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He sent up a signal you saw it, didn't you? just before Miss Prince and I came aboard. He was trying to pretend he was your Earth party, Miko and Coniston." "Why?" The fellow turned his scowl on me, but Anita brought his gaze back to her. She put in quickly: "Grantline, as brother always said, has no great cunning. I believe now he plans to creep up on us unawares, by pretending that he is Miko."
Miko could reach us so easily as we bounded away in plain view in the Earthlight of the open summit! We were caught, at bay in this little bowl. The camp was not visible from here. But out through the broken gully, a white beam of light suddenly came up from below. Haljan. It spelled the signal. It was coming from the Grantline instrument room, I knew.
There was a note of real concern in his voice. He added, "That is done nothing can change it. George Prince is helpful to me. Your friend Dean, is another. I had trouble with him, but he is docile now." I said abruptly, "I don't know whether your promise means anything or not, Miko. But Prince said you would use no more torture." "I won't. Not if you and Dean obey me."
And then I looked further down and saw Miko! Unquestionably he, for there was no mistaking his giant figure. He was down on the camp ledge, running toward the foot of the stairs. I thought of my revolver. I turned to try and find it. I was aware that the first of my assailants was at the stairhead. I swung back to see what this oncoming brigand was doing.
Had George Prince been in his own room when the attack came? I thought now I recalled hearing the low murmur of his voice in there with Dr. Frank. Where was Miko? It stabbed at me. I had not seen him among the passengers in the lounge. Carter came into the chart room. "Gregg, you get to bed. You look like a ghost." "But " "She's not dead. She may live. Dr. Frank and her brother are with her.
I could answer it with my helmet light, but I did not dare. "Try it," urged Anita. We crouched where we thought we might be safe from Miko's fire. My little light beam shot up from the bowl. It was undoubtedly visible to the camp. Yes, I am Haljan. Send us help. I did not mention Anita. Miko doubtless could read these signals. They answered, Cannot I lost the rest of it.
The brigand, Miko? More than ever, Grantline was determined to get out. He shouted to his men to don some of the other suits, and called for some of the hand projectors. But he could not get out through these main admission ports. He could have forced the panels open perhaps; but with the pressure changing mechanism broken, it would merely let the air out of the corridor.
"The maidens," said the chief, "told the Miko that the son of the great father who owns the two Canadas, had escaped from the chief of the Salt Lake, and sought shelter in his wigwam. My eyes have seen, and my soul believes what is true. But my brother has travelled very little of the path leading to his people." "I will tell you why," said the young man.
He was on the summit: with a sailing leap he launched for me. I could have bounded away, but with a last look to locate the revolver, I braced myself for the shock. The figure hit me. It was small and light in my clutching arms. I recall I saw that Miko was halfway up the stairs. I gripped my assailant. The audiphone contact brought a voice. "Gregg, is it you?" It was Anita! "Gregg, you're safe!"
"Oh, I'll release him," Miko declared. "What harm? That braying ass did us plenty of harm. He has lost the passwords. Better he had left them in the radio room." Moa was in the room. Her voice said, "We've got to have them. The Planetara, upon such an important voyage as this, might be watched." "No doubt it is," Rankin said quietly. "We ought to have the passwords.
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