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"Pucky," said Perry with slight reproach, "we are receiving an official visitor."
 Pucky floated in a sailing glide to the farthest corner of the Control Central. No one laughed. A very
serious reason had to be attached to the sudden appearance of the Mounder, just when theTitan and the
Ganymede were ready to set a transition course for Earth. It was not until the Aralon engagement that
Talamon had become Perry RhodanтАЩs friend but that friendship still remained to be proven.

Did he come now as a friend?

Rhodan understood KhrestтАЩs worried glance. They both had the same idea. For this reason, Pucky and
John Marshall had to be present during this discussion. By means of their telepathic faculties they had to
evaluate the honesty of TalamonтАЩs thoughts.

"A beautiful ship!" This was his first word of praise for theTitan after he had taken a look around in the
Control Central. And he added, "Soon it will not be a beautiful ship any more." Thereby he let the cat out
of the bag.

Perry Rhodan received John MarshallтАЩs signal. Talamon was not concealing anything. He had come here
for the sole purpose of warning him.

"One moment, Talamon!" Bell had placed a hand on his shoulder but with the other he opened the
intercom channel both on board and to theGanymede . He called into the microphone: "Top security
space surveillance! Use all countermeasures against tracking!" He turned again to the Mounder, who
responded to the instructions with a pleased grin. "Direct your ship to come between our two vessels. It
would be well to avoid certain curious questions from other sources by giving them the least possible
excuse Will you give the order to your ship?"

The MounderтАЩs grin widened. "If you humans from the Earth are all such cold, cautious calculators on
top of being daredevils, then IтАЩm sorry for the Springers already!тАж Of course IтАЩll direct my ship between
you!"

The manoeuvre could be followed on the great gallery screens of theTitan as TalamonтАЩs heavily armed
Tal VI executed a long, silent curve and elegantly locked its course within the tracking shelter thus
provided.

Speaking casually yet barely concealing his concern as he surveyed Perry Rhodan, Talamon said, "Yes,
the Aras on Aralon are mad at you. From a commercial standpoint, I can understand them, but ever
since I have learned that these medical bandits inflict us with all sorts of diseases in order to follow up
with exorbitant prices for their cures, I donтАЩt like to even talk about them. To make a long story short:

"The Ara clans, who are scattered everywhere in the Galaxy, have been alerted by Aralon. Sickness and
disease have been suddenly on the increase all over. The Springers have been threatened with a boycott
on selling them any medications, so the Galactic Traders are faced with a price tag: they are being
blackmailed into flying an attack on Terra in order to turn it into a sun."

"Has the attack flight started yet?" RhodanтАЩs counter question was so casually and pleasantly delivered
that it brought the 1300-pound Talamon up staring out of his special seat.

Perry glossed over the subject almost indifferently; Bell sweated. Once more a typical Rhodan bluff had
been demonstrated. Without saying so, Perry had more or less asserted: "We will repulse any attack!"
He had taken a lot of wind out of the MounderтАЩs sails.