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The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein - The Heinlein Prize

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN:<br />

John Thomas is waiting in a hotel. Betty joins him. Mrs. Stuart still isn’t talking<br />

to her son, but she’s bought 17 hats. Betty has had her face done with paint.<br />

John Stuart won’t go out with her if she’s painted that way. Betty takes it off.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir bodyguards take them out on the town. <strong>The</strong>y fly over the spaceport, and the<br />

Hroshii ship. John Thomas sees Lummox. He calls out to Lummox. Lummox comes<br />

charging for him.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y meet. <strong>The</strong>y go aboard the ship.<br />

Kiku, Greenberg, and Ftaeml join them.<br />

Kiku uses John Stuart and Lummox to ram through the treaty and guarantees.<br />

Lummox is magnificently dominating.

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