Jongor: The Original Illustrated Trilogy by Robert Moore Williams

Author:Robert Moore Williams [Williams, Robert Moore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

ORBO jumped up and down with excitement and pleasure. “Good! Good!” he grunted, as fighters tied up the girl. “Fine. Oh, very fine. I knew I could reach her mind, lure her into the trap. Good.”

He was holding aloft a crystal similar to the crystal Jongor had used to control the dinosaur. This one was smaller, more delicately made than the one. Jongor used. It had been designed to control humans. Orbo had used it to implant in Ann Hunter’s mind the idea that she should go and meet Jongor as he returned from the hunt.[*] A human who knew that such a device existed could use his will power to overcome its radiations. But its radiations were subtle, the person on whom it was used thought the idea was coming from his own mind. Ann Hunter had not known such a crystal existed. She had thought the idea to go out and meet Jongor had come from her own mind. It hadn’t. It had come from Orbo’s crystal.

Orbo was very pleased with himself.

Umber, his lieutenant, who was only slightly less strong, slightly less brutal, and whose tail was not quite as bushy, and who resented all three of these facts, was not so pleased.

“Why did we not use the crystal to lure Jongor into a trap?” Umber grumpily demanded. “What good will this skinny female do us? It is Jongor we want. Why did we not use the crystal on him?”

“You are a fool and the son of a fool!” Orbo stated flatly. “Jongor knows us. He knows the crystal. If we tried to use the crystal on him, he would know instantly what was happening, and instead of luring him into a trap, we would find ourselves in one.

Anybody but a fool would know that,” Orbo ended.

Umber was not pleased to be called a fool. But, looking thoughtfully at his chief’s bulk, he decided there was nothing he could do about it. “I still do not see what good the girl will do,” he muttered. “She will only get us into trouble. Jongor will go crazy when he learns that we have her. His anger will be terrible. I still remember what he did to our city,” Umber said uneasily.

“You have no more sense than a chattering monkey,” Orbo grunted. “We need the girl. She will be the bait for our trap, the one bait Jongor will not be able to resist. Certainly he will be angry. Certainly he will come seeking her. That is what we want him to do. We will leave a trail for him to follow. When he comes seeking the girl—” Orbo grinned delightedly and drew a hairy thumb across an equally hairy throat, making a snicking noise as he did so.

Not until then did Umber understand his chief’s strategy. It was good strategy, Umber reluctantly admitted. But even then he didn’t like it, largely because he had not thought of it himself. Umber had the opinion that he, and not Orbo, should be chief of the Murtos.

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