2:30
`` All right . I 'll chance it ! '' They consented , without very much argument , to let Wasil have the dangerous responsibility . At 2:30 , two and a half hours after sunrise by the Martian reckoning , he signed a release acknowledging all circuits to be in proper order , and was locked behind the heavy doors , alone with a maze of complicated apparatus and cables that filled the large room from floor to ceiling . Now it was done ! Chance had thrown Wasil into a position where he could , without great danger of failure , carry out his plan . But at the same time things had so fallen that he , Wasil , must now die , regardless of the outcome !