CHAPTER IV The Final Blast
The attack caught me unprepared. The roof of the laboratory building was meant to open like the dome of an observatory. Once Collette had effectively used it. Now Tarrago had lowered his ship into the huge room where it had been built, and closed the roof again.
The coming of my aero had been observed by Tarrago’s outer guards. He darkened and silenced the place, with his men waiting to trap us.
When the attack came, in the corridor, I tried to get to Eve, who had been to one side of me. The attack had come so wholly without warning that I could not draw a weapon. The bulk of a plunging fur-clad man struck me. We went down. As we scrambled, I was aware that I had been thrown with my antagonist through a doorway.
I had a glimpse back to the eerie corridor, wit
