"I've never heard much worse," Thorne told him.
There was a moment's silence. Then Thorne's thoughts took up again.
"Maybe I'm just wasting time. But it seemed to me I remembered that name."
"You have," Adams thought back. "Sutton went to 61 Cygni."
"Oh, he's the one!"
"He got back this morning."
"Couldn't have been him, then. Someone else by the same name, maybe."
"Must have been," thought Adams.
"Nothing else to report," Thorne told him. "The name just bothered me."
"Keep at it," Adams thought. "Let me know anything that turns up."