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In the midst of this Col. FreytтАЩs voice came over the P.A. system. "Simulated attack only, on theTAL
153 ! Just slice within a hairbreadth. But I want you to turn those Springer ships into scrap heaps!"

Finally the rectified pulse-code message from theTAL 153 piped through, deciphered: "We are flying a
feint attack!" That was allтАФnothing more.

At the same moment the defence screen of theGanymede was shaken by 8 hits. A cascade of light
flashes flared up as the energy field warped slightly in its effort to absorb the impact of ravening forces.

"What the devil!" roared gunnery officer Bredhus from Bertha-5.

TheTAL 153 had faked a protective move, shoving itself in front of a Springer ship with just a fraction of
a second to spare, in order to save its drive engines from destruction.

Col. Freyt, who was following the battle with keenest attention on the panoramic viewscreen, smiled
knowingly. TheTAL 153 was putting up a good front and theGanymede was laying it on hard. The two
Trader ships which were still intact simply had to believe that a fighter ship of the Mounders was taking
their side in a battle with theGanymede тАж



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By chance Talamon found himself on board theTitan as the space battle between theGanymede and the
3 Springer ships broke out about 30 light-minutes away. The participation of theTAL 153 , her prior
disappearance into hyperspace and her return shortly thereafterтАФthese manoeuvres were clearly
indicated by the tracking equipment.

"Well?" asked Perry Rhodan, adding nothing more as he glanced at the squarish bulk of Talamon. He
referred to the action some 300 million miles distant in which theTAL 153 fired 3 disintegrator beams
simultaneously at theGanymede and missed.

Talamon straightened himself up slightly. "In my clan there are no traitors, Perry Rhodan!" In this brief
statement was an expression of that power which each patriarch wielded over his clan. What the
patriarch commanded became Law for all.

"IsnтАЩt it a curious coincidence that these 3 Trader ships should show up?" asked Reginald Bell but
without a trace of the congeniality he so often displayed.

Then theTitan also received the pulse-coded message of theTAL 153 . Just as Talamon was composing
a sharp rejoinder, the deciphered words came through: "We are flying a feint attack!"

Impulsively, Bell reached out his hand to the patriarch. "No offence, Talamon, but a little healthy
suspicion serves to clear the air once in awhile!"
Talamon took the hand and shook it cautiously, breathing a bit heavily. "I hardly believed my own eyes
when I saw theTAL 153 attack theGanymede butтАФ"

"No buts!" interjected Rhodan. "The feint attack on FreytтАЩs ship is the only way to fool the Springers and