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Coed economics have always been reed This is what Dosadi says: Greed sets its own li
- The Dosadi Analysis / BuSab Text
McKie looked around the Leguned hiles came in an open A low barrier separated him from the Courtarena with its ranks of scats all around His office and adjoining quarters were ses to libraries and the infrastructure to sureen-walled space so deceptively ordinary that its like had beguiledhe kne to perform here But these quarters represented a deceptive surface riding on Gowachin currents No matter that the ConSentient Pact ht do o here, this was Tandaloor, and the forle table in the office space, McKie felt the chairdog adjust itself beneath hiain after Dosadi&039;s unrelenting furniture He flipped a toggle and addressed the Gowachin face which appeared on the screen inset into his table
"I require testimony from those who made the actual decision to set up the Dosadi experiment Are you prepared to meet this request?"
"Do you have the na to blurt out: "Mrreg"?
"If you force me to it," McKie warned, "I will bind Aritch to the Law and extract the names from him"
This had no apparent effect on the Gowachin He addressed McKie by na:
"I leave the formalities to you Any witness I summon must have a name"
McKie suppressed a smile Suspicions confirmed This was a fact which the watchful Gowachin in the screen was late recognizing Soe correctly, however Another, older, Gowachin face replaced the first one on the screen
"What&039;re you doing, McKie?"
"Deter hoill proceed with this case"
"You will proceed as a Legum of the Gowachin Bar"
"Precisely"
McKie waited
The Gowachin peered narrowly at hi to Jorj X McKie, a Legum of the Gowachin Bar"
Belatedly, the older Gowachin saw soed McKie
"Do you wish me to place you in contact with Aritch?"
McKie shook his head They were so das
"Aritch didn&039;t make the Dosadi decision Aritch was chosen to take the blow if it ca less than the one who made that ultimate decision which launched the Dosadi experiment
The Gowachin stared at him coldly, then:
"One moment I will see what I can do"
The screen went blank, but the audio remained McKie heard the voices
"Hello Yes, I&039;m sorry to interrupt at this tiant Gowachin voice, full of annoyance at the interruption It was also an accent which a Dosadi could recognize in spite of the carefully overlaidtones Here was one who&039;d used Dosadi
The voice of the older Gowachin froum bound to Aritch has co He wishes to speak to you"
"Tofor Laupuk"
McKie had no idea what Laupuk ht be, but it opened a ne on the Gowachin for hilimpse of the rarified strata which had been concealed frolimpse confir to us at this tiwhy?"
The tone carried threats, but the Gowachin who&039;d intercepted McKie&039;s de:
"To save explanations It&039;s clear that he&039;ll accept nothing less than speaking to you This caller is McKie, but"
"Yes?"
"You will understand"
"I presus correctly Very well Put him on"
McKie&039;s screen flickered, revealed a wide view of a Gowachin room such as he&039;d never before seen A far wall held spears and cutting weapons, streas in a shiny black substance All of this was backdrop for a seed Gowachin who sat spraddle-legged being anointed by two younger Gowachin olden substance onto the aged Gowachin froreen crystal flasks The flasks were of a spiral design The contents were gently ed into the Gowachin&039;s skin The old Gowachin glistened with the stuff and when he blinked - no Phylu prepared for"
He broke off, recognizing that he spoke to a non-Gowachin Certainly, he&039;d known this It was a slow reaction for a Dosadi
"This is a mistake," he said
"Indeed" McKie nodded pleasantly "Your naaucherie, then chuckled
"I a"
As McKie had suspected And ould a Tandaloor Gowachin assume the name, no, the title of thepeople with a drive toward savage testing? The implications went far beyond this planet, colored Dosadi
"You made the decision for the Dosadi experiment?"
"Someone had to make it"
That was not a substantive answer, and McKie decided to take it to issue "You are not doing um of the Gowachin Bar and I intend to eh McKie had worked soic which froze the scene on his screen The two attendants stopped pouring unguent, but did not look toward the pickup viehich was recording their actions for McKie As for Mrreg, he sat utterly still, his eyes fixed unblinking upon McKie
McKie waited
Presently, Mrreg turned to the attendant on his left "Please continue There is little tih spoken to himself
"You&039;recontinued to study McKie
"I see what Ekris meant" Then, more briskly: "Well, McKie, I followed your career with interest It now appears I did not follow you closely enough Perhaps if we had not"
He left the thought incomplete
McKie picked up on this
"It was inevitable that I escape from Dosadi"
"Perhaps"
The attendants finished their work, departed, taking the oddly shaped crystal flasks with them
"Answer my question," McKie said
"I am not required to answer your question"
"Then I withdraw fro hunched forward in sudden alarm "You cannot! Aritch isn&039;t"