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"What's going on here?" a familiar voice demanded.

"Ranee!" Lekvich Tor could have fainted with mingled re-
lief and horror.

His supervisor stood and glowered at him. "It's absolute
bedlam here and I've only been gone for half a shift."

"I'm sorry. Ranee."

She ignored him and turned to Raoul. "Sir, what seems to
be the problem?"

"Are you this young man's supervisor?"

"That's right."

"I'd like to report him for insubordination. And slowness.
I've been waiting for him to provide me with the services of
a good divorce attorney."

"I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience, sir. What is your
room number?"

"Eleven seventy."

FIRST NIGHTER 19

"I'll have a lawyer sent immediately. Do you prefer human
or robot?"

"Robot. At least my soon-to-be ex-wife won't be able to
flirt with one of those."

"Very good." Ranee typed a command into the net and
nodded. "It will be there in five minutes."

"Now, Raoul," Celeste said. "Don't get so excited. Think
of your blood pressure." She wound a meaty arm around her
husband's neck and tickled his cheek with one long orange
talon. "Darling, you're so attractive when you're enraged."

"Stop it, Celeste."

"No, it's true. You're magnificent This is the Saurian I
married, come back to me."

"Do you really think so?"