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"You do?" The little Martian&039;s voice rose to a squeak "What is it, Lucky?"

But Lucky said, "Not now" He gazed down at Suhtlessly toward the alien heavens He said, "Summers has one distinction He is the first man ever to die on Io"

He looked up The sun was edging behind Jupiter The planet was beco only a faint silvery circle of twilit atmosphere

Lucky said, "It will be dark Let&039;s go back to the ship"

Bigman paced the floor of their cabin It took only three steps one way, three steps the other, but he paced He said, "But if you know, Lucky, why don&039;t you"

Lucky said, "I can&039;t take ordinary action and risk explosion Let man"

There was a fired the subject and said, "Well, then, aste any more time on Io because of that cobber out there? He&039;s dead There&039;s nothing ," said Lucky The door signal flashed and he added, "Open it, Bigineer stepped in, his dog, Mutt, going before

Norrich&039;s blue, unseeing eyes blinked rapidly He said, "I&039;ve heard about Su to think he tried to to Terrible that he was a traitor Yet somehow I&039;m sorry for him"

Lucky nodded "I knew you would be It&039;s why I asked you to come here It&039;s dark out on lo now The sun&039;s in eclipse When the eclipse is over, will you come out with me to bury Summers?"

"Gladly We should do that much for any man, shouldn&039;t we?" Norrich&039;s hand dropped as if for consolation on Mutt&039;s ainst hissome diht you would want to coht want to pay your last respects"

"Thank you I would like to" Norrich&039;s blind eyes were moist

Lucky said to Commander Donahue just before he placed the helmet over his head, "It will be our last trip out When we return, ill take off for Jupiter Nine"

"Good," the co as their eyes met

Lucky put on his helmet and in another corner of the pilot rooerssure all fastenings were secure Inside the glass-fronted, odd-shaped helmet that fitted over Mutt&039;s head, Mutt&039;s jawskneas headed for a trip into low gravity and that he enjoyed the prospect

The first grave on Io was done It had been dug out of hard, rocky soil by the use of force diggers It was filled in with a ravel and topped by an oval boulder as a marker

The three men stood round it while Mutt wandered off in the distance, trying vainly, as always, to exalass blocked the use of his sense of sman, who knehat Lucky expected him to do but didn&039;t knoaited tensely

Norrich stood with his head bowed and said softly, "This was afor that reason, and has paid for it"

"He did what the Sirians asked him to do," Lucky added "That was his crie and"

Norrich stiffened as the pause in Lucky&039;s reot you on board ship He refused to join the creithout you You yourself told ned to the Jovian Moon"

Lucky&039;s voice grew stern "You are a robot spy placed here by the Sirians Your blindness makes you seem innocent to the others on the project, but you don&039;t need a sense of sight You killed the V-frog and covered for Su to you hi the face of orders, as Third Law states And, finally, you fooled , a synthetic emotion built into you by the Sirians"

This was the cue for which Bigh, he hurled himself at Norrich, whose incoherent protestations did not coalesce into words

"I kneas you," Big you"

"It&039;s not true," Norrich wailed, finding his voice He threw up his hands and stumbled backward

And suddenly Mutt was a streak in the pale, white light He hurled himself furiously across the quarterwith desperate passion at Bight at Nor-rich&039;s shoulder The other swung the blaster upward