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They gathered around the body and someone said, "In the chest?"

The captain looked down "In the chest," he said, He sa the rocks had changed color under Spender "I wonder why he waited I wonder why he didn't escape as he planned I wonder why he stayed on and got himself killed"

"Who knows?" someone said

Spender lay there, his hands clasped, one around the gun, the other around the silver book that glittered in the sun

Was it because of ive inme? Am I any different froure he could trust me? What other answer is there?

None He squatted by the silent body

I've got to live up to this, he thought I can't let hi in me that was like himself and couldn't kill me because of it, then what a job I have ahead of ain, but I think before I shoot I don't shoot at all, I don't kill I do things with people And he couldn't kill htly different condition

The captain felt the sunlight on the back of his neck He heard hi: "If onl

y he had come to me and talked it over before he shot anybody, we could have worked it out somehow"

"Worked what out?" said Parkhill "What could we have worked out with his likes?"

There was a singing of heat in the land, off the rocks and off the blue sky "I guess you're right," said the captain "We could never have got together Spender and myself, perhaps But Spender and you and the others, no, never, He's better off now Let me have a drink from that canteen"

It was the captain who suggested the eus for Spender They had found an ancient Martian tomb yard They put Spender into a silver case axes and wines which were ten thousand years old, his hands folded on his chest The last they saw of him was his peaceful face

They stood for a ood idea for you to think of Spender from time to time," said the captain

They walked from the vault and shut the marble door

The next afternoon Parkhill did so out the crystal s and blowing the tops off the fragile towers The captain caught Parkhill and knocked his teeth out