Mission Earth 07 - Voyage of Vengeance by L. Ron Hubbard

Author:L. Ron Hubbard [Hubbard, L. Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781592125937
Publisher: Galaxy Press, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART FIFTY-SEVEN

Chapter 1

We went through the narrow and heavily trafficked Straits of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea. The water got bluer, the sun brighter and the clouds whiter. We turned northeasterly and began to draw a creaming wake along the Costa del Sol of Spain.

Suffering from too much exercise after too much hash and seeking to avoid too much sun, I went below to my salon in the late afternoon.

I got the viewers out of a cabinet and set them up.

Suddenly I realized my time was all askew. It was only late morning in New York.

The Countess Krak was sitting in a chair facing the Whiz Kid double. Thank Gods he didn’t know me or of me, for he had on a hypnohelmet. Beyond him, through a window could be seen the yellowish landscape of lower Manhattan so she must be in the Empire State Building.

Numerous texts had been spread out and one was stamped, as I could see in Krak’s peripheral vision, Massachusetts Institute of Wrectology.

I was startled. She must be using a hypnohelmet for its designed purpose: speed training.

She clicked it off and lifted the helmet from the head of the double. She snapped her fingers and the young man woke up.

“Now do you think you can pass your final exams?” she said.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I lost so much time fooling around on that job. I’ll have to get real high marks to overcome the lack of classroom work.”

“What do you think you’ll do when you graduate?” she said.

“Oh, I’m sure about that,” he said. “Twoey has to have new designs for pig troughs and every night he’s pushing me to get through with school so I can begin useful work on his farm. He’s also rooting around for ideas on how to raise the standard of living of pigs. I’ll be busy all right. I never dreamed there was so much civil engineering connected with pigs. Opened a whole new world for me.”

“What are you going to do if the media hits you when you go back to school for your exams?”

“Duck,” said the double. “But if Jettero ever needs me for public appearances or anything, all he has to do is say the word. I’m not forgetting how he rescued me from that crazy psychiatrist! One minute there I was about to be turned into a vegetable and the next there I was in a van looking at Jettero. And Jesus, was I ashamed of myself right then for ever daring to think I could pose as him. And I know darned well you didn’t tell me to think that when I had the helmet on.”

“No, I don’t have to do that,” said the Countess Krak. “Jettero can stand on his own.”

“He certainly can,” said the double. “What a guy!”

I suddenly seethed. All that (bleeped) adulation for Heller! Couldn’t people see what a sneaky, rotten (bleep) he really was? Him and his Royal officer ways. It made me feel nauseated.

“Well, all right,” said the Countess Krak.

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