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Updated: June 9, 2025
Master Leithgow and I wish to have a talk with you." "I am always agreeable, my friend." "Yes," said the Hawk, "you'll be surprisingly agreeable. And truthful and helpful, too. Now outside, please, and do not attempt to delay me in any way. I am in a great hurry, and consequently will not be patient at any tricks." He turned to the Negro. "Friday. I'm leaving you here on guard.
The largest of the Sandra's cabins was transformed under the direction of Leithgow into a hospital bay, and the five cots bearing the prostrate, unconscious bodies of the patients put there. Though hastily improvised, this hospital was complete, as fully equipped and nearly as efficient as if it were on Earth and not in the belly of a space-ship.
Still not speaking, he glided to the rear port-lock, Leithgow and Friday running alongside and attempting to dissuade him from the dangerous pursuit. Their words were wasted. Carse gave them only a faint smile and a few directions. "Keep the ship as close as you can without danger. No, Eclipse; I'm going by myself; there's no need to risk two.
Carse ordered Friday curtly to watch the panel, then returned to Leithgow. "Eliot," he said, "we've got to be quick." And with his words the delicate, overstrained filament in the tiny instrument bulb gave out, and the laboratory was plunged into ultimate blackness.... Out Under the Dome Within the well of darkness rang the metallic reverberations from the battering on the four doors all around.
In a matter of ten minutes, shipboard routine was arranged, Carse, Friday and Ban splitting the watches. The Hawk, as was his custom, took the first. Friday was relieved of the space-stick and immediately went back for sleep, as did Wilson. Eliot Leithgow did not retire right away, however.
"Yes ... yes...." Carse murmured presently out of his study, then turned and for the first time appeared to notice Friday and Ban. He gave orders. "Eclipse, you see the radio over there? Get Master Leithgow on it for me protected beam. Ban, you bind Dr. Ku Sui in that chair, please." Wilson was surprised. "Bind him? Isn't he going to run this thing?" "No." "You're going to, Carse?" "Yes.
A minute later its passengers were in the laboratory of the Master Scientist. Dr. Ku Sui took in the arrangements made in the laboratory with a swift glance, and then his eyes went to a door that opened in the opposite wall and to the slight, smock-garbed figure that came through it. He smiled. "Ah, Master Leithgow! A return visit, you see. At Captain Carse's invitation.
"I knew you'd come, Carse, if you could," he said simply. There was no time for visiting. "Where's Ku Sui?" the adventurer asked. "Gone," Leithgow answered. "I heard a door open and close which one I couldn't see. He went as soon as that bell began to ring. The assistants, too." Through the shouts and batterings at the barricaded door came a new sound from another direction.
It clicked shut in his face, and there was no hold for his hands when he tried to force it back. Only a voice showed that someone was on the other side. In familiar, suave tones it said: "Carse, I still will take you and Leithgow alive. It would of course be idle to ask you to surrender, but that's not necessary, for you're trapped and can't possibly last another five minutes.
It is very interesting to me, this home of yours: so cleverly concealed!" Leithgow vouchsafed his archenemy no more than a look, but turned to the Hawk. "You are ready, Carse?" "Some preliminaries first, Eliot. These men, the four whites and the yellow, must be put in some place of safety. You can take care of them, Ban. One of the storerooms; lock them in. You remember your way?
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