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09 - Five Stories by Alan Nourse by Alan E. Nourse · Five Stories by Alan Nourse

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  Speaker 1: Martyr, Part two of five stories by Alan Norse. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Kirk Zigler.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't look very much alike. There was a sparseness
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  Speaker 1: about Paul, a tall, lean, hungry looking man with large,
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  Speaker 1: soft eyes that hid their anger, and a face that
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  Speaker 1: was lined with tiredness and resignation. A year ago, when
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  Speaker 1: Dan had seen him last, he had looked a young
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  Speaker 1: sixty closer to forty five. Now he looked an old,
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  Speaker 1: old sixty one. How much of this was the cancer,
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  Speaker 1: Dan didn't know. The pathologist had said, not a very
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  Speaker 1: malignant tumor right now, but you can never tell when
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  Speaker 1: it will blow up. He'd better be scheduled at the
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  Speaker 1: center if he's got a permit. But some of it
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  Speaker 1: was Paul, just Paul. The house was exactly as Dan
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  Speaker 1: had expected it would be, though he had never been
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  Speaker 1: inside this house since Paul had come to Starship Project
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Stuffy, severe, rather gloomy rooms packed with bookshelves,
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  Speaker 1: drawing boards, odds and ends of papers and blueprints and inks. Thick,
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  Speaker 1: ugly furniture from the early two thousands, A cluttered, improvised
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  Speaker 1: helter skelder barn of testing lab with modern equipment that
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  Speaker 1: looked lost an alien scattered among the moldering junk of
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  Speaker 1: two centuries. Get your coat, Dan said, it's cold outside.
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  Speaker 1: We're going back to Washington. Have a drink, Paul waved
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  Speaker 1: him toward the sideboard. Relax, your pilot needs a rest, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come here to play games. The games are
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  Speaker 1: over now. Paul poured a brandy with deliberation handed Dan
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  Speaker 1: one sipped his own good brandy. He murmured, wish I
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  Speaker 1: could afford more of it. Paul, you're going with me,
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  Speaker 1: the old man shrugged with a little tired smile. I'll
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  Speaker 1: go with you if you insist, of course, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going. Do you know what you're saying perfectly? Paul,
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  Speaker 1: you just don't won't say thanks, But I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: I'll have any when they give you a rejuvenation permit.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody refuses rejuvenation. Why there are a million people out
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  Speaker 1: there begging for a place on the list. It's life, Paul.
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  Speaker 1: You just can't turn it down. This is good brandy,
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, would you care to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: my lap by the way, not too well equipped, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I can work here better than Dan, swung on
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  Speaker 1: his brother viciously. I will tell you what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do, he grated, hitting each word hard like knuckles
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  Speaker 1: wrapping the table. I'm going to take you to the plane.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't come, my pilot and I will drag you.
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  Speaker 1: When we get to Washington, we'll take you to the center.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't sign the necessary releases, I'll forge them.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bribe two witnesses who will swear in the face
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  Speaker 1: of death by torture that they saw you signing. I'll
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  Speaker 1: buy out the doctors that can do the job, and
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  Speaker 1: if they won't do it, I'll sweat them down until
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  Speaker 1: they will. He slammed the glass down on the table,
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  Speaker 1: feeling his heart pounding in his throat the pain creep up.
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  Speaker 1: I've got lots of things on lots of people, and
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  Speaker 1: I can get things done when I want them done.
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  Speaker 1: People don't fool me in Washington anymore, because when they do,
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  Speaker 1: they get their fingers burned off with the knuckles. For
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  Speaker 1: Christ's sake, Paul, I knew you were stubborn, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think you were block headed stupid. Paul shrugged apologetically.
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  Speaker 1: I'm impressed. Dan, Really you don't think I can do it?
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  Speaker 1: Dan roared, No doubt you could, but such a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trouble for an unwilling victim. And I'm your brother, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: Remember Dan Fowlers bred his hands in defeat, then sank
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  Speaker 1: back down in the chair. Paul, tell me why I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be rejuvenated, as though he were saying,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want any sugar in my coffee? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: If I could only see why, if I knew what
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  Speaker 1: was going through your mind, maybe I could understand. But
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  Speaker 1: I can't. Dan looked up at Paul, practically pleading you're needed.
