 Why was Kapper in such a state of disbelief when Bucky and Jig found him?
The Blue Behemoth By LEIGH BRACKETT Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It was the most complete dead-pan I ever met, and you couldn't see into those innocent blue eyes any more than you could see through sheet metal. It was Gow, our zoo-man—a big, ugly son-of-a-gun from a Terran colony on Mercury. Bucky Shannon walked out into the glare of the light at the entrance to the roped-off space around the main lock. It grates on a man's pride to have to sneak in and out of his own property through the sewage lock.
 He was being poisoned.
 He was frantically searching for the male Cansin he had found  He had lost all his animals and was desperate to find them  He had been attacked by the Vapor snakes  He was being poisoned.