THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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His face was the face of a condemned man.

The /Ouroboros II/ was finished. The whole planet saw, by screen, the
ship lift out; watched from the ship the dwindling away of Koshchei and
saw Poictesme grow ahead of her. Twelve hours before she landed, work at
Force Command[Pg 160] stopped. Everybody was going to Storisende?Sylvie,
whose father would command her on her voyage to Baldur, Morgan Gatworth,
whose son would be first officer and astrogator, everybody. Except Carl
Leibert.

"Then I'm not going either," Klem Zareff decided. "Somebody's got to
stay here and keep an eye on that snake."

"No, nor me," Tom Brangwyn said. "And if he starts praying again, I'm
going to go and pray along with him."

Conn stayed, too, and so did Jerry Rivas and Anse Dawes. They watched