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If they saw ours, they would stamp them." "Is there always the same number of the giants then? I thought, before I had time to know better, that they were your fathers and mothers." She burst into the merriest laughter, and said, "No, good giant; WE are THEIR firsters." But as she said it, the merriment died out of her, and she looked scared. I stopped working, and gazed at her, bewildered.
"After you left, the Throne Room turned into chaos. Shooting a Ranger in the back, especially here in the Palace, lost the Firsters any popular support they had. Your immediate defense of the Empire, and the way you took that man without killing him people didn't expect that from a Traiti have started gaining sympathy for you." Davis shook his head. "There've been some results already.
Linda Beach applied the charm which had sold soap, vitamins, automobiles and dessicated soup. Soames heard the exchanges from the monitor set. Outside, in the street, a brick suddenly fell among the collegians. More bricks fell among those engaged in an impromptu meeting of Humanity Firsters. Police whistles blew. A plate-glass window crashed.
Humanity Firsters have been trouble for years, and they've been getting more active lately, so Steve decided to let them incriminate themselves, by stopping the security scanners for long enough to let that one through with his weapon. He said his future-sense was still unreliable, but he predicted what would happen today, in outline. And so far the events have had the effects he intended.
He listened to the driver explaining to a couple of firsters that they were actually on what appeared to be one of the mysterious canals when viewed from Earth. Every book on Mars gave the fact that the canals were either an illusion or something which could not be detected on the surface of the planet.
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