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We're less than eighty miles off target. Fourteen minutes later he arrived at a cutbank above theSpice River with Tain beside him. Taking a syringe from a case, the doctor walked over. Then something like a bigcat, black dappled with tan or gray, had rushed out and killed one of them.

There weretwo boxes to sit on. The blond trainee and the red-haired girl saluted each otherformally, but grinning, hands raised to the sides, shoulders high, palmsforward. Bisto came in about ten minutes later. I did notknow in advance about the artillery action you mentioned; I learned aboutit last evening, as you did.