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attention.

He studied the woman who had seated herself opposite
him and Van Rycke as closely as he could without making
his scrutiny too obvious. Tang had been right in calling
Rael Cofort attractive, and equally correct in saying there
was something unique in her appearance. It was not easy
to place her in one of the major Terran subraces or assign
a planet of origin for her line. She had been space-born
herself.

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She was of about average height, slender, with the lithe,
tightly controlled body of a veteran spacer. There was no
accompanying tan, however, although her pallor was very
different from Jasper Weeks's. That skin might never ;

darken, but it was alive with a soft warmth of its own.

Her features were delicately formed, fragile looking, ;

making the thickly lashed- eyes appear impossibly large. ;

They were a subtle violet color that seemed to alter with ',
every change of thought or mood. !

The hair was tawny, golden like the coat of a Terran lion. ;

She kept it long, braided and fastened in a coronet to her j
head in the fashion adopted by most female space hounds. S

Her hands, he saw as they shuffled through the contents |
of the slender safe-lock portfolio she carried, were long- I
fingered and beautifully formed. They were also very
small. One of them would not have spanned Van Rycke's
palm, or his own, for that matter.

She chose a document and held it out to them. "My
authorization to act as agent for Teague Cofort of the Rov-
ing Star."

The Cargo-Master accepted the paper and read it, as was
his right in a matter of Trade. "Dated this morning?"

She nodded.' 'He fasmitted it when I informed him of the

possible sale." i

"We hadn't broadcast any interest in parting with the |