and Alpha Tindar pressed a button, sending them purring quietly down the street towards the rocket port.

"Which of you is the dupe?" Miss Kanton asked. "We don't know," the Tindars answered. "What!" Together Alpha and Beta explained the unusual situation. Miss Kanton was shocked by the freak accident, but she smiled. Her dupe laughed and quickly sobered. "Hell!" she said, "If I knew which was the dupe we could have a wonderful eighty hours!" The quartet arrived at Hessing Field a few minutes later and Alpha Tindar went into the Rocket Dispatcher's office to check on the ship. He came back and threw his hands up in the air.

"Another dilemma!" he exclaimed. "No four-seaters. Just those damned two-seaters. We'll have to take two of them." "Well, get a couple of Armstrongs," Beta said. "They're about the best." "I'll take a Boison, myself," Miss Kanton said. "Armstrongs have a shimmy when they're a couple of years old." "The strong-willed woman scientist!" her dupe sneered. "Armstrongs are the better ships." "Katherine!" Miss Kanton ejaculated. "I'll have you dissipated if you continue this! I shall not tolerate much more!" "You haven't time, granny," her dupe replied blithely.

The field pilots jetted the small two-seater ships out onto the field and into the launching cradles. When they were readied and equipped, the pilots signaled the Tindars and the Kantons. "Beta, you and Miss Kanton's dupe take one," Alpha Tindar said. "Miss Kanton will drive me in the other. If there is a preliminary dissipation of one of us, no one will be hurt that way." Beta nodded and Miss Kanton's dupe grabbed his hand and ran for one of the ships.

"I honestly believe she's been drinking," Miss Kanton murmured, watching her duplicate laughing as Beta helped her into the ship. Alpha walked in a slow and stately manner to the other ship and opened the air-lock for the girl.

The ships flashed jets out of their rear tubes and rose slowly from the ground cradles. A thunderous roar sent them both soaring into the stratosphere, where the ships veered together and rocketed out of sight towards the band of transplanted asteroids that swung in an orbit around the earth two hundred thousand miles beyond the moon. Alpha Tindar settled himself deeper into the tight, sponge spring chair by Miss Kanton's side and watched with admiration the magnificent piloting job his "atomic brother" was doing. The other ship was keeping exactly abreast of Miss Kanton who was setting the pace.Tindar was falling asleep when Miss Kanton switched on the intership radio. She called the other 

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