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"Yes, but...." The girl looked troubled; M'zangwe had guessed right. "But what's all the excitement about the dog? What is it, the sacred totem-animal of the Ullr Company?" "It's just a big brown collie named Stalin. But somebody stole it, and Keeluk was keeping it. We want to know why. We don't like geek mysteries not when they lead to murderous attacks on Terrans, at least."
He was caught, an hour earlier, trying to slip off the island without a pass; they were holding him at the guardhouse when Governor Harrington died. He's now being questioned by the Kragans." The girl's face was bleakly remorseless. "I hope they do plenty to him!" "I hope they don't kill him before he talks." "Wait a moment, general; we have General M'zangwe, now," the girl said.
When we can spare the contragravity, we're going to drop something on the Kee-geek embassy, over in town." Von Schlichten grimaced, but he'd expected something like it. He told M'zangwe about King Kankad's offer. "His crowd ought to be coming in in a couple of hours. What can you scrape up to send to Kankad's Town to airlift Kragans in?"
Going into a temporarily idle telecast booth, he called Konkrook, and finally got Themistocles M'zangwe on the screen. "How is it, now?" he asked. "Getting a little better," the Graeco-African replied.
"We ought to raze that city as flat as a football field, and then play football on it with King Orgzild's head." "Any special reason?" von Schlichten asked. "In addition to the Blount-Lemoyne massacre, that is?" "I should say so, general!" Themistocles M'zangwe backed Meyerstein up. "Bob, you tell him." Colonel Robert Grinell, the Intelligence officer, got up and took the cigar out of his mouth.
The Kragans got there too late to save anybody, but they wiped out the Fencibles. Jaizerd himself was the only one they took alive, and he didn't stay that way very long." "How are you making out with your Civil Administration crowd?" M'zangwe grimaced. "I haven't had to put any of them under actual arrest, so far, but we've had to keep Buhrmann away from the communications equipment by force.
"She was due in Konkrook from the east about 1300 today, wasn't she?" M'zangwe swore. "She got in, all right. But the geeks boarded her at the dock, within twenty minutes after things started. They tried to lift out with her, and the Channel Battery shot her down into Konkrook Channel, off the Fifty-sixth Street docks." "Well, you couldn't let the geeks have her, to use against us.
Prinsloo caught the De Wett in the docks there and smashed her, but the Jan Smuts got away, and we haven't been able to locate the Oom Paul Kruger, either. They're probably both on the Eastern Shore, gathering up reenforcements for Orgzild," M'zangwe said. "Our ability to move troops rapidly is what's kept us on top this long, and Orgzild's had plenty of time to realize it," von Schlichten said.
He turned to King Kankad, who was wearing a pair of automatics in shoulder-holsters for his upper hands and another pair in cross-body belt holsters for his lower. "And what I've said for anybody else goes double for you, Kankad," he added, clapping the Kragan on the shoulder. "All he did was save the lot of us!" M'zangwe said.
We want to be able to make a couple of practice drops." There was no use, he thought, of raising hopes which might prove premature. He told Paula Quinton, of course, and Themistocles M'zangwe, and, by telecast on sealed beam, King Kankad and Air-Commodore Hargreaves.
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