Dane folded up the bargain cloth, glad for a task. He sensed that he was far from being back in Van Rycke's good graces. The fact that his superior did not discuss any of the aspects of the deals with him was a bad sign.
Captain Jellico stretched. Although his was not, or never, what might be termed a good-humored face, he was at peace with his world. "That would seem to be all. What's the haul, Van?"
"Ten first class stones, about fifty second grade, and twenty or so of third. The chiefs will go to the fisheries tomorrow. Then we'll be in to see the really good stuff."
"And how's the herbs holding out?" That interested Dane too. Surely the few plants in the hydro and the dried leaves could not be stretched too far.
"As well as we could expect." Van Rycke frowned. "But Craig thinks he's on the trail of something to help—"
The storm priests had uprooted6 the staff marking the trading station and were wrapping the white streamer about it. Their leader had already gone and now Tau came up to the group by the ramp7.
"Van says you have an idea," the Captain hailed him.
"We haven't tried it yet. And we can't unless the priests give it a clear lane—"
"That goes without saying—" Jellico agreed.
The Captain had not addressed that remark to him personally, but Dane was sure it had been directed at him. Well, they needn't worry—never again was he going to make that mistake, they could be very sure of that.
He was part of the conference which followed in the mess cabin only because he was a member of the crew. How far the reason for his disgrace had spread he had no way of telling, but he made no overtures8, even to Rip.
Tau had the floor with Mura as an efficient lieutenant9. He discussed the properties of catnip and gave information on the limited supply the Queen carried. Then he launched into a new suggestion.
"Felines10 of Terra, in fact a great many other of our native mammals, have a similar affinity11 for this."
Mura produced a small flask12 and Tau opened it, passing it to Captain Jellico and so from hand to hand about the room. Each crewman sniffed13 at the strong aroma14. It was a heavier scent15 than that given off by the crushed catnip—Dane was not sure he liked it. But a moment later Sinbad streaked16 in from the corridor and committed the unpardonable sin of leaping to the table top just before Mura who had taken the flask from Dane. He miaowed plaintively17 and clawed at the steward's cuff18. Mura stoppered the flask and put the cat down on the floor.
"What is it?" Jellico wanted to know.
"Anisette, a liquor made from the oil of anise—from seeds of the anise plant. It is a stimulant19, but we use it mainly as a condiment20. If it is harmless for the Salariki it ought to be a bigger bargaining point than any perfumes or spices, I-S can import. And remember, with their unlimited21 capital, they can flood the market with products we can't touch, selling at a loss if need be to cut us out. Because their ship is not going to lift from Sargol just because she has no legal right here."
"There's this point," Van Rycke added to the lecture. "The Eysies are trading or want to trade perfumes. But they stock only manufactured products, exotic stuff, but synthetic22." He took from his belt pouch23 two tiny boxes.
Before he caught the rich scent of the paste inside them Dane had already identified each as luxury items from Casper—chemical products which sold well and at high prices in the civilized24 ports of the Galaxy25. The Cargo-master turned the boxes over, exposing the symbol on their undersides—the mark of I-S.
"These were offered to me in trade by a Salarik. I took them, just to have proof that the Eysies are operating here. But—note—they were offered to me in trade, along with two top Koros for what? One spoonful of dried catnip leaves. Does that suggest anything?"
Mura answered first. "The Salariki prefer natural products to synthetic."
"I think so."
"D'you suppose that was Cam's secret?" speculated Astrogator Steen Wilcox.
"If it was," Jellico cut in, "he certainly kept it! If we had only known this earlier—"
They were all thinking of that, of their storage space carefully packed with useless trade goods. Where, if they had known, the same space could have carried herbs with five or twenty-five times as much buying power.
"Maybe now that their sales' resistance is broken, we can switch to some of the other stuff," Tang Ya, torn away from his beloved communicators for the conference, said wistfully. "They like color—how about breaking out some rolls of Harlinian moth26 silk?"
Van Rycke sighed wearily. "Oh, we'll try. We'll bring out everything and anything. But we could have done so much better—" he brooded over the tricks of fate which had landed them on a planet wild for trade with no proper trade goods in either of their holds.
There was a nervous little sound of a throat being apologetically cleared. Jasper Weeks, the small wiper from the engine room detail, the third generation Venusian colonist27 whom the more vocal28 members of the Queen's complement29 were apt to forget upon occasion, seeing all eyes upon him, spoke30 though his voice was hardly above a hoarse31 whisper.
"Cinnamon," Mura added to the list. "Imported in small quantities—"
"Naturally! Only the problem now is—how much cedar, lacquel bark, forsh weed, cinnamon do we have on board?" demanded Van Rycke.
His sarcasm33 did not register with Weeks for the little man pushed by Dane and left the cabin to their surprise. In the quiet which followed they could hear the clatter34 of his boots on ladder rungs as he descended35 to the quarters of the engine room staff. Tang turned to his neighbor, Johan Stotz, the Queen's Engineer.
"What's he going for?"
