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As soon as the _Space Scourge_ was unloaded, she was put on off-planet watch; Harkaman immediately spaced out in the _Nemesis_, while Trask remained behind. They began unloading the _Rozinante_, after setting her down at Rivington Spaceport. After that was done, her officers and crew took a holiday which lasted a month, until the _Nemesis_ returned. Harkaman must have made quick raids on half a dozen planets. None of the cargo he brought back was spectacularly valuable, and he dismissed the whole thing as chicken-stealing, but he had lost some men and the ship showed a few fresh scars. A good deal of what was transshipped to the _Rozinante_ was manufactured goods which would compete with merchandise produced on Gram.
"That load will be a come-down, after what the _Space Scourge_ took back, but we didn't want to send the _Rozinante_ back empty," he said. "One thing, I had time to do a little reading, between stops."