"Where? We can't be chasing all over Kedak."
"In Balata 'kai, probably. That's why he went there."
"Is he really an Earthman named Rhodes?"
"I believe so. Does it matter?"
"It doesn't matter to me. But it might matter to the police."
"Exactly. You haven't told anyone else?"
"No."
"And the woman with Rhodes? Haazahri? What of her?"
"You leave Haazahri to me," Felg said.
Gawroi shook his hand, regretting the need for the Earth-style gesture which had swept the galaxy. He had an instinctive dislike for Felg, but thought Felg just the man to help him, just the man to join him at Balata 'kai, just the man to see to it that Matlin-Rhodes never returned to Junction City alive....