"Is that all you have to say?"
"Not quite. If you can work it so that they'll let us go and leave us alone while we jury-rig some repairs on the Gary so that we can get away with a load this trip, I'll make it twenty per cent. You'll like the Gary; she's the sweetest job in the System. But if that won't work and you can get me back in your ship it's still worth ten per cent."
"Are you through?"
"Yes."
"I can answer for all of us. If I didn't consider the source, I'd be insulted."
"Fifteen per cent. There's no need to get shirty; after all, it's absolutely free just for doing what you were ordered down here to do anyhow."
"Oz," said Matt, "do we have to listen to this tripe?"
"Not any more of it," decided Jensen. "He's had his say. Burke, I'll keep this factual and leave my personal opinions out of it. You can't hire the Patrol, you know that. In-"
"I wasn't offering to hire you, I was just trying to do you a favor, show my appreciation."
"I've got the floor. In the second place, we haven't got a ship, not at present."