Stotz shrugged36. Weeks was a self-effacing man—so much so that even in the cramped37 quarters of the spacer very little about him as an individual impressed his mates—a fact which was slowly dawning on them all now. Then they heard the scramble38 of feet hurrying back and Weeks burst in with energy which carried him across to the table behind which the Captain and Van Rycke now sat.
In the wiper's hands was a plasta-steel box—the treasure chest of a spaceman. Its tough exterior39 was guaranteed to protect the contents against everything but outright40 disintegration41. Weeks put it down on the table and snapped up the lid.
A new aroma, or aromas42, was added to the scents43 now at war in the cabin. Weeks pulled out a handful of fluffy44 white stuff which frothed up about his fingers like soap lather45. Then with more care he lifted up a tray divided into many small compartments46, each with a separate sealing lid of its own. The men of the Queen moved in, their curiosity aroused, until they were jostling one another.
Being tall Dane had an advantage, though Van Rycke's bulk and the wide shoulders of the Captain were between him and the object they were so intent upon. In each division of the tray, easily seen through the transparent47 lids, was a carved figure. The weird48 denizens49 of the Venusian polar swamps were there, along with lifelike effigies50 of Terran animals, a Martian sand-mouse in all its monstrous51 ferocity, and the native animal and reptile52 life of half a hundred different worlds. Weeks put down a second tray beside the first, again displaying a menagerie of strange life forms. But when he clicked open one of the compartments and handed the figurine it contained to the Captain, Dane understood the reason for now bringing forward the carvings53.
The majority of them were fashioned from a dull blue-gray wood and Dane knew that if he picked one up he would discover that it weighed close to nothing in his hand. That was lacquel bark—the aromatic54 product of a Venusian vine. And each little animal or reptile lay encased in a soft dab55 of frothy white—frosh weed—the perfumed seed casing of the Martian canal plants. One or two figures on the second tray were of a red-brown wood and these Van Rycke sniffed at appreciatively.
"Cedar—Terran cedar," he murmured.
Weeks nodded eagerly, his eyes alight. "I am waiting now for sandalwood—it is also good for carving—"
Jellico stared at the array in puzzled wonder. "You have made these?"
Being an amateur xenobiologist of no small standing himself, the shapes of the carvings more than the material from which they fashioned held his attention.
All those on board the Queen had their own hobbies. The monotony of voyaging through hyper-space had long ago impressed upon men the need for occupying both hands and mind during the sterile56 days while they were forced into close companionship with few duties to keep them alert. Jellico's cabin was papered with tri-dee pictures of the rare animals and alien creatures he had studied in their native haunts or of which he kept careful and painstaking57 records. Tau had his magic, Mura not only his plants but the delicate miniature landscapes he fashioned, to be imprisoned58 forever in the hearts of protecting plasta balls. But Weeks had never shown his work before and now he had an artist's supreme59 pleasure of completely confounding his shipmates.
The Cargo-master returned to the business on hand first. "You're willing to transfer these to 'cargo'?" he asked briskly. "How many do you have?"
Weeks, now lifting a third and then a fourth tray from the box, replied without looking up.
"Two hundred. Yes, I'll transfer, sir."
The Captain was turning about in his fingers the beautifully shaped figure of an Astran duocorn. "Pity to trade these here," he mused60 aloud. "Will Paft or Halfer appreciate more than just their scent?"
Weeks smiled shyly. "I've filled this case, sir. I was going to offer them to Mr. Van Rycke on a venture. I can always make another set. And right now—well, maybe they'll be worth more to the Queen, seeing as how they're made out of aromatic woods, then they'd be elsewhere. Leastwise the Eysies aren't going to have anything like them to show!" he ended in a burst of honest pride.
"Indeed they aren't!" Van Rycke gave honor where it was due.
So they made plans and then separated to sleep out the rest of the night. Dane knew that his lapse61 was not forgotten nor forgiven, but now he was honestly too tired to care and slept as well as if his conscience were clear.
But morning brought only a trickle62 of lower class clansmen for trading and none of them had much but news to offer. The storm priests, as neutral arbitrators, had divided up the Koros grounds. And the clansmen, under the personal supervision63 of their chieftains were busy hunting the stones. The Terrans gathered from scraps64 of information that gem65 seeking on such a large scale had never been attempted before.
Before night there came other news, and much more chilling. Paft, one of the two major chieftains of this section of Sargol—while supervising the efforts of his liege men on a newly discovered and richly strewn length of shoal water—had been attacked and killed by gorp. The unusual activity of the Salariki in the shallows had in turn drawn66 to the spot battalions67 of the intelligent, malignant68 reptiles69 who had struck in strength, slaying70 and escaping before the Salariki could form an adequate defense71, having killed the land dwellers72' sentries73 silently and effectively before advancing on the laboring74 main bodies of gem hunters.
A loss of a certain number of miners or fishers had been preseen as the price one paid for Koros in quantity. But the death of a chieftain was another thing altogether, having repercussions75 which carried far beyond the fact of his death. When the news reached the Salariki about the Queen they melted away into the grass forest and for the first time the Terrans felt free of spying eyes.
