"The problem isn't to find the place, Baiel, but to conquer their taboo against migration." "But you can do that, Captain; just teach the little savages to reason the way men do. Nothing to it." He smiled, then, and held out his hand. "Face it, Captain Theusaman; admit you're wrong! Last night you had to call on the gods; you couldn't control them any other way. If the sun god orders a migration, we can have them on their way in two hours." "So you're still trying to convince me that you're right." "Of course; that's why I wanted you to follow me here. Would I have any other reason?" His answer seemed too quick. I looked at him, frowning, but the smile on his face was unreadable. "Tell me, Baiel: What did you really want on the _Olympus_?" He shrugged. "I came to use the viewscreen." "You risked discipline for something so foolish?" "What else? I can't bring any of the machines back to the village; you would throw them out. I can't power the tubes and go back to Earth." It was all so glibly logical; yet I knew he was lying. I moved toward him, snatching the fringe of his cloak in my clenching fists. "I'm asking once again, Baiel: What did you expect to find here?" * * * * * "My Lord! My Lord!" Baiel and I both whirled toward the open cabin door. Dayhan was outside, slowly crossing the last fifty feet of icy meadow toward the ship. When Baiel saw her, the smile sagged on his lips and he sprang from the ship. "You're on tabooed ground!" he cried. "Go back!" "I have no fear." Her words were brave, but her voice was a choked whisper as she looked up at the towering undulations of the glacier glaring in the sun. "Where my Lord can go, I will follow. Brother glacier is no god. See! I defy him." She raised my Hayden and aimed it unsteadily at the wall of ice above the _Olympus_. "No!" Baiel screamed. "The sun god will destroy you!" Baiel was ten paces ahead of me. He reached her as she fired. He knocked the Hayden from her hand with such force that Dayhan was thrown sprawling on the slick ground. Above us tons of ice, dislodged by the Hayden blast, broke and slid down the face of the glacier upon the _Olympus_, rocking the ship over on its side. Baiel flung up his hands in terror, but lowered them a moment later. Behind his facial mask of stark fear, I saw a strange expression of uneasy surprise and calculation. I moved toward him, my fists doubled. "Even when they begin to conquer the taboos," I cried, through clenched teeth, "you still try to prevent it!" "No, Captain; you've got it wrong. I just wanted--you--you had no right to give her the Hayden." Baiel spoke in a hoarse, nervous whisper, backing away from me slowly. "Dayhan's my wife." "She's still a primitive animal."