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He was crouching, the spherical plastic object in his right hand, his thumb over the button, when the field collapsed. Sure enough, right in front of him, so close that he could smell the very heat of it, was the big tank with the red star on its turret. He cursed the sextet of sanctimonious double-crossers eight thousand miles and fifty years away in space-time.

Sure enough, right in front of him, so close that he could smell the very heat of it, was the big tank with the red star on its turret. He cursed the sextet of sanctimonious double-crossers eight thousand miles and fifty years away in space-time.

"... 'Cremated, Ha! Ha!... why, did you notice those stoves in the house?... They're not big enough to burn up a good-sized dog!... My judgment tells me that that whole squad of double-crossers are in league with that skunk of a "Captain" who pretended to be a friend of Comrade Trotsky.... 'Well, we made a mistake when we endorsed that BURNING lie, we are ALL in for it NOW, and the only way to get out of it is to STAY IN IT and lie it out to the end .... 'UNLESS 'Unless what?... 'Unless the Lett who pretended to do the killing is taken out and SHOT!... 'Oh, give him a little more rope and he'll hang himself!... When I related this conversation to my 'prisoner' he was very much amused.... 'This is a real adventure! he smiled.