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tain we've seen on Mercury even if it's nowhere near as high as Earth's."
"Hmph. All right."
"I could help Ren and Dr. Burkett. I could hang on outside the tractor--"
"They've already gone. You'd better call them, though, and keep a log of what they do."
"There's only one of me, and I've been trying to get the Darkside team," he pointed out. "Have you found anything new about this lava flood?"
"Flow, not flood," corrected the professional automatically. "We're not in sight of it yet. We've just rounded the corner that takes us out of your sight. It's over a mile yet, and a couple of more corners, before we get to the spot where I left it. Of course, it will be closer than that by now. It was spreading at perhaps a hundred yards an hour then. That's one figure we must refine.... Of course, I'll try to get samples, too. I wish there were some way to get samples of the central cone. The whole thing is the queerest volcano I've ever heard of. Have you gotten Eileen started back?"
"Not as far as I can tell. As with your cone samples, there are practical difficulties," replied Zaino. "I haven't quit yet, though."
"I should think not. If some of us were paid by the idea we'd be pretty poor, but the perspiration part of genius is open to all of us."
"You mean I should charge a bonus for getting this call through?" retorted the operator.
Whatever Burkett's reply to this might have been was never learned; her attention was diverted at that point.
"We've just come in sight of the flow. It's about five hundred yards ahead. We'll get as close as seems safe, and I'll try to make sure whether it's really lava or just mud."
"Mud? Is that possible? I thought there wasn't--couldn't be--any water on this planet!"
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