"Whoopee! This is fun, being famous!" exclaimed Joe, his eyes alight.
"I hope it lasts until we get back to the Earth-Moon system! I'd like
to enjoy it!"
"I hope so, too, for all our sakes. Your exploits have given all the
Starmen a good name!" Joe whirled.
"Kathryn Mullaney!" cried Joe. Mark and Zip smiled widely.
"What are you doing on Ceres, Kathryn?" asked Zip. "I haven't seen you
since your last visit to the Academy at the beginning of our senior
year." Kathryn Mullaney had graduated from Starlight Academy a year
before Zip and his partners; her first assignment as a Starman was in
the Outer Planets. She was twenty years old, wore her strawberry blond
hair short, and had a few freckles spangled across her nose below blue
eyes which had a touch of green in them.
"Finished my assignment on Ganymede and I'm coming back home for a
leave which I hope will be very long! I spent eight months in the
smallest population center in the Solar System, and can't wait to get
back where there are crowds of people! I'm just staying here long
enough for a quick once-over on my ship, refueling, and then I'm
Earth-bound. In fact, I'm on my way out now."
There was a little more pleasant conversation, then Kathryn said, "I've
got to be going, and Sim is waiting for you upstairs.
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