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the spaceport long enough to get the detection system working and put
the defense batteries on ready. They didn't do that since this morning,
and up to last evening they neglected to file claim. I'll assume they're
on the wrong side of the law. They're outlaws, Conn. All the raids along
the east coast; everybody's blamed them on the Badlands gangs. I'll
admit they're responsible for some of it, but I'll bet this gang at the
spaceport is doing most of it."

That was reasonable. Barathrum was closer to the scene of the worst
outlaw depredations than the Badlands, not more than an hour at Mach
Two. And nobody ever thought of Barathrum as an outlaw hangout. People
rarely thought of Barathrum at all. He liked the idea. The only thing
against it was that he wanted so badly to believe it.

They brought the body of Milt Hennant aboard, and Abe Samuels, swathed
in bandages and immobilized by narcotic injections. A few more of the
/Dragon/'s six-man crew had been injured. Jorrisson, the skipper, had