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  Speaker 1: I had a tape from Lijinski last month. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know what he said? He said, why couldn't you have
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  Speaker 1: come to starship ten years earlier? Nobody knows that ship
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  Speaker 1: like you do. You're making it go. That ship can
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  Speaker 1: take men to the stars now with rejuvenation, and the
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  Speaker 1: same men can come back again to find the same
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  Speaker 1: people waiting for them when they get here. They can
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  Speaker 1: live that long. Now we've been tied down to seventy
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  Speaker 1: years of life, to a tight little universe of one
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  Speaker 1: son and nine planets for thousands of years. Well we
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  Speaker 1: can change that now we can go out. That's what
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  Speaker 1: your work can do for us. He stared helplessly at
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  Speaker 1: his brother. You could go out on that ship you're building, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: You've always wanted to. Why not? Paul looked across at
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  Speaker 1: him for a long moment. There was pity in his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: There was also hatred there, and victory long awaited, bitterly won.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really want me to tell you? I want
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  Speaker 1: you to tell me. Then Paul told him. It took
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  Speaker 1: about ten minutes. It was not tempered with mercy. It
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  Speaker 1: split down. Fowler's world wide open at the seams. You've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about the Starship, said Paul Fowler. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good of starting place. As any I came
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  Speaker 1: to Starship project, what was it fifteen years ago? Almost sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: I guess this was my meat. I couldn't work well
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  Speaker 1: with people. I worked with things, processes, ideas. I dug
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  Speaker 1: in hard on Starship. I loved it, dreamed it, lived
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  Speaker 1: with it. I had dreams in those days, work hard,
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  Speaker 1: make myself valuable here. Maybe I'd get rejuvenation so I
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  Speaker 1: could work more on Starship. I believed everything you just said.
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  Speaker 1: Alpha Century Acturus Vega anywhere we wanted to go, and
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  Speaker 1: I could go along. It wouldn't be long either. We
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  Speaker 1: had Lejinski back with us after his rejuvenation, directing the project.
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  Speaker 1: We had Kellern Stark and Eddie Cochran, great men, the
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  Speaker 1: men who had pounded Starship Project into reality, took it
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  Speaker 1: out of the story books and made the people of
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  Speaker 1: this country want it bad enough to pay for it.
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  Speaker 1: Those men were back now, new men, rebuilt bodies with
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  Speaker 1: all their knowledge and experience preserved. Only now they had
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  Speaker 1: something even more precious than life. Time, and I was
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  Speaker 1: part of it, and I too could have time. Paul
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  Speaker 1: shook his head slowly and sank back into the chair.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were very tired. A dream, nothing more, a fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: It took me fifteen years to learn what a dream.
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  Speaker 1: It was. Not even a suspicion at first, only a
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  Speaker 1: vague puzzlement. Things happening that I couldn't quite grasp, easy
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  Speaker 1: to shrug off until it got too obvious. Not a
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  Speaker 1: matter of wrong decisions. Really, the decisions were right, but
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  Speaker 1: they were in the wrong places. Something about Starship projects
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  Speaker 1: shifting changing somehow, something being lost slowly, nothing you could
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  Speaker 1: nail down at first, but growing month by month, then
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  Speaker 1: one night I saw what it was. That was when
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  Speaker 1: I equipped the lab here to prove to myself that
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  Speaker 1: Starship Project was a dream. He spread his hands and
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  Speaker 1: smiled at Dan like a be nine old chips to
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  Speaker 1: a third form schoolboy. The starship isn't going to Alpha
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  Speaker 1: Century or anywhere else. It's not going to leave the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I'd live long enough to launch that ship
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  Speaker 1: and be one of its crew. Well I won't. That
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  Speaker 1: ship wouldn't leave the ground if I lived a million years. Garbage,
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  Speaker 1: said Dan Fowler, succinctly. No, Dan, not garbage. Unfortunately, we
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  Speaker 1: sometimes have to recognize our dreams as dreams and look
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  Speaker 1: reality right square in the face. Starship Project is dying.
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  Speaker 1: Our whole civilization is dying. Nimrock drove the first nail
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  Speaker 1: into the coffin one hundred and thirty years ago. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if they'd only hanged him when his first rejuvenation failed,
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  Speaker 1: but that would have only delayed it. Now. We're dying
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  Speaker 1: slowly right now, but soon it will be fast, very fast.
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  Speaker 1: And do you know who's getting set to land the
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  Speaker 1: death blow? He smiled sad lee across at his brother.
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  Speaker 1: You are Dan, Dan Fowlers sprang from his chair with
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  Speaker 1: a roar. My God, Paul, you're sick of all the
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  Speaker 1: idiot delights I've ever heard. I owe Jesus. He stood, shaking,
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  Speaker 1: groping for words, staring at his brother. You said you
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  Speaker 1: wanted me to tell you, tell me, tell me what.
