"Dud, that's damn nice of you. Where are you now? Tell me again."
The Ardleys, knowing nothing of the events of this night, supposed that the girls were being abducted, and decided I should be informed.
"Damn right, Dud. We'll come at once. You two wait for us?"
"Sure. If you got instruments, maybe we can track 'em. It wasn't a quarter of a mile from here, over toward the river. Plenty of rotten dumps down there."
"Wait for us, Dud. We'll come in a rush."
I slammed shut the audiphone. Snap, beside me, had heard it all. He shoved the astonished orderly out of the way.
"What's the nearest exit-route out of here?"
"To the city roof, sir. Up this incline."
We dashed up the spiral incline, through a low exit-port, and were in the starlight of the city roof.