the Blues _had_ picked up a trace of him, he
reflected, they would be atomized before they got within half a million
miles of the planet.

The specimen for genetics, which he had almost forgotten about, arrived
an hour before he was scheduled to depart. He was stunned again. She
was undoubtedly the most attractive woman Keeter had ever set eyes on.

"Oh, I'm so excited," said the young lady, in a voice slightly
suggestive of the virgin on the way to the sacrifice.

"I'm excited, too," said Keeter honestly.

In the control room, Keeter set a course for Arcturus. He then tripped
a lever which fed a month's supply of the earthmen's fuel into the
ship's almost empty reaction chambers. Another lever fed 50 computor
missiles into 50 completely empty launching racks.

He checked the detectors, but found no trace of the blue ships of the
Federation Patrol. Keeter allowed himself the luxury of a sigh. It was
a long way to Arcturus, a long, lonely way--even for a hardened pirate,
he reflected sadly. Then he remembered that that was why he had asked
for the girl.

THE END

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