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  Speaker 1: Dan took a trembling breath and sat down, visibly gripping himself.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, I heard what you said. You
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  Speaker 1: must mean something, but I don't know what. Let's be reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: Let's forget philosophy and semantics and concepts and all the
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  Speaker 1: thrills for just a minute and talk about facts. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: Just facts, all right, facts, Paul said. Kenneth Armstrong wrote
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  Speaker 1: Man on Mars in twenty twenty eight. He was fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old then, and he hadn't been rejuvenated yet. Fundamentally,
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  Speaker 1: a good book, analyzing his first Mars colony, taking it
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  Speaker 1: apart right down to the silk undies, to show why
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  Speaker 1: it had failed so miserably and why the next one
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  Speaker 1: could succeed if he could ever get up there again.
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  Speaker 1: He had foresight. With rejuvenation just getting started. He had
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  Speaker 1: a whole flock of ideas about overpopulation and the need
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  Speaker 1: for a Mars colony. He was all wet on the
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  Speaker 1: population angle, of course, but nobody knew that. Then he
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  Speaker 1: kicked Keller and Leczinsky off on the starship idea. They
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  Speaker 1: admit it. It was man on Mars that first started
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  Speaker 1: them thinking. They were both young with lots of fight
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  Speaker 1: in them. Okay, just stick to the facts, said Dan coldly. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: starship project got started and blossomed into the people's baby.
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  Speaker 1: They started work on the basic blueprints about sixty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knew it would be a long job, cost money,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of it, and there was so much to do
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  Speaker 1: before the building ever began. That was where I came in,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Building. They were looking for engineers who
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  Speaker 1: weren't eager to get rich. It went fine, we started
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  Speaker 1: to build. Then Keller and Stark came back from rejuvenation.
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  Speaker 1: Lijinsky had been rejuvenated five years before. Look, I don't
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  Speaker 1: need a course in history, Dan exploded, Yes you do,
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  Speaker 1: Paul snapped, you need to sit down and listen for
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  Speaker 1: once instead of shooting your big mouth off all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you need, real bad Dan. Paul Fowler rubbed
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  Speaker 1: his chin. There were red spots in his cheeks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there were some changes made. I didn't like the engine
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  Speaker 1: housing I never had, so I went along with them
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent on that. Even though I designed it,
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  Speaker 1: I'd learned a few things since, and there were bugs.
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  Speaker 1: It made perfectly good sense. Talking to Lijinsky, starship project
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  Speaker 1: was pretty important to all of us. Dangerous to risk
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  Speaker 1: a fumble on the first play, even a tiny risk,
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  Speaker 1: we might never get another chance. Leazinsky knew we youngsters
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  Speaker 1: were driving along on adrenaline and nerves and couldn't wait
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  Speaker 1: to get out there. But when you thought about it,
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  Speaker 1: what was the rush? Was it worth the chance of
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  Speaker 1: a fumble to get out there this year instead of next?
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't we take time to find a valid test for
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  Speaker 1: that engine at ultra high acceleration before we put it
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  Speaker 1: back in? After all, we had time now, Keller and
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  Speaker 1: Stark just back with sixty more years to live. Why
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  Speaker 1: the rush? Okay, I bought it. We worked out a
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  Speaker 1: valid test on paper, took us four years of work
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  Speaker 1: on it to find out. You couldn't build such a
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  Speaker 1: device on earth. But never mind that other things were
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  Speaker 1: stalling All the while, the colony planned for the ship,
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  Speaker 1: choosing the crew what criteria, what qualifications? There was plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time. Why not make sure it's right, don't leave
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  Speaker 1: anything crude if we can refine it a little first,
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  Speaker 1: Paul sighed wearily. It's snowballed. Keller and Stark back Lazinski
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  Speaker 1: to the hilt. There was some trouble about money. I
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  Speaker 1: think you had your thumb in the pie there getting
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  Speaker 1: it fixed for us. Didn't you more refining, work it
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  Speaker 1: out detail, get sidetracked on some aspect for a few years?
