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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Is the boss-man looking after the serfs, to see if they're fit for the treadmills in the morning?" she asked. It was the kind of remark she had used with such frequency in the ship, though it didn't sound quite as harsh now. And she was smiling. Yet it reminded him too well of her superior attitude towards rubes from the stellar sticks.
Someone's told him that pound for pound chickens are the most efficient feed converters of all the domestic animals. So we're getting a pilot plant: eggs, incubator, and a knocked-down broiler battery so we can try the idea out. The Boss-man is always hot on new ideas to increase efficiency and production.
"I wish I had guts enough to give the Boss-man the facts but I can't get nerve enough to try. I've a good job here a wife and two kids and I don't want to jeopardize my future." Blalok glanced over the side. "Well, here we are," he said, and began descending into the center of a spokelike mass of buildings radiating outward from a central hub. "Hmm big place," Kennon murmured.
One fellow named Bob Brown, boss-man for John Blocker, asked me what I thought about the crossing. I said to him, 'If this ferryman can cross our wagon for me, and you fellows will open out a little and let me in, I'll show you all a crossing, and it'll be no miracle either. "Well, the ferryman said he'd set the wagon over, so the men went back to bring up the herd.
He was going to get into his seat when the boss-man said to him: 'I suggest that you wait until he has done a round or so alone." "The little captain snorted at this, but the boss evidently thought it best, so up I went, alone. "I did well enough, and after feeling the machine thoroughly, came down, making a fine landing. But fate was out with her ax that morning.
And with that cryptic remark the superintendent vanished. "That had all the elements of a snide remark," Kennon murmured to himself, "but my education's been neglected somewhere along the line. I don't get it." He shrugged and buzzed for Copper. The veterinary report would have to be added to the pile already before him, and the Boss-man liked to have his reports on time.
I don't think Alexander will give us any trouble, but there's no sense in taking chances." "You still think I'm a Lani," she said accusingly. "I do not." "Then you think that I'd obey Alexander, after what I did to Douglas." "I can only repeat that Douglas isn't the Boss-man." "I wish I knew what you really thought." "That isn't hard.
"Now wait a minute," Blalok said. "Get the kink out of your neck and simmer down. Sure the Boss-man told us to keep an eye on you but that's not why I'm here this time." "Well?" "Douglas came back this morning." "What for?" "I don't know." Blalok's face wore the noncommittal look it always wore when he was taking liberties with the truth.
As the opposition was keeping close to their wagon, we rode up to the scene of carnage. While some of the boys were getting the saddles off the dead horses, we found three men taking their last nap in the grass. I recognized them as the boss-man, the fellow with the ha'r-trigger gun, and a fool kid that had two guns on him when we were crossing their cattle the day before.
He owed a debt of gratitude to the Boss-man. "You're lucky you never knew her," Kennon said. "That all depends on what you mean," Blalok said as he grinned and walked to the door. The parting shot missed its mark entirely as Kennon looked at him with blank incomprehension. "You should have been a Mystic," Blalok said. "A knowledge of the sacred books would do you no end of good."
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