Brander nodded. "Yes, sir, quite sure."

"What's it worth?" Cap'n Wing asked.

"Hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars a pound--price changes."

Noll looked at the waxy stuff again. "It don't look it," he said. "How

much is there of it?"

"Close to three hundred pounds...."

Noll's lips moved with the computation. He said, in a voice that was

hushed in spite of himself: "Close to ninety thousand dollars...."

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