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"We'll have to go back to Poictesme pretty soon," he said. "We don't
want to go back empty. Well, I know that no matter what we dug up, and
what we could sell or couldn't sell, there's always a market for
power-unit cartridges. Electric-light units, household-appliance units,
aircar and airboat units, any size at all. We run that plant at full
capacity for a few days and we can load the /Harriett Barne/ full, and
I'll bet the whole cargo will be sold in a week after we get in."[Pg 126]

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    XV

The /Harriet Barne/ settled comfortably at the dock, the bunting-swathed
tugs lifting away from her. They had the outside sound pickups turned as
low as possible, and still the noise was deafening. The spaceport was
jammed, people on the ground and contragravity vehicles swarming above,