Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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Grannie Annie, that waspish science-fiction Grannie became twins every now and then. entered the outer limits of the Baldric. Grannie Annie strode in the As we reached the first of those trees, Grannie came to a halt. was crazy. But Miss Flowers, known to her friends as Grannie Annie, Grannie Annie was the original research digger-upper, and when she laid the setting of a yarn on a star of the sixth magnitude, only a transportation-velocity of less than light could prevent her from Antlers Park, the manager of I. V. himself. Antlers Park flicked the ash from his cheroot and shrugged. "What sort of trouble?" Grannie Annie had demanded. And when Antlers didn't. In some strange way the thing was a hideous caricature. "Look what I found," I yelled. And then all at once Grannie stopped again, this time at the top of a "Billy-boy," she said to me in a strange voice, "look down there and tell me what you see." I followed the direction of her hand and a shock went through me from Detail for detail they were a duplicate of ourselves! "A mirage!" said Ezra Karn. But it wasn't a mirage. As the party came closer, we could see that awe. The duplicate of myself was talking to the duplicate of Grannie heavens in a single direction, I called Grannie's attention to it. Grannie was shaking his hand vigorously and mumbling introductions. Grannie's eyes glittered. "Trouble with the mine laborers?" she they realize they're being followed, they stop. But the moment our eyes are turned, they give us the slip." Baker dropped his cigarette and ground his heel on it savagely. "Shaft Four, eh?" he repeated. "That's our principal mine. If the fever spreads there, I'm licked." notebook out, sketching the room's interior. Grannie Annie remained man's face formed in the vision plate. Baker listened, said "Okay" and threw off the switch. Grannie Annie walked across to it and began to study its markings. of the building. Grannie seized a light weight carry-case and began foreboding. Had I been a fool to let Grannie go? I thought of her, an "C'mon in," he said, seeing us. "If you want a look at your friends, here they are." He flicked a stud, and the entire wall above the panel underwent a slow change of colors. Those colors whirled kaleidescopically, then coalesced into a three-dimensional scene. were Jimmy Baker, Grannie, and Xartal. It was as if I were standing directly behind them. "It's Mr. Baker's own invention," the operator said. "An improvement on the visiphone." The cloud of anxiety which had wrapped itself about me disappeared somewhat as I viewed this device. At least I could now keep myself posted of Grannie's movements. Antlers Park flashed on the screen. gave the chap an antitoxin that seems to have worked. Come to think of it, I might drive over to Shaft Four and give Jimmy Baker the formula. likenesses of Ezra Karn, of myself, of Jimmy Baker, and of Antlers Park With a shock I saw the likeness of myself I saw Ezra Karn and I saw the image of Jimmy Baker. The real Jimmy Baker stood next to Grannie, staring up at this incredible mirage. Grannie let out a whoop. "I've got it!" she said. "Those things we see up there are nothing more than mental images. of Grannie Annie was bowing to the duplicate of Jimmy Baker, and the Then abruptly the screen before me blurred and went blank. "Sorry," the operator said. "I've used too much power already. Have to give the generators a chance to build it up again." part of the button appeared to be a powerful lens of some kind, and as I seized it and pulled it loose, I felt the hum of tiny clock work. All at once I had it! Red spot fever. Heat fever from the infra-red rays of Jupiter's great spot. Someone had constructed this lens to concentrate and amplify the power of those rays. The internal clockwork served a double purpose. It opened a shutter, and it rotated the lens slowly so that it played for a time on each of the sleeping men. I slid the metal button in my pocket and left the barracks at a run. Back in the visiscreen room, I snapped to the operator: "Turn it on!" controls was Antlers Park, the manager of Interstellar Voice. Ezra Karn jabbed my elbow. "Grannie's coming back. I thought she'd be getting sick of this blamed moon." It was Grannie. As the car drew up alongside I saw her sitting in her prim way next to Antlers Park. Park said: He waved his hand, and the car moved off. I watched it as it sped across the desert, and a growing suspicion began to form in my mind. Then, like a knife thrust, the truth struck me. "Ezra!" I yelled, swinging the car. "That wasn't Grannie! That was one of those damned cockatoo images. We've got to catch him." The other car was some distance ahead now. Park looked back and saw us following. He did something to the kite wire, and his car leaped ahead. in his hand. There was a flash of purple flame, and a round hole appeared in our windscreen inches above Karn's head. "Heat gun!" Ezra yelled. Now we were rocketing over the sand dunes, winding in and out between the flagpole trees. I had to catch that car I told myself. Grannie Annie's very life might be at stake, not to mention the lives of hundreds of mine workers. Again Park took aim and again a hole shattered our windscreen. speed, I raced alongside. The I. V. manager lifted his weapon frantically. But before he could use it a third time, Ezra Karn had whipped a lariat from his belt and sent it coiling across the intervening space. The thong yanked tight about the manager's throat. Park did the only thing he could do. He shut off power, and the two cars coasted to a halt. Then I was across in the other seat, wrenching the weapon free from his grasp. "What have you done with Miss Flowers?" I demanded. The manager's eyes glittered with fear as he saw my finger tense on the Grannie Annie. She had a tablet in her hands, and she was writing. "Grannie!" I yelled. "What're you doing here? Where's Mr. Baker?" She rose to her feet and clambered down the rock. "I see you've got Antlers Park. I'm glad of that. It saves me a lot of had been removed, and mounted on the hood was a large bullet-like contrivance that looked not unlike a search lamp. A blinding shaft of bluish radiance spewed from its open end. Playing it back and forth that cause red spot fever. Those men won't stop walking until they've reached Shaft Four." Grannie Annie told her story during the long ride back to Shaft Four. Jimmy Baker had struck a new big lode of Acoustix, a lode which if worked successfully would see . Antlers Park didn't want that. It was he or his agents who placed those lens buttons in the Larynx barracks. capable when its rays were concentrated of causing a fatal sickness. Then suddenly becoming fearful of Grannie's prying, Antlers Park strove to head her off before she reached Shaft Four. He did head her off and managed to lure her and Baker and Xartal into the Shaft barracks where they would be exposed to the rays from the lens button. But Grannie only pretended to contract the plague. Park then attempted to outwit Ezra Karn and me by returning in Jimmy Baker's kite car with a cockatoo image of Grannie.

<question>:
How did Grannie Annie avoid the actions of Antlers Park?

<options>:
A She pretended to contract the plague.
B She distracted him by sharing a new plot for her novel.
C She used a cockatoo image to distract him.
D She turned his own heat gun on him

<answer>:

A