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hireling. The maintenance force and highly trained
salesmen of those shops were usually of the full-
citizen class. And why animals? Horan swung on one of
the fast-moving roll walks, his temporarily tattooed
wrist held in plain sight across his wide belt to prevent
questions from any patroller.

Because it was early, the roll walks were not crowded,
and few private flitters held the air lanes overhead.
Most of the shutters were still in place across the
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display fronts of the shops. It would be midday before
the tourists from the pleasure hotels and the shoppers
from the villas would move into town. On Korwar,
shopping was a fashionable form of amusement, and
the treasures of half the galaxy were pouring into
Tikil, the result of stepped-up production after the

war.
Troy changed to another roll walk. The farther

westward he went, the more conspicuous he became.
Not that clothing was standardized here, but the
material, no matter how fantastically cut and pieced
together, was always rich. And the elaborate hair
arrangements of the men who shared the roller with
Troy, their jeweled wristbands, neck chains, and
citizens' belt knives, took on a uniformity in which his
own close-cropped yellow hair, his weaponless belt,
his too-thin, fine-boned face were very noticeable. Twice
a patroller stirred at a "heck point and then relaxed
again at the sight of the stamp on the boy's bony

wrist.

Sixth Square was one of the areas of carefully tended

vegetation intended by the city planners to break the
structure pattern of the district. Troy jumped from the
roller and went to the map on a side pillar.