Blast to Kill”
Blast to KilEven though the moonlight was brighter at this high level Dulcie still was shadowy; but there was a golden nimbus about Joan Arlen’s head. Her eyes turned to Brad Tilling as he muttered, working out aloud the half-thought that had come to him in the tunnel.
“I didn’t mean that much to him. Something a lot bigger made him do it.”
“Who?” Joan asked. “Made whom do what?”
“Starl Kozmer. Made him buy with his life my chance to escape. He’d gone in there to beg Fran to lay off, so he already knew something about that shell and a lot more came out while they wrangled. Fran was certain nothing can c***k it but Starl—sure. That’s what he meant.
“ ‘Try your flare-quencher. It may—’ It may be the answer, he meant. Seeing me had brought back to him the principle of it t
