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Updated: June 19, 2025
It occurred to Cochrane that Alicia would probably find recompense for her humiliation and pain in the little-boy penitence exactly as temporary as any other little-boy emotion when she and Johnny Simms were alone together. The ship had come down close to the sunset-line of the planet. Away to the west there was the glint of blue sea. Dusk was already descending here.
"I've just had word from the Shed," he explained carefully, "that there may be some guided missiles coming up from Earth to smash us as we meet. You're still higher than we are, and they ought to be starting. Can you pick up anything with your radar?" The voice from the Platform said: "We have picked something up. There are four rockets headed out from near the sunset-line in the Pacific.
Again he turned a corner, thrusting Murgatroyd down out of sight. He turned again, and again.... Then he began concentratedly to remember where the sunset-line had been upon the planet when he was waiting to be landed by the grid. He could guess at an hour and a half, perhaps two, since he touched ground. On the combined data, he made a guess at the local time. It would be mid-afternoon.
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