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Bell waited. He waited until he knew that Rhodan would give him no further explanation voluntarily.

"What in the devil else?" he asked gruffly. "Am I supposed to guess or are you going to tell me?"

"I expect a structural disturbance," Rhodan replied. "How it will be brought about I don’t know. The
man we are chasing can change the space-time continuum at will."

Bell laughed but he did not sound very cheerful.

"Thatman ," he mocked. "I’d really like to see him. He probably has an energy spiral instead of a head
and two machines where I have my arms."

"We’ll get to see him," Rhodan said quietly. "Then we’ll find out whether he has a spiral or not."

"Do you really believe that? I mean…"

"Yes, I do," interrupted Rhodan. "I’m not fool enough to risk a deadly adventure against my better
judgment."

Bell mumbled something Rhodan did not understand.. Then he asked:

"And our Guppies are supposed to determine in which region of space the disturbance will take place,
right?"

"Exactly!"

Bell was silent for a while, then he made another effort.

Listen, Chief, you’ve brought a metal cartridge from the past. What a fantastic feat—ten thousand years
from the past! You’ve opened it and tried to decipher the text it contained. You’re convinced that you’ve
read it correctly, right? And this is what it said:

"‘He who wishes to find the way can still turn back. But if he decides to go on, may it be known to him
that he will receive no more help whatsoever. Soon a quake will shake space…’ and so on.

"So you drop out of sight for a few days and almost burn up the big positronic computer. Finally, you
bring forth the great idea that you must send out all auxiliary ships to scour space for structural
disturbances."

"If one takes into consideration that we cannot be at all sure that the translating machine is equipped to
handle such complicated messages properly, don’t you think that we’ve started something we cannot
finish?"

Rhodan listened thoughtfully. Bell had become serious and Rhodan knew that he expected a serious
answer.
"No, Bell," Rhodan said quietly, emphasising his words. "I’m convinced that we can accomplish it."

Bell’s face changed from one second to the next. His mouth became firm and he cocked his head with
its bristles of red hair.