The job was easy. The profit was enormous. The only trouble was--the cargo had a will of its own! Captain Hannah climbed painfully down from the _Delta Crucis_, hobbled across the spaceport to where Beulah and I were waiting to greet him and hit me in the eye. Beulah--that's his elephant, but I have to take care of her for him because Beulah's baby belongs to me and Beulah has to take care of it--kept us apart until we both cooled down a little. Then, although still somewhat dubious about it, she let us go together across the field to the spaceport bar.…
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