Terl was getting suspicious.
It was a whole series of little things.
First, there was the trouble with the money, and trouble with money was one thing Terl would not tolerate.
They had his contracts and Terl had supposed they would simply hand it over in due course. But no. It seemed the two billion Galactic credits had been safeguarded in the Denver branch of the Earth Planetary Bank. Worse, it also seemed that this Brown Limper Staffor was running up huge bills and loans with the Earth Planetary Bank. The most recent had been one to build a castle up on a hill. He wanted to call it “Bergsdorfen” or some such thing.
Brown Limper Staffor, to get the money, had offered as collateral the Terl contracts.
Directors of the Earth Planetary Bank, a man named MacAdam and a German, had turned
