Its effect was instantaneous and powerful. Listening produced no answers, so I slipped over to the barred opening in the door and saw a most attractive sight at the end of the hall. Should you be pointing like that? I asked the robot. A man of action as always. Drink up, doll, I said raising my drink and leering at her. Why did you tell all those lies about being in the Stellar Guard, she asked in a quiet voice, apparently still busy at the papers. One of them, Kurt, a youth of noble lineage but no money, showed me around the grounds. There were two men in uniform standing in front of the door I wanted to go out of.