"She made the attempt," Dowland went on, "immediately after she had
taken off her radiation suit to avoid being choked in the dust storm on
the way down from the mesa. That is one point."
"Go ahead," Camhorn said.
"Another is that when I discovered Paul Trelawney early in the
morning, he was wearing his radiation suit. Judging by his appearance,
he had been in it for hours--and a radiation suit, of course, is a
very inconvenient thing to be in when you're hiking around in rough
country."
"He might," the stout man suggested, "have been afraid of running into
a radioactive area."
Dowland shook his head. "No, sir. He had an instrument which would have
warned him if he was approaching one. It would have made much more
sense to carry the suit, and slip into it again if it became necessary.
I didn't give the matter much thought at the time. But then the third
thing happened. I did not put that in the report because it was a
completely subjective impression. I couldn't prove now that it actually
occurred."