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Updated: June 29, 2025
You came at me with your knife, and I shot you with my stun-pistol. It's all over. Right?" Thal gaped at him. Then he beamed. He expanded. He gloated. He frisked. He practically wagged a nonexistent tail in his exuberance. He'd been shown an out when he could see none. "Send in the others one by one," said Hoddan. "I'll take care of them. But Thal why did the Lady Fani want me killed?"
The stun-pistol hummed, though its noise was inaudible through the yells of the charging partisans of the Lord Ghek. Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "Get back up on your horse or I blast you and leave you for Ghek's men to handle when they're able to move about again! Get back on that horse! One two " The man got back on the horse. "Now go on ahead," rasped Hoddan.
The dim outline of trees appeared overhead. "Perfect place for an ambush," Hoddan reflected dourly. He got out a stun-pistol. He set the stud for continuous fire something he hadn't dared trust to the others. His horse breasted the rise. There was a yell ahead and dim figures plunged toward him.
Then he heard yelling behind him. The cops had piled out of the truck and were in pursuit on foot. The tall, rough-stone wall of the Embassy was visible, now, beyond the monument to the First Settlers of Walden. He leaped to the ground and ran. Stun-pistol bolts, a little beyond their effective range, stung like fire. They spurred him on. The gate of the Embassy was closed.
He snapped the butt shut and opened another, which he placed in contact for charging. "Making him act," he said acidly, "with manners as bad as the local ones. Going at him with knives so he has to be resentful in his turn." The second stun-pistol clicked. He closed it and began to charge a third.
He moved confidently toward an especially understandable panel, pulling out his stun-pistol and briskly breaking back the butt for charging. He shoved the pistol butt to contact with two terminals devised for another purpose, and the pistol slipped for an instant and a blue spark flared. "Quit that!" roared the red-headed man. The unshaven men pushed back from their game of cards.
You could have used any other weapon, but of all things why did you have to use a stun-pistol?" "Because I had one," said Hoddan briefly. "Horrible!" said Don Loris peevishly. "The worst thing you could possibly have done! I have to disown you. Unmistakably! You'll have to disappear at once. We'll blame it on Ghek's retainers." Hoddan said: "Disappear? Me?" "Vanish," said Don Loris.
Hoddan painstakingly opened fire; with the continuous-fire stud of this pistol his third tonight pressed down. The merrymakers in the courtyard wavered and went down in windrows. Thal opened fire with a stun-pistol. The others bellowed and began to fling bolts at every living thing they saw. "To the Lady Fani!" rasped Hoddan, getting off his horse with as many creakings as the castle gate.
Derec might even have nerved himself up to something quite desperate. "What did you really come here for, Derec?" "To beg you to " Then, in one instant, Derec made an hysterical gesture and Hoddan's stun-pistol hummed. A small object left Derec's hand as his muscles convulsed from the stun-pistol bolt. It did not fly quite true. It fell a foot or so to one side of the boatport instead of inside.
"They ride for Ghek's castle!" Hoddan said angrily: "Put out that light! Do you want to advertise how few we are and what we're doing? Here, ride close!" Thal flung down the torch and horses trod it underfoot as the knot of men rode on. Thal boomed: "The pickings should be good, eh? Why do you want me?" "You've got to learn something," snapped Hoddan. "Here! This is a stun-pistol.
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