"Norton, Andre - Cat's eye" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norton Andre)

Reluctantly Troy approached the door itself, a barrier
where plexaglass had been impressed with a startling
and vivid pattern of weird and colorful insects, none of
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which he recognized. There was no sign that the
establishment was open for business, and he had no
guide to lead him behind the mass of buildings to a
rear entrance. Troy hesitated uncertainly before the
closed door until, among the imprisoned creatures of
the center panel, a portion of face with reasonable
human features appeared. Round dark eyes set in
yellow skin regarded him with no trace of interest or

emotion.

Troy held up his wrist so that the employment mark
might be fully visible to those eyes. Unblinkingly
they centered upon it. Then the stretch of yellow cheek,
the broad nose, vanished. The creatures in the panel
seemed to flutter as that barrier arose. And a flow of
warm air, redolent with many strange smells, engulfed
Troy. As if drawn by an invisible cord, he entered

Kyger's.
He was given no time to look about the outer

reception lounge with its wall cabinets of more min-
iature other-world scenes, for the owner of the eyes
was awaiting him impatiently. Used as he was to
oddities, human, humanoid, and nonhuman, Troy still
found the small man strange enough to study covertly.
He could have walked under Horan's out-stretched
arm but his small, wiry body was well proportioned
and not that of a dwarf. What hair he had was black


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and grew in small tufted knobs tight to the rounded
bowl of the skull. In addition, there was a rough brush
of the same black on his upper lip and two tufts or
knots on his chin, one just below the center of his
lower lip and the other on the point ofthejawbeneath.

His clothing was the conventional one-piece suit of
an employed subcitizen, with the striking addition of

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