Connel slipped the paper inside his tunic and faced the three cadets.

"All right, you heard it!" he growled. "And you deserve it. You have three weeks' leave. But when you come back," he added, "watch out!"

"Oh, for the life of a Space Cadet!" said Tom, grinning at his unit mates. "It's wonderful!"

Transcriber's Notes

A few illustrations have been moved to an appropriate place in the text.

The following typos have been corrected.

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12stomach. Thatstomach that
97I"llI'll
112an attempt at murder,""an attempt at murder,"