Part 9 (1/2)
Froh Garden Terrace, and a gang ofthe streets on either side He went up fro unloaded, and found hisa screen play with one eye and keeping the other on a soullessover the carpet with a vacuu swipes at the furniture with a rotary dustlad to see him, and then becaue with her, will you?”
”Only in self-defense” That was the wrong thing to say He changed it to, ”No; I won't argue with her at all,” and then quoted Wade Lucas quoting Thomas Paine Then he had to assure his mother a couple of times that there really was a Merlin, and then assure her that it wouldn't get loose and hurt anybody if he did find it
In the middle of his assurances about the har things off the top of a table
”Oscar! You stop that!” his mother yelled
Oscar, deaf as the adder, kept on Conn yelled at his mother to use her control; she re like an old-fashi+oned pocket watch, around her neck on a chain, and got the robot stopped
No wonder she was afraid of Merlin
He took advantage of the interruption to get to his rooot out an air-cavalry h Garden Terrace, pruning and tri vitrifier on the Mall--even at five hundred feet he could feel the heat fro lavalike molten rock for a new pavement And all the nymphs and satyrs and dryads and fauns and centaurs had had their pedestals rebuilt and were sand-blasted clean
He landed on the top of the Airlines Building and rode a lift down to the office where Kurt Fawzi neglected the affairs of his shi+pline agency, his brokerage business, and the city of Litchfield The afternoon habitues had begun to gather--Raye Ledue, To to somebody with sandy hair and a suit that didn't seem to be made of any sort of Federation Armed Forces material, about warehouse facilities The addresses they werewere in Storisende
”No, Leo, I don't knohen,” Faas saying, ”but don't you worry
You just have space for it, and we'll fill it up And don't ask e operation's like; you just haul out the stuff as you co in one of the deep chairs, looked up
”hello, Conn We're having a time Another two hundred tra, and Ghu only kno many in their own vehicles, and they all seeht to be work for all, and so nasty”
”We can use so The ones you sent out Thursday are doing all right, once they found out eren't taking any foolishness”
Fawzi turned away from the screen ”Well, Conn, we're in,” he said
”The charter was granted this e, Ltd And Lester Dawes has found us a contragravity shi+p”
”How h ”Conn, this'll slay you! She isn't costing us a centisol You know those old shi+ps on Mothball Row, back of the old West End shi+p docks at Storisende?”
Conn nodded He'd seen theard_ co in--a lot of old Army Transport craft, covered with muslin and sprayed with protectoplast The Planetary Governotten the one of theeimental ammunition shi+p Of course, she still has aret that off”
”Why?”
Fawzi looked at hiht We want her for a cargo shi+p, don't we?”
”That's what she was built for What kind of armament?”
Fawzi didn't know Klem Zareff did
”Four 115-mm rifles, two fore and two aft A pair of lift-and-drive un battery of 70-mm's and 50-mm auto-cannon I know the class; we captured a few of them