Marlowe nodded. "Good. Nice picking, Chris. Now--got a decoy?"

"Yes, sir. Karlshaven II's a False-E. I've got a dummy option on it in

the works, and we'll be able to undercut Holliday's prices for his land

by about twenty per cent."

"False-E, huh? How long do you figure until the colony can't stick on it

any longer?"

"A fair-sized one, with lots of financial backing, might even make it

permanently. But we won't be able to dig up that many loafers, and,

naturally, we can't give them that big a subsidy. Eventually, we'll have

to ferry them all out--in about eight years, say. But that'll give us

time enough to break Holliday."

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