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`` No '', said Macneff.

`` Though that does not mean that there may not be such records there.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

I can't tell you now the distance in lightyears or what star this was, though you can see it with the naked eye at night in this hemisphere.

If you volunteer, you will be told where you're going after the ship leaves.

And it leaves very soon ''.