We flew first class to Germany and landed in Berlin 0730 local time. Since we couldn’t go back to the house to pack, we only had the clothes we had ...ought and were able to pack into carry-on luggage. We cleared customs and walked out to the taxi pick up area and found a taxi to take us to our hotel.We got settled and then went down for breakfast. It was only 9:30 when we finished eating. The girls wanted to do some sightseeing so off we went walking around town.The girls found a real nice. That's not a pocketyou're carrying under your arm, it's a purse. Is that yourswag?"Hal nodded nervously, a tic so violent he almost couldn'ttalk. "I tried the dip but I had to snatch the bag; MissMark twigged and I thought she'd roust the heat. I just ranin here 'cause I didn't want to get nicked."The old man put a finger beside his nose and smiled."Looking for Easy Street is asking to get tricked. You're athief and a rascal, your crimes are many and various. Youasked for my pardon. Why should. When I left his office I opened the envelope and found three thousand dollars. It was official. I was now a paid whore.After that Bob set me up with his 'special customers' three or four times a month and my 'token of appreciation was never less than two thousand dollars. By the time I graduated I had just over two hundred and sixty thousand in safe deposit boxes at two separate banks.Graduation found me Ricky less. He called me one Friday evening and cancelled a date we had to attend a party. He had been Kara’s uncle.One of the rising young stars of the Science Council, he had tried to rally people to a space ark project to save at least some of the populous. But space flight had never been a popular endeavor on Krypton. The official space program had been all but abandoned after a missile test had gone so totally wrong and destroyed the small moon Wegthor.Wegthor had been the site of an ambitious attempt to colonize one of Krypton’s natural satellites, and 1500 astronauts had died.