"It took you long enough." He didn't bother to turn from the rock he was huddled against. "I had to be sure." I felt anything but the calm carried in my voice. "No wonder the GG got the right answers, with you making initial starts. Say, were you responsible for the cat that rolled at me?" "An accident. Obviously, I wanted this room built as much as you." Harry, now undisguised, languorously turned. "Your little trap didn't quite come off--a danger in fighting a superior intellect." "No trap. I had a job to do; it's done." "Job? Job?" Infuriated, leaping to his feet, he shouted, "Speak the native tongue, filth!" "What's the use? Because of you, I'll never again have the chance. And you no longer have a native tongue." "Who were those judges," he asked bitterly, "to declare _me_ an outcast?" "Representatives of an outraged society." I almost lost my temper, thinking of this deviant's crimes. "You were lucky to get banishment instead of death." He grinned. "So were you." "True. I tried to find the proper place, where you'd have some chance." He laughed openly. "I fixed the ship nicely." "You don't understand at all--" "I counted on your being a hero, trying to save us. So, I escaped." "For three years only." "What do you mean?" "One of us won't leave here." Harry frowned, then tried cunning. "Aren't you being silly? We are hopelessly marooned. Surely there are overriding considerations to your childish devotion to duty." I shook my head. "This is too small a room for us. Even if I trusted you, I couldn't allow you at this naive young world." Voices suddenly approached. "The GG?" Harry questioned. "Didn't know they were coming." Desperately, I looked about, found an eroded mass. "Hide there; I'll get rid of them." "You'd better--we have business." Possibly it was the only time I've agreed with him. Mel and Dex came in. I called, "Over here!" * * * * * Dex snapped his fingers. "_Knew_ it was Venus." Mel wrinkled his nose. "Sulfur dioxide, too, like we figured. Soda pop, when I broke into that tender scene between you and Frank--that gave you necessary carbon dioxide, right, am I not?" "Yes ... Why don't you guys leave me alone?" Beginning to falter in the heat, they dripped perspiration. "You could die in this chilly climate." Dex said, "Listen for a second. We don't have to break up. Let's form a service organization, 'Problems, Inc.' or some equally stupid title. Very soon we could afford a private bedroom, like this, for you to stay in all the time--" "Need only two or three nights in ten." Harry was moving restlessly. He wouldn't wait much longer. "Combination of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and sulfur under relatively high temperature is how I eat. Pills can substitute, but not for protracted periods. That's why I had to build this room. Couple of weeks, and I'll be in the pink; as pink as you, anyway."