The other man nodded. "We give it to every new arrival here. Now that you've passed, I'm driving you out to your homestead site."
Claude looked back at the newly-arrived spaceship and the tiny figures who were huddled at its base.
"All those people," he said. "You mean they still have to go through what we did?"
The driver shook his head.
"No. Those people are going back to Earth. You see, Mr. Marshall, those are the people who offered Leon Stubbs the bribe."