| Followed by Damis and a score of Earthmen, the Kildare led the way into a building. |
| However, he's suspected of being an extraterrestrial android sent to lull the Earthmen into a false sense of security. |
| By now the pitifully few weapons of the Earthmen were popping. |
| If Earthmen wanted anything from them, the terms were cash on the barrelhead. |
| Even as he stood there, outwardly calm but jittering internally, the Martian riders pulled up ten feet from the Earthmen. |
| They staggered and trembled in every shaking limb, heedless now of the Earthmen. |
