THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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approximately what had been going on while he had been on Koshchei.

"Ship-guard," his father told Yves Jacquemont. "All your crew can come
off; they'll take care of things. Get your people in that troop carrier
over there. Everybody will stay at Interplanetary Building. None of the
hotels are safe, not even the Ritz-Gartner. And be sure everybody's well
armed when they come off the ship."

Jacquemont nodded. "I know the drill; I've been in Port Oberth on Venus
and Skorvann on Loki. Any law we want, we make for ourselves."

"That's about it. I'll see you there. Conn, I wish you'd come with me.
Somebody here wants to talk to you."

He wondered if his mother, or Flora, had come to Storisende. When he
asked his father as they crossed onto the dock, there was a brief twinge
of pain in Rodney Maxwell's face.