There were a few crackling moments of radio silence, then the tiny speaker over her head replied.

Captain Chatelaine," the speaker replied, "you're cleared to return, if that's really what you want.

"Just do as I tell you," the speaker replied in stentorian accents, "and the fortune is yours."

I wasn't there to see it personally,' the first speaker replied.

"Only the part about 'child of the fifth generation, ill-luck touches all who touch her,'" replied the original speaker.

"Your face is an open scroll," the speaker replied.

"Your country is always at war with Korsar," replied the speaker.

"Not a sovereign state, a buffer state," replied the speaker.

No,' the former speaker had replied, 'I know I'm not, because you don't hear a voice like hers every day.

"The Colonel said none too healthy," replied the first speaker, sounding uncertain.