"Captain Halgan!" The voice rattled into the waiting stillness of the shack. "Captain Halgan, is it really you?"
"Get General Vorka at once," I said. "Meanwhile, are you recording? All right, be sure you get this."
I told them everything I knew. I told them what planet this was, and where we were on its surface, and what our strength and plans were. I gave them the disposition of the scoutship pickets, as far as those were known to me, and the standard Legion recognition signals. I finished with an account of the savage differences still existing between Earthman and Earthman, and Earth and its treacherous allies. And all the time I was talking to a recording machine. Nobody was listening.
When I was through, I waited a minute, not feeling any particular emotion. I was too tired. I sat there, listening to the wind and the interstellar whistling, till Vorka spoke to me.
"Halgan! Halgan, you've done it!"
"Shut up," I said. "What's coming now?"
"I checked the Fleet units. We have a Supernova with escort at Bramgar, about fifteen light-years from where you are. You are at their base, aren't you? Can you hold out for two days more?"