I could afford to undersell my competitors and still make a handsome profit. There was one dim picture of Pepe, chubby but looking too grim to be a happy fat boy. I had the management send up some food and at least two bottles of liquor a day so it would look like I was on an extended and solitary bender. A robot snapped the wheels down on my stretcher, latched onto it and wheeled it inside. We give a complete stranger the opportunity to toy with that which we value most. When I woke up we were almost to planet X, I half dozed in the chair until we touched down,thensmoked a cigar while my bag cleared customs. When I looked up those two target stars in the catalog the planetary choice was obvious. One factnormally of interest only to warpdrive techniciansconcerns the curious propagation of radiation in warpspace.