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I told you that before, but you would not listen." Tarrano, with sudden decision, swung toward Elza. "This is the Elta Tara. She was concerned that I should allow you to dwell here alone with this Jac Hallen, and this traitor from Mars." His tone conveyed infinite contempt for us. The woman said quickly: "The Lady Elza would be glad of my companionship." She shot a swift glance to Elza.
Embarrassing, this merciful policy to which you have committed me! Yet your will is my law as you know though I feel that some day it will involve us in disaster.... You, Tara, will not be punished, much as you deserve it." He paused, then said as an afterthought: "You, Jac Hallen, I thank you for what you tried to do in thwarting the attack.
"I know my tale sounds crazy," he said, "but ... I had a telephone call just now. Hallen will bear me out that my secretary was impersonated by somebody else this afternoon." "I've told them that," said Hallen unhappily. "And something was impersonating Dillon up in the hills," finished Coburn.
They increased in number but not in size, and the plane swung hugely to the left, and the lights on the ground formed a visible pattern. And moonlight broken by the shadows of clouds displayed the city and the Bay of Naples below. The transport plane landed. The passengers descended. Coburn saw Hallen, the American colonel, the Greek general, and a Greek colonel.
"I've reason to believe that at this address" and he handed the address he'd written down to Hallen "a ... creature will be found who will look most convincingly like Miss Ames, here. You might send and see." The American colonel snorted: "This whole tale's preposterous! It's an attempt to cash in on the actual mystery of what happened up-country." The Greek general protested gently.
Hallen's expression was uneasy and compassionate but utterly unbelieving. Helena shivered and turned away her face. Coburn's lips went taut. He reached down to his desk. He made a sudden, abrupt gesture. Hallen caught his breath and started up. Coburn said curtly: "Another one of them. Helena, is that foam-suit comfortable?" The girl jerked her face around. She looked frightened.
I did not like his tone. "None of your " "Quiet, Jac," Georg warned. "Jac Hallen," I amended. "Yes. Division 8, Manhattan," he read from my cap. "Well, when the first Director calls from the Pole perhaps you will tell him we are Inter-Allied Officials. He will see us here I do not believe, the way we are sitting, that he will think anything is wrong. He will see us of Venus.
Their cloaks and white veils fell from them as they came my way laughing as they ran for the doorway leading outside to the pool. I was in their way and they bumped into me; one of them gripped me. I tried to jerk loose, but she clung. A slim girl, enveloped in her long, white tresses. Her eyes laughed at me; her red mouth went up alluringly to my face. "I love you you, Jac Hallen."
There were two Greek colonels and a major. They regarded him soberly. "Howdo, Coburn," said Hallen painfully. "You're heading for Athens, you know. This is Miss Ames? But these gentlemen have ... ah ... a special concern with that business up-country. They'd like to hear your story before you leave." "I suppose," said Coburn curtly, "it's a sort of preliminary commission in lunacy."
If I screamed that you attack me " the smile widened "Helena's good Greek friends would come to my assistance." She walked confidently to the door and opened it. Then she said warmly: "You are very intelligent, Mr. Coburn. We approve of you very much. But nobody will believe you." The office door closed. Coburn turned stiffly to the man he'd called to hear him. "Should I have shot her, Hallen?"
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