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I crouched over and turned to him. I had come upon a brilliant idea.
Unless they lowered those bodies by a crane," I said, "we must be nearer
the surface than I thought."
"
"
"
Why?"
The mooncalf doesn't hop, and it hasn't got wings."
He peered over the edge of the hollow again. "I wonder now--" he began.
After all, we have never gone far from the surface--"
"
I stopped him by a grip on his arm. I had heard a noise from the cleft
below us!
We twisted ourselves about, and lay as still as death, with every sense
alert. In a little while I did not doubt that something was quietly
ascending the cleft. Very slowly and quite noiselessly I assured myself
of a good grip on my chain, and waited for that something to appear.
"
Just look at those chaps with the hatchets again," I said.
They're all right," said Cavor.
"
I took a sort of provisional aim at the gap in the grating. I could hear
now quite distinctly the soft twittering of the ascending Selenites, the
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