The Kralons apparently understood. Without touching Randall, one of them motioned toward the corridor.
Doctor Gerard and McClellan scrambled to their feet outside the building.
"We'd better get help, fast!" said McClellan.
In Gordo Lanson's hut, Lanson acquainted Dr. Gerard and McClellan with his theory, and told them of his tentative plans.
Dr. Gerard was faintly hopeful, but immediately voiced an objection. "How do you propose to escape the Kralons long enough to acquaint yourself with the operation of the Time Trap, and to perform the necessary experimentation?"
"We thought perhaps you could help us there, Dr. Gerard," said Lanson.
"You're a physiological chemist, are you not?"
"Used to be," admitted Dr. Gerard. "But of late years I have concerned myself more with my avocation of Entomology. That is, it was an avocation until I met the Kralons.
"But that isn't the thing of immediate importance," he continued. "The Kralons have captured Randall. We've got to find some way of helping him!"