"Zach Hughes - Mother Lode" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hughes Zach)

"You name it," she said, rising, stretching. "In observation of the day
they lopped off Mop's tail."

"A truly significant day."

"You've been up over twenty-four hours. I'm beat, too. I think we both
need a good eight or ten hours' sleep, and then we can settle down to
serious work."

"You talked me into it, Cap'n."

She was asleep moments after she pulled the light coverlet over her. At
some time during the "night" she heard or felt the vibrations caused by
the mining machines, thought about getting up to see why Dent had gone
back to work, turned over and was fast asleep again.

When she woke again, she'd been asleep for over nine hours. She had a
solid breakfast before going to the cabin that was a combination of Dent's
quarters and the mining control room. Mop greeted her at the door,
leaping up joyfully, acting as if it had been months since he'd last seen her.
Denton was seated in the control chair. The weight gauge showed that
he'd loaded several tons of ore.

"Looks as though this vein is about to play out," he said.

"Couldn't sleep?" she asked.

"Slept for a couple of hours. I'll have twelve hours to catch up now."
 "I'll take it, then."

"I think if we moved ship about a hundred feet toward that sharp
extension—"

"Readings are good in that direction?"

"Yep."

"Well, if you've pretty well exhausted the vein—"

"You're going to trust me with moving her?"

"You'll have to do it sooner or later," she said.

"Okay. Just check behind me before I do anything," he said.

She watched closely. He used the remote control panel in the mining
room to lift Mother with her flux drive and lower her without so much as
a jar to a spot just over a hundred feet away.