"And you work pretty fast."
"I have to-and at the price I am paying you, why you better do so as well. I
want results yesterday. However I will settle for information instantly.
Might I offer you a lift-so you can get right to work?"
"You will have to," Angelina said coldly. "After what you did to our
hoverfloat. And our picnic basket."
"The value of your craft has already been credited to your highly secret,
known to no one, account in the Banco di NAPSLO. And as some recompense for
hardship I do hope that you will be my guests at dinner tonight at the Earth
light Room. Just tell the maitre d' to bill Kaia's account. You will dine as
you have never dined before."
A black and silent overalls dropped down into the clearing: the door opened.
"After you, Mrs. diGriz. Or, might I be so bold, Angelina?"
"Buster," she said, swaying ever so gracefully up the stairs, "for what you
are paying my husband you can call me anything you want."
CHAPTER 2
So far Chaise had kept his word. The promised money had been deposited to my
account in the Banco di NAPSLO. Despite the fact that I was sure that this
cache of money was unknown to anyone. Chaise must really know about banks
and banking. This could not be ignored. I made a mental note to find a new
and more secure bank now that Chaise knew about this one. And an even newer
and more secure way of transferring all my funds from my present bank. I was
sure that if Chaise knew how to put credits into my accounthe might very
well be able to siphon them out as well.
I shuddered when I turned on my computer. There was so much information
about Kaia's banks and bank accounts jammed into the machine's memory that
bits and bytes were falling out of the memory banks; pixels were dropping
off the screen.
"You will need lots more computer memory than you have now," Angelina said,
frowning at the electronic debris.
"I feel that I need lots more computer as well. Since we will be accessing
far more data than this. Don't I recall our good son James telling me far
more about super computers he was designing than I really cared to know?"
"I'm surprised that you remember that much. You fell sound asleep."
"Food and drink no doubt responsible for that."
"I doubt it. You mumbled something about concepts the mind cannot stomach as