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  Speaker 1: So what lots of time, rejuvenation and all that talk
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  Speaker 1: about the universalists beating Rhinehardt out and throwing in the
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  Speaker 1: center open to everybody, et cetera, et cetera. But somewhere
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  Speaker 1: along the line I began to see that it just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't true. The hold ups, the changes, the digressions and
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  Speaker 1: snags to the refinements were all excuses, all part of
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  Speaker 1: a big, beautiful, exquisitely reasonable facade build up to obscure
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  Speaker 1: the real truth Lizinsky and Keller and Stark had changed.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Fowler snorted, I know a very smart young doctor
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  Speaker 1: who told me there weren't any changes. I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: anything physical. Their bodies were fine, nothing mental, either they
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  Speaker 1: had the same sharp minds they always had. It was
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  Speaker 1: a change in values. They'd lost something that they had before,
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  Speaker 1: the drive that made them start Starship project, the urgency,
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  Speaker 1: the vital importance of the thing. It was all gone.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't have the push anymore. They began to
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  Speaker 1: look for the easy way, and it was far easier
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  Speaker 1: to build and rebuild and refine and improve the starship
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  Speaker 1: here on the ground than to throw that starship out
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  Speaker 1: into space. There was a long silence. Dan Fowler sat
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  Speaker 1: gray faced, staring at Paul, just shaking his head and staring.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it, he said. Finally, you do, maybe
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  Speaker 1: because you want to, But you're mixed up. Paul. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen Leczinski's reports. There's been progress, regular progress, month by month.
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  Speaker 1: You've been too close to it. Maybe, of course there've
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  Speaker 1: been delays, but only when they were necessary. The progress
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  Speaker 1: has gone on. Paul stood up. Suddenly, come in here, Dan, look.
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  Speaker 1: He threw open a door, strode rapidly down a corridor
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  Speaker 1: and a flight of stairs into the long, low barn
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  Speaker 1: of a laboratory. Here, let me show you something. He
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  Speaker 1: pulled out drawers, dragged out rolls of blueprints, These are
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  Speaker 1: my own. They're based on the working prints from Starship
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  Speaker 1: that we drew up ten years ago, scaled down to
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  Speaker 1: model size. I've tested them, I've run tolerances. I've checked
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  Speaker 1: the math five ways and back again. I've tested the parts,
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  Speaker 1: the engine, model size. The blueprints haven't got a flaw
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  Speaker 1: in them. They're perfect as they'll ever get. No, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. Look, He strode fiercely across to slide back
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  Speaker 1: a floor panel, drew up the long, glittering thing from
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  Speaker 1: a well in the floor, sleek, beautiful, three feet long.
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  Speaker 1: Paul maneuvered a midget loading crane, guided the thing into
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  Speaker 1: launching position on the floor, then turned back to down there.
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  Speaker 1: It is just a model, but it's perfect. Every detail
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. There's even fuel in it. No men, but
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  Speaker 1: there could be if there were any men small enough.
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  Speaker 1: Anger was blazing in Paul's voice now, bitterness and frustration.
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  Speaker 1: I build it because I had to be sure. I've
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  Speaker 1: tested its thrust. I could launch this model for Alpha
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  Speaker 1: century tonight. I'd get there. If there were little men
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  Speaker 1: who could get into it, they'd get there too. Alive.
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  Speaker 1: Starship project is completed. It's been completed for ten years now,
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  Speaker 1: but do you know what happened to these blueprints? The originals?
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  Speaker 1: They were studied, they were improvements. They almost had the
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  Speaker 1: ship built, and then they took it apart again. But
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  Speaker 1: I've read the reports, Dan cried, have you seen the starship?
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  Speaker 1: Have you talked to them over there? It isn't just there,
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  Speaker 1: it's everywhere, Dan. There are only about seventy thousand rejuvenated
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  Speaker 1: men alive in this hemisphere so far, but already the
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  Speaker 1: change is beginning to show. Go talk to the advertising people.
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  Speaker 1: There's a delicate indicator of social change if there ever
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  Speaker 1: was one. See what they say. Who are they backing
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  Speaker 1: in the government? You like hell rein Hart. No, they're
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  Speaker 1: banking up Moses Tendall and his abolitionist goon squad, who
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  Speaker 1: preached that rejuvenation is the work of Satan, and they're
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  Speaker 1: giving him enough strength that he's even getting you worried.
