input: Text: RETIEF OF THE RED-TAPE MOUNTAIN by KEITH LAUMER Retief knew the importance of sealed orders—and the need to keep them that way! "It's true," Consul Passwyn said, "I requested assignment as principal officer at a small post. But I had in mind one of those charming resort worlds, with only an occasional visa problem, or perhaps a distressed spaceman or two a year. Instead, I'm zoo-keeper to these confounded settlers. And not for one world, mind you, but eight!" He stared glumly at Vice-Consul Retief. "Still," Retief said, "it gives an opportunity to travel—" "Travel!" the consul barked. "I hate travel. Here in this backwater system particularly—" He paused, blinked at Retief and cleared his throat. "Not that a bit of travel isn't an excellent thing for a junior officer. Marvelous experience." He turned to the wall-screen and pressed a button. A system triagram appeared: eight luminous green dots arranged around a larger disk representing the primary. He picked up a pointer, indicating the innermost planet. "The situation on Adobe is nearing crisis. The confounded settlers—a mere handful of them—have managed, as usual, to stir up trouble with an intelligent indigenous life form, the Jaq. I can't think why they bother, merely for a few
  Question: What compromise did Retief and Hoshick reach that ended the conflict?
  
   (A) They agreed to split all the oases on the planet, picking by random draw which oases went to the settlers, and which to the Flapjacks.
   (B) They agreed to put a line of demarcation around the planet in a longitudinal direction, and the colonists would get one half of the planet, and the Flapjacks the other half.
   (C) Hoshick decided it would be better for the Flapjacks to return to Jax, and this put an end to the conflict.
   (D) It turns out that the Flapjacks wanted land that the colonists considered worthless, so it was easy to reach an agreement in priniciple.
  Answer:
output: It turns out that the Flapjacks wanted land that the colonists considered worthless, so it was easy to reach an agreement in priniciple.