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"But which ones are friendlies and which ones are bogies?"

Cecil asked.

"And how do they survive?" Doctor Chase

asked.

"Probably with human farms," Ben told them

all. "Their outriders bring back prisoners and they

force-feed them until they're nice and fat. Then the

Night People eat them." He glanced at Chase.

"Don't look so startled, Lamar. You were briefed

on the dietary habits of the Night P."

Doctor Chase drew on nearly seventy years

of living-although he neither looked nor behaved like a

man that age-to sum up his opinion of the Night

Peopled Not one word of it was in the least

complimentary.

"You through?" Ben asked him.

"Perverted, savage, Godless, despicable

bastards!" Chase finished it.

"Thank you, Doctor, for that highly professional

summation of our immediate enemy." Dan smiled at him.

"Up yours, too!" Chase stalked away, Ben's

current ladylove, Doctor Holly Allardt,
walking fast to keep up with him.

The Rebel commanders once more bent over the

pictures taken from spotter planes; but this time they

were looking at blown-up black-and-white photos.