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On the other hand, we have direct evidence that no animal life has ever evolved on Rythar; the life cycle is exclusively botanical." The soil samples, Mryna realized, would be the vials of Earth which the Earth-god had requested so often. Were the Earthmen planning to move their hospital down to Rythar? That idea disturbed her.
"Your full name," Black Doctor Tanner rumbled from the right-hand end of the table. Dal took a deep breath and began to give his full Garvian name. It was untranslatable and unpronounceable to Earthmen, who could not reproduce the sequence of pops and whistles that made up the Garvian tongue.
Earthmen are still making too many blunders to join creatures that could cross the galaxy at the speed of light when we were learning how to chip flint." "But they didn't wipe us out!" James Connemorra looked out at the stars. "I wonder," he said. "I wonder " "What do you mean?" Mel said in a tight voice. "We have defects which are not quite like any they have encountered before.
While Connel made the tests, Tom would talk to the others over the audio communicators. The three small ships covered the satellite quickly in evenly divided sections, reporting their readings on the needlelike instrument to Connel, who kept recording the reports on a pad at his knee. An hour later the boats returned to the Polaris and the Earthmen assembled in the control room.
He shot a startled glance at the down-pouring Earthmen, swerved the girl around, and aimed his tube. Hilary pulled the trigger as he swerved. There was a sharp click, but no explosion. Hilary cursed and threw himself down. He had forgotten that there were no more bullets. The speeding flash scorched overhead. Grim and Wat crouched low.
It is the first time that anything has happened to my people, and we don't know what it could be." For a long time the earthmen remained silent. The troubles of this civilization had been dumped into their laps already in the form of a terrible calamity. It sounded almost as if some kind of life forms had broken through the domes from the outside!
"We'd like to give you one in return," Arcot grinned, "But we only brought four along, and, unfortunately, we are using them at the moment." The Biologist smiled back and assured him that they would not think of taking a piece of apparatus so vitally necessary to the Earthmen. The Military Leader was the man who demanded attention next.
"Again," said MacMaine, "I swear to you that I know nothing of any third intelligent race in the galaxy." "If there were such allies," Tallis said, "isn't it odd that they should wait so long to aid their friends?" "No odder than that the Earthmen should suddenly develop superweapons that we cannot understand, much less fight against," Hokotan said, with a touch of anger.
The paintings displayed a people dressed in a suit of some soft, white cloth, with blond hair that reached to their shoulders. They were shorter and more heavily built than Earthmen, perhaps, but there was a grace to them that denied the greater gravity of their planet.
But think of what you are doing if you permit him to go! You will be proving to every planet in the confederation that they don't really need Earthmen after all, that any race from any planet might produce physicians just as capable as Earthmen." The Black Doctor turned slowly to face Dal, his mouth set in a grim line. As he talked, his face had grown dark with anger.
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