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now splotched with blood and tawny cat-hairs, into the dome. Then he closed
the secret room, and took a long drink from the bottle on his hip.
The job was done. He would take a hot bath, and sleep in the farmhouse till
noon, and then he would
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return to the First Level. Maybe Tortha Karf would want him to come
back here for a while. The situation on this time-line was
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far from satisfactory, even if the crisis threatened by Gavran Sarn's renegade
pet had been averted. The presence of a chief's assistant might be desirable.
At least, he had a right to expect a short vacation. He thought of the
little redhead at the Hagraban
Synthetics Works. What was her name? Something Kara Morvan Kara; that was it.
She'd be coming off shift about the time he'd make First Level, tomorrow
afternoon.
The claw-wounds were still smarting vexatiously. A hot bath, and a
night's sleep He took another drink, lit his pipe, picked up his rifle and
started across the yard to the house.
Private Zinkowski cradled the telephone and got up from the desk, stretching.
He left the orderly-room and walked across the hall to the recreation room,
where the rest of the boys were loafing. Sergeant
Haines, in a languid gin-rummy game with Corporal Conner, a sheriff's deputy,
and a mechanic from the service station down the road, looked up.
"Well, Sarge, I think we can write off those stock-killings," the private
said.
"Yeah?" The sergeant's interest quickened.
"Yeah. I think the whatzit's had it. I just got a buzz from the railroad cops
at Logansport. It seems a track-walker found a dead bobcat on the Logan River
branch, about a mile or so below MMY signal tower. Looks like it tangled
with that night freight up-river, and came off second best. It was
near chopped to hamburger."
"MMY signal tower; that's right below Yoder's Crossing," the sergeant
considered. "The Strawmyer farm night-before-last, the Amrine farm last
night Yeah, that would be about right."
"That'll suit Steve Parker; bobcats aren't protected, so it's not his trouble.
And they're not a violation of state law, so it's none of our worry," Conner
said. "Your deal, isn't it, Sarge?"
"Yeah. Wait a minute." The sergeant got to his feet. "I promised Sam Kane, the
AP man at Logansport, that I'd let him in on anything new." He got up and
started for the phone. "Phantom Killer!" He blew an impolite noise.
"Well, it was a lot of excitement, while it lasted," the deputy sheriff said.
"Just like that Flying Saucer thing."
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