THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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J. Fitzwilliam Sterber called. Rodney Maxwell had been arrested, on a
farrago of fraud charges?"I don't know who he's supposed to have
defrauded; the Planetary Government is the sole complainant"?and bail
was being illegally denied. Sterber's lawyerly soul was outraged, but he
was grimly elated. "You wait till things quiet down a little. We're
going to start a false-arrest suit?"

"If you're alive to." Apparently Sterber hadn't thought of that. "What
do you think's going to happen when the Stock Exchange opens?"

"It's going to be bad. But don't worry; your father must have foreseen
something like this. He gave me instructions, and instructed a few more
people." He named some of the Trisystem Investments people and some of
the bankers. "We're going to try to brace the market as long as we can.
Nobody who keeps his head is going to lose anything in the long run."

Luther Chen-Wong called from Port Carpenter, on Koshchei. He and Clyde