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YOU DO TAKE IT WITH YOU | phere, agriculture galore, five major states, population two hundred thousand and yester- day achieved civilization’s highest hall-mark—their first murder.” *““What!”’ exclaimed Graves _and I together, startled. “It’s true,” said George smugly, gratified with the result of his news. “I picked a teleprint off the tape robot just before I came to lunch. Here we are!”’ He placed a rough sheet before us, whose headlines proclaimed, baldly: SON OF PIONEER MARTIAN FOUND MURDERED IN ERSTECITY. TERRAN IMMIGRANT ARRESTED! Then followed a short ac- count: ““Tom Brink, twenty- five-year-old son of the late Pioneer Brink and a first generation Martian, was found dead early today (Mars time) with severe head injuries. William Weitzen, aged twenty- eight, who came to Mars a year ago, was arrested by Captain Young of the Er- stecity Constabulary. On be- ing remanded, Weitzen is alleged to have said: ‘I did it. It was a grudge fight. It was over a girl.’ Feeling is run- ning in all five states, where Weitzen is alleged to have been called “The Cain of Mars’ by a member of the theocratic Central State’s Council, and has also re- vived demands for more rigid screening of Terran immi- grants by the Press and Councils of the other four States.” We dropped the paper back on the table. ‘‘Well, that'll take some of the starch out of the cocky Martians,” I remarked. “‘They’ve always prided themselves on their man-made paradise.” ‘Paradise be blowed!”’ said George with asperity. “It stuck out like a sore thumb that that sort of thing would come sooner or later. Where- ever man goes he takes his black heart with him. In fact, it was only his colossal conceit that allowed him to think he could make of Mars what he hasn’t yet made of Earth. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adul- teries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wicked- ness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, 139 EORMICOOOKSxCOM ©