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Black Hat fell slowly forward fro a red stain where his head had rested against it Margo ran toward hi the pistol at him, and simply swept him across the doard slope and off the cliff after his hencho&039;s line of fire, waltzed around with ar steps down the slope, and e three inches high

Hunter ran to Margo, grabbed the gray pistol with one hand and pulled her finger off the trigger with the other, shouting: "It&039;s onlyher killer&039;s screa, "Uh-huh"

The Ramrod ran forward toward Ida

Harry McHeath knelt by Wojtowicz, as saying: "Wow, oh !" Then: "Hell, kid, I was planning on dropping after the first shot, anyhow They just creased my shoulder - I think Better we look"

Doc ca: "My God, what is that gun? I got an ar the hao said rapidly to Hunter: "You don&039;t have to worry about it being out of power It&039;s still half-charged - see, the violet line, right there"

Doc said: "Let me - " and then suddenly snapped erect and quickly stared around hiun! Raun - if that hero cares to give it up Ross, give Margo back her pistol She kno to use it Margo, you and I are going to reconnoiter this area until we&039;re sure there&039;s no un that isn&039;t one of us, but watch how you swing that beaain and placed herself by Doc as directed, assu up to help the Rao and shrank away frohtfully: "I really think it was the Black Dahlia killer, but noe&039;l probably never knohat he looked like Why, weas Rama Joan ripped his bloody shirt off his shoulder with her teeth, snarled up at Doddsy: "Oh, nuts!"

Raue and said quietly: "Fetch your first-aid kit, Mr Dodd"

Doc took the gun McHeath offered hie into the chao: "Coot to secure our ca policeh the backon her side of the sedan and deers steal this car?"

She began to talk rapidly, in the role of secretary-co her hand back and forth on theframe to draw the policeman&039;s attention to the hundred-dollar bill in it, but he only went on shining his flashlight in their faces

When it stabbed at KKK Barbara realized with a shock that the wrinkle-meshed face did look rather like that of an old darkie And he had turned alain - the heat had been too much for him But then the little pale blue eyes opened and a cracked but arrogant voice co in my face, you blue-coated idiot!"

This seemed to satisfy the policeman, for he switched off his flash, and Barbara felt the bill drawn sers He took his head out of theand said good-huo on now But tellaway froh tides, but there&039;s no hurricane A couple cars talked about so like rabbits It doesn&039;t make sense"

Barbara stuck her head out of the"It is the tides," she insisted "The new planet isthem" She looked back east down the road they&039;d just traveled to where the Wanderer was rising all purple with a yellowspindle of the deformed moon, one end of the spindle foreshortened by the curve of its orbit,

"Oh, that," the police way off in the heavens It doesn&039;t s on Earth"

"But that&039;s theshape for the moon," he pointed out to her patiently "Thehigh tides," she pleaded with hiet higher Florida&039;s not h anywhere They ht over it"

He spread his hands, as if to invoke the testie blosso to warn you That planet&039;s a doon" He continued to chuckle

She felt herself seethe with sudden anger "Well, if nothing thatall cars?"

The grin vanished "We&039;re keeping order in Citrus Center," he said harshly,toward the next car in line "Tell your boy to drive on before I change er girl talk for hiers are the worst They try to teach you science, but you get it all mixed up with your crazy African superstitions"

They drove north in silence while the Wanderer slowly climbed, and the ed to a big purple D

Knolls Kelsey Kettering III began to breathe gaspingly Hester said: "We got to find hin "You are leaving Glades and entering Highlands County" Suddenly he laughed whoopingly "That high lands sure sound good!"

But would they be high enough? Barbara wondered

Richard Hillary woke shivering and aching He&039;d pushed aside in his sleep the straw covering hih the straw under hiround - the chill of the Chiltern Hills, his e planet flared, revolved back to its disain He recalled some of the other faces it had shown - equally ugly faces, looking ist&039;s toys than natural formations - one a bloat-centered X; another, a big yellow bull&039;s eye in a purple target Still, it seelobe how, less like a circular flat signboard And there was a beauty akin to that of Brancusi&039;s "Bird in Space" in its curving white half-ring Could that last conceivably be the er had assured hiht and where else was thehi up the inadequate flap The straw stack froone now, and where he&039;d had at most a dozen coo, there were now scores of low strawone or more sleepers How quietly they had co each other, perhaps, as they scooped up and hugged their straw; late arrivers at a sleeping hostel He envied those huddled in pairs their shared war Girl of Devizes who had seee-and-mashed, too

He looked toward the farht and paid for his straw Its lights were still on, but the ere irregularly obscured He realized with mild amazeether against its walls like bees for warry; the ready food would be gone like the straw Or perhaps the farot only a briny smell Had she opened a barrel of salt beef? But now hisfoolishly, he told himself

Despite the crowd of new sleepers, there seeate, which had been loud with traffic when he&039;d gone to sleep, was quiet and eh which he&039;d just trudged was now full of dark silveryaround the hill on which he was now, pushing up each grassy gully

The un- across it ether

He realized that they were the lights of a boat and that the h tide