"Are you?"
"No." Her voice was shocked.
"But Trev was?"
She nodded.
"And you were working with Trev?"
"I wasn't working with him," she protested. "Only that one time. He offered me five thousand credits to copy the Saturn's loader."
"How did you connect with the Nova?"
"Do you mean how did I happen to get the job as third mate? But I told you. I was a cadet aboard the Saturn. I simply asked Cabot for the job."
Gavin said, "That lie wouldn't fool a school kid. If you were proscribed by Tri-World you wouldn't have dared approach Cabot in the open. Someone hid you out. Someone with enough influence with Cabot got you aboard the Nova—"
The general alarm cut loose with its strident clangor. Gavin sprang to his feet. "What's that for?"