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change. They received thought-impulses which were, however, rather confused and too indistinct to be
understood, but they showed, on the other hand, that somewhere in the neighbourhood an at least
semi-intelligent being was present.

Unfortunately BettyтАЩs and MarshallтАЩs capacity of perceiving extraneous thoughts was not
direction-oriented in an exact manner. They could do no more than indicate that the strange subject was
тАШsomewhere aheadтАЩ and Betty believed she felt that the impulses came from an oblique direction below.

Bell didnтАЩt know how to cope with it. He reduced their speed of walkingтАФwhich could better be called
crawling speedтАФand asked the telepaths to report to him continually.

Betty and Marshall registered that the impulse became more intensified. But the corridor remained empty
as far as their lamps reached.

Bell felt uneasier by the second. He had already pulled out his impulse-beamer and kept it in front of him
as he advanced farther into the corridor.

He was terribly startled when Marshall suddenly shouted with all his might: "Look out!"

He stopped. Lying flat on his belly, he asked: "WhatтАЩs the matter now?"

"Something has detected us," Marshall hastily answered. "IтАЩm getting a regular barrage of hostile
impulses."

"Are they more pronounced than what you heard so far?"

"A little, but theyтАЩre far from clear thoughts."

"Does it want to attack us?"

"Wait a minuteтАж no, I believe it canтАЩt do it."

"Great!" Bell rejoiced. "With suchтАж"

Somebody grabbed him by the arm. It was Ras Tschubai. "Quiet!" he whispered. "I hear something."

Bell held his breath. The others didnтАЩt react as quickly as he did; he could hear their rapid breathing in
his helmet-speaker. But there were also other sounds: scratching and scraping noises such as he had
heard before when the Gom monster attacked them a few hours earlier.

"The lacquer is here again!" he snapped angrily. "Hold your weapons ready to shoot but be careful that
you donтАЩt shoot at each other! LetтАЩs go!"

Suddenly he was in a hurry. He crawled through the tunnel as quickly as he could. MarshallтАЩs
information kept coming at regular intervals with the same monotonous voice: "тАж strongerтАж strongerтАж
strongerтАж"
This referred to the hostile impulses he was receiving. Therefore, danger lay ahead.

What irritated Bell was that the passage still seemed to be completely empty. The scraping and
scratching he had heard before must have come from the tunnel itself. But where was whatever caused it?