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  Speaker 1: How about Rodrigo Aviado and his solar energy project down
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  Speaker 1: in Antarctica? Do you know what he's been doing down
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  Speaker 1: there lately? You better find out, Dan, what's happening to
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  Speaker 1: the Mars colony? Do you have any idea you'd better
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  Speaker 1: find out? Have you gone to see any of the
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  Speaker 1: noble ten that are still rattling around. Oh you ought
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  Speaker 1: to how about all the suicides we've been having in
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  Speaker 1: the last ten years. What do the insurance people say
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  Speaker 1: about that? He stopped from lack of breath. Dan just
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  Speaker 1: stared at him, shaking his head like silly Willie on
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  Speaker 1: the TVs. Find Out what you're doing, Dan, before you
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  Speaker 1: push this universal rejuvenation idea of yours through. Find out
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  Speaker 1: if you've got the guts to find out. That is,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a monster on our hands and now you've
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  Speaker 1: got to be a big Dan Fowler playing god and
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  Speaker 1: turning them loose on the world. Well, be careful, find
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  Speaker 1: out first while you can. It's all here to see
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  Speaker 1: if you'll open your eyes. But you're all I'm so
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  Speaker 1: dead sure that you want life everlasting that nobody's bothered
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  Speaker 1: to even look. And now it's become such a political
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  Speaker 1: blungeon that nobody dares to look. The model ship seemed
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  Speaker 1: to gleam in the dim laboratory light. Dan Fowler walked
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  Speaker 1: over to it, ran a finger up the shiny side
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  Speaker 1: to the pinpoint tip. His face was old and something
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  Speaker 1: gone from his eyes. When he turned back to Paul,
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  Speaker 1: you've known this for so long, and you never told me.
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  Speaker 1: You never said a word. He shook his head slowly.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you hated me so much. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to let you win this one either, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. I'm going to prove it. If it kills me, well,
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  Speaker 1: try his home number. Then, Dan Fowler snarled into the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: He gnawed his cigar and fumed. His long minutes spun
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  Speaker 1: off the wall clock. His fingers drummed the wall. How's that?
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  Speaker 1: Damn it? I want to speak to Dwight mackenzie. His
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  Speaker 1: aid will not do well. Of course, he's in town.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw him yesterday. He waited another five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and then his half dollar clank back in the return
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  Speaker 1: with apologies. All right, get his office when it opens
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  Speaker 1: and call me back. He reeled off the number of
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  Speaker 1: the private booth. Carl Golden looked up as he came
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  Speaker 1: back to the table and stirred sugar cream into half
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  Speaker 1: cold coffee. No luck, son of a bitches, vanished. Dan
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  Speaker 1: leaned back against the wall, gloring at Carl and Jean.
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  Speaker 1: Through the transparent walls of the glass in booth, they
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: could see the morning breakfast seekers drifting into the place
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: we should have him pretty soon. He bit off the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: end of a fresh cigar and assaulted it with a match. Dad,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you know what, doctor Moss said. Look, little girl, if
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to die in ten minutes, I'm going to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: smoke for those ten minutes and enjoy them. Dan snapped.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: The coffee was like lukewarm dishwater. Both young people sip
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: theirs with bleary early morning resignation. Carl Golden needed to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: shave badly. He opened his second pack of cigarettes. Did
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you sleep on the way back? Dan snorted? What do
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you think? I think Paul might be lying to you?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Dan shot him a sharp glance. Maybe, but I don't
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: think so. Paul has always been fussy about telling the truth.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: He's all wrong, of course, but I think he believes
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: his tale. Does it sound like he's lying to you?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Carl sighed and shook his head. No, I don't like it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It sounds to me as though he's pretty sure he's right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Dan clanked the cup down and swore he's demented. That's
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: what he is. He's waited too long. His brain is
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: starting to go. If that story of his were true,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: why has he waited so long to tell somebody about it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted to see you hang yourself. But I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: can only hang myself on facts, not on the paranoid
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: ramblings of a sick old man. The horrible thing is
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that he probably believes it. He almost had me believing
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it for a while. But it isn't true. He's wrong.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Good lord, he's got to be wrong, Dan broke off,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: staring across at Karl. He gulped the last of the coffee.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: If he isn't wrong, then that's all, kiddies. The mountain
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: sinks into the sea, with us just ten feet from
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the top of it. Well, would you walk into the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: center of a retread now without being sure he's wrong?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Of course I wouldn't, Dan said peevishly. Paul has taken
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the game right out from under our noses. We've got
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to stop everything and find out now before we do
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: another damn thing. The senator dragged a sheaf of yellow
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: paper out of his breast pocket and spread it out
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: on the table. I worked it out on the way back.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We've got a nasty job on our hands, more than
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: we can possibly squeeze in before the hearing comes up
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: on December fifteenth. So number one job is to shift
