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But it isn't glamorous, either. "I was," she said. "I married Johnny Simms." Cochrane looked at Babs. "They live up here," explained Babs. "I pointed him out at the swimming-pool the day we got here." "Wonderful," said Cochrane. "How " "Johnny," said Alicia, "has bought into your Spaceways corporation. He got your man West drunk and bought his shares of Spaceway stock."
"Took you to the nightclub; but not to see the ship!" "The ship's farther," explained Babs. "I could always be found at the nightclub if you needed me. I went when you were asleep." "Damn!" said Cochrane. "Hm ... You ought to get a bonus. What would you rather have, Babs, a bonus in cash or Spaceways stock?" "I've got some stock," said Babs. "Mr. Bell the writer, you know got in a poker game.
Therefore the broadcast after the landing of the ship on the volcanic planet was partly commercial, and partly pictures and reports from the Spaceways expedition, and partly queries and comments by big-name individuals on Earth. Inevitably there was Dabney. And Dabney was neurotic. He did his best to make a shambles of everything. The show started promptly enough at the beginning.
They had seen the ship's take off. It was verified beyond any reasonable question. The microwave beam to Earth was working at capacity to transmit statements from the Moon Observatory, which annoyedly conceded that the Spaceways, Inc., salvaged ship had taken off with an acceleration beyond belief.
Which, of course, it was. So Spaceways, Inc., quite honestly and validly belonged to the people who would cure Dabney of his frustration and nobody at all believed that it would ever do anything else. Not anybody but those six owners, anyhow. And as it turned out, not all of them.
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