Chapter 29

“I can’t understand it,” DuQuesne frowned as he considered the situation. “The attackers are Kondalians, all right—those ships are developments of the _Skylark_—but I don’t get that fort at all. Wonder if it can be the strangers already? Don’t think so—they aren’t due for a couple of years yet, and I don’t think the Kondalians could stand against them a minute. It must be what is left of Mardonale, although I never heard of anything like that. Probably it is some new invention they dug up at the last minute. That’s…