I COULD UNDERSTAND so much more of this weird thing now! It was no chance that had directed Bragg to Dora and me as we sat listening to the concert. Torkine had sent him to lure us to some spot where we could be seized without creating an alarm. And it wasn’t chance which enabled us to be attacked in Dora’s home. Torkine knew where her home was located.
“Was it Bragg, or Torkine himself who came with the Physicals and caught us?” I demanded.
“Torkine,” she said. “He told me they killed Mrs. Holten just before we arrived.”
My mind leaped back.... My little laboratory there in which I had just completed the small ray-weapon. The paralyzing ray. In our frightened haste when we had arrived and found Mrs. Holten gone, I had glanced into the laboratory, but had not thought of my ray-model. Ha
