BOB SWEATED, HAVING only fractions of seconds in which to maneuver for the “yo-yo” could strike a fatal blow at the hauler too. It was ticklish work completely to nullify the “yo-yo’s” speed. Bob used exactly the same method of catching the “yo-yo” on the blunt nose of the ship as a baseball player uses to catch a hard-driven ball in his glove—namely, by matching the ball’s speed and direction almost exactly at the moment of impact. And now Bob’s hours of practice paid dividends, for the “yo-yo” came to rest snugly, ready to be released again.
All this had happened in such a short space of time that the Saylor brothers must have had only a bare realization of what was going on. But by the time the “yo-yo” was flung at them again, this time with better calculations, they managed to put the
