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visitors.<br />

"Would you want to go so far as to suggest actual<br />

'bribery'?" asked Wolton, pinching his aquiline nose as if<br />

the odor of possible corruption were insupportable.<br />

"He did," replied the scientist.<br />

(This is what the commander had offered: "Want<br />

your country to thank you, Svatopluk? Maybe get a<br />

medal, maybe get a carrier with your John Hancock on<br />

it, U.S.S. Svatopluk, sounds pretty damn good, doesn't<br />

it? Son of penniless immigrants comes to the aid of his<br />

countrymen? I might be able to throw a little private<br />

sector something your way. Squibb. Procter and<br />

Gamble. I've got friends.<br />

How about a nice big fancy lab? Women? I could<br />

fly in half a dozen by tomorrow night. The best, too,<br />

nothing but the best. Booze?<br />

Boys? Cash? You know, you could disappear,<br />

Svatopluk. Funny things happen, people disappear, turn<br />

up dead, I don't have to tell a smart doctor like you.<br />

Listen, the Chief would bring you in and give you his<br />

personal thanks, now I can guarantee that, his personal<br />

thanks. Good God, man! Two hundred years, we're

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