 Why was the Old Serpent satisfied that the crew would be returning to try and take their paradise?
EVERYTHING IT HAD WAS IN THE GARDEN BY R. A. LAFFERTY [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1961. Naturally they did not get results at once, nor did they expect to; it required a fine adjustment. But they were disappointed that they found nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. As though there were but one city, if that is its form. But this might be so varied or so unfamiliar that often both the machine and the designer of it were puzzled as to how to read the results. But when the Locator had refused to read Positive when turned on the inventor himself, bad blood developed between machine and man. It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built others more amenable. And it was for this reason also that the owners of Little Probe had acquired the original machine so cheaply. On Earth it had read Positive on a number of crack-pots, including Waxey Sax, a jazz tootler who could not even read music. Yet on Suzuki-Mi it had read Positive on a two-inch-long worm, only one of them out of billions. Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever produces: the single orange light. So among the intelligences there was at least one that might be extraordinary, though possibly in a crackpot way. If you find no other spot then we will go down on that one the next time it is in position under us, in about twelve hours." If we find no others then we will go down boldly and visit this." So they all, except Steiner, went off to their bunks then: Stark, the Captain; Gregory Gilbert, the executive officer; Wolfgang Langweilig, the engineer; Casper Craig, super-cargo, tycoon and 51% owner of the Little Probe, and F. R. Briton, S.J., a Jesuit priest who was linguist and checker champion of the craft. Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. And those two ... why, they could well be Earth-people. And one could only wish that all people were like them. There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very bright light. But the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable.
 They needed to acquire their equipment for forming their new world.
 He was happy to have new faces and needed the influx population to breed their new world.  He was hopeful for a portion of the sale money.  They needed to acquire their equipment for forming their new world.  They were hopeful for settlers as they needed someone to help them fertilize the land to keep the fruits plentiful.