The noises of the night went on outside. There were notes like organ-tones--song-lizards. There were the tittering, giggling cries of night-walkers. There were sounds like tack-hammers, and doors closing, and from every direction came noises like hiccoughs in various keys. These were made by the improbable small creatures which on Loren Two took the place of insects. Huyghens wrote out: "_Sitka seemed ruffled when the fight was over. He used his trick on the head of every dead or wounded sphex, except those he'd killed with it, lifting up their heads for his pile-driver-like blows from two directions at once, as if to show Sourdough how it was done. There was much grunting as they hauled the carcasses to the incinerator. It almost seemed--_" The arrival-bell clanged, and Huyghens jerked up his head to stare at it. Semper, the eagle, opened icy eyes. He blinked. Noises. There was a long, deep, contented snore from below. Something shrieked, out in the jungle. Hiccoughs, clatterings, and organ-notes.... The bell clanged again. It was a notice that an unscheduled ship aloft somewhere had picked up the beacon-beam--which only Kodius Company ships should know about--and was communicating for a landing. But there shouldn't be any ships in this solar system just now! The Kodius Company's colony was completely illegal, and there were few graver crimes than unauthorized occupation of a new planet. The bell clanged a third time. Huyghens swore. His hand went out to cut off the beacon, and then stopped. That would be useless. Radar would have fixed it and tied it in with physical features like the nearby sea and the Sere Plateau. The ship could find the place, anyhow, and descend by daylight. "The devil!" said Huyghens. But he waited yet again for the bell to ring. A Kodius Company ship would double-ring to reassure him. But there shouldn't be a Kodius Company ship for months. The bell clanged singly. The space-phone dial flickered and a voice came out of it, tinny from stratospheric distortion: "_Calling ground. Calling ground. Crete Line ship_ Odysseus _calling ground on Loren Two. Landing one passenger by boat. Put on your field lights._" Huyghens' mouth dropped open. A Kodius Company ship would be welcome. A Colonial Survey ship would be extremely unwelcome, because it would destroy the colony and Sitka and Sourdough and Faro Nell and Nugget--and Semper--and carry Huyghens off to be tried for unauthorized colonization and all that it implied. But a commercial ship, landing one passenger by boat.... There were simply no circumstances under which that could happen. Not to an unknown, illegal colony. Not to a furtive station!