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Commander Grinnel, after reporting formally, had gone straight to a joint. It wasn't until midnight that he got The Word, from a friendly O. N. I. lieutenant who had dropped into the house.
"What? " Grinnel roared. "Who is this woman? Where is she? Take me to her at once!"