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. I tried to get him
down a bit but with all the Shriners in town he was sure he could move it."
"Probably right."
"I think so. If we take it, we still have to complete payment on the full
list price, another nineteen thousand crowns-"
"My God!"
"-plus insurance and squeeze. But we get the unused balance back if we turn
it in here, or Luna City, or Hong Kong Luna, in thirty days. Mr. Dockweiler
explained the reason for the purchase contract. Asteroid miners, or boomers
rather, had been hiring cars without putting up the full price, taking them to
some hideout on Luna, and refitting them for mining."
"A Volvo? The only way you could get a Volvo to the asteroids would be by
shipping it in the hold of a Hanshaw. But nineteen-no, twenty-five thousand
crowns. Plus insurance and graft. Bald, stark robbery."
Schultz said to me rather sharply, "Friend Ames, I suggest that you stop
behaving like the fabled Scotsman faced by a coin-operated refresher. Do you
accept what Mrs. Ames could arrange? Or do you prefer die Manager's fresh-air
route? Fresh- but thin."
I took a deep breath. "Sorry. You're right, I can't breathe money. I just
hate to get clipped. Gwen, I apologize. All right where is Hertz from here? I'm
disoriented."
"Not Hertz, dear. Budget Jets. Hertz did not have a unit ten."
IX
"Murphy was an optimist." (O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law, as cited
by A
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