And it so happened that as Titus McWorther's order was en route, the system was also being burdened with this intelligence to the Ganymede Extension of the Western Cluster's State Department:
Dear Sir:
This will verify our agreement and authorize implementation of interstellar aid arrangements as set forth in conferences with your ambassador. If such arrangements produce mutual satisfaction, we will quite readily declare concurrence, in principle at least, with the political aims of the Western Cluster.
Respectfully yours,
Ogarm Netath,
Prime Minister
Gauyuth-VI
Appended to the signature were the coordinates of Gauyuth and the orbital factor of its Number Six planet.
Wharton Hoverly, undersecretary of cosmic aid for the Western Cluster, plucked at his thick, gray mustache as he reread the space-o-gram.
He punched the videobox stud. "Mallston!"
The younger and more composed face of his assistant stared from the screen. "Yes, sir?"
"Anything yet?"