dragged the Earthling into a caveand hid him beyond all possibility of human search parties findinghim.

  For a while he looked into the man's eyes. Horror stared dumbly backat him. He spoke slowly, in halting English: "For those you killed,and for being a stranger on a world that does not want you, andagainst the day when Mars is free, I leave you."

  Before departing, he got several oxygen tanks from the boat and hookedthem into the man's air supply. That was quite a bit of air for one insuspended animation. Enough to keep him alive for a thousand years.

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