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Larry tried to be infinitely more careful and patient as he projected the next
emotion.
[ h a t e ]
The mind of the man seized it and it became
HATE!!
Blackness.
Drawing back, the blackness was an up-close view of
The space black-with-silver piping of a uniform of
A Solarian Patrolman.
The face blurred, and now with distance
sharpened into that of the evil features of
Virgil Samms, Solarian Councilor.
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Around him figures.
Men in uniform, grinning, evil.
Women in ballroom dresses, smiling, vacuous
puppets.
An opulent ballroom, music, dancing.
At the edge of the crowd, a figure standing Out, different.
He moves toward the center slowly, purposefully.
They do not see him, they do not hear him.
His silhouette ringed in light.
He nears the evil one.
Draws and fires.
FLAME!
Burned and blackened,
The evil one falls to the ground.
The opulent walls fade, the female figures gone,
A group of uniformed men of the Solarian Patrol
Standing on a plane with mountains around, and one In the background,
shorter than the rest,
truncated, Sheathed in untarnished metal
The Hill.
The uniformed figures scurry about
looking for a place to hide,
looking fearfully about.
In the sky a little dot grows
and grows and grows,
larger and larger.
The spot separates into many black dots.
Spaceships closing in. Beams flash down.
The evil patrolmen run and are burned to black figures.
Right triumphs.
* * *
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The man was awake. His eyes were open and he was looking at Larry with his
uniform of space black-
and-silver in horror.
[FEAR! SUICIDE!]
His heart stopped.
The doctor was unable to keep it going. The patient was mentally committing
suicide!
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* * *
After it was over Larry Lensed Knobos.
[We are in the midst of an emergency,] Knobos replied. [Please be brief.]
[I have information. I'm not certain of its significance,] Larry stated, and
then reviewed the
major points of the two sequences he had received from the man he probed.
[Both sequences are significant,] Knobos told him. [A few minutes ago there
was an attempt to
assassinate Virgil Samms. It failed. Please wait a moment.] Knobos contacted
Samms and the
Commissioner of Public Safety, Roderick Kinnison. In a few short sentences he
explained the
circumstances of Larry's information.
The three came into Larry's mind and Larry saw unfolded before him the minds
and personalities of
two of the most fantastic individuals he was ever to know. Two men who had
just created a force
they had been molding all their lives. A force which would become the backbone
of civilization:
the Galactic Patrol. They were good men. Tremendous men. Hard. Clean. Honest.
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And enormously
capable. Without deceit, pettiness or self importance. The difference between
them and the
caricatures in the sequence he was to present was so absurd and farcical that
Larry laughed.
When they had reviewed the sequences, Kinnison remarked, [I can appreciate
your laughter. The
intensity of this man's belief almost made me doubt Virgil.]
[The sequences are also important of themselves,] Samms said [They are too
elaborate, too stylized
for the mind that held them to create them on its own. Somehow they were
implanted in exact detail
by an expert.
[Red, your suspicions and Bergenholm's deductions are vindicated. It appears
that your Grand Fleet
emergency callout was fully justified. And it looks like your ensigns aren't
going to have long
gray whiskers before they see action. They may not even be able to finish
shaving.
[Lensman McQueen,] Samms was formal, [Thank you for bringing this matter to
our attention so
quickly.] Then informal, [And Larry, drop in on me when this assignment is
over. I'd like to meet
you again.]
Samms and Kinnison went back to work. Knobos remained only long enough to
comment, [We will expect
you Friday.]
Larry Lensed Hanovich. [I need a status report.]
[Did you hear about the assassination attempt on Samms yet?] Hanovich asked
excitedly.
[He didn't say much about it,] Larry answered dryly.
Hanovich did a mental double take as the implications of what Larry said
registered. His attitude
began to change from one of equal status to deference.
[Status report?] Larry asked, again.
[Copernicus Control is in full operation on emergency power. The operators
are in vacuum suits.
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The substation will be out indefinitely. The V2 was coming from the fire
extinguisher system.
Someone replaced a bottle of CO2, with V2. Thanks to Holt, they were back on
the air in half an
hour.
