You will go down in history as the
world's greatest man!"
Powart drew a deep breath. But he said quietly enough, "Don't you
think that I have done enough to--dispose of that objection of
yours?"
She was momentarily at a loss for words. "Really--the thing is so
immense--I can hardly believe that you did all this entirely on my
account. Did you?"
He was taken off his guard. "Yes--I mean, no. Your objection was
what set me to thinking; but the opportunity of doing our people a
service--that, Mona, is what--" He hesitated; it was not easy, with
the girl staring innocently at him, declare that he had not
deliberately formed his opportunity out of thin air.
But she had no suspicions. Billie had not been able to reach her
again.
The four on the earth knew little of Fort. He called up Powart two
days after the Cobulus's sensational flight, reporting that he had
been kidnapped "by some masked men" along with Reblong and the
others, but that he alone had escaped. The ship, was found,
abandoned, in an undeveloped part of Holl; and all signs indicated
that the former prisoners had separated at this point.
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