Chapter 16

"We've gathered together what information we _do_ have, and we know that after a certain number of runs in our part of the galaxy, ships take off in the direction of Antares. There's a ship, due to come in here in about ten days, called the _Swiftwing_, which is just about due to make the Antares run. Captain Steele had managed to arrange--I don't know how, and I don't want to know how--for a vacancy on that ship, and somehow he got credentials. You see, it's a very good spy system, a network between the stars, but…