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Updated: May 9, 2025
Lusty, fantastic Pallastown, on the Golden Asteroid, Pallas... He remembered his parents, killed in a car wreck just outside of Jarviston, four Christmases ago. Some present!... But there was one small benefit he was left free to go where he wanted, without any family complications, like other guys might have. Poor Dave Lester. How was it that his mother allowed him to be with the Bunch at all?
A few more buildings that was about all that was visibly different in Jarviston, Minnesota. A young cop eyed him as he returned to the main drag and paused near a street lamp. He had a flash of panic, thinking that the cop was somebody, grown up, now, who would recognize him. But at least it was no one that he remembered. The cop grinned. "Get settled in a hotel, buddy," he said.
But the accumulating carbon dioxide in the air they breathed, made them sleepier. They had to sit down, then lie down. Frank figured that they had come something over a quarter of the eight hundred miles. This was about the end of Frank Nelsen, would-be Planet Strapper from Jarviston, Minnesota.
So that was how the Bunch left Jarviston, on a June evening that smelled of fresh-cut hay and car fumes home.
While he waited, Frank Nelsen's mind fumbled back to the lost phantom of Jarviston, Minnesota, again. To a man named Jig Hollins who had got married, stayed home. Yellow? Hell...! Nelsen imagined the comforts he might have had in the Space Force. He coaxed up a dream girl blonde, dark, red-headed with an awful wistfulness. He thought of Nance Codiss, the neighbor kid.
How long had it been since he had even beamed old Paul, in Jarviston...? Now that most of the Syrtis Fever had left him, it seemed futile even to consider such a thing. It involved memories buried in enormous time, distance, change, and unexpectedness. Glen Tiflin the sour, space-wild punk who had become a cop.
But much of his feeling of separation from her disappeared as they sat alone in the lounge, talking first about Jarviston, then about here. Nance had available information about the thickets pretty well down pat. "You can't keep those plants alive here at the Station, Frank," she said quietly. "They make study difficult by dying. It's as if they knew that they couldn't win here.
And he didn't quite realize how like a king's ransom a gift like this would seem in Jarviston, Minnesota. On leaving the post office, he promptly forgot the whole matter, as hard, practical concerns took hold of him, again. At the loading quays, special catapults hurled the gigantic bales of supplies clear of Pallas.
Only 25,000 in the Force, when there are over 200,000,000 people in the country to draw from. Just one guy from Jarviston Harv Diamond ever made it. Choosy? We can get old waiting for them to review our submitted personal data, only to have a chance to take their lousy tests!" Joe Kuzak grinned.
She was just polite. That was worse. She's small not much color. Of course she was scared, and mad clean through. Know her?" "I guess we've all seen her around," Nelsen answered. "Widow. Les was in one of my classes during my first high school year. He was a senior, then. They haven't been in Jarviston more than a few years. I never heard where they came from..."
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