"Come in, Jessup.... Come in, Jessup ...." the voice said over and over. He reached out blindly to push it away until the tearing pain in his side cleared his mind of smothering fog. "I ... I...." he croaked. The voice droned on unheeding for an interminable time, then: "Jess!" it deafened him "Hey, Colonel! I've got him! He's alive! Jess—" The voice of Colonel Markley broke in, "What happened, Jessup?" Then there was a deathly silence, a waiting . "I ... I don't know," said Jessup. "It's dark o