Ravick

"I did not follow this man you call Ravick here to this ... this running-hot-and-cold Paradise planet, and I did not spend five years fraternizing with its unwashed citizenry and creating for myself the role of town drunkard of Port Sandor, to have him taken from me and lynched after I have arrested him.

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"I've had people not be able to wear shoes for a week," Ravick says.

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Ravick people were either saying nothing or arguing that Belsher was doing the best he could, and if Kapstaad wouldn't pay more than thirty-five centisols, it wasn't his fault.

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He came to depend very heavily on Ravick, up till his ship, the _Claymore_, was lost with all hands down in Fitzwilliam Straits.

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Ravick had a bunch of goons and triggermen -- I could see a couple of them loitering in the background -- who kept down opposition for him.

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That was where he picked up some hints that Ravick had a spy in the _Javelin_ crew.

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Ravick had been in power too long, and he was drunker on it than Bish Ware ever got on

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Ravick had reconvened the meeting and acceptance of the thirty-five centisol price had been voted unanimously.

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By this time Bish and "Dr. Watson" had disappeared, I supposed to the ship's bar, and Ravick and his accomplices had gotten through with their conspiracy to defraud the hunters.

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"I'll bet Ware was working for Ravick all along," Joe was saying.

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