[Officer Bratmon's suspect suicide before they could get to him. He cut the
control cable in two
places. Estimates to repair run two to three days. We have armed, armored
guards on the northern
cables. No word on the prisoners]
[Both dead,] Larry reported. [Why so long to repair the cable?]
[Each is made up of 600 twisted, shielded pairs of conductors. It takes
anywhere up to five
minutes to strip, identify and splice a single one, and since the far end is
inside the locked,
auxilliary control room, they're still trying to find a way to identify wires
in that end of the
cable.]
[Tell Copernicus Control to get a crew ready to take over the battery from
the control room when
they get inside,] Larry commanded. [Did you hear about the Grand Fleet call
out?]
[Yes,] Hanovich answered. [We're on full alert status. I've had all of the
entrances closed and
everything is fully manned. Everything's quiet.]
[All right,] Larry commented. [I'm late in mentioning this but have the
guards watch for someone
who comes out to find out how successful the attacks were. We caught both
attackers, so their
controller has no way of telling what happened. He'll probably have to do it
in person.]
[I'll see to it immediately,] Hanovich answered.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE LAST SPY
Lensman Larry McQueen was on his way to the Security control center when his
communicator beeped.
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It was Hanovich. Once Larry knew, he bypassed the device and Lensed Hanovich
directly.
[I understand these people tend to suicide?] Hanovich asked cautiously.
[Yes. The sight of a Patrol uniform seems to panic them.]
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[How would you like to scare another one to death?]
[Where is he?] Larry asked.
[She should show up at the north passageway tube any minute now,] Hanovich
answered. [We checked
Out your inquiry about people asking questions. A woman posing as a
correspondent for Universal
Telenews showed up about half an hour ago at the south passageway asking
questions. She's just
about had time to get to the north passageway. Her credentials don't check.
The guards have been
alerted and will try to hold her until you get there.]
[How many guards have you got there?] Larry asked after giving orders to the
transporter driver.
[Two,] Hanovich answered. [You met them.]
[I wasn't paying that much attention at the time. Weapons?]
[They have a semi-portable, a Standish and sidearms.]
[What do you need me out there for? Just to bring her in?] Larry asked,
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Larry tried to be infinitely more careful and patient as he projected the next
emotion.
[ h a t e ]
The mind of the man seized it and it became
HATE!!
Blackness.
Drawing back, the blackness was an up-close view of
The space black-with-silver piping of a uniform of
A Solarian Patrolman.
The face blurred, and now with distance
sharpened into that of the evil features of
Virgil Samms, Solarian Councilor.
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Around him figures.
Men in uniform, grinning, evil.
Women in ballroom dresses, smiling, vacuous
puppets.
An opulent ballroom, music, dancing.
At the edge of the crowd, a figure standing Out, different.
He moves toward the center slowly, purposefully.
They do not see him, they do not hear him.
His silhouette ringed in light.
He nears the evil one.
Draws and fires.
FLAME!
Burned and blackened,
The evil one falls to the ground.
The opulent walls fade, the female figures gone,
A group of uniformed men of the Solarian Patrol
Standing on a plane with mountains around, and one In the background,
shorter than the rest,
truncated, Sheathed in untarnished metal
The Hill.
The uniformed figures scurry about
looking for a place to hide,
looking fearfully about.
In the sky a little dot grows
and grows and grows,
larger and larger.
The spot separates into many black dots.
Spaceships closing in. Beams flash down.
The evil patrolmen run and are burned to black figures.
Right triumphs.
* * *
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The man was awake. His eyes were open and he was looking at Larry with his
uniform of space black-
and-silver in horror.
[FEAR! SUICIDE!]
His heart stopped.
The doctor was unable to keep it going. The patient was mentally committing
suicide!
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* * *
After it was over Larry Lensed Knobos.
[We are in the midst of an emergency,] Knobos replied. [Please be brief.]
[I have information. I'm not certain of its significance,] Larry stated, and
then reviewed the
major points of the two sequences he had received from the man he probed.
[Both sequences are significant,] Knobos told him. [A few minutes ago there
was an attempt to
assassinate Virgil Samms. It failed. Please wait a moment.] Knobos contacted
Samms and the
Commissioner of Public Safety, Roderick Kinnison. In a few short sentences he
explained the
circumstances of Larry's information.
