After carefully examining every aspect of the situation,
I find that the odds against any creature crossing the borders of time, alive and unaided, are precisely forty-two million to one.
In other words, it's a near impossibility.″ Another buzz of agitation ran around the boardroom.
″Everything suggests,″ the fourth speaker continued, when the murmurs had subsided, ″that someone helped the girl to elude us.
You all know who I mean. The person in question titles himself Professor Hora.″
At the sound of this name, most of the men in gray flinched as if they had been struck. Others jumped to their feet, shouting and gesticulating.
The fourth speaker raised his arms for silence. ″Gentlemen, gentlemen,″ he cried, ″a little self-control, if you please!
I'm well aware that any mention of that name is - well, not quite proper.
I utter it with extreme reluctance, I assure you, but we mustn't blind ourselves to the facts.
If the girl received assistance from - from the Aforesaid, he must have had his reasons, and those reasons cannot be other than detrimental to us.
In short, gentlemen, we must allow for the possibility that the Aforesaid may not only send the girl back but arm her against us in some way.
She will then be a mortal danger to us. We must therefore be prepared not merely to sacrifice another human lifetime or lifetimes.
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색