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_Bryce Carter could afford a smug smile. For hadn't he risen gloriously from Thieves Row to director of famed U. T.? Was not Earth, Moon, and all the Belt, at this very moment awaiting his command for the grand coup? And wasn't his cousin-from-Montehedo a star-sent help? _
"What do I do for a living? " repeated the slim dark-skinned young man in the next seat of the Earth-Moon liner. "I'm a witch doctor," he answered with complete sincerity.