The Beyond by Jean Sutton

Author:Jean Sutton [Sutton, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Telepathy
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1968-10-15T20:48:17+00:00

didn't resist. Finally he released her and said contritely, "I'm sorry. You have trouble enough."

She smiled and brushed her hair back from her face. "Sorry?"

"Not that sorry," he laughed. He looked down at her. "Where were you going when Stagg caught you?"

"I heard your call."

"I was trying to warn you about the detector net," he explained.

"And I stumbled right into it," she exclaimed ruefully. She searched his face. "Did you..."

"Hear your warning? Yes."

"You see, Alek, you are a telepath."

"Not much of a one," he denied. "It only seems to work during some kind of emergency."

"It's that way with many telepaths," she explained. "People have the idea that we can read minds at will, talk with one another just as we do vocally, but it simply isn't true. Some telepaths can only converse with people to whom they are emotionally close."

"Does that hold for you?"

"No," she answered hesitantly.

"It certainly doesn't hold for Simon," he declared. "I have the feeling he reads me like a book."

"Probably," she admitted, "he's very sensitive."

"How about Johnny?"

"He's extremely perceptive, Alek."

"I've felt that," he acknowledged, "but his tests didn't indicate it."

"Tests?"

"The ones made by the psymaster."

She paused before answering. "He wasn't very sensitive at first," she explained. "Some telepaths grow into it. Like you," she added.

"At times I wonder."

"You're an extremely powerful transmitter, Alek."

"So Johnny said."

"He likes you," she declared.

"I'm glad for that." He eyed her gravely. "You have to get to a safe place, both of you. Wig's brought a groat hound."

"Groat hound?" The words dropped from her lips like a sentence of death.

"A deadly animal," he explained. "You can't take a chance."

She looked tremulously at him. "Would Wig...?"

"He'd do anything," he broke in harshly. "Why do you think he brought the groat? Do you know that he has a warrant of execution? Signed by the

Imperator, no less."

"Warrant of execution?" she asked fearfully.

"For your brother," he explained. "Now it's just a scrap of paper. Not that he'd admit David's death."

"He has to admit that," she said sharply.

"Does he?" He laughed mirthlessly. When she didn't answer, he told her of the figures he'd seen going toward the meadow. "Five adults and a child,"

he said.

Her face went blank. "I suppose they were villagers," she answered tonelessly.

"You know who they were," he accused.

"Please, Alek." He saw her struggle with her thoughts before she continued, "They were escaping, Alek."

"Escaping?" He couldn't conceal his astonishment. "To where?"

"I can't tell you that."

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