Later, if there should be war between ourselves and the Diaboli, the other governments will at least remain neutral. Blei, seated in the midst of them, studiously avoided the Earthman's eyes. I have learned to do it myself. He punched the knob of the two-way intercom and waited for the smooth face of his co-ordinator to appear on the screen.
Then you will negotiate a hundred times with the hundred human world systems? It is necessary. It's not a gamble for you. He could never stick at filling out the necessary data for long. Any world within ten light-years of a dwarf star, everyone said, would give its eyeteeth for any kind of Registered Gravitics Engineer.
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