By Robert A. Heinlein
While a stranger trying to bring a cryptic message is shot lifeless at his desk, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into probability, intrigue, and different dimensions, the place a plot to rescue a sentient desktop may adjust human historical past.
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Yes and no. You can take a slave to the Moon… but he is automatically free, then and forever, once he sets foot on Luna; that is one thing those convicts nailed down when they set themselves free. Dr. Ames, I can supply a bill of sale covering Bill's indentures in time for the evening shuttle, I feel confident. I have his picture, I have a supply of official stationery-authentic, by midnight requisition-and there is time to crease and age the document. " "I defer to your professional judgment.
Close the accounts of Dr. Richard Ames and of Mistress Gwendolyn Novak, uh"-with only a momentary hesitation he correctly stated my compartment number and that of Gwen"and deliver them to my office at once. With cash to pay them off. With receipts to chop and print. No checks. What? You listen to me. " He switched off, did not look at us. Gwen got out her little gameboard, set it for tic-tac-toe, which suited me, it being about the intellectual level I felt able to cope with then. She beat me four straight games, even though twice I had the first move.
Yes. " Gwen had joined us. " "No. I want Bill to watch our chattels, as he did before. " Soon we three were settled at a table that had been moved for us back into the orchard. After consulting, I ordered beer for the Reverend and for me. Coke for Gwen, and had told the waitress to find the young man with the bundle and give him what he wanted-beer. Coke, sandwiches, whatever. ) When she left, I dug into a pocket, pulled out that thousand-crown note, gave it to Dr. Schultz. He caused it to disappear.