"Of course," Chessman said. "Following this conference, I'm going to
take Fokin and Wiss into the library. What're we here for if not to
bring these people up to our level as rapidly as possible?"
"Very well," Mayer conceded grudgingly. "And now I have a complaint.
When the _Pedagogue_ first arrived we had only so many weapons aboard.
You have appropriated more than half in the past two decades."
Chessman shrugged it off. "We'll return the greater part to the ship's
arsenal. At this stage we are producing our own."
"I'll bet," Kennedy said. "Look, any of you fellows want a real
Earthside whisky? When we were crewing this expedition, why didn't we
bring someone with a knowledge of distilling, brewing and such?"