"I don't get it," Case said bluntly. "If they attempted triangulation, they must have got it."
"Precisely," Cranly interjected. "They got it. The source of the flash was an empty space between Mars and Venus!"
Case was rocked back on his heels by Cranly's disclosure. This was something. An enemy who loosed his blasts out of unoccupied space, who could cut into the Council's own line at will!
"What about a fast moving asteroid? That could have been gone before it was observed."
"Not a chance," Cranly said.
And Cranly should know. So should the rest. Every one of them was in charge of a department of the Earth's services. But there was that emphasis on Mars and Venus. Strogoff interrupted that line of thought.
"I say we might as well give in." Even his thick mustache drooped in despondency. "Why have millions more killed?"
"Never!" Osborn thundered.
"I should hesitate to admit defeat," Vargas shrugged. "But how can we defend ourselves?"