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"The answer to your first question, lady, is that neither of us would be
smiling. I'd be arrested and put on trial in some kind of Galactic Council
court, maybe just in front of a Space Force magistrate, and they'd be sure to
call all available witnesses, which means you. The trial would take some time,
because I'd have the best lawyer I
could find. You couldn't very well concentrate on
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html your search for your dear husband."
"That's what I was thinking." She swung her big chair, rotating to right and
left, in a manner that might have been playful, except that her face was grim.
"We can avoid those kinds of problems, I'm sure. I do want to get on with the
search for Alan, as quickly as possible."
She drew a deep breath.
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"Harry, I mentioned this before, but you didn't really answer. I can't afford
to pay you any more, just getting here took almost all my money. But will you
help me find him? Just stand by me until I've done that? I mean, assuming all
the business about a trial can be avoided?"
Her eyes as she asked the question displayed an utter innocence.
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A chain of emotions passed through Harry
Silver's mind, some so quickly that he couldn't be sure just what they were.
Anger briefly dominated, but uncertainty kept anything from really taking
over. He stared at her, and he still couldn't be sure of anything about her.
But more and more he wanted to find out, even if doing so cost him time and
effort.
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Finally he said: "Okay, I
can put in some time helping you locate your husband. Then, if just getting to
see him proves to be a problem, maybe I say maybe I
can help with that, too. If that's what you really want."
She pulled herself up straight in the chair.
"What else do you suppose I want?"
"I don't know. You tell
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html me."
Lily shook her head, as if to clear away some misunderstanding.
"Thanks. Thanks, Harry.
If I could pay you more, I
would. Listen, when I
talked about avoiding a trial, I didn't mean to make it sound like like I
was blackmailing you."
"I was trying not to hear it that way. Thanks for putting your request so
nicely. Now I can feel
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html that I'm just satisfying my own
curiosity."
After a pause, Harry went on: "As for your second question, the reason I still
have the cannon on board is that I
haven't found any reasonable way to get rid of it. Can't just chop it out of
the hull without wrecking my ship. And even if I was willing to do that, I
don't have the tools that would cut this
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html hull. Removing it properly will take
special equipment, and special skills which I don't have either.
"There aren't many people who could make a neat job of it. And the only ones I
know outside of the Space Force shouldn't be trusted with the weapon."
His passenger seemed to be thinking his situation over, trying to
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html come up with something helpful. At
last she offered: "What about the
Templars?"
"A thought. But I haven't had time to think about it." That was something of a
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