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miles, had been a success. They brought her back and set her down in the
middle of the crater, and began getting the supplies aboard. Kurt Fawzi,
Klem Zareff, Judge Ledue, Franz Veltrin and the others flew over from
Force Command. Sylvie Jacquemont came from Litchfield, and so did Wade
Lucas, Morgan Gatworth, Lester Dawes, Lorenzo Menardes and a number of
others. Neither Conn's mother nor sister came.

"I don't know what's the matter with those two," Sylvie told him. "They
always seem to be scrapping with each other now, and the only thing they
can agree on is that you and your father ought to stop whatever you're
doing, right away. Your mother can't adjust to your father being a big
Storisende businessman, and she says he'll lose every centisol he has
and both of you will probably go to jail, and then she's afraid you will
find Merlin, and Flora's sure you and your father are swindling
everybody on the planet."

"Sylvie, I had no idea things would be like that," he told[Pg 105] her