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an accurate reply.

"When did the Roving Star planet?" Wilcox inquired.
"She hasn't, nor have any of the other Cofort ships," Van
Rycke told him. "Our encounter was brief, and I didn't get
a chance to question our prospective customer about that
mystery. Perhaps she'll be good enough to enlighten us
when she comes aboard to discuss the Wrack."
"Which will be when?" the Captain asked.
"In a couple of hours. I wanted to give us some thinking
time."

He sighed then, to himself. They had best use it well.
This was purely a buyer's market. They had to unload that
freighter, and Rael Cofort would know that every bit as well
as they did themselves.




Miceal was too accustomed to his brown Trade uniform to
be much bothered by it even with all fastenings in place
and the high, stiff dress collar squeezing his neck, espe-
cially not with so important a meeting as this to claim his
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, ;