Skipping lunch entirely, he carefully checked the components lists, made a copy of what he would need, checked the original envelope and its contents with the man at the main receiving desk for his safe, and caught the bus to Honolulu.
At the Parts 'n Plenty store, Hsi read the list with a faint frown that turned into a puzzled scowl. When he put it down he looked at Chandler for a few moments without speaking.
"Well, Hsi? Can you get all this for me?" The parts man shrugged and nodded. "Koitska said in three days."
Hsi looked startled, then resigned. "That puts it right up to me, doesn't it? All right. Wait a moment."
He disappeared in the back of the store, where Chandler heard him talking on what was evidently an intercom system. He came back in a few minutes and slipped Chandler's
