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Updated: June 16, 2025
He was seating himself with arrogant dignity on that unoccupied stool, and a younger man in I-S uniform was putting before him the same type of equipment Dane had produced for Van Rycke. The Cargo-master of the Solar Queen showed no surprise, if the Eysies' appearance had been such to him.
We'll climb into these pipe suits and see how many tears we can wring out of the Eysies with our sad, sad tale." They got into the awkward, bulky suits and squeezed into the hatch while Weeks slammed the lock door at their backs and operated the outer opening. Then they were looking out across the ground, still showing signs of the heat of their landing, and lighted by the dome beam.
While Ali, with Dane's help, quietly and effectively immobilized the Eysies with their own belts. "There should be at least three men here," Rip waited by the door. "We have to get them all under control before we start work." However, the interior of the bubble, extending as it did on levels beneath the outer crust of the asteroid, was not an easy place to search.
But they still hoped that luck might ride their fins and they could put over a story which would keep them out of active conflict with the Eysies. The gauge on the wall registered safety and they unfastened the protective clasps of the suits. Standing the cumbersome things against the wall as the inner door to the lock rolled back, they walked into Eysie territory.
"Told you we'd be pirates," he said when he listened to that account of their descent upon the I-S station. "Though I didn't see all that blaster work they're now raving about. You'd think we fought a major battle there!" Weeks growled. "The Eysies are trying to make it look good. Make us into outlaws "
"But," Dane broke the silence, "how did they know? We haven't reported in " "The Eysies!" Ali had the answer ready. "That I-S ship must be having the same sort of trouble and reported to her Company. They would include us in their report and believe that we were infected too or it would be easy to convince the authorities that we were."
I took them, just to have proof that the Eysies are operating here. But note they were offered to me in trade, along with two top Koros for what? One spoonful of dried catnip leaves. Does that suggest anything?" Mura answered first. "The Salariki prefer natural products to synthetic." "I think so." "D'you suppose that was Cam's secret?" speculated Astrogator Steen Wilcox.
And with the Eysies and the Patrol on our necks, we'll need more than one medic's word " But Rip looked from the pessimistic Kamil to Dane. Now he asked a question which was more than half statement. "You've thought of something?" "I've remembered something," the Cargo-apprentice corrected.
"Until the shadow of the shield is not." They had until noon. Van Rycke arose and Dane gathered up his chief's possessions. With the same superiority to his surroundings he had shown upon entering, the Cargo-master left the enclosure, the Eysies following. But they were away from the clearing, out upon the road back to the Queen before the two from the Company caught up with them.
Just as now he was certain that the Eysies were bringing all the influence they had to bear here against the Queen's men. And Inter-Solar had a lot of influence. At the end of their ordeal their statements were read back to them from the recording tape and they thumb signed them. Were these statements or confessions, Dane mused.
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