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BOB HARTWELL languished for three bleak months in Ionopolis' jail. He was fettered with chains, such being the barbarous custom of the harsh Ionians--descendants of Terrestrial adventurers and deportees of three centuries before.
A roving Ionian patrol vessel had witnessed the premature abandonment of the _Hyperion_ and her crash. Within the hour they had picked up the boat, questioned its crew, and brought them all to Io. Hartwell could learn nothing more except that he was being held on the charge of barratry.