Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 109: what you’re looking at

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“It’s no use. This is arranged. My father and | are to be killed. If we ... locked ourselves in our cabins and ... used the blasters on ourselves it would save other lives.” Brent said, still panting: “I’ve killed the overdrive engineer. Now I’ve manhandled this man and planted his communicator on someone else. When the skipper finds his engineer missing, it won't take him long to figure that somebody knows what’s up! When he finds that Rudi’s out of circulation and his communicator’s in another man’s pocket, hell know somebody understands the whole game! And will he dare leave any passenger alive, If one of them knows what he’s up to?” Kit had been pale enough. Now she went even paler. “| think,” she said with difficulty, “that you have doomed everyone.” “Maybe | have,” growled Brent. “Your murder has been effectively bungled, now. And | rather think that the government that ordered this won’t be too merciful to bunglers!” Kit’s father said unsteadily: “Your prisoner, here, just heard what you said. Was that wise?” Brent stared at the trussed-up Rudi. He seemed unconscious. But Brent leaned over him and lifted an eyelid. A pupil —an eye glared at him. But an unconscious man’s eyes roll back. A lifted lid shows only the white. Brent laughed. “It wasn’t wise for him. If | know rotten governments, when they send somebody out to do dirty work, they give them a psycho test afterward to make sure they didn’t learn anything they shouldn’t. So Rudi, now, is going to learn something he won't like. If we passengers are killed—which begins to look possible—and if Rudi lives to get back, hell be sorry, because when his psycho test shows that he’s found out why you two needed to be killed ...” Kit stared at him. Brent nodded at her. CORniclooo SS (SO)