The three came into Larry's mind and Larry saw unfolded before him the minds
and personalities of
two of the most fantastic individuals he was ever to know. Two men who had
just created a force
they had been molding all their lives. A force which would become the backbone
of civilization:
the Galactic Patrol. They were good men. Tremendous men. Hard. Clean. Honest.
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And enormously
capable. Without deceit, pettiness or self importance. The difference between
them and the
caricatures in the sequence he was to present was so absurd and farcical that
Larry laughed.
When they had reviewed the sequences, Kinnison remarked, [I can appreciate
your laughter. The
intensity of this man's belief almost made me doubt Virgil.]
[The sequences are also important of themselves,] Samms said [They are too
elaborate, too stylized
for the mind that held them to create them on its own. Somehow they were
implanted in exact detail
by an expert.
[Red, your suspicions and Bergenholm's deductions are vindicated. It appears
that your Grand Fleet
emergency callout was fully justified. And it looks like your ensigns aren't
going to have long
gray whiskers before they see action. They may not even be able to finish
shaving.
[Lensman McQueen,] Samms was formal, [Thank you for bringing this matter to
our attention so
quickly.] Then informal, [And Larry, drop in on me when this assignment is
over. I'd like to meet
you again.]
Samms and Kinnison went back to work. Knobos remained only long enough to
comment, [We will expect
you Friday.]
Larry Lensed Hanovich. [I need a status report.]
[Did you hear about the assassination attempt on Samms yet?] Hanovich asked
excitedly.
[He didn't say much about it,] Larry answered dryly.
Hanovich did a mental double take as the implications of what Larry said
registered. His attitude
began to change from one of equal status to deference.
[Status report?] Larry asked, again.
[Copernicus Control is in full operation on emergency power. The operators
are in vacuum suits.
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The substation will be out indefinitely. The V2 was coming from the fire
extinguisher system.
Someone replaced a bottle of CO2, with V2. Thanks to Holt, they were back on
the air in half an
hour.
[Officer Bratmon's suspect suicide before they could get to him. He cut the
control cable in two
places. Estimates to repair run two to three days. We have armed, armored
guards on the northern
cables. No word on the prisoners]
[Both dead,] Larry reported. [Why so long to repair the cable?]
[Each is made up of 600 twisted, shielded pairs of conductors. It takes
anywhere up to five
minutes to strip, identify and splice a single one, and since the far end is
inside the locked,
auxilliary control room, they're still trying to find a way to identify wires
in that end of the
cable.]
[Tell Copernicus Control to get a crew ready to take over the battery from
the control room when
they get inside,] Larry commanded. [Did you hear about the Grand Fleet call
out?]
[Yes,] Hanovich answered. [We're on full alert status. I've had all of the
entrances closed and
everything is fully manned. Everything's quiet.]
[All right,] Larry commented. [I'm late in mentioning this but have the
guards watch for someone
who comes out to find out how successful the attacks were. We caught both
attackers, so their
controller has no way of telling what happened. He'll probably have to do it
in person.]
[I'll see to it immediately,] Hanovich answered.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE LAST SPY
Lensman Larry McQueen was on his way to the Security control center when his
communicator beeped.
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It was Hanovich. Once Larry knew, he bypassed the device and Lensed Hanovich
directly.
[I understand these people tend to suicide?] Hanovich asked cautiously.
[Yes. The sight of a Patrol uniform seems to panic them.]
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[How would you like to scare another one to death?]
[Where is he?] Larry asked.
[She should show up at the north passageway tube any minute now,] Hanovich
answered. [We checked
Out your inquiry about people asking questions. A woman posing as a
correspondent for Universal
Telenews showed up about half an hour ago at the south passageway asking
questions. She's just
about had time to get to the north passageway. Her credentials don't check.
The guards have been
alerted and will try to hold her until you get there.]
[How many guards have you got there?] Larry asked after giving orders to the
transporter driver.
[Two,] Hanovich answered. [You met them.]
[I wasn't paying that much attention at the time. Weapons?]
[They have a semi-portable, a Standish and sidearms.]
[What do you need me out there for? Just to bring her in?] Larry asked,
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