Double luck had favored Darragh in his victory over the second. But undoubtedly the high point of his phenomenal good fortune was attained when the aircraft in which he thus fought and triumphed did not crash at once to earth. For one thing, the Cold Creature which he had so expertly sabered at the controls had flown its craft miles high, in fact had risen nearly to the stratosphere. When the pilodess vessel began to slip away sideways out of its course, throwing the two ungainly carcasses against the port bulkhead, and almost toppling Darragh from his moccasined feet, it had a long way to go before crashing disaster could arrive. In the moments that followed, Darragh himself became a successful operator of a Cold People's airship. He dropped his saber and clutched the pedestal of the control mechanism to steady himself. A frantic shake of his right hand threw off the muffling gauntlet and he began to manipulate the beads upon the five metal arms.
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