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me to ship her, and with a medical background she should
be able to manipulate and interpret some of the data as

well."

"You do believe she's not setting us up for anything?"
Rip pressed, voicing the nagging concern of most. They all
had good reason to recall some of their recent passengers.

"As sure as we can be," Van Rycke answered. "As Doc-
tor Cofort pointed out, we're not of a class to compete
regularly with her brother, and we don't even have a char-
ter at the moment, much less anything he'd want to fight to
get away from us, which he'd do openly anyway. He's
certainly not going to enter into a Trade war over an in-
trasystem mail run like this one. Miceal will have to con-
firm Rael's credentials with him, but if she checks out
there, we should be safe enough taking her aboard. It
shouldn't prove a loss to us, even apart from whatever she
can do on Craig's project. She's at least proven she's able

to trade."

"That she has." The Captain shook his head, as if in
amazement. "Hard as titanone, though she looks as fragile
as one of Loren's ghost lilies."

Craig Tau chuckled. "The habitual errors of our kind! --
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incompetence in one's field. The fair Medic was born
aboard a Free Trader. The wonder would be if she could
not handle herself in the business, particularly in a situa-
tion where the blaster was in her hand."

"True enough," Jellico agreed. He came to his feet. "I'll
start programming the navputer for Canuche. Send our
recruit to my cabin when she comes aboard."

Rael Cofort squared her shoulders and knocked briskly on
the entrance panel of the Captain's work cabin. She
stepped inside a moment later upon receiving his permis-
sion to do so.

Because she knew from Mara's descriptions what to ex-