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safety depended on it. I haven't found it necessary up till now because I've been choosy about who
works for me. But this time the country's welfare doesn't depend on it and I'm not lying and you'll just
have to test it for yourself, any way you can figure out, and make up your mind whether or not I'm lying.
That girl didn't know. She didn't know you were going to be in that room. She didn't know why you
were in there. She didn't know that there was any question about who was going to sit in that chair. She
didn't have the faintest suspicion that I didn't mean for her to go through with it, or that I had already
decided that you were the only party who would suit me, even if I had to have you tied down and
forced?which I would have done, if I hadn't had a double whammy up my sleeve to trick you into
volunteering. Hell's bells yourself, son; she didn't even know you were off the sick list."
I wanted to believe it, so I did my damnedest not to believe it. If it were a lie, it would be just the shape
of lie he would tell. As to whether he would bother to lie?well, getting two prime agents back into the
groove might be something he would class, just now, as involving the country's safety. The Old Man had
a complex mind.
"Look at me!" he added. I snapped out of my brown study and looked up. "There is something else I
want you to know and I want to rub your nose in it. First off, let me say that everybody?including
me?appreciates what you did, regardless of your motives. I'm putting in a letter about it and no doubt
there will be a medal in due time. That stands, whether you stay with the Section or not. And if you go,
I'll help you with any transfer or such you may want."
He paused for breath, then went on. "But don't go giving yourself airs as a little tin hero?"
"I won't!"
"?because that medal is going to the wrong person. Mary ought to get it.
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"Now hush up; I'm not through. You had to be forced into it, like building a fire under a mule. No
criticism; you had been through plenty. But Mary was a real, honest-to-God, Simon-pure volunteer.
When she sat down in that chair, she didn't know what was going to happen to her. She didn't expect
any last minute reprieve and she had every reason to believe that, if she got up alive, her reason would be
gone, which is worse. But she did it?because she is a hero, which you miss by a couple of points."
He went on without waiting for me to reply; "Listen, son?most women are damn fools and children. But
they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better?and the vile
ones are viler, for that matter. What I'm trying to tell you is: this one is more of a man than you are and
you've done her a serious wrong."
I was so churned up inside that I could not judge for the life of me whether he was telling the truth, or
manipulating me again. I said, "Maybe so. Maybe I lashed out at the wrong person. But if what you say is
true?"
"It is."
"?it doesn't make what you did any sweeter; it makes it worse."
He took it without flinching. "Son, I'm sorry if I've lost your respect. But I'd do it again under the same
circumstances. I can't be choosy about such things any more than can a commander in battle. Less,
because I fight with different weapons. I've always been able to shoot my own dog. Maybe that's good;
maybe that's bad?but that is what my job takes. If you are ever in my shoes, you'll have to do it, too."
"I'm not likely to be."
"Why don't you take leave, rest up, and think about it?"
"I'll take leave?terminal leave."
"Very well." He started to leave; I said, "Wait?"
"Yes?"
"You made me one promise and I'm holding you to it. About that parasite?you said I could kill it,
personally. Are you through with it?"
"Yes, I'm through with it, but?"
I started to get out of bed. "No 'buts'. Give me your gun; I'm going to kill it now."
"But you can't. It's already dead."
"What! You promised me."
"I know I did. But it died while we were trying to force you?to force it?to talk."
I sat down and started to shake with laughter. I got started and could not stop. I was not enjoying it; I
could not help it.
The Old Man grasped my shoulders and shook me. "Snap out of it! You'll get yourself sick. I'm sorry
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about it, but there's nothing to laugh at. It could not be helped."
"Ah, but there is," I answered, still sobbing and chuckling. "It's the funniest thing that ever happened to
me. All that?and all for nothing. You dirtied yourself and you loused up me and Mary?and all for no use."
"Huh? Whatever gave you that idea?"
"Eh? I know?I know everything that went on. And you didn't even get small change out of it?out of us, I
should say. You didn't learn anything you didn't know before."
"The hell we didn't!"
"And the hell you did."
"It was a bigger success than you'd ever guess, son. True, we didn't squeeze anything out of it directly,
before it died?but we got something out of you."
"Me?"
"Last night. We put you through it last night. You were doped, psyched, brain-waved, analyzed, wrung
out, and hung out to dry. The parasite spilled things to you and they were still there for the hypno-analysts
to pick up after you were free of it."
"What?"
"Where they live. We know where they come from and can fight back?Titan, sixth satellite of Saturn."
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