Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 96: what you’re looking at

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repercussions. But why should anybody want to murder him? Why should a ship pretend that its overdrive was blown, and then repaired, simply to arrange for the death of a man and a girl at the hands of fear-crazed passengers? And the message they wanted him to give— What was that about? He went to the Delilah's bar. There were a dozen passengers already in it. Brent saw one of them furtively filling his pockets with snack packets. A bad sign—a man preparing to hoard food against his fellows. Brent ordered a drink of sarfane, and the bartender served him. He sipped his drink—and froze. Sarfane was a light drink, and ordinarily delicious. It could not be mixed with anything else, though, or its flavor was_ spoiled. Something had obviously been mixed with this. He sat very still. This is quick! he thought. If the Delilah's officers knew the ship’s situation was hopeless, it would be reasonable to have served drinks doctored with sedative. The more unstable passengers, who would crack up first, would be the first to drink. If drugged, they would grow sleepy instead of desperate. That would make sense. But it had not been twenty minutes since the overdrive went off. Quick action.Brent thought Joo quick! Much too quick! It was. A WOMAN began to scream hysterically, out in the passenger-lounge of theDeli/ah. Brent turned his head. The pimply-faced Rudi was being thrust angrily from her side by another passenger. The men in the bar talked loudly. Brent sat with the drink of sarfane—with something else in it—in his hand. Kit Harlow had said that madness and frenzy would come upon the Delilah's passengers. The overdrive would stay off until that frenzy developed. It would continue until she and her CORniclooo SS CO