Uller Uprising

lin, and the

ant-Governor, faced each other across it, over the three-foot disc of an Ulleran chess-board. Harrington had the white, or center, pos

what?" Harri

m his cigarette into the tray

ioned now, but I doubt if they'll tell us anything we don't know already. The dog had been kept in a lean-to back of the house; it had been removed, pr

lling the section from Eightieth down to Sixty-fourth, and from the waterfront back to Eighth Avenue. There is also the equivalent of a regiment of King Jaikark's infantry-spearmen, crossbowmen, a

ded. "He's been building quite a political organization, lat

took a pawn, which, under Ulleran rules, entitled him to a second move. He shifted another

ernor-General said. "He knows we wouldn't let him get away

s of policy. He can undertake to heave Jaikark off the throne and seize power, or he has to support Jaikark on the throne. We're subsidizing Jaik

roof of that," Har

money, and dates, and the names of the intermediaries through whom they w

seize the Palace, and use the Royal army to put down the revolt that he's incited in the first place. That will put him in the position of the friend of the Company, and most of his dupes will be rounded up and sold as slaves, and King Gurgurk'll pocket the proceeds. The only quest

ently, then moved the threatened piece counterclockwise on the cir

e piece that had tak

he warned. "And Hitler

le." Harrington puffed furiously at his pipe, tr

another of the big ship-owning nobles. They probably deprecate his table-manners, but they just

he Keegarkan Ambassador," von Schlichten stated. "Intelligenc

wild stories about Rakkeed. Three days after he was reported here at Konkrook, he was rep

aid. "He travels on our ships, in disg

k loading ports could be left unlocked, by carelessness, and he could blunder overboard at about five thousand f

knows what sort of stuff he's been getting to eat. A

about why Keeluk was hiding him, and why he was willing to murder the only two

in-lit another cigarette and stubbed out the old one. "May

"Ritual killing?" he ask

of his followers, killing us by proxy, or in effigy. Or maybe they think we worship Stalin, and gettin

important one, and on Uller most of the fundamental terms of Terran psychology were meaningless. At the same time, the average Ulleran probably had complex

any Ulleran psychologist to know that about

w fanatics hate us, and a few merchants who lost money when we replaced this primitive barter econo

ew benefit," Blount added. "They res

like it, now doesn't it?" Harrington retorted. "He hates and res

el, the machine-equipment, the engineering. We get a spaceport we don't really need, and he gets all the business it'll bring to Keegark. Considering the fact that Rakkeed is a welcome gues

m the middle of the board with one of his heavy-duty,

king's threate

the board and took the threatening piece, then moved

ked his hand back as though the piece were radioactive. For

's started building two new power-reactors, to handle the additional pow

the plutonium?" vo

plied. "He just bought four tons of

"I wonder if he mightn't have some idea of what else

imed. "You're going to get me started s

reatened king. "Can't you do something about that, Sid?" Then he turned to von Schlichten. "Be

em that looks like the Newgate Calendar. We turned the letters themselves over to Doc Petrie, the Ulleran philology sharp, who is a pretty fair cryptanalyst. He couldn't find any indications of cipher, but there was a lot of go

ing temporarily out of dang

re a lot of blasted fanatics, themselves. We're a gang of bloody-handed, flint-hearted, imper

a decent bloke. And their association's really done a lot of good. For one thing, they put an end

s pipe and slid a piece from the center toward the sector of the boar

with you? You can be quite attractive to young ladies, when you try, and she'll be grateful for that rescue this afternoon, which is always a good foundation. Maybe you can plant a couple of ideas where they'll do the most good. She's only b

larly heavy cross for me to bear," von Schlichten

gton swore, laid down his pipe, and got up, brushing ashes from

p the roadway to Company House. A platoon of Jaikark's Household Guards, with rifles; the Spear of State; a royal litter;

tter will contain the customary indemnity, at the current market quotation. Have Gurgurk and party admitted, all but the rifle-platoons; give him an honor guard of

took one of his pieces, moved again, took another,

," he predicted. "Want to pl

worried about something if we didn't keep him waitin