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did not turn around. “Look due north,” he ­ordered. “See that!”
The beam made the arc across the horizon. Kartr heard a gasp which was almost a cry.
“It must be a signal of some sort,” the sergeant continued. “And I would judge mechanically broadcast—”
“From a city!” Jaksan added eagerly.
“Or a landing port. But—remember Tantor?”
The other’s silence was his answer.
“What do you propose to do?” Jaksan asked after a long moment.
“This process you were discussing with Dalgre—can you use disruptor charges in the sled? We must keep the extra fuel for emergencies.”
“We can try to do it. It was done once and Dalgre read the report. Suppose we can—what then?”
“I’ll take the sled and investigate that.”
“Alone?”
Kartr shrugged. “With not more than one other. If that is a dead monument, another Tantor, we dare not be too precipitant in exploration. And the fewer