Part 33 (2/2)

Jacquemont's beard had been tri the unifor at all like a Federation space Navy unifor; he threw an arm over Conn's shoulder, and they went into the front parlor together

”Oh, Gehenna of a big crop!” he heard Kle happily, above the babble in the room ”You wouldn't believe it Why, we had to build six new vats”

The thin-faced, white-hairedMike Shanlee and Klem Zareff, old enemies, were now fast friends Shanlee had co He had stayed on Poictesme as nominal head of Project Merlin, and intended to remain there for the rest of his life

”Oh, there aren't anyfactory jobs off-planet I have an awful tiet won't work for less than ten sols a day Why, they're even organizing a union”

There were feminine shrieks fro-robot had co hose around and brandishi+ng its roup of older ladies and shout:

”_Oscar!_”

The robot stopped dead ”Yash'm?” a voice came out of it, Sheshan-accented

”Go out!” his mother commanded ”Go to kitchen Stay there”

”Yash'm” The robot floated out the door to the hall

Histhem, for the thousandth time, that her boy Conn fixed up the sound receptors and voice for Oscar Or harping on how Conn had been telling everybody the truth, all along, and people wouldn't believe hiht his ar to start the rehearsal,” she said

”They've been going to start it for an hour,” her father told her

”Well, they're really going to start it now”

”All right You two run along,” Yves Jacque for your oedding before long The _Genji_ will be ready to hyper out in another hter getsConn'srooe Ledue out of a chair

”Judge, the rehearsal is starting; they can't do it without you”

Ledue clung to his chair ”They daren't do it with et into it, it won't be a rehearsal; they'll be reallytoan!” Conn called across the rooe for the wedding rehearsal!”

There was a big crowd around Wade Lucas, in the next rooe to Baldur, froo of arravity vehicles, on which he and his bride would go for their honey theht back on the _Ouroboros II_

”Where's your father?” histhe bride away”

”Probably in his office I'll go get hiet to coo with hi both of them back”