 Why does Gabe travel to seedy places?
"You must allow me to pay your cleaning bill," Gabe said, taking out his wallet and extracting several credit notes without seeming to look at them. Each time it happens, there's a ... well, there's no experience to match it at a thrill-mill." To the girl's indignation, the stranger not only hauled Gabe out onto the dripping grass first, but stopped and deliberately examined the young man by the light of his minilume, almost as if she weren't there at all. Those odd creatures from Altair's seventh planet cared nothing for the welfare of the completely alien human beings; all they wanted was to feather their own pockets with interstellar credits, so that they could return to Vinau and buy many slaves.
 he thinks he can escape from his "bodyguard"
 so he can play more zarquil  he thinks he can escape from his "bodyguard"  it's what his wife is comfortable with  it's the only places he can afford