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The four craft crossed above the line of white breakers that marked the
division of sea and land; the gunboat /Goblin/ in the lead, her sisters,
/Vampire/ and /Dragon/ to right and left and a little behind, and the
/Lester Dawes/ a few miles in the rear. Fred Karski was at the
/Goblin's/ controls; Conn, beside him, was peering ahead into the
teleview screen and shifting his eyes from it to the map and back again.

Somebody behind him was saying that it would be a nice place to be
air-wrecked. Somebody else was telling him not[Pg 71] to joke about it.
From the radio, his father was asking: "Can you see it, yet?"

"Not yet. We're on the right map-and-compass direction; we should before
long."

"We're picking up radiation," Fred Karski said. "Way above normal count.
I hope the place isn't hot."