![]() ![]() He couldn't believe these nimrods-the concept of ethnic purity wasn't that complicated. The probing rays of the sun were rapidly stretching into the sky, clearly silhouetting the First Attempt against the eastern horizon first the superstructure, then the crane and radar mast, then the indiscriminate piles of scientific equipment scattered around the deck. He recognized the two white, thirty-two point lights on bow and stern that signified a ship at anchor. ![]() ![]() Then his dulled eyes saw it, a low, gray shape, resting beyond the next small point of land, just over a mile away. No man, even a Jann, should die like that. He twisted in his chair and looked through the open parlor door to where the General was sitting at the claw-footed table.It'll be a fine day tomorrow, General! The sweat dripped off his beard.I know these summer storms. On the western horizon, Medlicott noted, where it should have been darkest at this time of day, the sky was showing a pale strip of lighter cloud where the rainstorm had stalled, but that evidence of dry weather showed no sign of wanting to move east.But it'll be a fine day tomorrow, Medlicott grunted. You deserve no less, she said at her sweetest and he curbed an impulse tosee what she was up to.ĭo you have to stick up for him? she asked irritably.Ĭaptain Medlicott and Captain Moxey sat on the veranda of the farmhouse that served as General Washington Faulconer's headquarters and stared at the evening rain. ![]()
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