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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION of natural laws behind psi phenomena, it could be the biggest thing in the history of our race—and the biggest menace, in the wrong hands. Isn’t there any way you can get into that house?” I assured him there was. Clint Stevens and I had served through Korea _to- gether. He’d do what I asked, and without questions. More important, he ran a small commercial airline and owned a helicopter. It was a cloudy night with the moon showing faintly when I dangled at the end of a rope ladder. Below my feet, the roof of the house angled away. I hit a chimney stack, let go, and rolled to the edge of the parapet. Clint took the heli up and away and I was on my own. I found a rain-pipe that led close to a window, and the window wasn’t barred. I used a jemmy to force the latch and climbed in. The room was empty. I padded across to the door and listened, 62 opened it, moved into a long corridor. I had a flashlamp in one hand and a revolver in the other. This time I wasn’t going to be stopped. The top floor was empty, with thick dust, so I moved down to the next floor. Nothing there, either. A light showed from a room on the ground floor and I crept towards it. The slim man sat at a desk, writing. He looked up as I entered. “I told Mr. Lazarus to expect you,” he said easily. “You shouldn’t have sent back the cheque, Mr. Stone.”’ “.’m an honest man——’” I marched into the room with my revolver pointing at him. [I didn’t march far. Inside, there was a man either side of the door, big men. Without speaking, they each took one of my arms and lifted. My feet rose in the air and my gun hit the carpet. Suspended, helpless, I watched the slim man rise from his seat. He opened a comicloooks.com