“They don’t?”
“Well, no, because the point is that these people are visiting us in force, without invitation, and if that doesn’t constitute an invasion, I don’t know what does. Moreover — and we have Pollenport’s word for it — these creatures maintain a slave-economy of a peculiarly cruel and heartless kind, and, for all we know, their invasion of the Earth has as its object the enslavement of our population.”
“Just a moment,” said Lord Sanderlake. “Aren’t you a little confused? It’s the southern Antigeosians who —”
Keble-Keith virtually ignored the interruption. “The general public,” he went on, in level tones, “will know nothing more about Antigeos than the Daily Messenger chooses to tell them. That surely, Lord Sanderlake, must strike you as significant. I foresee a future when hist
