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"Let me guess," he began in a friendly voice. "Something important has happened but nothing so urgent
that you had to call me. You have looked in because you just happened to be in our neighbourhood,
right?"
 Betty shook her head slightly, smiling. She knew FreytтАЩs approach. Every time he met her he insisted
upon trying to read her thoughts. It was a game they had developed when Betty Toufry was still a child
and the then most talented telepathist in the Terranian Mutant Corps.

"Wrong," Betty answered, turning serious immediately. "It is a very important matter and very urgent. I
took the quickest way here to give as detailed a report as possible about the matter."

Conrad Deringhouse sat at the edge of his immense desk. Marshall Freyt watched Betty inquisitively.

"Mr. Ellert has reported in!" Betty exclaimed.

Deringhouse whistled through his teeth. "What did he say?" he asked tersely.

Betty shrugged helplessly. "ThatтАЩs just it! I could hardly understand anything. The impulses came from
the mausoleum. If I hadnтАЩt accidentally been nearby I wouldnтАЩt have noticed a thing. They were so weak,
as if they came from a thousand light-years awayтАж or even more."

The two men remained silent.

"The whole thing lasted about five minutes," Betty continued hastily, "and all I could understand was:
тАШCome quickly!тАЩ Where to come or whyтАж I must have missed that."

Deringhouse and Freyt exchanged brief glances.

"DonтАЩt you worry about тАШwhereтАЩ," Deringhouse consoled the telepathist as he slid off the desk. "You are
not very informed about the events that occurred shortly before and after Mr. RhodanтАЩs death and that is
why you do not know where Ellert is. But we know about it all the more. However, we would like to
know more about тАШwhyтАЩ. Did you get the impression that Ellert was afraid of something?"

One could see that Betty was trying to remember. "YesтАж and no," she answered with a slight
embarrassed smile. "You knowтАж he seemed afraid somehow, apparently not for himself but for
someone else. It seemed as if he were calling for help for a third party."

Deringhouse looked up. "And he said тАШCome quickly!тАЩ didnтАЩt he?"

"Yes. That was all I could understand," Betty confirmed.

Deringhouse was now standing in front of her. He turned his head and looked quizzically at Marshall
Freyt.

"We do not know what that means," he said softly as if he already knew which decision Freyt had
reached.

"Which is just why we shall have to look into it," Freyt declared and stood up. "Betty, would you have
any objection if I interrupted your vacation?"