Sindy was just starting down the first of the branch corridors she had targeted when she heard something from the next -- rumbling wheels, as if from a gurney. Quickly she ran back and looked into it -- and there was Oberon, the little dwarf who had wheeled Diana from the anteroom, returning with the conveyance! Sindy's joy was immediately tempered -- the gurney was empty. Still, now she knew which way Diana had been taken. Taking careful note of his present position, she waited for the grumbling orderly to pass and then slipped into the corridor and dashed down it to the point at which she had first spotted him.
The corridor was lined with rooms, each with an identifying sign. None read Interrogation, but each sported a round glass window at eye-height. Sindy peered into each one, hard put to keep her gorge down at some of the stomach-churning sights that met her eyes.
At the sixth window, her heart almost stopped. There was the skull-like helmet of Death's Head, staring right at her!
She leapt back with a suppressed cry before realizing--she was still invisible. He couldn't see her. But it was as well she had jumped, because an instant later, Death's Head pushed the door open and strode through.
"I have little interest in such details," he was saying over his shoulder. I will be in the commissary if you need me. Just be sure you call when the bird starts singing."
Sindy quietly slipped through the doorway before the door could swing to again, in time to hear the Eradicator's rough voice reply. "That I will, if that's what it takes to get you out of my sector. Now then, Magnus, you were saying?"
The Eradicator was speaking to a robot. At least, Sindy supposed it was a robot -- it was made of metal, of a curiously greenish sheen. But it had no joints, and had the features, proportions and fluid movements of a man. Both he and the Eradicator were poised over a complicated apparatus beneath a large plate window. On the other side of the window, an angled table displayed the naked, unconscious form of Diana.
Again Sindy almost wept, this time from relief. But she couldn't, lest she betray her presence.
"The bindings should be sufficient," the robot was replying. "Provided, that is, that a man secured them -- in my present robotic form, I don't count. Are you certain your Kryptonian physiology would qualify--"
"Oberon assisted with the bindings," the Eradicator replied. "And he's a man, dwarf or no. In any event, should the Amazon break free, my super strength will be more then adequate to deal with her."
"Then, at your word, I will awaken the subject."
"Not just yet, doctor."
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