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."I was coming here any-way.Your Wilhelm Giotini left the revenue of this systemto the U.M.S.""So I heard.But I thought that would mean a lawyercoming.""We don't have any lawyers," said Ole Doc, easing hisbolstered blaster around into sight."But this terrible disease, it will change your plans, eh?Who would want a planetary system full of diseases.Whata horrible disease!""Kills people?""Kills them! They die in windrows! They scream andthen they die.But I will take you and you will see it.Ihave a helmet here so that I can enter infected areas.Ihave one for you.""I have my own helmet," said Ole Doc. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"No, no!" cried Lebel."I could not risk it.I know thishelmet here is germ proof.It was tested.These germscome through the smallest, the tiniest air leak!""Why did you risk that crowd back there?" said OleDoc."That! Poof! My own people.My aides.My airportpeople.They would not infect me with any disease! Here,try this helmet for size."Ole Doc blinked a little at the man's terrible conceitand was on the verge of remarking that he had yet tomeet a respectful germ when the first casualties caught hiseye.A street ahead was barricaded.Bodies were piled ineither gutter, bodies in various stages of decomposition, ofboth sexes, of many races and castes.Velvet and burlapwere brothers in that grisly display."Ought to bury them," said Ole Doc."You'll havecholera or something if you don't watch it.""Bury them! Who'd go near them! They are thrown outof the houses like that young girl there and nobody " Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"Wait a minute," said Ole Doc."Stop the car!"For the young girl was not dead.She was dressed insatin, probably in her wedding dress, for a church stoodfifty feet further on, and her hair was a golden flood uponthe pavement.She was pressing up with her hands, seekingto rise and falling back, each time screaming.Ole Doc reached for the handle but Lebel blocked him."Don't risk it!" said Lebel.Ole Doc looked at the frantic effort of the girl, lookedat her young beauty, at the agony in her eyes and thentook Label's offer of a helmet.When he had it strappedon an act which prompted both Lebel, his guards anddriver to hastily do the same he shot the bolt on thedoor and stepped to the pavement.He gazed at the girl insatin for a moment in deep thought.Ole Doc advanced, fumbling for the speaker buttons onthe side of the helmet and finding with annoyance that thephones were squeaky in the upper frequencies.Thescreams came eerily through this filter.He turned downthe volume in haste. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlHe helped her up and tried to speak to her but hereyes, after an instant of trying to focus, rolled out ofconcentration and screams tore up from her as thoughthey would rip her throat to shreds.She beat at him andfought him and her gown tore down the side.Ole Doc,aware that Lebel was fearfully at his side and trying to gethim away, let the girl slide back to the ground, movingher only so that she now lay upon the grass."Hippocrates!" said Ole Doc.But there was no Hippocrates there and Ole Doc had tofumble into the kit himself.He laid out all the volumes oflaw in some amazement, holding the girl down with onehand and fishing in the case with the other, and was muchwroth at all this weight.Finally he found his hypo gun andan instant later the generalissimo's aides were gripping hiswrist."Let go!" stormed Ole Doc, too busy holding the girl tomake much of a fight of it.But they continued thecontest, wrenched his shoulder and made him give upwhat they thought was a weapon."Nobody draws around the generalissimo!" said the big Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlguard, his voice shrill and squeaky in the filter of thephones.Ole Doc glared at them and turned to his patient.Hefelt her pulse and found that it was racing somewherearound a hundred and forty.He took her temperature andfound it only slightly above normal.Her skin was dry andpale, her blood laked in the depths of her body.Her palmswere wet.Her pupils were dilated to their entire diameter.Through the rents in the dress it could be seen that noblemish marked her lovely body.Ole Doc stood up."Lebel, give me that gun."Lebel looked uncertainly.He had taken no part in thebrief skirmish but it was plain that he was not sure exactlywhat the weapon was."Then do it yourself," said Ole Doc."Point it at herside and pull the trigger.""Oh!" said Lebel, seeing some parallel between this andthe treatment he gave cavalry horses with wounds.Hebrightened and with something close to pleasure did as he Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlwas bidden.The small hypo gun jumped, a small plume of spray-fogwinding up from its muzzle.The girl quivered, stiffenedand then sank back unconscious.Lebel looked in disap-pointment at the gun, gazed with contempt into its muzzleand threw it into the kit."I thought it was a weapon!" he said."Ten-fifteen-twenty times people have tried to assassinate me.That Ishould fear a Soldier of Light is very foolish of me.Ofcourse it was just a medication, eh? Well, well, let's get offthis street.The sight of civilian dead worries me.On thebattlefield it is another thing.But civilian dead I do notlike.Come!"Ole Doc was coming but he was also bringing the girl."What do you mean to do with that?" said Lebel."I want a case history of this thing," said Ole Doc."Case No, no! Not in my car! I am sick of thishelmet! Leave it there where it was I tell you! Smorg!Dallison! Put the girl back " Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlThe two aides didn't wait for the full command.Theysurged up.But Ole Doc wasn't trying to hold a strugglinggirl.She quietly slid to the grass while Ole Doc's handsmoved something faster.He could have drawn and burned them to glory longbefore they could have reached him.He contented himselfwith flicking a dart from each sleeve.The action was veryquick.The feathered ends of the darts fell back withouttheir points.Smorg and Dallison stopped, reached fortheir weapons and froze there."Attention!" said Ole Doc."You will obey only me.You can never obey anyone else again.Get into the car!"And two aides, like wound up clockwork, turnedaround and got into the car like obedient small boys."What have you done?" yelped Lebel [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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."I was coming here any-way.Your Wilhelm Giotini left the revenue of this systemto the U.M.S.""So I heard.But I thought that would mean a lawyercoming.""We don't have any lawyers," said Ole Doc, easing hisbolstered blaster around into sight."But this terrible disease, it will change your plans, eh?Who would want a planetary system full of diseases.Whata horrible disease!""Kills people?""Kills them! They die in windrows! They scream andthen they die.But I will take you and you will see it.Ihave a helmet here so that I can enter infected areas.Ihave one for you.""I have my own helmet," said Ole Doc. