" He's not even trying to hide. That's odd," Jan exclaimed. An image appeared on the view screen. "What a peculiar looking planet." It is barely so," ...ith replied, "Such an erratic orbit and no land masses, water or vegetation, intriguing."The ship settled on it's nullgravs, "Atmosphere present and breathable. Gravity Nine seven point eight five two of one gee. Opening exterior hatch and recharging solar cells."Rae and Jan donned skin tight synthomail exploration suits and all three holstered. When I got there and talked to Mary, I found out thather boss had been punishing her ass every Friday nightsince she started work, and Mary loved it. I also foundout the real reason the boss whose names was Linda,wanted the video equipment was to catch her employees(tellers at the bank and maid at home) doing somethingwrong so she could try to punish them. I did the work at her house first, because the maid wasout of town for the week and Linda wanted the camerashidden from the maid. That. Then I remembered it was Saturday morning. I turned the news on. I caught the last bit of a blurb. "Henry's Bar of this city sold one of the winning two tickets for the state lottery. This reporter said Henry had no idea who the winner was. No one has stepped forward yet. Again here are the winning numbers. The winners will split $3,200,000. Someone out there is very rich this morning." Oh, crap. Henry knew my numbers and he knew who won the lottery. Would he keep his mouth closed? Somehow I. To the girl's credit, they maintained their optimistic view of life and all were very happy in their own personal worlds. They recognized and avoided all of the usual pitfalls that plague groups of traveling minstrels. In that regard, Bob and his previous experiences gave them a base of knowledge that young bands rarely get. When they had any kind of question about anything, "Uncle Bob" was there with an answer for them. They maintained the straight and narrow for the entire five years, which.