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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Look at that white uniform he's wearing! This yellow rat is Lactu, the head of the whole Nationalist movement!" Tom gaped at the white-clad figure at the head of the stairs. "The leader!" he gasped. "Quite right, Corbett," replied Sinclair quietly. "And if it hadn't been for three nosy cadets, I would have been the leader of the whole planet. But it's finished now.
"It means," said Lactu, "that you will take an oath to fight until death if necessary to free the planet Venus and the Venusian citizens from the slavery of the Solar Alliance and " "Awright, buster!" roared Astro. "I've had enough of that rocket wash!
And when we found out what Lactu and the Division Chiefs were really up to, we tried to quit. As you see, we couldn't. We knew too much." "Blasted rebels!" muttered Connel. "The Solar Guard will cool them off!" "I'm afraid it's too late," said Carson. "They're preparing to strike now. I've been expecting it for some time.
Then the patrol leader straightened up and began to speak rapidly in the Venusian dialect. Translating easily, Astro heard him report his capture. When he concluded, the man in white looked at Astro closely and spoke three words. Astro shook his head. "He does not speak our mother tongue, Lactu," volunteered the patrol leader. The man in white nodded.
Quickly he re-entered the shop, and limping to a small locker in the rear, opened it, exposing the screen of a teleceiver. He flipped on the switch, tuned it carefully, and in a moment the screen glowed to life. "Hello, this is the shop," called the little man. "Lemme speak to Lactu! This is urgent!"
Immediately Lactu's eyes became hard steely points. "That was your last chance!" he said. "Take him out and kill him!" The door suddenly burst open and a green-clad trooper raced across the bare floor, bowing hastily before Lactu. "Forgive this interruption, Lactu," he said breathlessly. "There are men in the jungle headed for the canyon rim. Three of them!" Lactu turned to Astro.
"Lactu ... he took them both in there ... through a secret passageway." Sharkey pointed to the closet with a trembling finger. Strong jumped for the closet door and jerked it open. He saw the open wall and the stairs leading down. "Come on! This way!" Connel ran wildly into the closet, followed by Astro.
"And as for you, if you try anything like that again, I'll " "You won't do a thing," said Astro casually. "I'm the best man you've got and you know it. Lactu knows it too. So don't threaten me and keep these green space jerks away from me! I'll fix your machines, because I want to, not because you can make me!" The foreman eyed the big cadet curiously. "Because you want to?
"Lactu and his commanders should be sent to a prison asteroid for life," said Carson, "for what they have done to former Nationalists." "Hundreds of unsuspecting Venusians have been brought here under the guise of helping to free Venus. But when they come and recognize what Lactu really intends to do, they want to quit. But it's too late, and they're sent to the caves."
I took an oath of allegiance to the Solar Guard and the Solar Alliance, to uphold the cause of peace throughout the universe and defend the liberties of the planets. Your idea is to destroy peace and make slaves out of the people of Venus like these dummies you've got here!" Astro gestured contemptuously at the men standing on both sides of Lactu.
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