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Updated: June 7, 2025
Miko could reach us so easily as we bounded away in plain view in the Earthlight of the open summit! We were caught, at bay in this little bowl. The camp was not visible from here. But out through the broken gully, a white beam of light suddenly came up from below. Haljan. It spelled the signal. It was coming from the Grantline instrument room, I knew.
Just now I was concerned with Miko and his little band, who at any moment might arrive in sight. If we could persuade this duty man to turn the projector on them! He answered me in ready English: "You are the man Gregg Haljan? And this is the sister of George Prince what do you want up here?" "I am a navigator. Brotow wants me to pilot the ship when we advance to attack Grantline."
The passengers were gazing in horror at the bodies hurtling over them. "Ready, Haljan?" Moa prompted me. "Tell him yes!" I called, "Yes!" Had Venza failed in her unknown purpose? It seemed so. On the radio room bridge Snap and his guard stood like silent statues in the blue lit gloom. The disembarkation was over. "Close the ports!" Miko commanded. The incline came folding up with a clatter.
Even here as we gathered, all of us blurred by shock, confused in the dim, wrecked ship with the chill of death coming even here she could jest. Her pale lips smiled. "You, Gregg. I'm not hurt I don't think I'm hurt." She managed to get herself up on one elbow. "Did you think I wanted you with my dying breath? What conceit! Not you, Handsome Haljan! I was calling Snap." He was down to her.
And I will tell you this: you hate me no more than I hate you. If it were not for your knowledge of ores " "Is this to be a personal wrangle?" Rankin interrupted. "I thought we were here to plan " "It is planned," Miko said shortly. "I give orders, I do not plan. I am waiting now for the moment " He checked himself. Moa said, "Does Rankin understand that no harm is to come to Gregg Haljan?"
Anita put in, smiling, "He knows by now that we have unmasked his lure. Haljan and I, joining you that silenced him. His light went out very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a side gaze. Were we acting convincingly? But if Miko started up his signals again, they might so quickly betray us! Anita's thoughts were upon that, for she added: "Grantline will not dare show his light!
Moa watched me and Snap, a grim, cold Amazon. She avoided looking at Anita, whom Miko helped down the ladders with a strange mixture of courtierlike grace and amused irony. Coniston stared at Anita. "I say, not George Prince? The girl " "No time for explanations," Miko commanded. "It's the girl, masquerading as her brother. Get below, Coniston. Haljan takes us down."
My heart was pounding. Captain Carter went on: "I know I can trust you two more than anyone under me on the Planetara." "What do you mean by that?" I demanded. "What " He interrupted me. "Just what I said." Halsey smiled grimly. "What he means, Haljan, is that things are not always what they seem these days. One cannot always tell a friend from an enemy. The Planetara is a public vessel.
The light through a dome window fell full on him. "If you fire, Haljan, and kill me Miko will kill you then, surely." From where he had been crouching he could not command my window. But now, upon the heels of his placating words, he abruptly shot. The low-powered ray, had it struck, would have felled me without killing me. But it went over my head as I dropped. Its aura made my senses reel.
Behind us, where the deck narrowed at the superstructure, half a dozen passengers were gazing in surprise. "I'll have you thrown out of the service, Gregg Haljan!" I shut him up finally. And flung him down the ladder into the cage and sealed the deck trap door upon him. I was headed back for the chart room when from the observatory came the lookout's voice: "An asteroid, Haljan!
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