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106 the chart of the Televizor map screen of their ship!"

I felt a wild, vast, sweeping sense of relief. Then the Admiral's testy reply threw me into a slough again.

"You talk like an ass, Sergeant," he snapped. "When you turned the ship back in this direction, you charted a new course—which would completely erase their map charts!"

I felt sick at my stomach. The old man was undeniably right. I tried to vision the rest of my life in the brig. It wasn't pleasant.

"Charted a new course." It was Shane speaking again. "Bah! I learned to pilot a space ship before I could walk. I don't need those new fangled gadgets. I fly by the seat of my pants. You'll find that map on the Televizor Chart still intact!"

"Sergeant," Old Ironpants said, "if you're right, you're a lucky Marine. And you're still Sergeant. But if not—" the implication was ominous.

But of course I remembered Shane was right. And if I hadn't been standing on the deck of a battle wagon, I'd have indulged in the luxury of fainting.

IT WAS WHILE we were writing our reports of the entire affair—the following day—that Sergeant Shane looked up from his laborious notations and said,

"About our escape, Corky," he coughed discreetly, "I don't think we have to mention those tweezers that did the trick."

I looked at the lug for a minute.

"No, dearie, there's no sense in mentioning them. I'll carry your shameful secret with me to the grave."

Shane stood up, face red.

"And no cracks, y'unnerstand?" he said, waving a finger under my nose. "No cracks!"

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