"He got them from the radio room." A man's voice: I puzzled over it at first, then recognized it. Rance Rankin.
Miko said, "He is a fool. Walking around this ship as though with letters blazoned on his forehead, 'Watch me.... I need watching.' Hah! No wonder they apprehended him!"
Rankin's voice said: "He would have turned the papers over to us. I would not blame him too much. What harm—"
"Oh, I'll release him," Miko declared. "What harm? That braying ass did us plenty of harm. He has lost the passwords. Better he had left them in the radio room."
Moa was in the room. Her voice said, "We've got to have them. The Planetara, upon such an important voyage as this, might be watched."
"No doubt it is," Rankin said quietly. "We ought to have the passwords. When we are in control of this ship...."
It sent a shiver through me. Were they planning to try and seize the Planetara? Now? It seemed so.
"Johnson undoubtedly memorized them," Moa was saying. "When we get him out—"
"Hahn is to do that, at the signal." Miko added, "George could do it better, perhaps."
And then I heard George Prince for the first time, "I'll try."