"Yeah."
"Could anything in the universe make itself look like a four-foot-tall, four-armed, slate-gray man with pink eyes?"
"I don't know," said Daley. "Maybe there's something in System Ninety that can. Hypnotism, matter transference, fluidity or a lot of other facts could explain it."
Kinkare and Bill Calico came in on the run.
Their news didn't surprise Pink greatly.
The space drive was out of commission.
They were adrift in the void.
CHAPTER IV
The intercom, the space drive, the life-scanner. So far apart that one man couldn't have put them out of whack. No one connected in any way with the others. Ynohp snoring gently in his stateroom. Pinkham, Daley, Silver, Kinkare, Jerry Jones, Calico, and the girl, all gathered in the Captain's quarters, tense, baffled, and all talking at once.