midnight
`` Got ta little deal I think you might be interested in . '' Roger cast a quick appraising glance over the shabbily dressed man and walked to the table . Unless someone knew Roger personally , it would have been hard to recognize him . No longer wearing the vivid blue of the senior Space Cadet , he was now dressed in black trousers fitting snugly around the legs , a midnight blue pull-over jersey , and the black-billed hat of the merchant spaceman . His once close-cropped blond hair was beginning to grow shaggy around the edges , and with the hat pulled low over his forehead , he might have been another person entirely . Leaving the space station on the jet liner had been easy for Roger , since no one suspected he would violate his trust . But once his absence was discovered and the warrant issued for his arrest , it had been necessary for him to assume some sort of disguise to elude the Solar Guard MP 's .