Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 330: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Stewie grinned as he steered across the plane to the wall of the Crystal Mines. He took another glance at the haggard General Drummond and pulled up at the wall. When fifty thousand convicts, the following day, cheered themselves to a= frenzy carrying Gedso lon Brown, Technician, Extra-Territorial Scienticorps, to his waiting transport, General Drummond was not there. In the dimness of his quarters, amid his presentation pistols and battle trophies, he heard the racking waves of triumphant sound sweep the mines again and again for minutes at a time. General Drummond sank into a chair and cupped his face In his hands. Wearily he repeated, “The guts ... of a worm.” CORniclooo SS CO