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"I canтАФ" Tyi said.
"тАФdelay us another ten minutes," Desoix broke

in, "trying to charge this one to the Hammer account
or pass the driver scrip from Lord knows where."

He keyed the door a second time and swung
into the car, both men moving with the trained
grace of soldiers who knew how to get on and off
air cushion vehicles smoothlyтАФbecause getting
hung up was a good way to catch a round.

"Goes to the UDB account anyway," Desoix
added. "Via, maybe we'll need a favor from you

one of these days."

"I'm just not set up for this place, coming off

furlough," Tyi explained. "It's not like, you know,
Colonel Hammer isn't on top of things."

The driver fluffed his fans and the car began to
cruise in cautious arcs around the starships, looking
for other passengers. were busy with merehar
themselves, preparing th<
would load the vacuum-s<
Bamberg tobacco when thi
deals.

No one looked at the <
interest. The driver spun
channel with a lurch and
CHAPTER TWO

"One thing," Desoix said, looking out the win-
dow even though the initial spray cloaked the
view. "Money's no problem here. Any banking
booth can access Hammer's account and probably
your account back home if it's got a respondent on
one of the big worlds. Perfectly up to date. But,
ah, don't talk to anybody here about religion, all
right?"

He met Tyi's calm eyes. "No matter how well
you know them, you don't know them that well.
Here. And don't go out except wearing your uni-
form. They don't bother soldiers, especially meres;

but somebody might make a mistake if you were