The four minute trip at heavy acceleration seemed an interminable crawl. The War Department had positively refused to sell him a portable blaster. How about you, Mac? McIntyre ticked them off on his fingers. 'The success of the 'silent radio' caused the Governor to send Wingate on a long swing around the other camps of the free federation to help them rig new equipment and to teach them how to use it.
In spite of Superintendent King's anxiety, Lentz refused to be hurried in passing judgment on the situation. After reporting to the Captain he went to the control room, floating and pulling himself along by the handgrips. I asked him if he was a spaceman and he looked at me kind of funny and said, no, that he was just a Colonial Services ranger. 'That's enough.
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