An Important Oversight
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 20926
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Damn! I had forgotten all about the pressure suit. The Colonel took a good
look at it, then turned back to me. "Would you mind telling me what this
suit is doing aboard your vessel, Captain?" he asked. He was being icily
correct now, which worried me even more than the curtness he had shown
previously. He went on: "It looks very like the design of the 'one size
fits
all' suit that is lifeboat standard issue, wouldn't you say?"
I could either tell him the whole truth now, or I could try to bluff it out with a story about how the suit came to be aboard. Not being a fool, I told him the whole truth: that I had gone aboard the lifeboat, that there had been an explosion, that I had found the Ibornite dead, that the freighter had appeared almost immediately afterwards. Not only would a bluff have been almost sure to fail, but also - if he wasn't interested in my cargo - then so long as he believed me I would be in the clear. After all, I had done the right thing in answering the distress call, and not having been wholly frank when the Indefatigable had first contacted me was surely a minor matter in comparison. When I had finished, the Colonel ordered: "Describe this freighter in as much detail as you can." So I told him that it was about eight times the size of my own ship, had been modified to carry weapons and bore no identifying markings. The Colonel looked at me, not saying anything for a moment. Then he said:
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JH
10/21/2002 11:00:42 AM
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