 What object is found by the guards, giving away the six Venusian conspirators? Who does it belong to?
DOUBLECROSS by JAMES Mac CREIGH Revolt was brewing on Venus, led by the descendant of the first Earthmen to land. [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Winter 1944. The Executive Officer was moodily smoking a cigarette in the open lock, staring out over the dank Venusian terrain at the native town. "Everything shipshape, I take it!" "They had to acclimate themselves to Venus's climate. He stared at the wooden shacks that were the outskirts of the native city, dimly visible through the ever-present Venusian mist. The native guard of honor, posted a hundred yards from the Earth-ship, stood stolidly at attention with their old-fashioned proton-rifles slung over their backs. A few natives were gazing wonderingly at the great ship, but made no move to pass the line of guards. They think there will be hordes of immigrants from Earth, now that we know Venus is habitable. And there's some sort of a paltry underground group that is spreading the word that the immigrants will drive the native Venusians—the descendants of the first expedition, that is—right down into the mud. That's a basic law of—" The annunciator over the open lock clanged vigorously, and a metallic voice rasped: "Officer of the Deck! Instruments reports a spy ray focused on the main lock!" We have agreed that, if the Earth-ship returns, it means disaster for Venus. Therefore, it must not return." "The Council did not know what we would face. He reached to a box at his feet, held up a shiny metal globe. It will be set by means of this dial—" he touched a spot on the surface of the globe with a pallid finger—"to do nothing for forty hours. It had held Venus-tobacco cigarettes; there were a few left. She shook them out and handed the bowl to Svan, who was rapidly creasing the six fatal slips. "We will go, all six of us, in my ground car, to look at the Earth-ship. And the sixth person will have his chance to steal to the side of the ship. It will not be noticed in the dark—they will take off before sunrise, because they must travel away from the sun to return—in forty hours the danger is removed." Instinctively they had opened the slip, turned it over and over, striving to detect if it was the fatal one. Svan waited impatiently for the chosen one to announce it—a second, ten seconds....
 A rifle. It belongs to the guard they killed just before breaking into where the Earth ship is kept.
 A spy ray. It belongs to the six insurgents who plan to blow up the Earth ship.  A Venus-tobacco cigarette. It belongs to the Exec officer, who the six insurgents killed when breaking into the Earth ship.  An atomite bomb. It belongs to the guard they killed just before breaking into where the Earth ship is kept.  A rifle. It belongs to the guard they killed just before breaking into where the Earth ship is kept.