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I sat listening to Anita's eager whispers. It seemed feasible. Miko did not altogether trust George Prince; Anita was now unarmed. "But I can make opportunity! I can get one of their ray cylinders, and an invisible cloak equipment." That cloak, that had been hidden in Miko's room when Carter searched for it in A20 was now in the chart room by Johnson's body. It had been repaired now.
He never made a move. And then you came along and he acted innocent. Why? What's going on, that's what I want to know?" I held my breath. "Venza, where did the prowler run to? Can you " She whispered calmly, "Into A20. I saw the door open and close. I even thought I could see his blurred outline." She added, "Why should George Prince be sneaking around with you after him?
We had wired his cubby with the insulator; within its barrage we could at least talk with a degree of freedom. "You've seen George Prince, Gregg?" "No. He's assigned A20. But I saw his sister. Snap, no one ever mentioned " Snap had heard of her, but he hadn't known that she was listed for this voyage. "A real beauty, so I've heard. Accursed shame for a decent girl to have a brother like that."
She eyed me and then retreated. Snap was threatening everybody with his cylinder. Balch dashed up. "What in hell! Where is Carter?" "In there." I pounded on A22. It opened cautiously. I could see only Carter, but I heard the murmuring voice of Dr. Frank through the interior connecting door to A20. The Captain rasped, "Get out, Haljan! Oh, is that you, Balch? Come in."
Thought of the Grantline Moon Expedition stabbed at me. George Prince Anita's brother he whom I had been warned to watch. This renegade associate of dubious Martians, plotting God knows what. I saw, upon the adjoining door, A20, George Prince. I listened. In the humming stillness of the ship's interior there was no sound from these cabins. A20 was without windows, I knew.
The twin doors of A20 and A22 were before me. The invisible eavesdropper had gone into one of these rooms! I listened at each of the panels, but there was only silence within. The interior of the ship was suddenly singing with the steward's siren the call to awaken the passengers. It startled me. I moved swiftly away.
We have no right, even now, to be flying this vessel as unguarded as it is." He was very solemn. And he was grim when I told him of the invisible eavesdropper. "You think he overheard Grantline's message? Who was it? You seem to feel it was George Prince?" I told him I was convinced the prowler went into A20.
I realized that we passed the deck door and window of A22. But they were dark, and evidently sealed on the inside. The dim lounge was in a turmoil; passengers standing at their cabin doors. I shouted, "Go back to your rooms! We want order here keep back!" We came to the twin doors of A22 and A20. Both were closed. Dr. Frank was in advance of Snap and me now.
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