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Hazel shook her head ruefully. "It's a wicked world. You would think that a
youngster I had trained would be instantly suspicious when dealt three aces and
the odd king in a hand of red dog... but Cas was greedy. He not only tapped the
pot when he could not cover it, he pledged his indentures to fill the gap.
"Then, not a day later, Pol fell for an even more transparent piece of
larceny; he was sure he knew what card was next to be dealt because he
recognized a small coffee stain. Turned out that the ten as well as the eight
had that same small stain. Pol held the nine but he was not in a strong moral
position. Ah, well, it is probably better for the lads to have to do all the
scut work in the ship plus shampoos and pedicures for their wives than it would
be for the boys to sell Laz and Lor in the slave marts of Iskander, as I
misdoubt they would have done had their own thieving efforts succeeded."
The Dora is even bigger inside than out; she has as many staterooms as may
be needed. It was once a luxurious but fairly conventional hyperphotonic
spaceship. But it (the ship, not
Dora the computer) was refitted with a Burroughs irrelevant drive (the
magic means by which Gay Deceiver flits around the stars in nothing flat). A
corollary of the Burroughs equations that teleport Gay can be applied to shape
space warps. So Dora's passenger and cargo spaces were revamped; this lets Dora
keep endless spare compartments collapsed in on themselves until she needs them
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