THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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stockholder in all the companies was shouting that they were all a gang
of crooks, and J. Fitzwilliam Sterber was declaring that anybody who
called him a crook could continue the discussion through seconds.

Conn suddenly realized that dueling had never been illegal on Poictesme.
He wondered how many duels this meeting was going to hatch.

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The next afternoon the /Helen O'Loy/ was unloaded, all but the mining
equipment; Conn and Yves Jacquemont and Charley Gatworth and a few
others took her out to Force Command. They were met by Klem Zareff's
armed airboats two hundred and fifty miles from the mesa, and they found
the place in more of a state of siege than when the Badlands had been
full of outlaws. A lot of heavy armament seemed to have been moved in
from Barathrum Spaceport, and Zareff had more men and firepower than he
had ever commanded during the System States War. If Minister-General