Tongues of the Moon Page 17

  Another man came up. He joined the first two, and they entered the lock. Broward, looking past them through the transparent ports, saw that the scout was still busy burning off the beam apparatus.

  Scone, of course, would know what he was doing. Doubtless he was furious. But he would also know that his last chance for attack was gone. He could do nothing but take off for the stars.

  There were three other groups, the last of which contained four because of an extra person, a woman. Broward watched this head towards the Zemlya. By then, Scone had disappeared inside the great ship.

  A few minutes after the final group had entered and the port was closed, the Zemlya lifted. None of the men working on the ship had come out. Either Scone had forced them to go along with him or else they had volunteered. The latter, probably, since Scone would have trusted none but loyal followers with the Zemlya.

  Ingrid broke down and wept for a long time. When she had recovered herself, she said, "I thought it was all up, that I'd never see you again. Dahlquist and some of his friends came to arrest Scone. He was in a conference with his deputies. These surrendered, but not Scone. He shot two of the men with Dahlquist and led his deputies to an

  arsenal. He knew he was too outnumbered to fight the whole colony, so he decided to escape on the Zemlya, find a new world in the stars. But he took me out of my cell, said he was going to deepfreeze me, thaw me out when he found a planet. But he wouldn't have gotten me. I would have killed myself first chance..."

  Broward patted her back and said, "I know, sweetheart. Try to forget what's happened, think of it as a nightmare. Now, we're awake and in a world that needs to be gardened and needs love as never before."

  But he was looking through the port Outside, in the garish sunlight, the Zemlya was only a spark. He thought, a spark burns inside that spark. Scone. A spark to set the stars afire. God help the people of the world he might some day find.

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