashed at the contraption, the cut ends of belts
whipped out wildly and the platform slid to the ground with a rush. It
hit with a clatter and its two passengers tumbled prone to the ground.
"Jan!" boomed Heemskerk, forcing his voice through the helmet
diaphragm and rushing over to his friend. "I was afraid you were lost!"

Jan struggled to his feet and leaned down to help the boy up.
"Here's your patient, Pieter," he said. "Hope you have a spacesuit in his
size."
"I can find one. And we'll have to hurry for blastoff. But, first, what
happened? Even that damned thing ought to get here from Rathole
faster than that."
"Had no fuel," replied Jan briefly. "My engines were all right, but I had
no power to run them. So I had to pull the engines and rig up a power
source."
Heemskerk stared at the platform. On its railing was rigged a tripod of
battered metal pipes, atop which a big four-blade propeller spun slowly
in what wind was left after it came over the western mountain. Over the
edges of the platform, running from the two propellers in its base, hung
a series of tattered transmission belts.
"Power source?" repeated Heemskerk. "That?"
"Certainly," replied Jan with dignity. "The power source any good
Dutchman turns to in an emergency: a windmill!"
THE END

Transcriber's Note
This etext was produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories April
1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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