dockmaster

Also, the dockmaster's house was gone, and part of the largest dock with it.

Stone thanked the dockmaster for his help and went below.

A quick look determined that the dockmaster was keeping an eye on things.

Three police cars were racing up, full blast, toward the dockmaster office.

A minute later she came back with the dockmaster.

A day later, an obscure computer named Dockmaster sent us an electronic mail message.

Dockmaster's return address might have been anywhere, but signs pointed to Maryland.

Trying to appear casual, Archer went first to the dockmaster's control tower.

"About the same time he screwed up our accounting, this Dockmaster place sent us a message saying that someone had tried to break in there."

Heller went to a phone kiosk near the dockmaster office.

The dockmaster read the words, then read them again.

"Dockmaster's privilege," he allowed suddenly, swept a hand toward the boards.

The ramp was deserted, the dockmaster and the guard obvious by their absence.

"Very well, dockmaster, we're ready for you to engage the transporter."

The dockmaster hammered on what might have been a keyboard, then checked a monitor.

"Down near the breakwater, with the other big yachts," the dockmaster said.

The dockmaster himself was a huge burly alien preoccupied with traffic.

When the alarm stopped, the dockmaster hammered something new into the keyboard and the monitor changed.

The dockmaster went back to his work, turning his idea of a shoulder to the newcomers.

THE phone in the booth next to the dockmaster's cabin rang.

The dockmaster sagged as though a coathanger had just been removed from his shirt.

"The dockmaster's promised to start on it first thing tomorrow," Chandler went on.

There is no dockmaster to guide traffic through the area, the two companies and the Coast Guard said.

Brand strolled across it, thumbs in belt, and stood facing the dockmaster.

He pulled the Amyrlin's paper out of his pouch and thrust it in the dockmaster's face.