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"These watchers you don't know them?" "No. Nor do I like what you've seen of them, Brodie. So I'm willing to call a truce. The Guild believed Jumala an open planet, our records accredited it so. If that is not true we may be in for bad trouble. As an Out-Hunter I am responsible for the safety of three civs back there in the safari camp." Hume made sense, much as Rynch disliked admitting it.
Wass might have had a hand in the selection of the three clients, but they would certainly be far from briefed on the truth of any discovery made on Jumala they had to be for the safety of the whole enterprise. The fourth man, serving as his gearman for this trip, was Wass' own insurance against any wrong move on Hume's part.
That night there was a public audience in a broken-down little town thirty miles from Jumala, when the new Deputy Commissioner, in reply to the greetings of the subordinate native officials, delivered a speech.
Quick meat for me. The thing was under our hills asking the road to Jumala and Alla Dad Khan showed him the road to Jehannum, being, as thou sayest, but a fool. Remains now what the Government will do to us. As to the blockade 'Who art thou, seller of dog's flesh, thundered Tallantire, 'to speak of terms and treaties?
Rynch edged forward, watching the mist on the water, his brain striving to solve this other puzzle as neatly as he thought he had discovered the reason for his scrambled memories and his being on Jumala. The mist was an added danger. Thick enough and those watchers could move in under its curtain. A needler was efficient, yes, but it could wipe out only an enemy at which it was aimed.
Wass was silent for a moment, as if to leave time for the thought to root itself, then he spoke again. "A youth with the proper physical qualifications. Have you any such in mind?" "I think so." Hume was short. "He will need certain memories; those take time to tape." "Those dealing with Jumala, I can supply." "Yes. You will have to provide a tape beginning with his arrival on that world.
Hume shook his head slowly. "I found something else on Jumala an L-B from Largo Drift intact and in good shape. From the evidence now in existence it could have landed there with survivors aboard." "And the evidence of such survivors living on that exists also?" Hume shrugged, his plasta-flesh fingers flexed slightly. "It has been six planet years, there is a forest where the L-B rests.
So I reported to one of the Masters and told him the whole story why I hadn't taped on the records my discovery on Jumala. "When he passed along the news of the L-B to the Patrol, he also suggested that there might be room for fraud along the way I had thought it out. That started a chain reaction. It happened that the Patrol wanted Wass.
Had the telegrams been despatched many things would have occurred; but since the only signaller in Jumala had gone to bed, and the station-master, after one look at the tremendous pile of paper, discovered that railway regulations forbade the forwarding of imperial messages, policemen Ram Singh and Nihal Singh were fain to turn the stuff into a pillow and slept on it very comfortably.
In her incantation formulæ, the word "Jumala" often occurred, the name of the Bjarmers' old god, whose memory, in the far north, is not so completely eradicated as one would think, and who to this day has perhaps some sacrificial stone or other on the wide mountain wastes of Finland.
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