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planet."
"Exactly," Rainsford said. "But it won't work unless all the agencies involved
agree to co-operate. The big advantage, as I see it, will be to get the
officers who are fooling around in offices out of administrative work and into
the field. Why, that ought to give us a twenty percent increase right there in
people who are actually out chasing crooks- without hiring any more people or
paying any more salaries."

"I'm convinced," Grego said. "What do you want me to do about this, Bennett?"

Rainsford snatched his pipe and tobacco pouch from his jacket pocket and
reared back on the couch. "Why, talk to Harry Steefer about it-see what he
thinks. I've talked to Colonel Ferguson, and I'll talk to George Lunt when I
'm over on Beta in a week or so. I've already talked to Captain Khadra about
it. It was his idea, by the way. We'll set up a meeting with all the force
commandants. Ought to have Gus Brannhard in on it, too, I suppose."

"Luncheon would be a good time," Grego said. "I 'd like to attend, myself, if
that's all right."

"Why, of course, Victor," Rainsford said. "I was hoping you'd say that. I may
be the Colonial Governor General, but that's only been for a year. If both of
us tell all of them it's a good idea, I'm sure they'll all go for it."

After Ben Rainsford had left with Flora and Fauna, Diamond yawned and
stretched in the foyer, then climbed up into Grego's lap. "What you talk with
Unka Ben, Pappy Vic?" he asked.

"Business, Diamond," Grego answered. "About ways to do a better job of
catching bad Big Ones."

"Tosh-Id-Hagga?" Diamond asked, "like the Big Ones who brought me here from
the big woods?"

"That's right," Grego said. "It's an awfully big job."

Diamond squirmed around until he was comfortable on Grego's ample lap. "Not so
bad-the way it work out," he said sleepily.

Grego thought about the way Diamond had been kidnapped by Herckerd and Novaes
and held prisoner until he escaped. "So-noho~ald dovov tosk-ki," Grego said.
You tell me how not bad.

Diamond yawned, again. "If not come here, no find Pappy Vic," he said. "No
find you hoksu-hagga- wonderful big one."

Grego scratched the back of Diamond's head, between his ears. In a moment he
set down his brandy snifter and brushed something out of the corner of his
left eye.