Astounding Science Fiction, August 1955 (British Edition) — page 117: what you’re looking at

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TIME CRIME 115 shouting about how you’d wiped out the Great Paratemporal Crime-Ring,” Vall said. “Yes. It isn’t wiped out, and it won’t be wiped out for a long time. I shall be unspeakably delighted if, when I turn my job over to you, you have it wiped out. And even then, there’ll be a loose end to pick up every now and then till you retire.” ‘“‘We have Council and the Management with us, now,” Vall said. ““This was the first secret session of Executive Council in over two thousand years. And I thought I’d drop dead ee they passed that motion to submit them- selves to narco-hypnosis.”’ ‘““A few Councilmen are going to drop dead before they can be narco- hypped,”’ Dalla prophesied over the rim of her glass. “A few have already. I have a list of about a dozen of them who have had fatal accidents or committed suicide, or just died or vanished since the news of your raid broke. Four of them I saw, in the screen, jump up and run out as soon as the news came in, on One-Six-Five Day. And a lot of other people; our friend Yandar Yadd’s dropped out of sight, for one. You heard what we got out of those servants of Salgath Trod’s?”’ *“T didn’t,’ Dalla said. ““‘What?’’ “Both spies for the Organization. They reported to a woman named Farilla, who ran a fortune-telling parlor in the Prole district. Her occult powers didn’t warn her before we sent a squad of plain-clothes men for her. That was an entirely illegal arrest, by the way, but it netted us a list of about three hundred prominent political, business and social persons whose servants have been reporting to her. She thought she was working for a telecast gossipist.”’ ‘“That’s why we have a new butler; darling,’ Vall interrupted. ““Kandagro was reporting on us.” “Who did she pass the reports on to?”’ Dalla asked. Tortha Karf beamed. “She thinks more like a cop every time I talk to her,”’ he told Vall. “You better appoint her your Special Assistant. Why, about 1800 every day, some Prole would come in, give the recognition sign, [continued overleaf YOU CAN RECEIVE THESE EMINENT AMERICAN MAGAZINES DIRECT BY POST FROM THE U.S.A. EACH MONTH BY MEANS OF AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION— SCIENCE & SOCIETY.. 21/6 POPULAR SCIENCE .. 32/6 SCIENCE DIGEST... .. 25/- SKY & TELESCOPE .. 40/- SCIENCE OF MIND .. 27/- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 68/- also other U.S. magazines in a variety of learned or scientific sub- jects, hobbies and sports. Send in your orders and enquiries to— Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd., 18 Bride Lane, London, E.C.4 All prices include postage. Please send remittance with order. RUDE IRE TERR SPEER ar era CR Rn nL HR RE EE MOM CHOOKSECOM