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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.