"Oh?"
"The teleport is theirs. They have many of them. They were worried about discovery, so they came and—"
"They did?" asked the doctor sarcastically. He turned to Majors. "I was wrong," he said.
"Wrong?"
Pollard nodded sadly. "I believed that Carroll would not direct his hate towards anything living. I did not anticipate his fastening the embodiment of his hallucination upon a human being!"
Carroll turned to Pollard with a glassy stare. "Just what do you mean?" he asked in a flat voice.
"That was an attempt at sheer wanton murder!" replied the doctor.
Majors looked down at the girl and his face went black with anger.
"Why," he said, "that's Rita Galloway!"
Pollard looked at Majors. "Who?"