CHAPTER SEVENTEENHe met the guard half-way down the passage leading from the laboratory. He fell without a sound as Crombie’s pistol cracked against his jaw and Felix jumped over him, diving through the door just as a group of men came running down a passage.
“There he goes!”
“Halt or I fire!”
Lead whined from a wall as he ducked down a corridor, forgetting all caution in the burning need for speed. Twice he cannoned from the roof before adapting his stride. Behind him the shouts of the pursuers faded as he ran through the maze of passageways but he was not deluded into thinking that he had escaped.
He had to find somewhere to hide.
Not for long, that was impossible, but long enough to plan his next move. While he raced at random through the station he was only delaying his inevitable
