Doc Thorndon said slowly, “More than just get back, Kathy. He’s got to return with his reputation as strong as ever. He’s got to be able to throw into their faces just what tricks the present administration has been pulling on him.”
She sank into the one chair the room boasted. “Are we going to make it?”
Doc pursed his lips. Finally he said, “The odds arc against it, Kathy.”
They sat silently for awhile.
Doc took a deep breath. “By the way, Kathy, I just had Rosen in here, you know, the signalman. He’s in the first stages of cafard. He doesn’t know it yet, but he is.”
Air hissed through her teeth.
He nodded, seriously. “We’ve got to snap him out of it, but quick. One bad case, and it’d spread through this ship like wildfire. Now this is what you’ll have to do…”
She listened very car
