wharfman

I had need of a wharfman's services," she said, still in that breathing whisper. "

Orric had an interest in computers and often did wharfman's chores if the regular men were away when the ships came in.

Alyce, who'd displayed a wharfman's appetite at the Hart, picked only absently at her food.

She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman's songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue's mind.

She conquered the hysteria with an effort and took up her tale a little more calmly.:"I was really looking for a wharfman, as I said, and for quite another reason than this."

There are many wharfman along the seafront, but only one of you, oh man of Eart' and she lifted her arms and sway-ed toward him exactly as a reed sways to a lake breeze, and her arms Jay lightly on his shoulders and her mouth.