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on your Saduriquil, soft?angles." "Why Orvy! You still remember my pet name! Now that you've gotten all that off your thorax, why not relax and tell us why we've been pulled off our post?graduate work and plunked down here in the midst of savage Pisces and piscean savages?" "The good Governor would net care?for?that?tone," Orvenalix grinned. "Say, how did you know I was doing post?grad work?" yelped Porsupah. "I picked your pocket back at the hotel. Before I went in to change. Your school relief notice was in there, along with relevant material. Hardly consistent with your cover, Pots! Tch!" "Not only morals!" said the seething Tolian. "No scruples, either!" "That's an insult! I put the wallet back, didn't I?" There was a long silence. Finally, unable, to stand the suspense, Porsupah put a paw into the pouch under his belt to make sure .... Otvenalix put a truhand over his mouth to cover the slight fluttering of mandibles that signified laughter among the thranx. "All right," The intelligence officer said. "let us ob serve. Repler is backward in many ways, sure. It has a limited population, true. Hut its shuttle and spacecom facilities are modern and well?manned ?very true. Major industries are tourism and exotic woods, but the main income is derived from Repler City's use as a busy transfer point for interstellar shipping. It's the only habitable planet between Fluva and Praxiteles as you drive down the Arm. And it's still fairly dose to the center-ward systems.Ф A good place to trade around," agreed Porsupah. 'While also avoiding major tariffs on planets of destination. True. Nothing like the business Terra, Hivehom, or Drallar do, of course. But the merchants here make a good living, and business is growing steadily if not spectacularly." "I've read the manual," Kitten said drily. "Fine! Good!" Orvenalix reached into a drawer and removed a small vial of glass ... no, quartz ... with a pressure lock twice as big as the container, and a small bit of black board. Kitten and Porsupah slid their chairs closer. Orvenalix keyed the lock and sprinkled, very carefully, a few grains of |
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