THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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equipment. Brangwyn and Zareff returned to Force Command with them. A
Planetary Air Patrol ship arrived and removed the captured pirates. The
liberated prisoners were airlifted to Litchfield.

The third day after the battle, Conn and his father and Sylvie and her
father flew to Litchfield. To Conn's surprise, Flora greeted him
cordially, and Wade Lucas, rather stiffly, congratulated him. Maybe it
was as Tom Brangwyn had said; he hadn't been on Poictesme in the last
four or five years and didn't know how bad things had gotten. His mother
seemed to think he had won the Battle of Barathrum single-handed.

He was even more surprised and gratified that Flora made friends with
Sylvie immediately. His mother, however, regarded the engineer's
daughter with badly concealed hostility, and seemed to doubt that Sylvie
was the kind of girl she wanted her son getting involved with.
Outwardly, of course, she was quite gracious.