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Updated: June 7, 2025
It had been a fool's idea, he thought in despair, a million-to-one shot that he had taken, and lost.... And then the pressure stopped. His boots clanged down on the hull, and he almost lost his hand-grip. He stretched an arm, shook himself, took a great painful breath, and then clung to the strut, almost sobbing, hardly daring to move. The ordeal was over.
And in the shifting confusion on the radar-screen, there was no trace either of the Jan Smuts or the Gaucho. "Well, the geeks did have an A-bomb," Themistocles M'zangwe said, at length. "I'd been trying to kid myself that we were just preparing against a million-to-one chance. I wonder how many more they have." "Paula, find out who was in command of the Gaucho; he'd be a junior-grade lieutenant.
Folks around here are going to know all about you, old-timer, whether they get to read what's on your back or not. "And, on the other hand, it's a million-to-one shot you'll land where your ticket reads. I'd hate to gamble on that horse standing in one spot for two or three days, wouldn't you?" He wheeled Rattler unobtrusively, his eye on the pinto. "I hope he don't try to follow," he said.
That was all Bob McGraw had to cheer him on to victory a million-to-one chance; yet, such was his peculiar mental make-up, the terrific odds only proved an added attraction.
It isn't exactly a strain on me, but soon or late she's bound to get me if there's anything in the law of probability. It may be a million-to-one shot, but heaven alone knows where in the series of the million that fatal one is going to pop up." "You're a wonder, Red Cloud," Paula smiled. "Why?" "You think in statistics and percentages, averages and exceptions.
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