An exploratory cutting down of their suit compensators showed them the surges were far apart now, and light. It would soon be calm. They lashed themselves together, pooling their rockets.
They soared easily over the scraggly ranges and looked down into great yawning crevasses, but seldom did they see a ledge wide enough for a goat to stand upon. They went on, hoping against hope, exploring the polar regions of the body—the areas that had not fallen under their observation while aloft in the tug. Finally one cried:
“Light-ho!”
There was a light, nearly ahead, which neither of the others had noticed, due to their inspection of the ridges and caverns beneath. It was a tiny light, such as might be expected in a dwelling. It was in the midst of a vague gray shape. As they headed more directl
