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more cards snapped off the deck. 'Nova... Nova... Nova... Nova... and
how did that Alien show up once again? I thought it was in the last
hand.

'You see? But of course you don't.' Jaansma's tone went back to normal.
'He's yours, Kipchak.'

'Go on, get!' Petr snapped, and the dealer half ran out of the
compartment, clutching the blood-soaked towel.

'Gamblin'll be the death of me,' Kipchak said. 'Thanks. I owe you.'

'No problem,' Jaansma said.

'Why'd you get involved?'

'Because,' Garvin said, 'of my deep abiding love for Truth, Justice, and
the Confederation Way.'

Njangu snorted.

'All right,' Kipchak said. 'Another question. There was a little blood
got spilled tonight. Neither one of you seemed real bothered by it. That
ain't like most 'emits I've met.'

Both young men looked at Kipchak, and their expressions wore the same
amount of utter innocence.

'Mary on a pong-stick,' Kipchak swore. 'You two could be brothers.'


'My turn,' Yoshitaro said. 'Where'd you learn to spot somebody cheating
like that?'

'I read about it in a book somewhere.'

'The same place you learned to deal like you did?'

'That's right.'

'What about the fancy talking? You sound like a god-shouter, or some
kind of circus hustler.'

'That's what I am,' Garvin said. 'I've secretly enlisted in the
Confederation to bring sinners into the welcoming hand of the Lord
Pigsny.'

'Never heard of him.'

'That's why I became a missionary. Our sect isn't doing very well.'