Not long thereafter they were in the air, with no trouble from police - the town had quieted down as fast as it had flared up.  Jubal sat forward with Stinky Mahmoud and relaxed - discovered that he was not tired, not unhappy, not even fretting to get back to his sanctuary.  He discussed with Mahmoud his plans to go to Mars to learn the language more deeply after, Jubal was pleased to learn, completing the work on the dictionary, which Mahmoud estimated at about a year more for his own part in checking the phonetic spellings.