 What did Jig and Bucky promise Kapper?
I've wet-nursed Shannon's Imperial Circus around the Triangle for eleven years, and I know. Bucky Shannon sighed, and let his fist start traveling, a long, deceptive arc. 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. The freaks and the green girl from Tethys who could roll herself like a hoop, and Zurt the muscle man from Jupiter, and all the other assorted geeks and kinkers and joeys that make up the usual corny carnie were doing nip-ups in the passageways and drooling over the thought of steer and toppings.
 That they would take the cansin back.
 That they would find a way to save the Circus  That they would be able to save him  That they would take the cansin back.  That they would not make the deal with Beamish