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Let's hope they don't. There was no proper foundation; the transition was too abrupt. He shrugged and looked at the visiplate. You sound like a piano with 87 keys eternally out of order.

''Of course,' continued Beenay, 'there's the catch that life would be impossible on such a planet. They would be ready for the jump through hyper-space in two hours, and after that, two days would see them back on Earth. The place was no prison certainly. You don't look well.