Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat 09 by The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell

Author:The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell [Hell, The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to]
Language: eng
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Published: 2011-02-15T22:52:40.391000+00:00

c Now-would you like to know how that can be done?d

CHAPTER 14

c OF COURSE WE WANT TO hear your plan, darling.d Angelina said, then leaned over and kissed my cheek. c My husband the genius.d

Facetious or not it was heartwarming. Bolivar and James were giving me cheerful thumbs-up signs, Sybil did the same and even Coypu was nodding in reluctant agreement. The only glum one was Inskipp, still counting his mounting debts. I rapped on the table with my beer bottle.

c I hereby declare this meeting of the Galactic Salvation League to be open. Who is taking the minutes?d

c My recorder is running,d Sybil said, sitting down and putting it on the table before her. c Welcome home, Jim diGriz. You had us all very worried.d

c I had myself very worried. What Slakey did to you and me in Hell-or to Angelina and me on Glass-is reason enough to pursue him to the edges of the galaxy and put him out of business. But we have more reason to go after all the hims other than simple vindictiveness.d

Inskipp sneered lightly. c And just what is that?d

c I never thought that you would ask. I notice that while I was away you managed to lose track of him completely. Is that correct?d

c Loosely speaking, why possibly, yes.d

c Speaking very tightly I would say that now is the time for a plan that cannot miss. Professor-how goes your universe machine?d

c Very well, thank you. The little matter of calibration will soon be licked.d

c I'm cheered to hear that. How-many universes do you have access to?d

He clattered his fingernails against his teeth, forehead furrowed in thought. c Theoretically of course the number is infinite. Perhaps we even create these universes-when we enter them, as you suggested when you came back from Hell. But, as of this moment, we have investigated or entered a little over forty-one.d

c Is one of them Heaven?d

c No-but we are still looking. While the machine we captured has settings for different destinations I have no way of identifying them without activation and entryd

c What about Hell?d

c We very definitely can go to Hell. You will remember that your son James hypnotized a Slakey and made him send Bolivar there to find you.d

c Well that's, it, then.d I sat back and sighed with satisfaction. c I could do with just a bit more to eat, if the sandwiches aren't all gone.d

c Stop toying with us, Jim diGriz, or you'll get more than a sandwich in your gob!d Angelina suggested.

c Sorry, my love. I don't mean to make light of the situation. But it has been pretty grim of late and I was indulging myself.d

c You're forgiven. What's so important about Hell?d

c Slakey is there. In his red, fat, insane, well-armed condition. Don't you think that if the other Slakeys could get him out of there-that they would? But they don't. Probably because it would certainly kill him, that's what Slakey on Glass told me. So we launch a little expedition to find him.

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