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patently not watching him now. Did Varms expect (
Horan to spark a patroller? He knew the inner laws of
the Dipple better than that. As long as Varms made
no move toward looting Kyger's, where Troy's loyalty
was temporarily pledged, Horan would not reveal any
knowledge of him.



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He walked past Varms without a sign, heading
toward the flitter. It was only chance that dictated the
next warning. A porter was wrangling with one of the
bin attendants, and they now carried their quarrel to
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the section manager. Since the object of their dispute
was large, they were hot-tonguing it, not in the inner
office but outside in the corridor. A length of crystal
mirror, bright and backed with red-gold, bore a
disfiguring crack down its side.

.That crack might distort a reflection, but it could
not conceal it. And in that patch of mirror Troy caught
a glimpse of a tailer—Varms! The interest a new
recruit of the Guild might have in a C.L. from the
Dipple was negligible, but in a cargo—that was a
different matter. And Varms, clumsy and inept as he
was, might well be after the contents of the cage—or
of the two crates that accompanied it.

Troy came out into the brightness of the flitter
park. There were rows of waiting vans, very few
passenger flyers. A series of two-story patroller towers
quartered the whole area. There must be spy rays
throughout every lane here. No one had ever dared a
highjacking job in this place. And he did not see how
he and Zul could be tackled once they were in the
air— If they had been on wheel lock, now—

But he discovered that surface travel was just what
Zul was intending. The wheels were extended from
the body flaps, and the little man edged the vehicle
out on ground level.

"What's the idea?" Troy folded his long legs into the
cramped quarters beside Zul. "Don't we lift back?"