 What were the lights Lowry saw in the dark?
"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. A few natives were gazing wonderingly at the great ship, but made no move to pass the line of guards. He stared at them in a new light, saw their indecision magnified, became opposition. Masked by the table, his hand, still holding the pencil, moved swiftly beneath the table, marked his own slip. The six conspirators in Svan's old ground car moved slowly along the main street of the native town. Two Earth-ship sailors, unarmed except for deceptively flimsy-looking pistols at their hips, stood before the entrance to the town's Hall of Justice.
 Svan and his conspirators
 Svan and his conspirators  The guards  The delegation  Another spy-ray