CHAPTER IVFrom his initial statement it was obvious that Bud sided with the group determined to oppose all contact with the starmen. His reaction was more frantic than most. He awoke at night from a soggy dream of terror. Let us alone, he sobbed, trembling. Let us alone. The future, once so secure, was now a veiled menace. Go away, he whispered into the night, let us alone. We don’t want you. Go away.
He appeared sleepless for the first hearing. The three starmen filed in. He hated them.
They testified.
Herb, in the witness stand, peered out at the swarm of white faces; his head turned automatically from interrogator to interrogator.
“Our government is a modified democracy, much as your own, containing strong safe guards for individual liberty and civil rights,” Herb said. One would ne
