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Ropes were reeved through pulleys in the ceiling, for raising the wire-ball device to permit entrance. And standing ready around it, were four men in surgeons' smocks white men with intelligent faces and dull, lifeless eyes. The Hawk knew the answer to the question he curtly asked. "Its purpose, Dr. Ku?" "That," came the suave reply, "it will be your pleasure to discover for yourself.
The wire-ball device was gone, but otherwise the details of the room were unchanged, even to the four white-clad assistants whose fine heads had eyes so lifeless and faces so expressionless. Emphasized, now, somehow, was the tall screen that hid something on one side of the room, and an intuition told the Hawk that what lay behind the screen was in some way connected with their fate.
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