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slacks off here, we could pick that stuff up."

"Conn, there's an old stock-market maxim: 'A bear can make money
sometimes, and a bull can make money sometimes, but in the long run, a
hog always loses.' Let the other people find some of this; it'll all
help the Plan. Fact is, I've been thinking of leaking some information,
if I can do it without Fawzi and that gang finding out. Do you know a
good supply depot or something like that, say over on Acaire, or on the
west coast? Big enough to be important, and to start a second
prospectors' rush away from us."

"How about one of those hospitals?"

"No; not a hospital. We might use them to talk Wade Lucas into joining
us. A lot of medical stores would be a good bait for him. I'm afraid
he's going to make trouble if we don't do something about him."