THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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had made. "If we send the /Lester Dawes/ in, do you think you might talk
them into letting you come out here?"

"I can try."

Flora arrived at Force Command that afternoon.

"I would have come sooner," she said, "but Mother's had a complete
collapse. It happened last evening; she's in the hospital. I was with
her until just an hour and a half ago. She's still unconscious."

"You mean she's in danger?"

"I don't know. They think she's all right, except for the shock. It was
the Travis statement that did it."

"Think I ought to go to her?"