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Vas Kor's eyes narrowed. "And you wish " He paused, the interrogation unfinished, yet complete. Astok nodded. "YOU do not love her," he said. "But I love my life though I am only a lesser noble," he concluded meaningly. "You shall be a greater noble a noble of the first rank!" exclaimed Astok. "I would be a jed," said Vas Kor bluntly. Astok hesitated.
The fellow brushed past Astok with an: "After him, you calot!" Vas Kor wheeled to meet the charging man. "What means this treason?" he cried. Astok, with bared sword, leaped to Vas Kor's assistance. The panthan's sword clashed against that of the noble, and in the first encounter Vas Kor knew that he faced a master swordsman.
But the face of the first man to cross the rail undeceived him with a shock that was not at all unpleasurable it was the face of Astok, Prince of Dusar. Scarce noticing the others upon the deck of the Kalksus, Astok strode forward to accept Vas Kor's greeting, then he summoned the noble below.
Vas Kor's destination lay in Greater Helium, which lies some seventy-five miles across the level plain from Lesser Helium. He had landed at the latter city because the air patrol is less suspicious and alert than that above the larger metropolis where lies the palace of the jeddak.
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