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She's the ambassador's wife, Varlik thought, I'll bet anything. Jerym judged the fen to be 250 to 300 yards across, with no visual coverexcept for isolated patches of tattered cane grass, head tall, dead leavesfluttering and rustling in a light breeze. Thegirl looked no more than fifteen or sixteen, but had to be in her twenties. The pilot parked the floater at 500feet.

Varlikfelt ill at ease now in his shirt, and moved quickly through the mess line. They'd been six good days for Kelmer. He raised very few cattlethat graded C or lower-culled dairy cows, mainly, and an occasionalsausage bull. Carrmak,kneeling, picked the radio up.