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Dearest

Dearest

By H. Beam Piper Short Stories 01/01/1964

Colonel Ashley Hampton chewed his cigar and forced himself to relax, his glance slowly traversing the room, lingering on the mosaic of book-spines in the tall cases, the sunlight splashed on the faded pastel colors of the carpet, the soft-tinted autumn landscape outside the French windows, the trophies of Indian and Filipino and German weapons on the walls. He could easily feign relaxation here in the library of "Greyrock", as long as he looked only at these familiar inanimate things and avoided the five people gathered in the room with him, for all of them were enemies.

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