Jonnie lanced northwest in the Mark 32 battleplane.
The alert had come just over half an hour ago. Glencannon was in trouble.
It was Day 78, only fourteen days before Terl had scheduled himself to fire. He had not begun his panel on the last disks Jonnie had had. There had been a delay.
And now this! Glencannon was under attack en route.
The visitors, four hundred miles above Earth, had increased. There were eighteen of them now. Half-Captain Rogodeter Snowl had come back and with him he had brought four heavy war vessels. One of them at least, if not more, was a plane carrier. It was probably from this that the attack on Glencannon had been launched.
Jonnie had no communicator with him. He had simply been outside when the alert came. Stormalong and two other pilots had scrambled and
