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The two were now opposite the men about a hundred yards away. Kickaha looked between the
trees lining the street and saw the unwounded men supporting Kleist and three others. In the distance, a
siren wailed. From the way Cambring's men hurried, they had no doubt that it was coming after them.
Cambring, looking anxious, was standing by the car. He stiffened when he felt the pen touch his
back and heard Kickaha's voice.
Cambring did not look around but got into the front seat as directed. Anana and Kickaha got into
the rear seat, and ducked down. Kickaha kept the pen jammed against Cambring's back.
Cambring protested once. "You can't get away with this! You're crazy!"
"Just shut up!" Kickaha said.
Thirty seconds later, Kleist, supported by two men reached the car. Kickaha swung out the back
door and pointed the pen at them, saying, "Put Kleist into the front seat."
The two holding Kleist halted. The others, forming a rear guard, reached for their guns, but
Kickaha shouted, "I'll kill Kleist and Cambring both! And you, too, with this!"
He waved the pen. The others knew by now that the pen was a weapon of some sort even if
they did not know its exact nature. They seemed to fear it more than a gun, probably because its nature
was in doubt.
They stopped. Kickaha said, "I'm taking these two! The cops'll be here in a minute! You better
take off, look out for yourselves!"
The two holding Kleist carried him forward and shoved him into the front seat. Cambring had to
push against Kleist to keep him from falling on him like a sack full of garbage. Kickaha quickly got out of
the car and went around to get into the driver's seat, while Anana held the pen on the others.
He started the motor, backed up with a screech of tires, jerked it to a stop, turned, and roared
out of the parking lot. The car went up and down violently as they jumped the dip between the lot
entrance and the street. Kickaha shouted to Anana, and she reached over the seat, felt behind Kleist's
ear, and came up with the transceiver. It was a metal disc thin as a postage stamp and the size of a dime.
She stuck it behind her ear and also removed Kleist's wristwatch and put it on her own wrist.
He now had Cambring and Kleist. What could he do with them?
Anana suddenly gasped and pushed at Cambring, who had slumped over against Kickaha. In a
swift reaction, he had shoved out with his elbow, thinking for a second that Cambring was attacking him.
Then he understood that Cambring had fallen against him. He was unconscious.
Another look convinced him that Cambring was dead or close to death. His skin was the
gray-blue of a corpse.
Anana said, "They're both dead!"
Kickaha pulled the car over to the curb and stopped. He pointed frantically at her. She stared a
moment, and then saw what he was trying to communicate. She quickly shed the receiver and Kleist's
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wrist-watch as if she had discovered that she was wearing a leper's clothing.
Kickaha reached over and pulled her close to him and whispered in her ear, "I'll pick up the
watch and receiver with a handkerchief and stick them in the trunk until we can get rid of them. I think
you'd be able to hear Red Orc's voice now, if you still had that receiver behind your ear. He'd be telling
you he'd just killed Cambring and he was going to kill you unless we surrendered to him."
He picked up Cambring's wrist and with a pencil pried up the watch compartment. There was a
slight discoloration under it on the skin.
With the pencil, he pried loose the disc from behind Cambring's ear and exposed a brown-blue
disc-shaped spot.
Kleist groaned. His eyelids fluttered, and he looked up. Kickaha started the car again and pulled
away from the curb, and then turned north. As they drove slowly in the heavy traffic, Kleist managed to
straighten himself. To do this, he had to push Cambring over against Kickaha. Anana gave a savage
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