Barnard paused, and for almost a minute the only sound was the whirring and hissing of the Ultra Gym machines. Finally, he said, "You seem to have developed an interest in Yamatetsu Corporation. Can you tell me why?" Now we were down to the serious drek. Everything up to this point had been simple preliminaries, verbal fore-play. Now we got down to biz. "Curiosity," I said.