 Why does Martin prefer to live on the yacht?
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] No one, least of all Martin, could dispute that a man's life should be guarded by his kin—but by those who hadn't been born yet? Nobody in the neighborhood was surprised when Martin's mother disappeared and Ninian came to take care of him. "He's dissatisfied with the current social order and killing you is part of an elaborate plan he's formulated to change it. Martin was told to call him Uncle Raymond. Though they were in the house with him, in their minds and in their talk they were living in another world—a world of warmth and peace and plenty where nobody worked, except in the government service or the essential professions. It was then that Martin began to realize that either the whole lot of them were insane, or what Ninian had told him at first was the truth. When Martin was sixteen, Raymond took him aside for the talk Ninian had promised five years before. And, on those worlds, it's far cheaper to use native labor than to ship out all that expensive machinery. I don't mean in the now for me, but the now for you," Martin explained laboriously. "I'm trying to talk to you as if you were an adult," Raymond said, "but if you will persist in these childish interruptions—" "I'm sorry," Martin said.
 Martin is used to being isolated now. The people on land live in a different world than he does.
 Martin is used to being isolated now. The people on land live in a different world than he does.  The people on land were always at war. Martin wants no part of it.  The people on land are too different from the cousins. Living on the yacht avoids questions from locals.  Martin thinks being on the ocean will make it harder for Conrad to find him.