 Why was the interviewer uninterested in Gorb?
My three staff men, Auchinleck, Stebbins and Ludlow, walked shieldwise in front of me. J. F. Corrigan will hold interviews in person on Ghryne from Thirdday to Fifthday of Tenmonth. I passed him along to Auchinleck to sign at anything short of top rate. The first harbinger of woe turned up after lunch in the person of a Kallerian. And now, please, there are many applicants waiting—" You'd think it would be sort of humiliating to become a specimen in a zoo, but most of these races take it as an honor. I nudged the trouble-button on the side of my desk and Auchinleck and Ludlow appeared simultaneously from the two doors at right and left.
 He appeared to be a human.
 He was demanding and rude, which the interviewer did not bend for.  He was a fugitive.  He appeared to be a human.  He was bargaining with sympathy, which the interviewer did not bend for.