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But nowhere is there any sign of poverty or anything at all resembling Stepney or the lower parts of an European city, The Chinese quarter is the nearest approach thereto, but it is quite sui generis, and squalor is altogether absent. The town is well lighted with gas, and the water-supply, from reservoirs on the Yarra a few miles above, is plentiful, but not good for drinking.
He knew that the Eurasian would have no compunctions about shooting him down in cold blood; but, on the other hand, even as the man had said, he could not kill Ku Sui, but had to capture him, in order to take him to Earth to confess to crimes now blamed on Eliot Leithgow. "Do as he says, Friday," he instructed the still staring negro; and, like a man in a trance, Friday obeyed.
"I've been expecting you," he went on. "Has something happened?" "I'm concerned with Ku Sui again," the Hawk told him swiftly. "Please excuse me; I have to be brief. I can't take any chances of his hearing any of this."
Psychology in its subjective aspect, again, is a field entirely sui generis. The substance of mind, conceived as the underlying substratum of mental states, is unknowable; but the character of those states of which mind, as we know it, is composed, is a legitimate subject of inquiry.
A new voice, bland and unctuous, spoke in the control cabin from behind the three men. "Not necessarily, my honored friend Carse," it said. "You will observe there is no need for a ship to appear." Ku Sui had come. The Wave of a Handkerchief He stood smiling in the door-frame leading aft to the rear entrance port.
"He is one sure singing bird," said another sub, a stout, overgrown boy by the name of Booth. "The nerve of him," added Booth in admiration. "Nerve!" echoed a young captain, "but what about the pilot's nerve?" "Sui generis, Train, I should say," drawled Hopeton. "Suey, who did you say?" inquired Sally. "What's her second name?
The old man looked very frail now; his age showed in the deep lines now eminent on his face. Three minutes swiftly two.... "At least," observed Ku Sui, "we have one body ... the coolie. I had better start immediately on him." "Bring him out," Leithgow instructed one of his men. "One brain will be saved. But there! Thank God! Hear that? Coming down the passage? It's Carse, returning!"
Through them he saw Ku Sui go to a switchboard adjoining and study the indicators, finally placing one hand on a black-knobbed switch and with the other drawing from some recess a little cone, trailing a wire, like a microphone. A breathless silence hung over the laboratory. The white-clad figures stood like statues, dumb, unfeeling, emotionless.
We must be out of here and far away by the time he arrives." "Yes," Leithgow nodded slowly. "As you say, there is no choice." "But your work here is finished, Eliot," Carse went on. "If only we can get to Earth safely, with Ku Sui and the brains in their new bodies, we will have achieved everything we wanted to achieve. We have proof of the crime done you, and we have Ku Sui, too.
Ku Sui and Eliot Leithgow, who was the chief cause of it here again had come to a head. Here again were all the varied forces of brains and guile, science and skill, marshaled in the great, vital game on whose outcome depended the restoration of Eliot Leithgow and the lives of the coordinated brains and, indeed, though more distantly, the fate of all the tribes of men on all the planets.
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