《In a Misty Light》作者： - Richard Varne【EPUB】

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In A Misty Light by Richard Varne In the mist-shrouded darkness of an alien planet the espionage agent was given a vital secret to take back to Earth. That was the easy part of the assignment — the difficult part was to get off the planet. Illustrated by Bradshaw An A\NN/A Preservation Edition. Notes All through the afternoon and evening, a humid wind had swept thick clouds in from the east, and now a heavy night heat enveloped Mek. Sands walked a narrow side street leading towards the waterfront, keeping into the deeper shadows cast by the ramshackle buildings that made the alley a canyon of darkness. He looked around him warily, and once he shivered, although the night was oppressively warm. The moon shone momentarily through the veil of cloud that hid its lurid surface, and Sands moved quickly into the doorway of a shop until the protecting darkness returned. He cautiously stepped from the shop porch, looking behind him, searching the length of the dark alleyway before he moved on. All around him, the city was silent, but it was not sleeping. In an atmosphere of tension and superstitious fear, families sat quietly in unlighted rooms, behind curtained windows, waiting out the night of the year when Copan spirits were abroad. Sands began to look at the ideographs set beside the entrance until he found the one that he was looking for. It was the number of a shop that—Sands moved