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_Even a perfect disguise creates problems / for its wearer. How, for one thing, can he / be sure anyone else is what he seems? _
The starship _Lucky Lady_ thundered out of overdrive half a million miles from Earth, and began the long steady ion-drive glide at Earthnorm grav toward the orbiting depot. In his second-class cabin aboard the starship, the man whose papers said he was Major Abner Harris of the Interstellar Development Corps stared at his face in the mirror. He wanted to make sure for the hundredth time that there was no sign of where his tendrils once had been.