Retief: Aide Memoire. Keith Laumer
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stood at the open door. Beady yellow eyes set among fine scales bored into Retief.
“I came to take a look at your new liner,” said Retief.
“We need no prying foreigners here,” the youth snapped. His eye fell on the drawings. He hissed in sudden anger.
“Doddering hulk!” he snapped at the ancient. “May you toss in nightmares! Put by the plans!”
“My mistake,” Retief said. “I didn’t know this was a secret project.”
*
The youth hesitated. “It is not a secret project,” he muttered. “Why should it be secret?”
“You tell me.”
The youth worked his jaws and rocked his head from side to side in the Fusty gesture of uncertainty. “There is nothing to conceal,” he said. “We merely construct a passenger liner.”
“Then you don’t mind if I look over the drawings,” said Retief. “Who knows? Maybe some day I’ll want to reserve a suite for the trip out.”
The youth turned and disappeared. Retief grinned at the oldster. “Went for his big brother, I guess,” he said. “I have a feeling I won’t get to study these in peace here. Mind if I copy them?”
“Willingly, light-footed one,” said the old Fustian. “And mine is the shame for the discourtesy of youth.”
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