"If you're going to waste time asking questions, let us come aboard," Captain Bonnet said. "But get that message in the air at once!" Lieutenant Riley followed the captain through the locks into the patrol boat. He lifted his hand and showed a bottle to the captain. "Look what a close shave we had," he said. "This bottle of Martian Zingo was in the lockers all the way from Venus and neither of us suspected it. Lord, if we'd crashed we'd never have been able to sample it!"