He held his g*n in his hand as he spoke and I knew that he meant business. One by one the crewman tied up the members of our party, pretty thoroughly too.
The closer he worked to where Augie was sitting, the more Augie’s terror began to come to the surface. He kept looking about him in quick, frightened glances. When at last it was his turn, he turned over on to his face and for a moment kicked his feet against the ground. Then, letting out a wild yell, he jumped to his feet and dashed madly towards the jungle. He ran almost head-on into one of the big rocks, which for a moment prevented the rocket captain from taking a shot at him. For a few seconds I could hear him crashing through the brush, then came a loud cry of pain when he ran into something.
The rocket captain rushed into positi
