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display fronts of the shops. It would be midday before
the tourists from the pleasure hotels and the shoppers
from the villas would move into town. On Korwar,
shopping was a fashionable form of amusement, and
the treasures of half the galaxy were pouring into
Tikil, the result of stepped-up production after the

war.
Troy changed to another roll walk. The farther

westward he went, the more conspicuous he became.
Not that clothing was standardized here, but the
material, no matter how fantastically cut and pieced
together, was always rich. And the elaborate hair
arrangements of the men who shared the roller with
Troy, their jeweled wristbands, neck chains, and
citizens' belt knives, took on a uniformity in which his
own close-cropped yellow hair, his weaponless belt,
his too-thin, fine-boned face were very noticeable. Twice
a patroller stirred at a "heck point and then relaxed
again at the sight of the stamp on the boy's bony

wrist.

Sixth Square was one of the areas of carefully tended

vegetation intended by the city planners to break the
structure pattern of the district. Troy jumped from the
roller and went to the map on a side pillar.

"Kyger," he said into the mike.

"Kyger's," the finder announced. "Gentle Homoa,
Gentle Ferns—visit Kyger's, where the living treasures
of a thousand worlds are paraded before you! See and
hear the Lumian talking fish, the dofuld, the priceless
Phaxian change-coat—the only one of its kind known
to be in captivity alive. Follow the light, Gentle Homo,
Gentle Fern, to Kyger's—merchant dealer in extraor-
dinary pets!"
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A small spark, which had glowed into life on the
wall below the map, loosed itself and now danced
through the air ahead, blinking with a gem flash. A
pet shop! The inquiry about animal knowledge was
now explained. But Troy lost some of his zest. The