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The roboguards were in the act of directing the locking of the truck; the loading had been carried out precisely on schedule. The truck was shut and sealed. The roboguards froze. Webber had been right on time. Alan tensed, caught up in the excitement of the moment and thinking now only of the part he was to play. The three policemen glanced at each other in some confusion.
Is she hurt?" asked the chief anxiously. "I don't know. She has vanished." Jane Strong vanished! The chief's figure became suddenly tensed. That it was more than a mere automobile accident he felt certain now. Shadowing the Hoffs was an occupation that seemed unusually perilous. There flashed into his mind the fate of K-19 murdered almost at the Hoffs' door.
Picking up her rifle, and strapping on her revolver, Grace stepped over to Hippy and peered down into his face. He was sound asleep and snoring. "It were a pity to wake him," she muttered, moving quietly away and sitting down within a dozen feet of the sleeping man to guard the camp for the rest of the night. Grace suddenly tensed with every faculty on the alert.
Whatever and whoever the Invaders were, he said, they did not like Bulgarians. If they'd knocked out the raiding party simply to test their weapons against human subjects, at least they had chosen suitable and pleasing subjects for the test. There was light. For an instant Coburn tensed. But the plane climbed and the brightness steadied.
The great mingled rage and anxiety that had seized him demanded instant action, but he fought it down; and when he turned toward the house and began to walk toward the kitchen door, his manner outwardly was that of a man who has seen nothing to arouse his suspicions. Yet despite the appearance of calm he was alert, and every muscle and sinew of his body was tensed for instant action.
Have a look round inside if you care to the robot machinery's interesting." Bart tensed; he had wondered how he'd get hidden inside, but he asked, "Not locked?" "Locked?" The old Lhari's short, yellowed crest bobbed in surprise. "Why? Who ever comes here but our ships? And what could we do with the stuff but take it back with us? Why locked?
He wished he had the Terran animals now with Taggi and his mate to tease and feint about the monster, as they had done with the Throg hound for he would have a better chance. If only the animals were here! Those eyes red-pitted eyes in a gargoyle head following his every movement perhaps those were the only vulnerable points. Muscles tensed beneath that scaled hide.
One two three four five minutes passed. The light vanished and did not appear again. Five more age-long minutes elapsed in absolute silence, whilst I peered into the darkness of the night and listened, muscles tensed, for the return of Nayland Smith.
With lithe, catlike softness, the youth Crau had followed them up the hillside, padding noiselessly in the shadows of the pines and olives. Crouching behind a tree, he felt in his breast-pocket and drew out a small package which he quietly unwrapped from its foldings. Then he waited his moment with every muscle tensed for action. The night wind was chill.
For just now Dick Sherwood said when he telephoned, that an hour or two ago Jimmie Carlisle had hunted him up, had hinted that he was going to lose a lot of money unless he was properly advised, and offered to give him certain valuable information for five thousand cash." Barney turned upon his partner. "You damned thief!" he snarled, tensed as if about to spring upon the other.
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