Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 129: what you’re looking at

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what’s happened to Procus and Sardin and Luxor and so on —you'll get the word back?” “No,” said Kit. “What's that?” he demanded sharply. He glanced out the bow-ports. The planet they neared was green and pleasing. It looked as if it would be a kindly world. There was at least one city. The passengers of the Delilah would want to land there and most likely stay there. “Anyhow,” said Kit, “my father says you'll be trying to find Earth to take the news yourself. He’s going to come along with you. There ought to be at least three or four men on a_ship this. size.” Then she added _ irrelevantly, “Besides, my father likes you. Very much.” Brent swallowed. Kit looked intently at her fingernails. “It might be nice,” she said slowly. “And—my father said — in case | should think of anything so foolish or so drastic- he’s a Commerce Commissioner and so automatically a magistrate. He said if we wanted him to, he’d—he’d marry US.” The green globe ahead was a world that humans lived on all their lives. It was a nice world. It was an admirable world. It grew slowly larger as the Deli/ah drew nearer to it. lt was fortunate, though, that for some little while Brent didn’t have to pay exclusive attention to the controls. CORniclooo SS (SO)