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Or maybe they'll kill him and get away. I don't care which way it goes " "Don't talk like that!" Rouletta exclaimed. "I mean it," Laure ran on, crazily. "Yes, Joe'd kill anybody that stood in his way or doublecrossed him. I guess I know. Why, he told me so himself! And Courteau knew it, perfectly well the poor fool! but look at him now. He got his, didn't he?"
You've got maybe ten seconds." "Nobody doublecrossed you, Zorn. Magnan put his foot in it. Too bad. Is that a reason to kill yourself and a lot of other people who've bet their lives on you?" "They gambled and lost. Tough." "Maybe you haven't lost yet if you don't quit." "Get to the point!" Retief spoke earnestly for a minute and a half. Zorn stood, gun aimed, listening.
A hundred little things that had been trifles at the time came back to him now to whisper that Kinsell had known a long time. And Helga had given them the rest of the evidence they lacked. Helga, a woman, had tricked him, had deceived him, had made him love her in the only way love was possible to this man, and then had laughed at him and doublecrossed him.
The outer wall flew outward in an explosion of flying masonry. He switched on his radio and called the Ancient Mariner. "Wade! We were cut off because of the metal in the walls! We've been doublecrossed they tried to jump us. Torlos warned us in time. We've torn out the wall; just hang outside with the airlock open and wait for us.
Thank God you reached me. Thank God it's not too late. I'll find some excuse. I'll get a gram off at once." "But you " "It's all right, Magnan. You were in time. Another ten minutes and the agreement would have been signed and transmitted. The wheels would have been put in motion. My career ruined...." Retief felt a prod at his back. He turned. "Doublecrossed," Zorn said softly.
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