"I'll add one more item. Where do hellflowers come from?"
"We don't know."
"But you have combed the system for them?"
"Hell, yes—but there are a lot of places that have never been explored. We can't cover all of them. So what's the next step?"
"Taking off with Carolyn Niles. During the next few days I'm going to startle her, and I hope she grunts in three notes. Then I'll have a nice tie-up."
"How so?"
"She has a hellflower-operator background. She'll have a three-noted cry. And she's immune to the damnable flowers her gang deals in."
"Okay, that's your game, Farradyne. But in the meantime what are you going to do about Norma?"
Farradyne eyed Clevis carefully. "You're going to drive her off in your car," he said. "Because one of the games I'm playing is nosey-nosey with Carolyn Niles, and there's going to be no addict cluttering up my spacer. Norma is a bundle of trouble when she's not relaxed with a snoot full of love lotus. She could louse-up the deal for fair if she stayed."
"But what do I do with her?"