A thing Dumarest had already learned. Impatiently he flipped the pages.
"… which leads us to the inevitable conclusion that Earth, or Terra as it is sometimes called, must lie within the region bounded by the patch of dust lying to the galactic north of Silus, the energy pool known as Morgan's Sink to the galactic west of Crom, and the Hygenium Vortex. These areas give the parameters as specified by the Erce sect and while the names may have become distorted by the passage of time the coordinates have not. They are alien to our present system but that is to be expected if, at one time, Earth's primary was considered to be the navigational center of the galaxy. The revised and adjusted coordinates which now give the exact position of Earth are…" The rest of the page was missing.
"Earl?" Sayer backed from Dumarest's expression. "God, man, what's wrong? You look like murder."
He felt it-but Boulaye was long dead. Boulaye who had ripped the page across and had taken the relevant portion to make certain that no one else would learn the secret.
Dumarest wished him screaming in hell!