So Snap was captured but not killed. Relief swept me. He was in the
radio room and Miko was with him. But my relief was short-lived. After
a brief interval, there came a moan from Snap. It floated down the
silence overhead and made me shudder.
My Benson beam shot into the radio room. It showed me Snap lying there
on the floor. He was bound with wire. His torso had been stripped. His
livid face was ghastly plain in my light.
Miko was bending over him. Miko with a heat cylinder no longer than a
finger. Its needle beam played upon Snap's naked chest. I could see
the gruesome little trail of smoke rising; and as Snap twisted and
jerked, there on his flesh was the red and blistered trail of the
violet ray.
"Now will you tell?"
"No!"