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Harry said: "If you've got an idea, let's hear it.
Keep me out of jail, and
I'll owe you one."
Bulaboldo's eyebrows went up. "Is that a serious pledge? Mind, old chap, I'll
hold you to it."
"Never doubted that you would."
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"Well, I'll do my best. My only idea is simple and to the point. We've got to
get you aboard a caravan. That'll buy us some time to work out a more
permanent solution."
Lily brightened, as if the suggestion were a new one to her. "A caravan to the
place they call Tomb
Town, I hope."
The big man turned his benevolent gaze her
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html way. "All the caravans that start from
here go there, my darling. And vice versa, because there's really no other
destination. Trains of vehicles wend their way from port to Portal, so to
speak, and back again, across the wilderness.
"But we must get you, both of you, quickly to the departure point and aboard
the morning eastbound. Wait right
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html here, chaps. I'll slide my ample
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bottom into a groundcar and be back before you know it."
He moved away with surprising quickness, light-footed despite his size. Harry
and Lily moved also, sliding more casually, a short distance to a doorway,
where they waited, trying to blend into the adobe walls.
As soon as Bulaboldo
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html was out of sight, Lily commented: "I
must say
I think you were serious about his being a criminal. How long have you known
him?"
"Too long."
"Do you think we can trust him?"
"Absolutely not. But he can be very effective when he wants to do
something and I
believe that for some reason he genuinely
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html wants to help me. Maybe he can speed
up our passage east. So for the moment I'm going to act as if I don't have any
choice and I'm not sure how much I really have.
You see his eyes light up when I said I'd owe him one? He's already got a
payoff in mind, and he's probably on our side until he gets it."
"I hope you're right.
Harry? I can't thank you
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html enough for what you've done. Just
getting me here alive and then volunteering to help me the way you have."
"Forget it, kid."
Pondering the somewhat vague commission he and Lily had accepted from General
Pike, Harry decided he wasn't going to work very hard at looking for
nonexistent goodlife on the east side
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html of Maracanda. He doubted that his
former passenger would spend much time spying for the
Templars either. Harry would have been willing to bet that there were no
actual functioning berserkers within light-
years of this crazy place.
Pike had given Harry and
Lily each a key that ought to provide them access to the Templars'
private telegraph
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html terminals in the east.
Harry sympathized with the general's objectives, but had doubts about his
shrewdness. Pike seemed to be the kind who saw goodlife and berserkers
everywhere.
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He said to Lily: "Here's another point we can be thinking about: general is a
high rank to be commanding such a small detachment as the
Templar force on
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