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member goes beyond a Trade agreement. I'll have to honor
his will."

"It's agreeable, Doctor."




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"Excellent! Thank you, Captain Jellico."


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Rael came to her feet. "I won't be long. I'll pick up my
things and have the formal contract drawn up. You can
check it over, and we can seal it when I return."

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Jan Van Rycke's head lowered. He had done all he could,
the little he could. The senior members of the crew would
appreciate that, but he knew the others had expected in
their hearts that he would pull off some bit of magic for
them. Damn it to all the hells, he had half expected that
himself. . .

Jellico looked at him. "Not bad at all," he announced
with satisfaction. "We'd already made our original cost and
expenses back, so this is clear profit. As nice a pot as the
Queen's seen in many a long voyage."

The tension melted from their comrades, and they
crowded around the Cargo-Master to offer their own con-
gratulations.

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"The only question now is what we're going to do with
our new hand," Steen remarked.

"No one has to worry about that," Tau responded. "I can
put her to very good use. I've been doing, or trying to do,
a study of interspecies/interracial transmission of viral and
bacterial infections on the planetary, interplanetary, and
interstellar levels. The inputting alone is a galactic chore.
If all Rael Cofort does is take over that, it'll be worth it to