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"I donтАЩt understand a word."

"Man, donтАЩt be a bonehead! Kulman is making his report right now. WeтАЩre going to fly to Swoofon and
look up the natives. TheyтАЩre building a compensator-detector that can register hypertransitions even
when the compensators in operation."

"Holy mackerel!" Sikerman exclaimed.

Bell grinned. "DonтАЩt worry, weтАЩll throw a monkey wrench into their project. But the cucumbermen are
supposed to be the nicest creatures and weтАЩre not allowed to harm themтАж"

"What do you mean by cucumbermen?"

Bell explained it to him and added: "IтАЩm really curious to meet them. Kulman assures us theyтАЩre charming
in their own way. TheyтАЩve got eyes that let them remove the warts from a flea."

"The wartsтАж?" Sikerman was flabbergasted. "Are they crazy?"

"The warts? Crazy?" Bell inquired.

Sikerman gave no reply. He tried to ignore BellтАЩs presence and observed intently the radar screens
where nothing was to be seen. "Warts! Cucumbers!" he muttered under his breath, shaking his head. You
ought to see Rosita Peres."

Rosita Peres was the cosmo-psychologist of theDrusus .

Bell grinned and ambled to the door leading to the radio room. He opened it with a push on the button.
David Stern was on duty and turned around when he heard Bell enter. "Everything normal, sir," Stern
reported. "Nothing has been registered and weтАЩve intercepted no radio calls."

"Thank you," Bell said and leaned against a console. "You might as well take it easy now. Pretty soon
youтАЩll be a very busy man."

David Stern was a lieutenant and one of the best radio officers of theDrusus . He was born in Israel, of
medium height, dark-haired and moved with the supple grace of a lion. "A new mission?" he asked
hesitantly.

"Squash the cucumbers, Stern!"

"Huh?!" David Stern gasped for air. "What did you say?"

"I said: тАШSquash the cucumbers!тАЩ DonтАЩt you know that the inhabitants of Swoofon are cucumbers?
WeтАЩve to go in and get something from them."

"Oh," Stern nodded without understanding a word. "WeтАЩre going to take something from them. Very
interesting. When and where?"

"You donтАЩt believe in cucumbers, do you?" Bell questioned him in a menacing tone. "Our agent Kulman
never lies. He knows better than that."
"But Kulman brought Muzzel aboard," Stern reminded him.