World Out of Mind by J. T. McIntosh

Author:J. T. McIntosh [McIntosh, J. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi., Science Fiction
Publisher: Permabooks
Published: 1956-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

"In a raincoat?"

"If you like. I won't complain."

She considered it for a moment. "You are understanding, Eldin," she said a little awkwardly. "I think you're big in the way my father was big. You never blame anyone for anything. You just take things as they are and shrug your shoulders."

"I wish you were right," murmured Raigmore. "You called me Eldin. Have we stopped being Bob and Alice?"

"It's a queer name. I have to get used to using it." She paused, trying to think of something else to say, then turned abruptly and went along the corridor.

That left Raigmore free to go after Carter.

He guessed Carter would be on board under his own name. It was all very well for Whites to travel under pseudonyms, but Blacks had few privileges. A lot of trifling things were offenses for Blacks and no one else. It wasn't that Blacks were hounded and persecuted and irritated as much as possible in scores of petty ways—it was part of the Tests system that it should be to everyone's advantage to take the Tests and have a raring. If Blacks had the same privileges as everyone else there would be no motive, for many people, to become rated at all.

It would be a fairly serious offense for a Black to pretend to be someone else, even in cases like this. There was always the consideration that any Black could be a criminal, while it was most unlikely that anyone else was, except Grays.

Raigmore found the cabin number of Bill Carter and went straight to it. He hesitated outside the door, wondering what he was going to say. He could reach no conclusion, however. It all depended on what Carter had to say. He knocked boldly and went in.

Carter was alone, apparently waiting for him.

"I want an explanation, Carter," said Raigmore coldly.

Carter was acting better than the last time he had seen him. He had acquired manners, gestures, expressions. They still didn't seem to mean much, but Raigmore knew that that might be a purely subjective conclusion.

"Of what, Mr. Raigmore?" Carter asked.

"Have you told anyone I'm Raigmore?"

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