Their escape had been without incident, a series of weary walks underwater, two going out and one returning dragging the empty suit. The heavy suits they were forced to abandon at the water's edge before starting the climb upward along the rain-washed ledges. Tired though she was, Ina Haan's eyes were bright. "It's wonderful," she told Jay, "to learn that you are not an animat. This is the break I've always been looking for." Jay was puzzled by the girl's excitement. He could not imagine why she was so pleased. Maybe she had fallen in love with him. At the thought he felt his heart pound faster. She was very desirable despite the tattered wisps of garments that half-covered her firm breasts and shapely woman's body--or perhaps it was because of them. He took her in his arms and kissed her. She did not resist him, but surrendered her lips at once. Her eyes were dreamy. "You love me," he said. "We'll be mates!" Ina smiled mysteriously and leaned back against his chest. "We must take the expoder from Thela," she said. "She might try to kill you to keep the secret of Animats Incorporated from the public. She'd want to protect her father." Jay nodded, looking back into the cave where the other girl slept. "He'll probably go to prison or be shipped off to the asteroids," he agreed, "when we report this affair." Ina's eyes narrowed. "You must say nothing to anyone if we are rescued," she told him. "The company would probably have you murdered before you reached the government heads of Earth or Mars." "What's to keep her from telling them, then?" demanded Jay. "I think she's going to keep quiet," Ina smiled. "Just let me handle it my way." Jay stared down into the foggy plain that extended outward for perhaps fifty feet from the cave mouth before it merged with the eternal gray blanket. Somewhere down there the Frogs would be swimming to the deserted space ship--searching it. "I wish I knew who and what I was before the company scientists worked on my brain. Was I a criminal or a political refugee? Or did they pirate a spacer I was on?" "It is a profitable racket," mused Ina. "Taking humans and making robots out of them. Cheaper than creating and educating androids. Probably they made a few of the real article too." Jay nodded sleepily. He wondered how many human beings had been condemned to the certain death of the uranium mines of Jove's satellites. Ina went back into the cave to sleep and he sat there on guard. Yet he was weary and his head started to droop. In a moment he would have been asleep. A soft hand trembled on his shoulder. He turned, thinking Ina had come back. But it was Thela Draper. "I heard," she said, her voice strained but low. "I want you to know Ina is wrong. If Father's company has been breaking the laws I want it known. I know Father would do nothing wrong." "You wanted to kill us when we first landed," accused Jay. "But I thought you were uncontrolled robots--not men!"