"What happens now?" Ali inquired. "Do they declare all deals off?"
"That might just be the unfortunate answer," agreed Van Rycke.
"Could be," Rip commented to Dane, "that they'd think we were in some way responsible—"
But Dane's conscience, sensitive over the whole matter of Salariki trade, had already reached that conclusion.
The Terran party, unsure of what were the best tactics, wisely decided76 to do nothing at all for the time being. But, when the Salariki seemed to have completely vanished on the morning of the second day, the men were restless. Had Paft's death resulted in some interclan quarrel over the heirship77 and the other clans3 withdrawn78 to let the various contendents for that honor fight it out? Or—what was more probable and dangerous—had the aliens come to the point of view that the Queen was in the main responsible for the catastrophe79 and were engaged in preparing too warm a welcome for any Traders who dared to visit them?
With the latter idea in mind they did not stray far from the ship. And the limit to their traveling was the edge of the forest from which they could be covered and so they did not learn much.
It was well into the morning before they were dramatically appraised80 that, far from being considered in any way an enemy, they were about to be accepted in a tie as close as clan to clan during one of the temporary but binding81 truces82.
The messenger came in state, a young Salarik warrior83, his splendid cloak rent and hanging in tattered84 pieces from his shoulders as a sign of his official grief. He carried in one hand a burned out torch, and in the other an unsheathed claw knife, its blade reflecting the sunlight with a wicked glitter. Behind him trotted85 three couples of retainers, their cloaks also ragged86 fringes, their knives drawn.
Standing up on the ramp to receive what could only be a formal deputation were Captain, Astrogator, Cargo-master and Engineer, the senior officers of the spacer.
In the rolling periods of the Trade Lingo87 the torch bearer identified himself as Groft, son and heir of the late lamented88 Paft. Until his chieftain father was avenged89 in blood he could not assume the high seat of his clan nor the leadership of the family. And now, following custom, he was inviting90 the friends and sometimes allies of the dead Paft to a gorp hunt. Such a gorp hunt, Dane gathered from amidst the flowers of ceremonial Salariki speech, as had never been planned before on the face of Sargol. Salariki without number in the past had died beneath the ripping talons91 of the water reptiles, but it was seldom that a chieftain had so fallen and his clan were firm in their determination to take a full blood price from the killers92.
"—and so, sky lords," Groft brought his oration93 to a close, "we come to ask that you send your young men to this hunting so that they may know the joy of plunging94 knives into the scaled death and see the horned ones die bathed in their own vile95 blood!"
Dane needed no hint from the Queen's officers that this invitation was a sharp departure from custom. By joining with the natives in such a foray the Terrans were being admitted to kinship of a sort, cementing relations by a tie which the I-S, or any other interloper from off-world, would find hard to break. It was a piece of such excellent good fortune as they would not have dreamed of three days earlier.
Van Rycke replied, his voice properly sonorous96, sounding out the rounded periods of the rolling tongue which they had all been taught during the voyage, using Cam's recording97. Yes, the Terrans would join with pleasure in so good and great a cause. They would lend the force of their arms to the defeat of all gorp they had the good fortune to meet. Groft need only name the hour for them to join him—
It was not needful, the young Salariki chieftain-to-be hastened to tell the Cargo-master, that the senior sky lords concern themselves in this matter. In fact it would be against custom, for it was meet that such a hunt be left to warriors98 of few years, that they might earn glory and be able to stand before the fires at the Naming as men. Therefore—the thumb claw of Groft was extended to its greatest length as he used it to single out the Terrans he had been eyeing—let this one, and that, and that, and the fourth be ready to join with the Salariki party an hour after nooning on this very day and they would indeed teach the slimy, treacherous99 lurkers in the depths a well needed lesson.
The Salarik's choice with one exception had unerringly fallen upon the youngest members of the crew, Ali, Rip, and Dane in that order. But his fourth addition had been Jasper Weeks. Perhaps because of his native pallor of skin and slightness of body the oiler had seemed, to the alien, to be younger than his years. At any rate Groft had made it very plain that he chose these men and Dane knew that the Queen's officers would raise no objection which might upset the delicate balance of favorable relations.
Van Rycke did ask for one concession100 which was reluctantly granted. He received permission for the spacer's men to carry their sleep rods. Though the Salariki, apparently101 for some reason of binding and hoary102 custom, were totally opposed to hunting their age-old enemy with anything other than their duelists' weapons of net and claw knife.
"Go along with them," Captain Jellico gave his final orders to the four, "as long as it doesn't mean your own necks—understand? On the other hand dead heroes have never helped to lift a ship. And these gorp are tough from all accounts. You'll just have to use your own judgment103 about springing your rods on them—" He looked distinctly unhappy at that thought.
Ali was grinning and little Weeks tightened104 his weapon belt with a touch of swagger he had never shown before. Rip was his usual soft voiced self, dependable as a rock and a good base for the rest of them—taking command without question as they marched off to join Groft's company.
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