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Updated: May 21, 2025
During two nights they made infinitely cautious reconnaissance. The second night it was necessary to kill two men who sighted the tiny exploring party. But the killing was done with silenced automatics, and there was no alarm. The third night they lay still, fearing an ambush. The fourth night Jacaro struck. He and his men fled back to their Tube with plunder and precious gems.
He jabbed his finger at one headline. "And here and here!" He thrust at others. "Here's proof." The first headline read: "KING JACARO FORFEITS BOND." Smaller headings beneath it read: "Racketeer Missing for Income Tax Trial. $200,000 Bail Forfeited." The second headline was in smaller type: "Monster Lizard Killed! Giant Meat Eater Brought Down by Rifleman.
Jacaro burst into a flood of profanity. "I'd rather Evelyn died from gas," said Tommy, "than as your filthy Ragged Men would kill her. And you know I mean it." He switched to the language of the cities to go on coldly: "If one woman is harmed, Rahn dies. We will shoot down every ship that rises from her stages. We will spray burning thermit through her streets.
Jacaro isn't in today. He didn't come to work. On the way downtown his pants caught on fire " Fitzgerald guessed that the voice at the other end of the line said "What?" in, an explosive manner. Brink said matter-of-factly: "I said his pants caught on fire. It was probably something he was bringing here to burn the plant down with a fire bomb. I don't think he's to blame that it went off early.
"We have to think of Earth. Not everybody in the Council approved of us. Aten told me one chap argued that we ought to be shoved out into the jungle again as compatriots of Jacaro. And the machines were especially short-handed to-day because of a diversion of labor to get ready something monstrous and really deadly to send down the Tube to Earth. We've got to find out what that is, and stop it."
And then Tommy encircled the previously drawn figures of the gangsters with New York, just as the Ragged Men had been linked with the other city. And a second circle linked gangsters and Ragged Men together. "I'm saying," observed Tommy, "that Jacaro and his mob are the Ragged Men of our world, which may not be wrong, at that." There was no question but that the pilot took his meaning.
A strong escort brought Evelyn. Aten was grinning proudly, as though he had in person defeated the enemy. And as Evelyn shakingly put out her hand to touch Tommy's arm it was only later that he realized he had been wounded in half a dozen minor ways a shadow roared over their heads. The crackle of firearms came from it. "Jacaro!" snarled Tommy. He leaped instinctively to pursue.
If the Golden City's had trouble with Jacaro, it's going to make things bad for us." He swept his eyes about and frowningly loaded a light rifle. He put it convenient to Evelyn's hand and made for the dwelling-house and the telephone. It was odd that as he emerged into the open air, the familiar smells of Earth struck his nostrils as strange and unaccustomed.
He outlined the first experiment with the Fifth-Dimension catapult and the result of it when the Golden City had sent the Death Mist to wipe out a band of Ragged Men who had captured a citizen, and after him Evelyn and her father. This they remembered. Nods went around the table. Tommy told them of Jacaro, stressing the fact that Jacaro was an outlaw, a criminal upon Earth.
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