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Slowly the Prime Board of Alphin III filed up the flush ladder and / into the cabin of the "Starshine. " There was Malby, who looked like an / elderly sheep. There was Ponter, who rather resembled an immature frog. / There was Shimlo, who did not look like anything but an advanced case / of benevolent imbecility, and Burt, who at least looked intelligent and / whom Kim Rendell hated with a corrosive hatred.
"Greeting, citizen," Malby said. Even his voice had a bleating quality. / "Despite your crime, we have broken all precedent to come and reason / with you. You are not mad, yet you act like a madman."