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I turned my attention to the girl, who was now getting to her feet She had
been holding her rifle grimly aimed at Marie, afi the while, but now she
lowered it
"Are you all right?" I asked her. "You haven't been hurt or anything? Have you
been getting enough to eat?"
She looked at me with a very strange expression. For a moment I swore she was
going to answer me. But habit took over. She turned without a word and walked
away from me to where Sunday was, a few steps away, and began petting him,
with her back to me.
"I take it that means 'yes'!" I called after her. She did not reply, of
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course. The voice of Marie spoke in low, but tight, tones in my ear.
"Marc, she's not staying, she or that leopard, either." I turned to stare at
her. She looked ready to fight "Of course they're staying,** I said. "Then I'm
leaving, with Wendy and the dogs." "And Tek and his men right behind you," I
said. I had not meant to put it that bluntly; but I was just about out of
patience. "Go ahead."
She glared at me fiercely for a moment, then turned and went to Wendy. But she
made no move to begin a departure.
I looked around for Bill Oault saw him standing watting a little distance away
and beckoned him over to me. He came and I led him off out of low-voiced
earshot of the rest
"I didn't mean to lead you into a touchy situation fike mis," I said. "You can
go back to your installation, if you feel tike it, and X won't blame you."
"No," he said. "You were right. I couldn't really learn anything more, shut up
there. The only way to study the situation is to look at as many of the
discontinuities as I can find. We ought to keep on the move and, every time we
get near one, have a look at it"
"Good," I told him. "By the way, you never did ten me what your field is. Were
you a research scientist, a lab man, or what?"
"Well, no," he said. "I do have a degree in physics... but actually, I was
just technical editor for the installation."
He gazed at me uncomfortably. "Technical editor!" I said. "That*s right"
"Wen, what the hell can you do, then?" I demanded- I was about at the end of
my temper, anyway; and this last disappointment threatened to cut me loose. I
had taken it for granted he was some sort of scientific expert, at least
"I can do a lot!" Bill said, swiftly. "I can observe, make tests and
record-and I know something about physics, as
I said. Also, Fve been up to my eyebrows in everything we worked on at the
installation for the five years Fve been there. I'm not helpless,"
"AH right," I answered. "But you're going to have to show me."
He did. During the two weeks that followed, my opinion of him, starting from
the sub-basement level of that moment, went steadily up. He had brought with
him in his backpack some remarkably small, but durable instruments to measure
temperature, air pressure, wind velocity and humidity, phis a few less common
things like electrostatic levels and magnetic flows. He also designed a number
of long rods for pushing these into and through a mistwall, while we stood
safely outside.
This is not to say we did not enter the walls. In the final essential, it was
necessary to go through them. As we moved across country in the days following
the addition of Tefc and his men to our group-to say nothing of Bffl himself,
and the rejoining of the girl and Sunday- we ran into at least one, and
sometimes more, nustwaBs a day. We would make all the tests on them that Bill
could think of; but once he had the results noted down, it was a matter of he
and I going through them, that is, unless it were a moving mistwall we were
investigating, in which case we spotted them early through binoculars and
moved to outflank and see behind them.
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We did not go into diem as blindly as I had gone into earlier ones. Among
other designs of Bill's were rod or rope devices to be thrown through the
mistwall and dragged back, to give us an idea of the ground situation and
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Dobre pomysły nie mają przeszłości, mają tylko przyszłość. Robert Mallet
De minimis - o najmniejszych rzeczach.
Dobroć jest ważniejsza niż mądrość, a uznanie tej prawdy to pierwszy krok do mądrości. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Dobro to tylko to, co szlachetne, zło to tylko to, co haniebne.
Dla człowieka nie tylko świat otaczający jest zagadką; jest on nią sam dla siebie. I z obu tajemnic bardziej dręczącą wydaje się ta druga. Antoni Kępiński (1918-1972)
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