Ole Doc Methuselah by L. Ron Hubbard

Author:L. Ron Hubbard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Galaxy Press, L.L.C.
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

In the elevator Tinoi still lay, struggling now to come up from his nightmare. When he saw Ole Doc standing over him, Tinoi’s own gun in hand, the lieutenant of the late Air, Limited could not be convinced that any time had passed. But he was not truculent, not when he saw Tolliver’s body. He could not understand, never would understand, the sequence of these rapid events. But Tolliver was dead and that broke Tinoi.

“What do you want wif me?” he sniveled.

“I want you to set this place to rights eventually. Meantime, shut off that confounded machine and come with me.”

Tinoi shut it off and the ripples in the vats grew still. Ole Doc hiked down the steps behind the cringing Tinoi and so into the main offices on the ground floor.

The clerks stared at the cringing Tinoi.

“You there,” said Ole Doc. “In the name of the Universal Medical Society, all operations of Air, Limited are ordered to cease. And find me this instant the whereabouts of Bestin Karjoy, extraracial being.”

The clerks stared harder. One of them fell down in a faint.

“The Univ . . . The Universal Medical Society . . .” gaped another. “The real one. I told him I thought he was a Soldier,” whimpered the clerk who had first announced it. “When I read that article— Now I’ll never get my weekly check—”

Ole Doc wasn’t listening. He had Tinoi and another clerk by the collars and they were going down the steps, over the dead Connoly, through the moaning slaves and up the avenue at a rate which had Tinoi’s feet half off the ground most of the way.

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