#637 Old Rambling House- Frank Herbert
It was a deal too good to pass up. The Grahams lived in a trailer, once finding it fun to ramble around. Traveling from place to place. Now Martha is pregnant and finds all the traveling too much. They have been contacted by a strange foreign couple—from Basque, they say—who wish to trade them their house for the Grahams trailer. It is an extremely unbalanced deal, the house is worth at least ten times the trailers value.
When they go with the Rushes to see the house they feel uneasy, but when they see it, they are overwhelmed. Once they agree to the deal, something strange happens. The house shakes and they are flying through space. The deal they made was not for the house but for their identities. They are now part of a galactic society in a different galaxy than earth. They must take over the Rush’s position in this society as traveling tax collectors.
There is one final snag the Rushes did not take into account, and it will become a problem when the baby gets older.
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