THE ONE-TIME OFFICER of the SSP, now on the retired list, shot a swift glance at the glittering panorama visible through the quartzite plates.
“Night, Lieutenant? Night and day are nothing but quirks of speech out here, sleep a matter of habit. When you have lifted gravs as many years as I have—” He sighed. “I was restless. And perhaps it is just as well. I witnessed the same thing you did. And strange things are going on aboard the Libra.”
Mallory said cautiously, “Perhaps you’re too apprehensive, Captain. Just because two passengers are sleepless like yourself, meet in the observation chamber—”
“They’re not the only two who are still awake. The whole slumbering ship stirs with movement, my boy. A moment or so before you arrived I saw Albert Lemming stealing down the No. 2 corridor—and
