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Updated: May 31, 2025
"That officer shall be punished for any deliberate crime committed by the aforesaid General MacMaine as if he had himself committed the crime. "Until such time as this Court may appoint another officer for the purpose, General Polan Tallis, previously identified in these proceedings, is appointed as Guardian Officer."
Sebastian MacMaine felt tense and a little irritated with himself, but he felt nothing that could be called a premonition. When he read the first item on the duty list, his irritation became a little stronger. "Interrogate Kerothi general." The interrogation duty had swung round to him again. He didn't want to talk to General Tallis.
It would be indelicate to speak until Tallis felt that he was ready for the surprise. It was not, however, indelicate to watch Tallis' face closely; it was expected. Theoretically, one was supposed to be able to discern, at least, whether the news was good or bad. With Tallis, it was impossible to tell, and MacMaine knew it would be useless to read the man's expression.
He was not at all sure that his plan would have worked at all with any of the other officers he had met. Tallis, like MacMaine, was an unusual specimen of his race. MacMaine took the congratulations of the Kerothi officers with a look of pleasure on his face, and when they had subsided somewhat, he grinned and said: "Let's get a little work done around here, shall we?
We read of our "great Church musicians" but these men were not musicians; and of the rich stores of Church music but, however vast its quantity, it is not, properly speaking, music. The great English musicians who wrote for the Church before Purcell's time were Tallis, Byrde, Whyte, Orlando Gibbons, and they composed not for the English, but for the Roman Church.
The Kerothi language lacked many of the voiced consonants of English and Russian, and, as a result, Tallis' use of B, D, G, J, V, and Z made them come out as P, T, K, CH, F, and S. The English R, as it is pronounced in run or rat, eluded him entirely, and he pronounced it only when he could give it the guttural pronunciation of the German R. The terminal NG always came out as NK. The nasal M and N were a little more drawn out than in English, but they were easily understandable.
Half a dozen paces in front of the great desk, the color of the floor tiling was different from that of the rest of the floor. Instead of a solid blue, it was a dead black. Tallis, who was slightly ahead of MacMaine, came to a halt as his toes touched the edge of the black area. Uh-oh! a balk line, MacMaine thought. He stopped sharply at the same point.
Nothing else hits an Earthman as hard as a vicious, brutal, unnecessary murder. "So I gave them the incentive to fight, Tallis. That was my message." Tallis was staring at him wide eyed. "You are insane." "No. It worked. In six months, they found something that would enable them to blast the devil Kerothi from the skies. I don't know what the society of Earth is like now and I never will.
So, after Earth's forces get to Keroth, I don't think we'll have any trouble with you." "Not if they set us an example like Houston's World," Tallis said, "and can prove that resistance is futile. But I don't understand the message. What was the message and how did you send it?" "The massacre on Houston's World was the message, Tallis. I even told the Staff, when I suggested it.
Shall I tell you how much?" "Yes, you may if you'll be quick about it." "Very well, then, I will. Do you mind passing the bottle? Thank you. I probably know not only too much, but a deal more than you guess. First let us take the case for the Crown. The jeweller is travelling by coach at night over the moors. He has one postillion only, Roger Tallis by name, and by character shady.
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