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the hearings back again. I'll take care of that as
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: soon as I can get Mackenzie on the wire. What's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: your excuse going to be? Jean wanted to know anything
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: but the truth. Mackenzie thinks I'm going to win the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: fight at the hearings, and he wants to be on
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the right side of the toast when it's buttered. He'll
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: shift the date back to February fifteenth. Okay, Next, we
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: need a crew, a crowd that can do fast, accurate,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: hard work and not squeal if they don't sleep for
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a month or so. Tommy Sanborn should be in Washington.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He can handle statistics for us. In addition, we need
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a couple of good sharp detectives. Jeane the girl nodded.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I can handle that end. It'll take some time getting
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: them together, though. How much time? A couple of days? Fine,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: we can have lots of work for them in a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: couple of days. The senator turned back to Carl. I
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: want you to hit Starship project first thing. Carl shook
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: his head. I've got a better man for that job.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Saw him last night and he's dying for something to do.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: You don't know him Terry Fisher. He'll know how to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: dig out what we want. He was doing it for
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: five years on Mars. The ALKI Dan didn't like it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: We can't risk a slip to the TVs. We just
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: don't dare. There won't be any slip. Terry's jumped in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the bottle to get away from Mars, that's all. He'll
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: stay cold when it can ounce. Okay, if you say soul,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I want to see the setup there too, but I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: want it ready for a quick scam. Get him down
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: here this morning to soften things up and get it
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: all out on the table for me. You'd better tackle
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the admin. Then let's see Tennor's agency in Philly's a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: good place to start. Then hit Metro Insurance. Don't waste
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: time with the underlings. Go to the top and wave
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: my name around like an orange flag. They won't like
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it a damn bit, but they know I have the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: finger on Cornwall and Communications. We'll take his scalp if
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: they don't play ball. All you'll have to do is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: convince them of that what's on Cornwall. Cornwall's been fronting
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: for Moses Tyndall for years. That's why Tyndall never bothered me.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Too much, because we could get him through Cornwall anytime
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: we wanted to, and the Admin and Metro have everything
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: they own sunk into Tyndall's plans. Carls frown, still lingered.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, Son, It's okay. I think maybe
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you're under estimating John. Why I worked for him once. Remember,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: he doesn't like you. He knows it's going to be
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you or him in the long haul, with nobody else involved.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And you realize what happens if Moses gets wind of
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: this mess, finds out what your brother told you, or
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: even finds out that you're worried about something. Then chewed
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: his lip. He could be a pain, couldn't he He
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: sure could more than a pain, and Cornwall wouldn't be
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: much help after the news got out. Well, we'll have
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to take the risk, that's all. We'll have to be
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: fast and quiet, he pushed aside his coffee cup as
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the phone blinker started in. I think that gets us started, Jean,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you'll keep somebody on the switchboard and keep track of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: us all. When I get through with Mackenzie, I may
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: be leaving the country for a while. You'll have to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: be my ears and cover for me. Yes, yes, I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was calling Dwight Mackenzie. The phone box squawked for a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: moment or two. Hello Dwight, what oh thunder well? Where
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: is he? Timagami, Ontario an island. He covered the speaker
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and growled, he's gone moose hunting. Then O ka, get
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: me Eastern Sea Jet charter service. Five minutes later they
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: walked out into the street and split up in three
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: different directions. A long series of gray, flickering pictures. Then
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: for Dan Fowler, a fast meal in the car to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the charter service landing field. Morning sun swallowed up, sky gray,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: then almost black, temperature dropping a gray, drizzling rain, cold,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the wind carrying it across the open field in waves,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: slashing his cheeks with icy blades of water. Gray shape
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of the ski plane, eight feet of snow up there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: According to the i w B reports, lakes frozen three
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: feet thick. Going to be a rough ride. Senator Jean's
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: quick kiss before he climbed up, the sharp worry in
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: her eyes. Got your pills dead, Try to sleep, take
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it easy, Give me a call about anything. But there
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: aren't any foams, the operator said, better not to tell
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: her that, Why scare her any more? Damned hard anyway.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: A wobbly take off that almost dumped his stomach in
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: his lap, sent the briefcase flying across the cabin, and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: gray black nothing out through the midday viewports heading north,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: faster faster. Why can't you get this crate to move? Sorry, Senator,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: nasty currents up here. Maybe we can try going higher.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Time Paul had called it more precious than life. And
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: now the time flew screaming by in great deadly sweeps,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like a black winged buzzard. And through it all weariness,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: tiredness that he had never felt before, not years, not work,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: weary body, yes, and time was running out. He should
