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Updated: June 8, 2025
I wouldn't want to deprive you of your livelihood." Suddenly the door to the bedroom opened and young Billy burst into the room, clad only in his pajamas. "Don't sign, Pa!" he screamed. "Wait and tell Captain Strong first!" "Strong!" exclaimed Vidac. "Has he been here?" Logan nodded his head, and taking Vidac's pen, started to sign the paper. "No no, don't, Pa!" cried Billy. "Don't !"
Astro braked the small vehicle and it screamed to a stop. The three cadets hastily piled out and raced for the darkness of the surrounding hills. No sooner had they disappeared than Vidac's jet car slammed to a stop beside the deserted jet car. In a flash Vidac was out of the seat and examining the vehicle. He turned to Winters, holding a small disk in his hand.
The deputy pushed his way through the crowd and raced for his car. Others followed and once more the Plaza echoed to the roar of jets. Strong turned to Jeff. "You'll find Winters up in Vidac's quarters. I had to freeze him." He handed over the paralo-ray gun. "Get him and follow us to the spaceport. Tell him we know everything, and if he doesn't talk, he'll get life on a prison rock."
"Right," said Astro. "Meantime," said Tom, "Jeff and I will get you a set of earphones, if we have to tear them off the head of the radarman!" Meanwhile, in Vidac's quarters, the second-in-command was facing the irascible Professor Sykes. "Say that again, Professor," said Vidac. Sykes was standing before him holding a slip of paper in his hand.
"But one thing more, Sykes. If there are any more petty disagreements, please settle them with Vidac. Don't come up here again, unless I order you to!" "You order me," gasped Sykes. "That's all, Sykes!" said Hardy coldly, picking up some papers in an obvious gesture of dismissal. His fury redoubled, the professor backed out of the room and hurried below to Vidac's quarters.
"You think the journal is still in the lab?" asked Tom. "Sure it is. I saw it before I left." "Then we've got Vidac right where we want him!" exclaimed Roger. "No, we haven't," said Tom. "We haven't got the professor to prove it! Vidac's still the boss on this hunk of space rock, and we're still wanted for murder!" The door burst open and Billy raced into the room.
The young cadet welcomed the chance to observe the man in action, and time after time he found contradictions in the character of the lieutenant governor. Vidac's attitude and behavior in his drive to build the colony were completely different from his actions on the long space flight. He was a man of firmness and immediate decision.
In fact, Tom thought, it was only because Vidac's background was so superior to most of the applicants that he had aroused suspicion at all. Now, with Captain Strong recalled to the Academy, it was only natural for the governor to get the best man for the job. Tom was ready to admit that Vidac's background certainly spoke for itself. He looked at the man and grinned. "I'll tell you honestly, sir.
Vidac's jet car was in the middle of the group of men and Strong saw him jump up on top of the car and begin addressing them. He couldn't hear the lieutenant governor's words, but he knew the men were being urged to hunt the cadets down like common criminals. He watched until Vidac rocketed off in his jet car, followed by a stream of colonists in various types of vehicles.
"I've been thinking, sir," said Jeff. "Do you think we really have enough proof of Vidac's guilt to make the colonists understand it was Vidac and not the cadets who could have done something to the professor?" "We've got to try!" said Strong. "We've got to try!"
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