VHE LED THEM, QUICKLY and quietly, along the disused branch of an old drainage system that he had used so often as a private entrance. Presently they dropped to a lower level and the conduit system proper.
When the rains were on, the drains would be running full. Now they were only pumping seepage. They waded in pitch darkness, bypassed a pumping station through a side tunnel once used for cold storage by one of Lhi's cautious business men, and then found steep, slippery steps going up.
"Careful!" whispered Campbell. He stopped them on a narrow ledge and stood listening. The Callistan murmured, with faint amusement:
"There is no one beyond."
Antennae over ears. Campbell grinned and found a hidden spring. "Lhi is full of these things," he said. "The boys used to keep their little wars g
