When finally he did come fully awake, it was to look into the faces of the two men who had abducted him.
"Wh—?" he grunted, believing that he uttered a complete sentence asking what the score was.
"You know too much," said the man on the left.
The implication did not filter in at first. It came very slowly that one who knew too much was often prevented from telling it to the right people.
Then he said, "What are you going to do to me?"
"Eliminate you," came the cold answer.
The other man shook his head slowly. "No," he said. "Not at once."
The first one turned abruptly. "Look, Kingallis," he snapped, "This one is a definite threat."
"And there may be others," smiled Kingallis. "We could easily eliminate him. And we will but only after we locate exactly what there is about him that permits him to be a threat to us. There may be others. We must stop them."
Sargenuti nodded in a sardonic manner. "Even in the face of a threat the great Doctor Kingallis must experiment!"