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not slaves. What they do on their off hours is then- affair,
not mine."

"But he was acting as your agent!!!"

". . .To investigate the pilferage problem, which,
I'm told, has been settled."

As we were speaking, Chumley poked his head into
my office, saw what was going on, and came in all the
way, shifting to his big bad troll persona as he did. In
case you are wondering, I was working without a recep-
tionist at the time, having deemed it wise to have both
Bunny and Guido lie low for a while after finding out
what had really happened on their last assignment. As
an additional precaution, I had insisted that they hide out
separately, since I was afraid that Bunny would kill Guido
if they were alone within an arm's reach of each other.
For some reason my secretary seemed to take Guide's
labor activities very personally.

"... Now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Bane, I'm rather
busy at the moment. If you wish to pursue the matter
further, I suggest you take it up with Big Crunch here.
He usually handles the complaints for our company."

The Deveel started to speak angrily as he glanced
behind him, then did a double-take and swallowed what-
ever it was he was about to say as his gaze went up ...
and up! As I can testify from firsthand experience, trolls
can look very large when viewed from up close.

"Little Deveel want to fight with Big Crunch? Crunch
likes to fight!"

Bane pinked slightly, then turned back to me.

"Now look, Sk . . . Mr. Skeeve. All that's in the
past, right? What say we talk about what your outfit can
do to help me with this labor thing."

I leaned back in my chair and put my hand behind my
head.