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Not very far behind them, Captain Jack Turner of the Solar Guard was following the little cruiser grimly. When it leaped in acceleration to five gravities, he assumed that they knew he was following them and decided that stealth was no longer necessary.
He crammed his power on, getting a full six gravities out of the Guardship. From time to time he considered the problem that confronted him. His -- well, she was not his fiancée, but she meant more to him than the word 'friend' implies -- was in possession of material labeled contraband. Nothing of intrinsic value, true -- normally it would never have been missed -- but it had been removed from the specimen files of the Solar Laboratory, and that in itself was a breach of the law.