The chief can't afford to take a chance. The arrival of Earthmen had caused them to readjust their concept of the cosmos a little, but there was reason to believe that their revised explanation was no closer to the truth. Butting in on that pair was farthest from my mind. If we had been sent by a freighter, it'd be a different story.
I continued reading the paper to cover up my agitation and relief, but soon got interested. Presently Montgomery was nodding. The salvos grew closer together, but the shocks were lighter. Lentz had assigned symbols to a great number of factors, some social, some psychological, some physical, some economic.
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