"
"Do you think we are literally poisoned?" Jellico bored directly to the
heart of their private fears.
"None of us have been drinking too heavily," Tau observed thoughtfully.
"And I don't believe Lumbrilo had outright killing in mind. How long the
effect will last I have no way of telling."
"If we saw one rock ape," Dane wondered, "why didn't we see others? And
why here and now?"
"That!" Tau pointed ahead on the trail Asaki had picked for their
ascent. For a long moment Dane could see nothing of any interest there
and then he located it--a finger of rock. It did not point directly
skyward this time, in fact it slanted so that its tip indicated their
back trail. Yet in outline the spire was very similar to that outcrop
from which the real rock ape had charged them the day before.
Asaki exclaimed in his own tongue and slapped his hand hard against the
stock of the needler.
"We saw that and so again we saw an ape also! Had earlier we been
charged by graz or jumped by a lion in such a place, then again we would
have been faced by graz or lion here!"
Captain Jellico gave a bark of laughter colored only by the most
sardonic humor.
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