CHAPTER VKirk stood, his dismay and anxiety increasing by the minute. What was he going to do?
He said, finally, “We’ll have to wait. Ferdias’ man is bound to be along soon.”
“You mean—perhaps stay here all night?” said Lyllin. “But food, and beds—”
“We’d better look around,” he said unhappily.
They found fairly new blankets on the beds. And in the old kitchen cupboards was food in the self-heating plastipacks.
“We can make out,” he said. “But it’s a hell of a thing.”
While Lyllin prepared their supper, he went out and restlessly walked around the place. The weedy yard ran into brushy fields and nearby woods. The old barn was empty, and the outbuildings were shabby and forlorn.
He did not think much of Earth, if this was a sample. He went back inside and helped Lyllin solve the puzz
