 What is the name of the Officer of the Deck?
DOUBLECROSS by JAMES Mac CREIGH Revolt was brewing on Venus, led by the descendant of the first Earthmen to land. The Officer of the Deck was pleased as he returned to the main lock. The Executive Officer was moodily smoking a cigarette in the open lock, staring out over the dank Venusian terrain at the native town. "Everything shipshape, I take it!" "Every man accounted for except the delegation, cargo stowed, drivers ready to lift as soon as they come back." Four or five generations ago they were. "They had to acclimate themselves to Venus's climate. The native guard of honor, posted a hundred yards from the Earth-ship, stood stolidly at attention with their old-fashioned proton-rifles slung over their backs. A few natives were gazing wonderingly at the great ship, but made no move to pass the line of guards. They think there will be hordes of immigrants from Earth, now that we know Venus is habitable. And there's some sort of a paltry underground group that is spreading the word that the immigrants will drive the native Venusians—the descendants of the first expedition, that is—right down into the mud. That's a basic law of—" The annunciator over the open lock clanged vigorously, and a metallic voice rasped: "Officer of the Deck! Instruments reports a spy ray focused on the main lock!" "Then we must act. The Council has told us that we alone will decide our course of action. We have agreed that, if the Earth-ship returns, it means disaster for Venus. "The Council did not know what we would face. The Councilmen could not come to the city and see what strength the Earth-ship has." There will be danger, I think...." She shook them out and handed the bowl to Svan, who was rapidly creasing the six fatal slips. "We will go, all six of us, in my ground car, to look at the Earth-ship. There will be commotion—that is easy enough, after all; a hysterical woman, a few screams, that's all there is to it. And the sixth person will have his chance to steal to the side of the ship. It will not be noticed in the dark—they will take off before sunrise, because they must travel away from the sun to return—in forty hours the danger is removed." Svan waited impatiently for the chosen one to announce it—a second, ten seconds....
 Lowry
 Svan  Lowry  Larry  Ingra