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* * * * * On Police Terminal , he found Kostran Galth , the agent who had been selected to impersonate Salgath Trod . After calling Zulthran Torv , the mathematician in charge of the Computer Office and giving him the Esaron time-line designations and Nentrov Dard 's ideas about them , he spent about an hour briefing Kostran Galth on the role he was to play . Finally , he undressed and went to bed on a couch in the rest room behind the office . It was noon when he woke . After showering , shaving and dressing hastily , he went out to the desk for breakfast , which arrived while he was putting a call through to Ranthar Jard , at Nharkan Equivalent . `` Your idea paid off , Chief 's Assistant , '' the Kholghoor SecReg Subchief told him . `` The slaves gave us a lot of physical description data on the estate , and told us about new fields that had been cleared , and a dam this Lord Ghromdour was building to flood some new rice-paddies .