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.He fired rapidly.Three shots came at him.Three shots ricocheted off hisportable force screen.Five guards went down in charredheaps where the ashes lay amid glowing bits of metal.Ole Doc looked alertly across the Savannah, glancedback to make sure the screen had protected Hippocratesand then struck off for the Morgue.There was no guard there now since that guard hadbeen changed from the ship.Ole Doc swung in, indicateda couch where O'Hara was to be tossed and walkedthrough the vessel to check her for ascent.But she hadnot been harmed and in a few minutes he could sink with Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlconfidence behind his controls and buckle his belts.He rang for take-off and got Hippocrates' cheery O.K.back.And then the Morgue hurtled upwards to an altitudeof three miles.It looked so peaceful down below.The dark green ofthe jungle bounding the silver of the lakes was pretty tohis appreciative eye.And then he dived and put five big,solid charges into the battle cruiser and left her a curling,smoking mass of wreckage.And he dived again at anotherplace to the south and slammed two shots into a moun-tainous stockpile of structural materials and munitions andsaw how prettily their black smoke rose, interspersed redwith exploding shells.That gave him a great deal of satisfaction.He skipped upwards then through the atmosphere andout into the black comfort of absolute zero and set hiscourse and speed for home."Calling Center," he said into his mike."Calling Center.Methuselah.Methuselah.Calling Center " Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"Come in! 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Come in!" said Center, a tenth of agalaxy away."Methuselah with a report.""Methuselah is enough!" said Ole Doc Cautery at Cen-ter."We have had five navies and the marines looking foryou for months.We've had six empires scared 'til theycan't spit.WHERE have you been?""Got a report," said Ole Doc."Turn this on confiden-tial.""Circuits on.Begin report."Ole Doc spoke into the five wave scramble which haddefied cryptographers since the UMS had adopted it twohundred years before."Alien extragalactic race attemptedfoothold for jump-off attacks on Earth.First independentspace flight originators met so far.Stature about three-quarters Earth normal.Carbon people.Almost a duplicateof man but missing several tissues essential of emotionalbalance including one brain chord intimately related tokindness, worry and judgment.Established depot of sup-ples but unable to transport workmen and soldiers inquantity and so made use of Department of Agriculture Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlExperimental Station vats on Gorgon, wrecking freighterand substituting its phials.Very sentient.Obviously wellinformed intelligence at work in this galaxy.Leaders con-ditioned to enterprise and spoke English.Detectable byuncommon strength.Life period very short reaching ma-turity at about six years of age due to emotional imbal-ances and early development of gonads and so easy todetect in society by rapid aging."Treatment and handling of case: Developed the for-mulae of their gene patterns and isolated missing develop-ment cells.Synthesized cells and injected them into properareas where they will harmonize with bodies.They suc-cumb easily to a strawberry allergy and are painfullyaffected by it.All beings so located and all artificialgestations infected so that they could be treated.Alltreated and left in stupor except five who could not bereached with strawberries."Recommendations: That you get hold of the Depart-ment of Agriculture of the United States as soon aspossible and inform them as follows: Their vessel Wan-derho destroyed.Their station on Gorgon deserted butundamaged; the Achnoids there were bought by the aliens Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmland are no longer to be trusted; inform them that theGorgon Station is now inhabited by about thirty-eight thou-sand aliens converted to human beings and that a relief ex-pedition should be sent to take care of them since they willnone of them be found over twelve years of age and thebulk of them a human five or six months, needing care.Expedition should be armed but should also contain severaldozen expert nurses.Gorgon can now be considered to behumanly populated."Proceeding at normal speed to base to refit.Pleasehave somebody air out my quarters, preferably Miss El-lison.That is all."As he threw the switch he heard a gasp behind him."That's all!" said O'Hara."You convert thirty-eight thou-sand one hundred and some odd extragalactic invaders tohuman beings and you say, "that's all'! Man, I've heardlegends about the Soldiers of Light, but I never realizedwhat superboys you fellows really are."Ole Doc gave him a very bored look and then andthereafter ignored him."Hippocrates," said Ole Doc, "we're almost home.Let'sopen those last two bottles of wine." Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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