Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 293: what you’re looking at

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Now! blazed the thought of Laird, and his hand reached for the main switch. Now—easily, casually, with a remark about letting the generators warm up—and then go with her, overpower those guardsmen in their surprise and head for home! And Daryesh’s mind reunited itself at that signal, and the hand froze ... No! What? But— The memory of the suppressed half of Daryesh’s mind was open to Laird, and the triumph of the whole of it, and Laird knew that his defeat was here. So simple, so cruelly simple—Daryesh could stop him, lock the body in a conflict of wills, and that would be enough. For while Laird slept, while Daryesh’s own major ego was unconscious, the trained subconscious of the Vwyrddan had taken over. It had written, in its self-created somnambulism, a letter to Joana explaining the whole truth, and had put it where it would easily be found once they Started looking through his effects in search of an explanation for his paralysis. And the letter directed, among other things, that Daryesh’s body should be kept under restraint until certain specified methods known to Vwyrddan osychiatry—drugs, electric waves, hypnosis—had been applied to eradicate the Laird half of his mind. Janyard victory was near. “Daryesh!” Joana’s voice seemed to come _ from immensely far away; her face swam in a haze and a roar of fainting consciousness. “Daryesh, what’s the matter?” Grimly, the Vwyrddan thought: Give up, Laird. Surrender to me, and you can keep your ego. I'll destroy that letter. See, my whole mind is open to you now—you can see that | mean it honestly this time. I’d rather avoid treatment if CORniclooo SS CO