t two examples of his versatility, see his Desert Hymn and The Flaming Dames at me end of this essay) Although he had followed many leads over the years Halleck was never able to discover what had become of his sister In 10176 however, the answer came to him A Har konnen officer had made the mistake of taking an Atreides agent into his confidence and had explained a large facial scar as a souvenir of a girl m a pleasure-house on Larange, a planet in the same sector as Chusuk The Harkonnen remembered the girl vividly after more man twenty years, she had seized the knife foolishly left on his belt and after slashing at him, had fallen on it The agent, with Halleck's quest in mind, put out inquiries and found that the girl was undoubtedly Annette Halleck, and that the incident had occurred on her first da) at the Harkonnen facility she had at least been spared a life of brutalization The agent then arranged for the Harkonnen officer involved to be implicated in the sale of some very important military secrets The Harkonnen reputation being what it was, it could be safely assumed that the officer suffered con siderably more before his death than had Annette Halleck All this was passed on to one of Halleck's aides, and thus to Halleck, on the eve of a battle m the Grumman campaign Even seasoned veterans in the Atreides service spoke for many years of the ferocity with which Halleck led the following days' blood-bath against the Harkonnen forces The battle on Grumman was the first campaign in service for Duncan Idaho, a new recruit Halleck was highly impressed by the young man's fighting and took him as a proteg6 Idaho rose in the Atreides ranks even more quickly than his mentor had, becoming the House's swnrdmaster (responsible, with Halleck and Thufir Hawat for the training of Paul Atreides) in 10182 By 285 this time Halleck had been appointed War master a post he shared equally with his former pupil by 10184 In 10190, Halleck went to the desert planet Arrakis with Duke Leto-appointed governor-and the Atreides household The Harkonnen Sardaukar attack on Arrakis in 10191 followed HalleUt, along with the survivors of the force he commanded, joined forces with a group of smugglers He lived and worked with this group for two years, believing that House Atreides no longer existed and that the Lady Jessica had betrayed both husband and son to the Harkonnens Existing as he had in the pits on Giedi Prime-rcvenge his only motivation-Halleck subordinated his gnef to his anger and bided his time, awaiting his opportunity to strike When his band was captured by Muad'Dib (the young Duke he had believed dead) in 10193, Halleck believed that IBS chance to avenge himself on the traitor had been given him He seized Lady Jessica tit knifepoint shortly after his arrival at the Cave of Buds and demanded she confess her treachery to Duke Lett) Only Paul's explanation regarding the way Dr Yueh's Imperial Conditioning had been broken convinced Ha