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The case of coordinated brains was brought into the laboratory last. The inner liquid was now dark and apparently lifeless; to the casual eye, it would not have seemed possible that the five grayish mounds immersed in the liquid held life. And, indeed, Leithgow looked at them doubtfully. "Are you sure they're still alive? Do you think there's still time?" he asked Dr. Ku.
Sir Charles Esme Norman, to give him his English title. I wanted these men, and I got them! All except you, the sixth!" Again Dr. Ku Sui smiled in triumph. To Eliot Leithgow his smile was unspeakable. "Yes," the elderly scientist cried out, "you got them, you murderer!" "Oh, no, no, Master Leithgow, you are mistaken. I did not kill them. Why should I be stupid as to do that?
Ku Sui, but he had never thought he would be endangering Eliot Leithgow also. It was torture to know he had put the gentle old scientist into the Eurasian's web. That was it: if he could not somehow shear through that web, he must destroy Leithgow himself, and follow on after. The scientist would prefer it so. For whatever Dr.
He'd be very eager to pursue us in the asteroid simply for the opportunity of repaying me for that trick." The adventurer's left hand rose to the bangs of flaxen hair combing down over his forehead, and he murmured, musingly: "I rather hope it is Lar Tantril...." "You hope so?" Leithgow repeated, surprised. "When he hates you so? And would be on the lookout for tricks? Why?"
Eleven hours had passed since Leithgow and Friday had parted from the Hawk, and they had heard nothing from him. They knew he was going into high peril: Leithgow had in vain tried to dissuade him; and so it was with growing fear that they watched the hours pass by. With Ban Wilson, they sat near dawn in the comfortable living room of the ranch's central building.
"The best I could do on such short notice," Leithgow commented. "Where are your assistants?" "At work on the V-27. All I had on hand is in those cylinders." "Much?" "Enough for twelve hours for one man, but the process of its manufacture is accelerating; fortunately I had plenty of ingredients. Of course I've divined your intention, Carse. Ku Sui to perform the operations under the V-27.
Thousands interlaced the interior; hundreds were gathered in each of five close bunches that sprouted from the floor of the case and then spread, fanwise, to various groupings of delicate liquid-immersed instruments. In several seconds more Eliot Leithgow and Hawk Carse were staring with horror at what the now brilliantly glowing liquid revealed the five shapes to be.
"The first step," murmured Leithgow abstractedly, out of his concentration on dials and patient. "The muscles notice relaxed. The will the ego the nexi of emotions and volitions which oppose external direction all being worked upon, submerged, neutralized but not his knowledge, not his skill. No all that he will retain! You'll notice nothing more until you see his eyes. A few minutes.
Chance or Fate whatever it is whether predetermined or accidental men must wonder at its working, and know awe from its patterns and results. Seldom, certainly, was there a pattern more strange than this now being worked out in the laboratory of Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow.
He might have sniped the guards anyway, but he had it easier. From fifty yards away, prone and carefully sighting, he took the three lives that had been so viciously, so subversively altered by Ku Sui. A moment later, the way cleared, he was inside the ship and his space-suit lay on the ground outside. Rapidly the three groups of guards closed in on Leithgow and Friday.
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