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"All right Everyone to your normal stations We&039;ll have a dry run" He hadn&039;t slept in forty hours The others had worked in shifts, but Panner had stopped neither to eat nor to sleep

Big and carrying, to reading dials under direction and holding levers according to instruction, had no place in a dry run, no station, no duties So he wandered somberly about the ship in search of Lucky and found him in the control room with Commander Donahue

Lucky had his shirt off and iping his shoulders, foreare plastofluff towel

As soon as he saw Big a dry run, Lucky"

"It ork That Jim Panner worked miracles"

Commander Donahue said stiffly, "Councilman Starr, you have saved my ship"

"No, no Panner deserves the credit I think half the engine is being held together with copper wire and e, but it ork"

"You knohat I mean, Councilman You drove us on to Jupiter Five when the rest of us were ready to give up and panic You saved my ship, and I will report that fact fully when I stand court- failed to co-operate with you on Jupiter Nine"

Lucky flushed in embarrassment "I can&039;t allow that, Commander It is important that councilmen avoid publicity As far as the official record is concerned, you will have remained in command at all times There will be no mention of any actions of mine"

"Impossible I couldn&039;t allow myself to be praised for what you have done"

"You will have to It&039;s an order And let&039;s have no talk of court-martials"

Commander Donahue drew himself up with a kind of pride "I deserve court-ents I did not listen and as a result ed"

"The blame is mine, too," Lucky said calmly "I was on board ship and did not prevent it Nevertheless, if we can bring back the saboteur, there will be no question of court-martial"

The commander said, "The saboteur, of course, is the robot you warned me of How I could be so blind!"

"I&039;m afraid you still don&039;t see entirely It wasn&039;t the robot"

"Not the robot?"

"A robot could not have sabotaged the ship It would have been bringing har the First Law"

The coht not have been aware that it was doing har the hurav The robot would have known it was doing harm In any case I think we have the identity of the saboteur, or will have in a moment"

"Oh? Who is he, Councilman Starr?"

"Well, consider this for a es a ship as to insure that it will either blow up or fall into Jupiter, he would be either a madman or a superhumanly dedicated person to stay on board that ship"

"Yes, I suppose so&039;&039;

"Since the time we left Io, the air locks have never opened If they had there would have been slight drops in air pressure, and the ship&039;s barometer indicates no such drops You see, then, the saboteur otten on the ship at Io He&039;s still there, unless he&039;s been taken off"

"How could he be taken off? No ship could get to Io, except this one"

Lucky srimly "No Earth ship"

The commander&039;s eyes widened "Surely no Sirian ship, either"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I&039;m sure" The commander frowned "And for that matter, wait a moment Everyone reported on board before we left Io We wouldn&039;t have left without everyone reported present"

"In that case everyone is still on board"

"I would presume so"

"Well," said Lucky, "Panner has ordered all ency conditions The where-abouts of everythis dry run Call Panner and ask if anyone is "

Conaled Panner

There was some delay, and then Panner&039;s voice, infinitely tired, answered "I was about to call, Commander The run was successful We can take off If we&039;re lucky, things will hold till we&039;re back on Jupiter Nine"

The coood Your ill be properly acknowledged, Panner Meanwhile, are all men at stations?"

Panner&039;s face on the visiplate above the intercom seemed to harden all at once "No! By Space, I meant to tell you! We can&039;t locate Su cobber Lucky"

"One man," Lucky said "Dr Panner, you mean Summers isn&039;t in his quarters?"

"He isn&039;t anywhere Except that it&039;s impossible, I&039;d say he wasn&039;t on board"

"Thank you" Lucky reached over to break contact "Well, Coman said, "Listen, Lucky You reine roo down there?"

"We kno," said Lucky

"And we know enough to get hi on Io and"

"Wait," said Lucky, "first things first There is so more important even than a traitor"

"What?"

"The matter of the robot"

"That can wait"

"Perhaps not Commander, you said that all men reported on board the Jovian Moon before we left lo If so, the report was obviously a false one"

"Well?"

"I think we ought to try to find the source of the false report A robot can&039;t sabotage a ship, but if a e, it would be very simple for the robot to help that man remain off the ship if its help is requested"

"You mean whoever is responsible for the false report that Summers was on board ship is the robot?"

Lucky paused He tried not to allow hirow too hopeful or feel too triuu-men seemed perfect

He said, "It seems so"