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Updated: May 14, 2025
"If your secret service detail was right, and Leider is on Orcon, we've got to stop talking and get going. Tell me more about your expedition." "Do you know," she said presently, "I rather thought you would make quite a leader and fighter if you could ever be aroused. As for the expedition, we have only this one ship. It's that kind of a job." "Oh, suicide party, eh?"
As soon as the conference was ended, therefore, we disposed of our six dead by the simple process of disintegrating them with one of the atomic guns, and then LeConte returned to the radio, and Koto, Captain Crane and I went on deck to have our first look at Orcon by daylight. The first thing we saw was the small, rocky islet just off the shore whence had come the cable.
He kept the great table of the box between ourselves and him, and his wary hands were always closer to a certain row of control buttons than ours were to his. It was he who broke at last the silence which had fallen as we watched New York from Orcon, and his voice was loud in the hushed laboratory from which the noises of his subterranean power houses were shut out.
He had found ready allies here, on the crazy, distant planet which had been too remote to tempt explorers from Earth until necessity had forced our voyage. The people of Orcon knew science and machinery, and were advanced in every respect. From communication which they had had with other peoples in their own zone of the Universe, they had even heard of Earth and its allied planets.
And that, while he was free, there could be no real safety anywhere, either for Earth, which he hated, or any of its allied planets. Leider, here! No wonder I had been observing queer goings on in Orcon! Somehow I forgot to be angry with poor dead Forbes. Almost I forgot to disapprove of the woman. "See here!" I broke out.
"I almost had Earth when my whole set went to pieces. Come, quickly!" "We will, if we're able," I muttered to myself, and said aloud as I ran in the gigantic bounds possible on Orcon: "Koto, Captain, do you feel anything queer in the air as if as if " I never finished. Suddenly Captain Crane screamed and flung out her arms to me with the gesture of one about to fall. "Doctor Weeks!" she gasped.
Orcon was not destroyed, but we knew even then that such of its inhabitants as might remain alive would not soon again dream of making an attack upon Earth.
So great was Leider's power that, after disabling us, he had even been able to direct our course so that we had crashed on the beach close to the headquarters he had set up for himself deep in the wilderness, away from the cities of Orcon. The Orconite's free mention of Leider's name and his open admission that the man was king and god in Orcon, made direct inquiry about him easy.
I now asked a series of indirect questions which led me to believe that neither Hargrib nor his master knew of the thing I had been conscious of from the start that we had aboard the ship an amount of high explosive sufficient to do ghastly damage not only to this section of the coast but to the whole planet of Orcon.
And just because I knew that Admiral Forbes had seized me by force, I knew almost to a certainty that I was shipwrecked on that very Orcon which I had discovered two years before. I was enraged at this high-handed treatment. For if danger was indeed threatening Earth from Orcon, my place of all places was at my telescopes.
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