"You remember some of those earlier messages our friends out there sent us?"

There was no reason to count upon an early message.

An earlier message had warned him to expect the call, and he'd been able to guess much when he learned who the caller would be.

He told the comm to play the earlier message without really paying attention to it.

If you received any of my earlier messages, please don't worry, because now I am safe.

The earlier message from Control had completely slipped his mind.

Only after the last one left did the Kielmark's attention return to the earlier message.

And an early message was sent to the Hornets about what kind of night it would be.

She'd hoped he would have called, in response to one of her earlier e-mail messages.

Within a few seconds, she had brought up the earlier message.