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Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] But now unwonted excitement possessed the hundred-odd members of the Quest III's crew. The grownups talked in low voices, in tones of mingled eagerness and apprehension, of what might lie at the long journey's end. He said, with a touch of tolerant amusement, "What did you think might have happened to Earth? And we don't know what changes have taken place on Earth. From his private office-cabin, he sent a message to Chief Astronomer Zost Relyul to notify him as soon as Earth's surface features became clear; then he sat idle, alone with his thoughts. There were about three dozen film spools there—his personal memoirs of the great expedition, a segment of his life and of history. He might add that to the ship's official log and its collections of scientific data, as a report to whatever powers might be on Earth now—if such powers were still interested. It was one he had made shortly after leaving Procyon, end of the first leg of the trip. "Our visit to Procyon drew a blank. "Our hopes were dashed—and I think all of us, even remembering the Centaurus Expedition's failure, hoped more than we cared to admit. If Procyon had possessed a habitable planet, we could have returned after an absence of not much over twenty years Earth time. We go on to Capella; its spectrum, so like our own Sun's, beckons. If success comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth; friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships will be long since dead. Presently Knof Llud switched off that younger voice of his and leaned back, an ironic smile touching his lips. He rose, slipped the record back in its niche and picked out another, later, one. "We face the unpleasant realization that what was feared is probably true—that worlds such as the Sun's are a rare accident, and that we may complete our search without finding even one new Earth. "It makes no difference, of course; we cannot betray the plan.... This may be man's last chance of escaping his pitiful limitation to one world in all the Universe. Certainly the building of this ship and its two sisters, the immense expenditure of time and labor and energy stores that went into them, left Earth's economy drained and exhausted.
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