CHAPTER 5“So that’s the story,” Rex said. “Now you know who I am and how I happened to come to New Iowa.”
Jean twisted her arms against the thongs that bound her wrists and said, “I think you were stupid not to tell us and let us try to help you.”
“But I was moving in the dark entirely unsure of myself. I had to look around and find out—”
“Oh, I see. You suspected us. You thought we were capable of murdering a man and putting his body in a box and shipping it back to Terra with our potatoes!”
“I thought no such thing!”
They spoke openly, convinced that the five Martians who were their captors could not understand Terran. They had been at the hutch when Rex and Jean got there—four of them—crouched behind the wall. When Barzoo arrived, just as Rex tilted the section of wall, they had se
