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 struck him, nor saw it streak to the second watch-platform, bowling its
guard out and to the ground likewise, and then repeating at the third
and last! A crash; a pause; a crash; a pause; then a third crash, and
the thing of metal had completed the circuit, and all three
watch-platforms were scooted empty! Then came confusion. There had been
screams, but now a crazed voice began crying out mechanically, over and
over: "Space-suit! Space-suit! Space-suit! Space-suit!" It came from the
second guard, who lay twisting on the ground. His tongue, by some trick
of nervous disorganization, beat out those words like a voice-disk whose
needle keeps skipping its groove--and the effect was macabre. * * * * *
The central buildings disgorged a crowd of men. Shorty, wiry, thin-faced
Venusians, each with skewer-blade strapped to his side and some with
ray-guns out, they came scrambling into the open, swearing and
wondering. The second guard's insane repetitions directed most of them
in his direction; and they piled in a crowd around him. They had no
attention for what was happening behind, within the buildings they had
emptied. That was what Hawk Carse had planned. A voice of authority
roared up over the general hubbub. "Rantol! Guard! Rantol, you fool!
What happened? What attacked you? Cut that crazy yelling! Answer
me!--you, Rantol!" "Space-suit! Space-suit! Space-suit! Space--" "Lar
Tantril!" A man with suspicious eyes caught the attention of the one who
had spoken first. "Space-suit, he says! A flying space-suit! Only Ku Sui
has space-suits that fly; or only Ku Sui _had_ them, rather. You know
what that must mean!" He paused, peering at his lord. The coarse yellowy
skin of Tantril's brow wrinkled with the thought, then his tusk-like
Venusian teeth showed as his lips drew apart in speech. "Yes!" Lar
Tantril said. "It's _Carse_!" And he ordered the now silent men around
him: "Circle my house, all of you, your

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