Communications were not. "Hius" was silent all night long. All night long and all next day...
The third, last beacon have established very quickly, it is less than for ten hours. Ermakov has got out of "Boy"; strongly
lame, has passed on elastic, prisypannoj sand and gravel of a surface of a seleno-ceric fabric, has checked up the scheme
of connection and has put installation in action.
mezhplanetniki stood nearby dimly gleaming turret and were silent.
Has changed nothing. There, where with klokotaniem the uranium copper of Golconda boiled explosions, as before, the
crimson wall of light again rose.
The soil underfoot shuddered. Impulses flew not strong wind, raised a dust cloudlet in beams of projectors. In the south in
impenetrable darkness tornadoes over black desert rushed, low curling clouds clung to tops of sticking out rocks. It is hardly
audible the beacon whistled, and the invisible thin radio beam has begun the prompt run by circles on the sky - from horizon
to zenith, from zenith to horizon, - as if unwinding an infinite huge spiral.
Business is finished. "Boy" will leave, will act in film from a huge bog and "Hius" will return to the Earth. It is a lot of times the
black sky will light up with crimson light, will arrive and tens planetoletov will depart, and three low strong turrets will
persistently send the invocatory signals to an aether: "Here an airfield, here Golconda, here your purpose, wanderers of
waterless oceans of Space!" It's done, it is ended, absolutely, it is absolutely ended! "Hius", Michael Antonovich, the Earth -
all became surprisingly close, has approached, has stopped nearby in this world of projectors of "Boy". It felt all. And
Ermakov tensely peering into a black veil in the south, and reflected Jurkovsky, crossed hands on a breast. And Bulls, and
poor creature Dauge, Bogdana searching for a shoulder in absent-minded bewilderment why it to it in any way is not possible
to lean against the friend-radio operator.
- So... Raketodrom "Uranium Golconda number one" is ready to reception of the first planetoletov, - Ermakov has told a high,
ringing voice. - Seventeen forty five, on sixteenth of September, 19. Year...