Larry was stricken dumb. Tugh seized the little Robot by his metal shoulders. "Liar! What do you mean?"
Tina gasped, "Where are our visitors—the young man and the girl?"
"Migul took them!"
"Where?" Tina demanded.
"We don't know. We think very far down in the caverns of machinery. Migul said he was going to feed them to the machines!"
CHAPTER XVI
The New York of 2930
arry stood alone at an upper window of the palace gazing out at the somnolent moonlit city. It was an hour or two before dawn. Tina and Tugh had started almost at once into the underground caverns to which Tina was told Migul had fled with his two captives. They would not take Larry with them; the Robot workers in the subterranean chambers were all sullen and upon the verge of a revolt, and the sight of a strange human would have aroused them dangerously.
"It should not take long," Tina had said hastily. "I will give you a room in which to wait for me."