"What about it?"

Carroll shunned the doctor at that point. He faced Rhinegallis with a bitter smile. "So you have Terran characteristics. And your offer of affection might have been honest—despite the alien brain inside your skull!"

Rhinegallis gasped. "You accuse me of—"

"Well, there must be some logic in it!"


CHAPTER IX

Court Is Dismissed

Insistently the communicator on Pollard's desk buzzed and Miss Farragut called him. The doctor excused himself and left them alone.

"There must be proof," insisted Carroll.

"There has been plenty of it," she told him.