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passengers...."

"They burned our home and killed our servants," the girl said. "They
kidnapped my father and me...."

"They've been keeping us here as slaves."

"It's the Blackie Perales gang," the tall man with the gray beard said.
"They've been making us work for them, converting a blasted tub of a
contragravity ship into a spacecraft. I beg your pardon, Captain
Nichols; she was a fine ship?for her intended purpose."

"You're Captain Nichols?" Anse Dawes exclaimed. "Of the /Harriet Barne/?"

"That's right. The /Harriet Barne's/ here; they've been making us work
on her, to convert her to an interplanetary craft, of all idiotic things."