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With that, Brossling pulled hismen back, and they started westward at a lope to make their breakout. It could be arbitrary, it could be very spiteful, and it was in aposition to exercise and enforce both, especially on a planet twenty-sixdays from home. My aide, Captain Dotu, will be here tomorrow to meet with your liaisonofficer, Biltong continued. The copilot grunted the only acknowledgement;their attention was fully occupied, intent on monitors,

When they reached the post and the grinning Sergeant Bahn, theylet the logs roll off their now-sore shoulders, panting, sweating copiously. In fact, they and their officershave been almost uniformly excited by what they've seen and observed. He should have had the prisonersbrought to Rumaros and questioned them himself. He'dwanted the mercs to get across the first one; he'd simply intended thatthey pay a higher price for it.