She was smiling then, smiling through the tears that would not stop. And the Falcon, watching her features on the screen, knew the torture that was hers.
"I'll be waiting, Curt," she said. "But hurry—Oh, please hurry!"
"Wait for me, Jean, wait for me."
And the Falcon and his brood were running down the hall, running toward the secret spot where a pirate ship waited to take them back to their fight and their loves and their freedom—and to the far horizons of their starway destiny.