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There was the faint creak of metal, and the man's chest began to bend! In a moment, he was unconscious. Torlos pulled a heavy leather belt off of the unconscious man and tied his arms with it, wrapping it many times around the wrists, and was picking the man up when Tharlano arrived, followed by Arcot and Morey. Torlos smiled broadly. "This is one Satorian spy that won't report.
The Nansalians who had gone to Sator had simply been murdered. There was no disease; it had simply been a Satorian plot to keep Nansalians from going to Sator. The second thing they had learned was the secret of the Satorian magnetic space drive.
Arcot wondered. "And what weapon?" "This war," Wade grinned, pointing at the chess board. "We have agreed absolutely never to read each other's minds while playing chess." Morey lowered his book and looked at Arcot. "And just what have you been so busy about?" "I've been investigating the weapon on board the Satorian ships we captured," Arcot told them. "Quite an interesting effect.
For years, the Satorians traded peacefully. In the meantime, Satorian spies were working to find the strengths and weaknesses of Nansal, searching to discover their secret weapons and processes, if any. And they rigorously guarded their own secrets. They refused to disclose the secrets of the magnetic beam and the magnetic space drive.
He pushed the little red switch for an instant, then opened it. A moment before, the planet Nansal had been a huge disc behind them. Now it was a tiny thing, a full million miles away. It took the Satorian fleet over an hour to reach them. They appeared as dim lights in the telectroscope. They rapidly became larger.
When they were ready to attack, the Satorian delegation told Nansal frankly that they would not treaty with them. The day the delegation left, the Satorian fleet swept down upon Nansal! The Nansalians were again beaten back into their cities, safe behind their magnetic screens, but unable to attack. But the forces of Sator had not won easily they had, in fact, not won at all.
It was several hours later that the Ancient Mariner approached Nansal again, bringing with it two Satorian ships. By careful use of the heat beam and the molecular beam, the Earthmen had managed to jockey the two battle cruisers back to Nansal. It was nighttime when they landed. The whole area around the city was illuminated by giant searchlights.
You use your diaphragm and your abdominal muscles. These people do, too!" Morey grinned. "No wonder Torlos jumped in front of that bullet! He didn't have as much to fear as we do he had a built-in bullet proof vest! You'd have to shoot him in the abdomen to reach any vital organ." Arcot turned back to Torlos. "Who is this man?" "Undoubtedly a Satorian spy sent to murder you Earthmen.
I saw the muzzle of his pistol as he was aiming and jumped in the way of the bullet. There is not much damage done." "We'd better get back to the city," Arcot said. "Fuller and Wade might be in danger!" They bundled the Satorian spy into the ship, where Morey tied him further with thin strands of lux cable no bigger than a piece of string. Torlos looked at it and shook his head.
"He knows several other spies here in the city, and we can, I think, practically wipe out the Satorian spy system all over the planet with the information he gave me and what we can get from others we arrest. "Unfortunately, he doesn't know anything about the new weapon; the higher-ups aren't telling anyone, not even their own men.
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