Where had he obtained that? Then another thought: his family was in the restaurant business. If he was involved with Jasper Carlson, it could be that his family was involved with another slightly dubious character in Barresh: Huang Le, who owned the first-ever interplanetary Chinese restaurant, who was not favourably disposed towards gamra and who wanted nothing to do with any of us. Hmmm. Another tick against Jemiro. So far, Jemiro had not acted in a suspicious way. In fact, he seemed rather thick to me. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe he was putting on an act, but if someone did want to act so as not to draw suspicion to themselves, then they would not portray themselves as a person as weird as Jemiro, would they? Sheydu, Reida, Deyu and Telaris hadn’t turned up yet. I felt nervous througho