Garroway's cheeks were mottled with rage; for a moment it seemed he might strike his own daughter.
"You ... you ingrate!" he husked. "You dare bargain with the System's Emperor?"
"I dare bargain," taunted the Princess, "with my own father. And with a badly frightened man."
Garroway fumed at the taunt ... but capitulated, as the Princess had known he must do. He lowered his hands weakly.
"Very well," he said. "I give you your price. Now, what must be done?"
"This—" said the Princess. And for a long time two remarkably similar heads, both in physiognomy and mentality, bent close together in conference....
VI
"Tonight?" asked Dirk Morris. "You're sure, Neil?"
"This very night," swore Neil Hardesty. "At the Palace Royal. I got it on the highest authority. From one of the Imperial Guard
