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"You know as et the Earth radio, very faintly But it's always in soe I'h I take itback, sir?"

"Yes We're curious, of course We had no radio contact so far out in space We'll want to see Earth, no matter what"

"You'll take us with you?"

The captain started "Of course, your wife, I reo, wasn't it? When they opened First Town and you quit the service and brought her up here And there were children--"

"My son and two daughters"

"Yes, I remember They're here?"

"Up at our hut There's a fine breakfast waiting all of you up the hill Will you come?"

"We would be honored, Mr Hathaway" Captain Wilder called to the rocket, "Abandon ship!"

They walked up the hill, Hathaway and Captain Wilder, the twenty crewdeep breaths of the thin, cool ood day

"Do you remember Spender, Captain?"

"I've never forgotten him"

"About once a year I walk up past his toot his way at last He didn't want us to coone away"

"What about--as his name?--Parkhill, Sam Parkhill?"

"He opened a hot-dog stand"

"It sounds just like him"