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A man may argue, or take chances, when menaced by a needle-ray, but mere bravery does not count with the neuros. All men's nervous systems are similar, and when nerves are stricken, courage is of no avail. Plot and Counter-Plot
He felt sure that it would not be fatal, considering the distance and the physical vigor of the men he meant to hold. He pressed the trigger. "Get down quick!" he snapped. "I'll let up for a second; you grab their neuros." Tuman executed the order with dispatch. Stepping back, he trained the pistols on their late owners, while Sime and Tolto, a little dazed, stumbled to their feet.
The stout car crushed through the glittering doors of metal and glass, and before the fragments fell the four men were in the thick of short, sharp and decisive battle. Their neuros hissed venomously, spanged as they met opposing beams. And the princess, struggling through the wreckage, wept tears of rage as the coarse fabric of her clothing caught, entangled hopelessly, and held her.
But in a few seconds he came out of his mental maze. "Attention! All right, men, you're under arrest. As for the girl " "As for the girl," came a clear feminine voice, as Sira stepped out from the shelter of a buttress some dozen feet away, " the girl took advantage of your preoccupation to relieve you of your neuros. As you see I have two of them in my hand.
If they wondered at the appearance of these ragged, scarred and bewhiskered men; at sweat and blood-covered giant Tolto; the obviously high-bred girl in the laboring man's garments, they wisely refrained from comment or action, in deference to the neuros with which the party was bristling. Once inside and safely in the air, they had time to breathe.
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