The Right Side of the Tracks by Albert Teichner

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_The Nodarians weren't planning a revolt. / Nor had the planet been captured by aliens. / If they were obstinately silent, it was / simply because they now lived on..._

For the last week they had been hovering a half-million miles out from the Terra-scale planet and now all fifty men aboard the _Probe_ were agreed that it was time to land and investigate the place at closer hand. Even Dr. Stern, the perennial pessimist, felt the inhabitants still looked human through the electroscope. While hopelessly blurred by such distance magnification, these two-legged, two-armed beings showed nothing dangerously different from men on any other member planet of the Galactic Glia.

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