"You needn't think you can scare me." Burke went away.
He returned shortly. "I've changed my mind. I'm coming with you."
"You mean they wouldn't have you."
"Well-yes."
"Very well," answered Cadet Jensen, "the local authorities having declined jurisdiction, I arrest you under the colonial code titled 'Relations with Aborigines,' charges and specifications to be made known to you at your arraignment and not necessarily limited to the code cited. You are warned that anything you say may be used in evidence against you."
"You can't do this!"
"Matt! Tex! Take him in and strap him down."
"With pleasure!" They strapped him to an acceleration rest mounted in the galley, where, they had agreed, he would be the least nuisance. Done, they reported it to Jensen,"
"See here, Oz," Matt added, "do you think you can make any charges stick against him?"
"I rather doubt it, unless they allow our hearsay under a "best evidence' rule. Of course he ought to be strung up higher than the Milky Way, but the best I expect is to get his license revoked and his passport lifted. The Patrol will believe our story and that's enough for those items."