"And I saw the corpse. My corpse, Captain. Mine!" "But hell, man. Glaudot would have come back here with the girl. He knows his obligation to civilization. He--" "Glaudot, sir? Does he?" Purcell scowled and said finally: "Chandler, either you and Glaudot have made the most astonishing discovery since man first domesticated his environment and so became more than a reasonably clever animal, or you're the biggest liar that ever crossed deep space." Chandler offered his captain a pale smile. "Why don't you find out which, sir?" "By God," said Purcell, "I will. McCreedy!" he bawled over the intercom. "Smith! Wong! I want an armed expedition of twenty-five men ready to leave the ship in half an hour." And, exactly half an hour later, the expedition set out with Captain Purcell and Chandler leading it. Chandler went astride the roan stallion. * * * * * When Charlie and his small Indian band learned that the action had taken place to the south, where Robin had gone, they set out quickly in that direction. The further they went, the more worried Charlie became. If Robin had met with any kind of success, if she had called off the war party and established some kind of peaceful relations with the spacemen, a runner would have been sent to tell them. But the desolate rock-strewn terrain stretched out before them as devoid of life as the Paleozoic Earth. Charlie urged his men on relentlessly. He was a tireless hiker and since the braves lived by hunting they could match almost any pace he set. Finally Charlie saw the second Indian band ahead of them. Slinging the Mannlicher Elephant Gun, he began to run. "Tashtu!" he called. "Tashtu!" The Indian sprinted to him. "Lord," he said breathlessly, "one sky critter, him die. Turn out man." "What are you talking about?" Charlie asked. Tashtu led him to the group of braves which still clustered about Ensign Chandler's body. "Why?" Charlie demanded, horror-struck. "Why?" Tashtu told him all that had happened. How the braves had mistaken the spacesuited man for a monster. How arrows had been fired before they had learned otherwise. How Robin had come, and gone off with the spaceman. "To their spaceship?" Charlie asked. "Yes, Lord. That is what they spoke of." Tashtu pointed to the top of the rampart of rock. "From there, Lord, you can see it." Charlie scrambled up the rock. From his giddy perch on top he could see the tiny silver gleam of the spaceship--and a band of men, led by a man on horseback, approaching them. Charlie hurried down the rock, half climbing, half sliding. "They are coming," he said. "Maybe Robin's with them." He remembered what had happened last time and said: "The rest of you return to your homes. Tashtu and I will go on ahead." "But Lord--" Tashtu began. "Well?" "I did not like the man. I did not trust him." "Then why did you let Robin go?" "Let her, Lord? But surely Robin, the Lady Robin, does not obey a mere--"