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"Now we'll get ready to take that battleship. " DuQuesne turned to his aid as the _Violet_ disappeared from their sight. "Your suggestion that one of the crew of this ship could have gone space-crazy was sound, and I have planned our approach to the mother ship on that basis.
"We must wear Fenachrone space suits for three reasons: First, because it is the only possible way to make us look even remotely like them, and we shall have to stand a casual inspection. Second, because it is general orders that all Fenachrone soldiers must wear suits while at their posts in space. Third, because we shall have lost most of our air. You can wear one of their suits without any difficulty -- the surplus circumference will not trouble you very much. I, on the contrary, cannot even get into one, since they're almost a foot too short.