Cosmo regarded her in surprise. "Great guns, Mia, where did you get
that idea?"
"Hal Bemmelman told me. He found father down in the tara field
where...." Her voice faltered, but she recovered herself, went on.
"Where the serfs had hacked him to pieces with grass knives. They were
the Renegade's men."
"Did he? Did he indeed?" Cosmo's voice was grim. "What was Bemmelman
doing there?"