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: have rejuvenated years ago. But now what if Paul were right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Can't do it now, not until Paul is wrong a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: thousand times wrong. That was it, of course, that was
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the weariness. That wasn't time weariness or body wariness, just
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: mind weariness, weariness at the thought of wasted work, the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: wasted years, a wasted life. Unless Paul is very wrong.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: A snarl of disgust. A toggle switch snapped a flickering
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: TV screen. Wonderful pick up these days. News of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: World brought to you by Atomics International, the fuel to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: power the starship. The President returned to Washington day after
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a three week vacation conference in Calcutta with Chinese and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Indian dignitaries, full accord and a cordial ending to the meeting,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: American supplies to be made available, and on the home front,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: appropriations renewed for Antarctica project to bring solar energy into
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: every home. Aviado was quoted as saying huge abolitionist rally
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: last night in New Chicago, as John Moses Tendall returned
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to that city to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: movement that started there back in twenty one nineteen. No
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: violent reported as Tenda lashed out at Senator Daniel Fowler's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Universe Perusal rejuvenation program twenty five hour work week, hailed
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: by Senator Reinhardt of Alaska as a great progressive step
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: for the American people. Senator Reinhardt, chairman of the Policy
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Making Criterion Committee, held forth hope last night that rejuvenation
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: techniques may increase the number of candidates to six hundred
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a year within five years. And now news from the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: entertainment world going down then into flurries of northern snow
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: peering out at the wider gloom. Below, a long stretch
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of white with blobs of black on either side, resolving
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: into snow laden black pines. A long flat lake top
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of ice and snow, taxing down engines, roaring, sucking up
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: snow into steam in the orange after blast, and ahead
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: up from the lake, a black blot of a house
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: with orange window lights reflecting warmth, and chair against the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: wilderness outside. Then to white Mackenzie peering out into the gloom,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: eyes water in recognition, little mean eyes with streaks of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: fear through them, widening then smiling, pumping his hand. Dan,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: my god, I couldn't imagine, hardly ever see anybody up here.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You know, come in, Come in. You must be half frozen.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: What's happened? Something torn loose down in Washington? And more
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: questions fast tumbling over each other. No answers wanted talk,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: He talk, questions to cover surprise and fear, and the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: one large question of why Dan Fowler should be dropping
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: down out of the sky on him, which question he
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: didn't think he wanted answered just yet. A huge rugged room,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: blazing fire in a mammoth fireplace at the end, moose heads,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a rug of thick black bear hide like to come
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: up here a day or two ahead of the party.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You know, Mackenzie was saying, does a man good to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: commune with his soul once in a while? Do you
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: like to hunt? You should join us, Dan, Libby and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Donaldson will be up tomorrow with a couple of guides.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: We could find you an extra gun. They say hunting
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: should be good this year. One chair against the fireplace,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a book hastily thrown down beside it. Sextra Special Cartoons
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: by colp Great Book for soul searching Senators. Things were
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: all out of focus after the sudden change from the cold.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: But now Dan was beginning to see one book, one chair,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: but two half filled cherry glasses at the sideboard. Can't
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: wait to white. I have to get back to the city,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't find you down there, and they didn't
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: know when you were coming back. I just wanted to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: let you know that I put you to all that
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: trouble for nothing. We don't need the hearing date in
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: December after all. Wearing us suddenly in Mackenzie's eyes, Well,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: nice of you to think of it, Dan, But it
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't really any trouble, no trouble at all. December the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: fifteenth is fine, as a matter of fact, better than
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the February date would have been. Give the committee a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: chance to collect itself during the holidays. Huh, well, it
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: now seems to me it wouldn't be so good for
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: me to white. I'd much brief for it to be
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: changed back to the February date. Well, now, pause, Dan,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: We have to settle these things sooner or later. You know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether we can do that now, don't
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: know why not. The moose hunter licked both lips, couldn't
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: keep his eyes on Dan's eyes focused on his nose instead,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: as if the nose were really the important part of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the conversation. It isn't just me that makes these decisions, Dan,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: other people have to be consulted. It's pretty late to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: catch them now, you know. It might be pretty hard
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to do that. No more smiles from Dan. Now, look,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you make the calendar and you can change it. Face
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: getting red, getting angry? Careful Dan, those two sherry glasses.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Watch what you say. I want it changed back, and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I've got to know right now. But you told me
