blowing in through the hole in the cabin.

It felt just like home.

* * * * *

Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Regional Headquarters
Cheyenne, Wyoming
20 January 2102

To: Space Transport Service
Subject: Lifeship 2, STS-52
Attention Mr. P. D. Latimer

Dear Paul,

I have on hand the copies of your reports on the rescue of the men on
the disabled STS-52. It is fortunate that the Lunar radar stations could
compute their orbit.

The detailed official report will follow, but briefly, this is what
happened:

The lifeship landed--or, rather, crashed--several miles west of
Cheyenne, as you know, but it was impossible to find the man who was
piloting it until yesterday because of the weather.

He has been identified as Ronald Watkins Clayton, exiled to Mars fifteen
years ago.

Evidently, he didn't realize that fifteen years of Martian gravity had
so weakened his muscles that he could hardly walk under the pull of a
full Earth gee.

As it was, he could only crawl about a hundred yards from the wrecked
lifeship before he collapsed.

Well, I hope this clears up everything.

I hope you're not getting the snow storms up there like we've been
getting them.

John B. Remley
Captain, CBI

THE END

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ September 1956.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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