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"No, no!" cried Lebel."I could not risk it.I know thishelmet here is germ proof.It was tested.These germscome through the smallest, the tiniest air leak!""Why did you risk that crowd back there?" said OleDoc."That! Poof! My own people.My aides.My airportpeople.They would not infect me with any disease! Here,try this helmet for size."Ole Doc blinked a little at the man's terrible conceitand was on the verge of remarking that he had yet tomeet a respectful germ when the first casualties caught hiseye.A street ahead was barricaded.Bodies were piled ineither gutter, bodies in various stages of decomposition, ofboth sexes, of many races and castes.Velvet and burlapwere brothers in that grisly display."Ought to bury them," said Ole Doc."You'll havecholera or something if you don't watch it.""Bury them! Who'd go near them! They are thrown outof the houses like that young girl there and nobody " Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"Wait a minute," said Ole Doc."Stop the car!"For the young girl was not dead.She was dressed insatin, probably in her wedding dress, for a church stoodfifty feet further on, and her hair was a golden flood uponthe pavement.She was pressing up with her hands, seekingto rise and falling back, each time screaming.Ole Doc reached for the handle but Lebel blocked him."Don't risk it!" said Lebel.Ole Doc looked at the frantic effort of the girl, lookedat her young beauty, at the agony in her eyes and thentook Label's offer of a helmet.When he had it strappedon an act which prompted both Lebel, his guards anddriver to hastily do the same he shot the bolt on thedoor and stepped to the pavement.He gazed at the girl insatin for a moment in deep thought.Ole Doc advanced, fumbling for the speaker buttons onthe side of the helmet and finding with annoyance that thephones were squeaky in the upper frequencies.Thescreams came eerily through this filter.He turned downthe volume in haste. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlHe helped her up and tried to speak to her but hereyes, after an instant of trying to focus, rolled out ofconcentration and screams tore up from her as thoughthey would rip her throat to shreds.She beat at him andfought him and her gown tore down the side.Ole Doc,aware that Lebel was fearfully at his side and trying to gethim away, let the girl slide back to the ground, movingher only so that she now lay upon the grass."Hippocrates!" said Ole Doc.But there was no Hippocrates there and Ole Doc had tofumble into the kit himself.He laid out all the volumes oflaw in some amazement, holding the girl down with onehand and fishing in the case with the other, and was muchwroth at all this weight.Finally he found his hypo gun andan instant later the generalissimo's aides were gripping hiswrist."Let go!" stormed Ole Doc, too busy holding the girl tomake much of a fight of it.But they continued thecontest, wrenched his shoulder and made him give upwhat they thought was a weapon."Nobody draws around the generalissimo!" said the big Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlguard, his voice shrill and squeaky in the filter of thephones.Ole Doc glared at them and turned to his patient.Hefelt her pulse and found that it was racing somewherearound a hundred and forty.He took her temperature andfound it only slightly above normal.Her skin was dry andpale, her blood laked in the depths of her body.Her palmswere wet.Her pupils were dilated to their entire diameter.Through the rents in the dress it could be seen that noblemish marked her lovely body.Ole Doc stood up."Lebel, give me that gun."Lebel looked uncertainly.He had taken no part in thebrief skirmish but it was plain that he was not sure exactlywhat the weapon was."Then do it yourself," said Ole Doc."Point it at herside and pull the trigger.""Oh!" said Lebel, seeing some parallel between this andthe treatment he gave cavalry horses with wounds.Hebrightened and with something close to pleasure did as he Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlwas bidden.The small hypo gun jumped, a small plume of spray-fogwinding up from its muzzle.The girl quivered, stiffenedand then sank back unconscious.Lebel looked in disap-pointment at the gun, gazed with contempt into its muzzleand threw it into the kit."I thought it was a weapon!" he said."Ten-fifteen-twenty times people have tried to assassinate me.That Ishould fear a Soldier of Light is very foolish of me.Ofcourse it was just a medication, eh? Well, well, let's get offthis street.The sight of civilian dead worries me.On thebattlefield it is another thing.But civilian dead I do notlike.Come!"Ole Doc was coming but he was also bringing the girl."What do you mean to do with that?" said Lebel."I want a case history of this thing," said Ole Doc."Case No, no! Not in my car! I am sick of thishelmet! Leave it there where it was I tell you! Smorg!Dallison! Put the girl back " Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlThe two aides didn't wait for the full command.Theysurged up.But Ole Doc wasn't trying to hold a strugglinggirl.She quietly slid to the grass while Ole Doc's handsmoved something faster.He could have drawn and burned them to glory longbefore they could have reached him.He contented himselfwith flicking a dart from each sleeve.The action was veryquick.The feathered ends of the darts fell back withouttheir points.Smorg and Dallison stopped, reached fortheir weapons and froze there."Attention!" said Ole Doc."You will obey only me.You can never obey anyone else again.Get into the car!"And two aides, like wound up clockwork, turnedaround and got into the car like obedient small boys."What have you done?" yelped Lebel [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]