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you'd be ready to roll by December fifteenth. To hell
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: with caution. He had to have time. Look, there's no
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: reason you can't do it if you want to, Dwight.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I consider it a personal favor. I repeat, a very
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: large personal favor. If you'd make the arrangements, I won't
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: forget it. What did the swine want? And arm off
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: at the roots? Sorry, said a voice from the rear
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: door of the room. Walder Rhinehardt walked across to the sideboard.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: You don't mind if I finished this, d Wight. A
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: deep breath from Mackenzie, like a sigh of relief. Go
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: right ahead, Walt, Sherry Dan, I don't think so. It
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: was Walder all right, tall, upright, dignified, Walder, fine, shock
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of wavy hair that was white as the snow outside,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: young old lines on his face. Some men looked finer
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: after rejuvenation, much finer than before. There had been a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: chilly look about Walderrhinehart's eyes before his first retread. Not
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: now a fine man like somebody's dear old grandfather. Just
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: give him a chunk of wood to whittle and a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: jack blade to whittle it with. But inside the mind
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: was the same inside, no changes. Author of the Rhinehart Criteria,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: The Royal Road to a Self perpetuating immortal elite. Dan
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: turned his back on Rhinehart and said to Mackenzie, I
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: want the date changed. I can't do it, Dan, an
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: inquiring glance at Reinhardt a faint, smiling nod in return.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: He knew he'd blundered, then blundered badly. Mackenzie was afraid.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Mackenzie wanted another lifetime one of these days. He decided
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that Rhinehart would be the one who could give it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to him. But worse, far worse, Rhinehart knew now that
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: something had happened, Something was wrong. What's the matter, Dan,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he said smoothly. You need more time? Why you had
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it before and you were pretty eager to toss it up. Well,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: what's happened? Dan? That was all back against the wall.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: The thought of bluffing it through, swallowing the December fifteenth
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: date and telling them to shove it flashed through his mind.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: He threw it out violently, his heart sinking. That was
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: only a few more days. They had weeks of work
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: ahead of them. They needed more time. They had to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: have it. Hinehart was grinning confidently. Of course I'd like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to cooperate, Dan, only I have some plans for the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: hearings too. You've been getting on people's nerves down in
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the city. There's even been talk of reconsidering your rejuvenation permit.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Your move, Dan, God, what a blunder. Why did you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: ever come up here? And every minute you stand there
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: with your jaw sagging just tells Reinhart how tight he's
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: really got you do something anything, There was a way
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: would Carl understand it. Carl had begged him never to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: use it ever, under any circumstances, and Carl had trusted
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: him when he said he wouldn't. But if Carl were
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: standing here now, he'd say, yes, go ahead, use it,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: wouldn't he He'd have to. I want the herrings. On
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: February fifteenth, Dan said to Rhinehart. Sorry, Dan, we can't
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: be tossing dates around like that unless you'd care to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: tell me why. Okay, Dan grabbed his hat. Anger. I'll
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: make a formal request for the change tomorrow morning and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: read it on the TVs. Then I'll also announce a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: feature attraction that the people can look forward to when
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the hearing date comes. We weren't planning to use it,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: but I guess you'd like to have both barrels, right,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: in the face. So that's what we'll give you. Walter
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Reinhardt roared with laughter. Another feature attraction. You do dig
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: them up, don't you. Ken Armstrong's dead. You know Peter
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Golden's widow, isn't The smile faded on Rhinehart's face. He
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: looked suddenly like a man carved out of gray stone.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Dan trembled, let the words sink in. You didn't think
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: anybody knew about that, did you? Wall Sorry, We've got
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the story on Peter Golden. Took us quite a while
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to piece it together, but we did with the help
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of his son. Karl remembers his father before the accident,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you see quite well. His widow remembers him even before that.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: And we have some fascinating recordings that Peter Golden made
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: when he applied for rejuvenation and when he appealed to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the comm Eddy's decisions. Some of the private interviews too.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Walder I gave Peter Golden forty more years of life.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Rehinehart said, you crucified him. Dan said, bluntly, there was silence,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a long silence. Then are you selling? I'm selling? Cut
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: out my tongue, Carl, but I'm selling. How do I
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: know you won't break it anyway. You don't know except
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that I'm telling you I won't. Rhinehart soaked that in
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: with the last gulp of sherry. Then he smashed the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: glass on the stone floor. Change the date, he said
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to Mackenzie. Then throw this vermin out of here. Back
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in the snow and darkness, Dan tried to breathe again
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and couldn't quite make it. He had to stop twice
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: going down to the plane. Then he was sick all
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the way back and of Martyr Part two recording by
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Kirk Ziggler logged in Utah. Voiceovers by Kirk dot Com.