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    Letter of the Law
    Letter of the Law
    Letter of the Law
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    Letter of the Law

    By Alan Nourse

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    Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction author and physician, also writing under the names of Dr. X and Al Edwards, wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. Nourse helped pay for his medical education by writing science fiction for magazines and continued after retiring from medicine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781609775124
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      Letter of the Law - Alan Nourse

      Letter of the Law

      By Alan Edward Nourse

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-60977-512-4

      The place was dark and damp, and smelled like moldy leaves. Meyerhoff followed the huge, bear-like Altairian guard down the slippery flagstones of the corridor, sniffing the dead, musty air with distaste. He drew his carefully tailored Terran-styled jacket closer about his shoulders, shivering as his eyes avoided the black, yawning cell-holes they were passing. His foot slipped on the slimy flags from time to time, and finally he paused to wipe the caked mud from his trouser leg. How much farther is it? he shouted angrily.

      The guard waved a heavy paw vaguely into the blackness ahead. Quite suddenly the corridor took a sharp bend, and the Altairian stopped, producing a huge key ring from some obscure fold of his hairy hide. I still don't see any reason for all the fuss, he grumbled in a wounded tone. We've treated him like a brother.

      One of the huge steel doors clicked open. Meyerhoff peered into the blackness, catching a vaguely human outline against the back wall. Harry? he called sharply.

      There was a startled gasp from within, and a skinny, gnarled little man suddenly appeared in the guard's light, like a grotesque, twisted ghost out

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