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Occupational risk! I said. But a half million years ago, when Earths half-apes gamboled in an eternal nightmare spring, did civilizations rear temples, forums and ocean cities across Mars? Have those peoples gone to dust, or perhaps burrowed underground to escape the bitter weather? "I will," she said calmly. "Prepare yourself for surprises." She seemed very matter of fact, but her face had the calm of a woman whos just had a baby, the pain and shock were over, but she knew this was really only the beginning of the trouble. (#4,Today, science stands fair to join Religion, Motherhood, and the Flag as a domain so sacrosanct and so sanctimonious, that leg-pulling isnt allowed, levity is forbidden, and smiling is scowled at. This hitherto untrod plateau was reached one sultry afternoon some weeks later. Dr. Williams lay beneath a tree at the edge of a large clearing, drowsily contemplating the profuse and picturesque greenery in the near distance, while his companion wandered close by, droning a pleasant but seemingly aimless pattern of sound that played softly and at first soothingly. We held, as it were, one long joint breath, watching that preview, and came out starry-eyed, more sold than ever on the wild idea that such things wouldreally come to be. He got the newsmen out from T-Town, and the eminent scientists, Dr. Velikof Vonk, Arpad Arkabaranan, and Willy McGilly. That bunch turns up every time you get on a good one. They just happen to be in that part of the country where something interesting is going on. Goddamn teetotaler, Dana said. Phooey!” They dropped the boys off at their beach-house. The youngest spoke in a voice you could hardly hear against the wind. My fault, he thought. For bringing Martha against my better judgment. But Leos violation of the spy-screen ethic did lead directly to illicit contact and—this mess! Leo was young, they’d be lenient with him. All right, his fault. Cordice made his voice crisp. Is alcohol or marihuana more decadent? Pepsi-Cola or cigarettes? Chewing gum or the electric toothbrush? Is Librium as decadent as opium? Will the true decadent please stand up! He frowned and took off his glasses.What? I cannot lie. And there was a sound from the other end of the hangar. Three stories up the side of the ship in the open hatchway, silvered by Stellarplex light, stood the golden, the one Ratlit and I had found on the street. You remember what he looked like. He and Alegra must have sneaked in while Sandy and I were struggling with the waldo. Probably they wanted to get away as soon as possible before Ratlit made real trouble, or before I changed my mind and got the keys back. All this ship-giving had been done without witnesses. The sound was the lift rising toward the hatchway. "The children?" Sandy whispered again. Down at the unloading bay he demonstrated how he emptied the tanker, clipping the exhaust leads to the hydrant, regulating the pressure through the manifold and then pumping the sound away into the stockade..
