"My name's Leonard Kellogg , and I'm a chief of division with the Company- "
"Then keep quiet till I ask you something . Ahmed , call the post ; get Knabber and Yorimitsu , with investigative equip- ment , and find out what's tying up Car Three ."
Mallin had opened the first- aid kit by now ; Gerd , on seeing the constabulary , had holstered his pistol . Kellogg , still holding the sodden tissues to his nose , was wanting to know what there was to investigate .
"There's the murderer ; you have him red -handed . Why don't you arrest him ?"
"Jack , let's get over where we can watch these people without having to listen to them , " Lunt said . He glanced toward the body of Goldilocks . "That happen first ?"
"Watch out, Lieutenant ! He still has his pistol !" Mallin shouted warningly .
They went over and sat down on the contragravity -field generator housing one of the rented airjeeps . Jack started with Gerd van Riebeek's visit immediately after noon .
"Yes , I thought of that angle myself , " Lunt said disgustedly . "I didn't think of it till this morning, though, and I didn't think things would blow up as fast as this . Hell , I just didn't think ! Well , go on ."
He interrupted a little later to ask : " Kellogg was stamp- ing on the Fuzzy when you hit him . You were trying to stop him ?"
"That's right . Yu can veridicate me on that if you want to ."
"I will ; I'll veridicate this whole damn gang . And this guy Borch had his heater out when you turned around ? Nothing to it, Jack . We'll have to have some kind of a hearing, but it's just plain self - defense . Think any of this gang will tell the truth here , without taking them in and putting them under veridication ?"
"Ruth Ortheris will , I think . ”
"Send her over here , will you ."
She was still with the Fuzzies , and Ben Rainsford was standing beside her , his camera ready . The Fuzzies were still swaying and yeeking plaintively . She nodded and rose without speaking , going over to where Lunt waited . "Just what did happen , Jack ?" Rainsford wanted to know. "And whose side is he on?" He nodded toward van Riebeek,
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