Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

too much for you to handle.”“Yellelle, that guy was not just any old Minoan male. Foryour information he was the second Minoan man I’ve everhad and that saxophone player on the steamship was the third.Neither of the other two was abnormally great. In fact Thomis better than that sax player.”“What do you have against these guys?” Yellelle asked.“I wasn’t out for it and you’ve got a husband a quartermile away.”“You know how far down the beach you can see from ourplace? Not even a hundred yards.”“So are we going back to their place?” Ava asked, “Youstep out on him all the time?”“We don’t even know they’re interested,” Yellelle said,“they could walk right past a couple old ladies like us and gomeet their girlfriends at the point.”“Fine,” Ava said. “Now what were you people doing toour sensor channels?”“Basically we put up a mirror so you were looking at areflection of yourself.”“The bogie!” Ava shouted.“Was a filtered replica of the energy release fromGordon’s Lamp.”“Great, I can just imagine how the captain is handlingthis.” She hoped someone knew it was some kind of a hackby now. They might not know by what, she might not knowby what.523