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'Do you ever give a straight answer to anything?' Yoshitaro asked in
disgust. 'Like who was this Rube you were shouting to when the fighting
started?'

After a moment, a low, sincere snore answered him.


Petr stopped them the next 'morning.'

'Wanted to thank you two clowns,' he said. 'I would've chased every last
credit down that rathole if you hadn't gotten interested.'

'Forget about it,' Jaansma said. 'I was having trouble sleeping.'

'Yeh.' Kipchak said. 'Anyway, I owe you.'

He didn't wait for a response, but pushed away through the crowd.

'So now we've got a debt of honor with Scarface,' Garvin said.
'Whoopie.'

'Don't slam it,' Njangu said. 'We might need a throat slit someday.'


The Malvern came out of N-space, and its nav-computer checked its
position. It was on course.

A few minutes later, it shimmered and vanished on its next-to-last jump
before the Cumbre system.


''Kay,' Petr said. 'Our destination's D-Cumbre. It's a Confederation
World, has a Planetary Government-a governor general plus some kind of
council to advise him. Probably all the crooks with old money.'

'What's our unit?'

'It's supposed to be about ten thousand men. Called Strike Force Swift
Lance.' Petr shrugged. 'Officers like flash names

'Our caud's somebody named Williams. Couldn't Find anything out about
him.

'The unit's assigned mission is keeping the peace.'

'Against who?' Njangu asked.

'It seems to be a little complicated,' Kipchak said. 'D-Cumbre's geetus
is in mining another world. C-Cumbre, as I recall. The pick-swingers