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Updated: September 19, 2025
"Why couldn't you have kept that swinging jaw of yours closed last night? Now listen and listen good. This is a slim try, but it's one we have to take." "We?" Vye was startled into asking. "Yes, we! By rights I ought to leave you right here to do the rest of your big, brave speechmaking for Wass' benefit. If I didn't need you, that's just what I would do!
Yeobright would open the window-shutters and see the sight outside. Eustacia, who had been sitting listlessly in the parlour, started up at the intelligence and flung open the shutters. Facing her on the bank blazed the fire, which at once sent a ruddy glare into the room where she was, and overpowered the candles. "Well done, Charley!" said Captain Vye from the chimney-corner.
The crack of the sliding panel door opened and Vye crouched, his hand cupping the only possible weapon, the ration container. Hume edged through, shut the door behind him. He stood there, his head turned so his ear rested against the wall; obviously he was listening. "You brain-smoothed idiot!" The Hunter's voice was a thread of whisper.
Only his odd, unexplainable desire to at least see Hume kept him from making the request they would have to honor. "You had better reconsider." Authority resumed. "Rights of person " Vye almost grinned as he recited that. For the first time in his pushed-around life he could use that particular phrase and make it stick.
Hume's sense of being a gambler facing a run of good luck grew as he shepherded the boy into the flitter, punched a cover destination and took off. On another street he transferred himself and his charge into a second air-car, set the destination to within a block of the address Wass had given him. Not much later he walked Vye into a small lobby with a discreet list of names posted in its rack.
Although we live only two miles apart I have never been inside her aunt's house in my life." The superciliousness that lurked in her manner told Venn that thus far he had utterly failed. He inwardly sighed and felt it necessary to unmask his second argument. "Well, leaving that out of the question, 'tis in your power, I assure you, Miss Vye, to do a great deal of good to another woman."
And from above, in spite of the turgid quality of the liquid, they could see what did rest on the bottom of that oval. The wall with its sharp corner which Vye had noted from shore level was only part of a water covered erection. It made a design when seen from overhead, a six-pointed star surrounding an oval and in the midst of that oval a black blot which they could not identify.
As Vye went down he saw Wass dart forward at a speed he wouldn't have believed a driven man could summon. The Veep lunged, escaping the shot the Hunter had no time to aim, rolled, and came up with the needler Vye had dropped. Then Hume, hampered by Peake's feeble clawing, met head on the swinging barrel of that weapon.
It was only moments before the shock gear did touch surface. Then the engine was silent. "This is it," Hume observed. "What do we do now?" Vye wanted to know. "Wait " "Wait! For what?" Hume consulted his planet-time watch in the light of the cabin. "We have about an hour until dawn if dawn arrives here at the same time it does in the plains. I don't propose to go out blindly in the dark."
A crown of lights circled over the camp site, as if those below were in a state of siege. Hume aimed straight for them and this time the bobbing circle split wide open, broke to left and right. Vye looked below. Though the grayness of the morning was still hardly more than dusk he could not miss those humps spaced at intervals on the land, just beyond the unseen line of the force barrier.
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