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If you up-ship within a reasonable amount of time, I'll be inclined to let it pass. After all I've no desire to run all the way to the nearest Patrol post to report you " "You can't expect to buck Inter-Solar. We'll make you an offer " That was Kallee's contribution, made probably because his commanding officer couldn't find words explosive enough.
The high level of radiation makes it almost certain that the outlaws could not have headed into the dangerous central portion. Search is now spreading north. Authorities are inclined to believe that this last outrage may be a clew to the vanished 'Solar Queen, a plague ship, warned off and Patrol Posted after her crew plundered an E-Stat belonging to the Inter-Solar Corporation.
Legally there was only one Trader on Sargol and that was the Solar Queen, Captain Jellico had his records signed by the Patrol to prove that. And all this Inter-Solar man would do now was to bow out and try poaching elsewhere. But the I-S man appeared to be in no haste to follow that only possible course.
Van Rycke answered him, his deep voice cutting across the sighing of the wind in the grass forest. "Your proposition?" Perhaps this return to their implied threat bolstered their belief in the infallibility of the Company, their conviction that no independent dared stand up against the might and power of Inter-Solar.
Seems that the children here," he jerked his thumb at the three apprentices, "started something. An inter-solar invasion couldn't be bigger news! Human interest by the tankful. I've been on Video twice and they're trying to sign up Hovan almost steady " The Medic from the frontier nodded. "Wanted me to appear on a three week schedule," he chuckled.
Luckily the I-S ship was even closer to the sea than the Queen and as they crossed the slagged ground, congealed by the break fire, they were trotting. Though the Company ship was probably one of the smallest Inter-Solar carried on her rosters, it was a third again as large as the Queen with part of that third undoubtedly dedicated to extra cargo space.
Not all the flush had faded from the face of the I-S Captain. "Grange of the Dart," he did not even sketch a salute. "Inter-Solar. Kallee, Cargo-master " And he did not name the hovering third member of his party. Jellico stood waiting and after a long moment of silence Grange was forced to state his business. "We have until noon " Jellico, his fingers hooked in his belt, simply waited.
"Reader of clouds and master of many winds," Tau's voice flowed with the many voweled titles of the Sargolian, "may I bring before your face Cargo-master Kallee, a servant of Inter-Solar in the realm of Trade?" The storm priest's shaven skull and body gleamed steel gray in the light. His eyes, of that startling blue-green, regarded the I-S party with cynical detachment. "You wish of me?"
They were not, after their late experiences so entranced with Terraport that they wanted to linger in its environs any longer than they had to. "We lose the Sargol contract " That did hurt. But they had resigned themselves to it since the hour when they had realized that they could not make it back to the perfumed planet. "To Inter-Solar?" Wilcox asked the important question.
"Combine E-Stat " Another punch and click. "Patrol E-Stat A-55 " punch-click. "Inter-Solar " this time Rip's hand did not hit the key and the squeak continued "Co-ordinates " Rip reached for a steelo and jotted down the list of figures. "Got to compare this with our present course " "But that's an I-S Stat," began Dane and then he laughed as the justice of such a move struck him.
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