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The thing was inside. But it was almost a minute then before Gefty could control his shaking legs enough to start moving back towards the main deck. In the half-dark of the vault, it had looked like a big coiled cable lying next to the packing cases.
Then cut ship's power to this deck to avoid complications with the Queen's involved circuitry and work under space conditions half an hour if he hurried. "Shouldn't take more than another ten minutes," he informed Kerim presently over the suit's intercom. "I'm very glad to hear it, Gefty." She sounded shaky. "Anything going on in the screens?" he asked. She hesitated a little, said, "No.
But no sound came from the sack. Gefty called angrily, "Maulbow " "Don't excite yourself, Rammer." There was a suggestion of what might be contempt in Maulbow's tone now. "The girl hasn't been harmed. She can breathe easily through the restrainer. And you can remove it by pulling at the material from outside." Gefty's mouth tightened. "I'll keep my gun on the passage while I do it "
Kerim Ruse, Maulbow's secretary, knelt beside her employer, checking his pulse. She looked anxiously up at Gefty. "What did you find out?" she asked in a voice that was not very steady. Gefty shrugged. "Nothing definite as yet. The ship hasn't been damaged she's a tough tub. That's one good point. Otherwise ... well, I climbed into a suit and took a look out the escape hatch.
Gefty let Kerim and himself into the cubicle from one of the passages, steered the girl through the pitch blackness of the little room to the chair before the control panel and told her to sit down. He groped for a moment at the side of the panel, found a knob and twisted it. There was a faint click.
"I suppose you're right," she agreed reluctantly at last. "So Mr. Maulbow will have to stay dead now. And that janandra." After a moment she added pensively, "Of course, they weren't really very nice " Gefty shivered. One of the things he'd learned from Maulbow's ravings was the real reason he and Kerim had been taken along on the trip.
"If you come in here armed," Gefty called, "I'll blow your head off. Want to stop this nonsense now?" There was a moment's silence. Then Maulbow's voice replied shakily from the passage. He seemed to be standing about twenty feet back from the room. "If you'll end your thoughtless attempts at interference, Rammer," he said, "there will be no trouble."
"Now there's something else." "What's that?" "You know you said to watch the cargo lock lights on the emergency panel." "Yes." "The outer lock door has just been opened." "What!" "It must have been. The light started blinking red just now as I was looking at it." Gefty was silent a moment, his mind racing. Why would the janandra open the lock?
The words were now ones Gefty could understand, and Maulbow was telling him things which would have been interesting enough under different circumstances. Gefty broke in as soon as he could. "Look," he said quietly, "I'm trying to help you. Maulbow interrupted him in turn, not at all quietly. Gefty listened a moment longer, then shrugged. So Maulbow didn't like him.
Within the locator plate the green pinpoint of light reappeared, red-ringed and suspended now against the three-dimensional immensities of the Milky Way. It stayed still a moment, began a smooth drift towards Galactic East. Gefty let his breath out carefully. He sensed Kerim's eyes on him but kept his gaze fixed on the locator plate. The green dot slowed, came to a stop.
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