The Return
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Chapter IX
Altamont and Loudons shook hands many times in front of the Aitch-Cue House, and listened to many good wishes, and repeated their promise to return. Most of the microfilmed books were to be stored in the old church. They were taking with them only the catalogue and a few of the most important works. Finally, they entered the helicopter. The crowd shouted farewell as they rose.
Altamont, at the controls, waited until they had gained five thousand feet, then turned on a compass-course for Colony Three.
“I can’t wait until we’re in radio range of the Fort, Jim. This is one report that I really want to make,” he said.
“Of all the wonderful luck!” he went on. “And I don’t know which is the more important: finding those books, or finding those people. In a few years, when we can get them supplied with modern equipment and instructed in its use--