... Harkaway for his typically imbecilic mistake.""We are a wordy species," Bridey conceded."You had no right to do what you did," Iversen told him, "no right totake ... is not the essenceof truth."Iversen knew that, for the sake of discipline, he should not, once hehad ordered Harkaway to his cabin, stop to bandy words, but he was achronic word-bandier, ... (and Exploitation) Service was due to start her return jour-ney to Earth, one of her scouts disconcertingly reported the discovery ofintelligent life in the Virago System."Thirteen planets,"...