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o you is to lay off Richard Seaton, absolutely. Don't do a thing. Nothing, hold everything. Keep

nt, Doctor. You are the last man I would have e

pped; that there was nothing we could do except go back to my plan, abandon the abduction idea, and eventually kill them all. Since my plan would take time, you objected to it, and sent an airplane to drop a five-hundred-pound bomb on them. Airplane, bomb, and all simply vanished. It didn't explode, you remember, just flashed into light and disappeared, with scarcely any noise. Then you pulled several more of your fool ideas, such as long-range bombardment, and so on. None of them worked. Sti

e years,

nning on being gone five years. Even that may not be enough-I am carrying supplies for te

remove the obstructions ourselve

This is no time for idiocy! You stand j

, please don't

for direct action, word and deed, first, last, and all the time. I repeat, you

mind. And since you are so fond of frankness, I will say that I think that Seaton has you buffaloed, as you call it. Nine-tenths of these wonderful Osnomian things, I am assured by competent authorities, are scientifically impossible, and I think that the other one-t

the facts in any particular. Even before they went to Osnome, Seaton was hard to get, as you found out. On that trip he learned so much new stuff that it is now impossible to kill him by any ordinary means. Yo

, certainly, in that it would remov

talking about, and I say again that you're going to make an utter fool of yourself; just because you won't believe anything possible, that hasn't been done every day for a hundred years. I wish that I could make you understand that Seaton and Crane have got something that we haven't-but for the good of our plants, and incidentally for your own, please remember one thing, anyway; for if you forget it, we won't have a plant left and you personally will be b

ghtly. "Yes, Seaton would do just that. We shall be v

heir families, the directors and employees of their plants, the banks that by any possibility may harbor their note

the late Perkins' plan of an abduction, such a

My plan is the only one that will work. Seaton isn't the only one who learned anything-I learned a lot myself. I learned one thing in particular. Only four other inhabitants of either Earth or Osnome ever had e

ting open war up

ject-compass before he wakes up. Seaton and I understand each other perfectly. We both know that the next time we meet one of us is going to be resolved into his component atoms, perhap

me more fully as to your

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