"Andre Norton - Cat's eye" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norton Andre)

his companion came on, ready for another try, hia ;

eyes narrow and calculating. Troy aimed at the other's -
head, praying he would not be wearing a force screen. ;

The determination of the attack, and the time and
place it had been delivered, argued that the Guild
men either were after some fabulous loot or had been
hired at the high rate, which in turn suggested they

would have top equipment.
But Troy never had a chance to discover if his fears |

were correct. A white coil materialized out of thin air ^
only a foot or so above the head of the advancing
knifeman. It whirled in a circle, throwing off, with
almost dizzying speed, a web of white filaments that
fell about the attacker, touching and then clinging to
shoulders, arms, body, and, finally, legs. The man |
struggled against the enwebment fruitlessly. Within a
matter of moments he was down, as well packaged as :

a spider's prey. And a second web had taken care of i

his companion.

Troy straightened up, dropped the stunner to the



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ground well out in view, not having any wish for the
patrollers to start in on him. Leaving the weapon

where it lay, he went to Zul.
Blood made a gory and devilish mask of the small

man's face, and he clung to the swinging door of the
wrecked flitter with one hand, as if he needed that
support badly. As Troy came to him, the younger man
was suddenly aware of the fact that the warnings that

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had flowed from the cage were at an end; there was no
contact with its inhabitants now.