Beyond the golden stair by Bok Hannes 1914-1964 & Bok Hannes 1914-1964. Blue flamingo

Author:Bok, Hannes, 1914-1964 & Bok, Hannes, 1914-1964. Blue flamingo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books
Published: 1970-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

*TBut once I go back down there, I'm a dead duck! ril be hounded by the law, and my life will have to take up just where it left off. Fat chance I'd have of finding those teachers, let alone studying!"

He pondered. "How long before this change comes over us?"

"Generally it is within twenty-four of your hoiu's.'*

''And we've been here not more than two." His eyes narrowed. His angel's face became that of a fallen one. Scarlatti grunted and Carlotta stirrred restlessly. "Now suppose that I say I won't go back— what then?"

"Nothing from us. No violence. But in your changed form you might find those parts of Khoire which I have shown you on the web—uncomfortable. Willing or no, you would gravitate toward those environs most suited for you, the abode of the unarmed and ignorant, the less-than-men."

Patur shuddered at the thought of it, and his servants hastily touched their fingertips together in what Hibbert imagined was a superstitious spell for warding off evil. Furiously the oldster tugged on his rosary.

"You deem Khoire a heaven!" he said. "So, in part, it is. But is there not a snake in your legend of a paradise? Rather than dwell one moment in the regions of the less-than-men, I would live out an eternity in the torture-chambers of your Inquisition!'*

Again his servitors touched their fingertips together.

Burks said, shamefaced: "Well, I wouldn't put up a fight, anyway. You've been square with me—I'll be the same with you. But there must be some kind of court of appeal up here that I could go to. There never was a law without a loophole!"

Patur said astringently: "Yes, you may appeal. And

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