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"His name," said Azeler, straightening so much that he was standing up, "is F. Scott Cutler."

"I read about him," said Jolson. "Imprisoned on Pedra for six-and-a-half years. By mistake as it turned
out. Probably a frame-up. Before that he was a rising military man on the planet of Barafunda."

"Just look at him, though," said Azeler. Cutler was sitting in a cane chair in an all gray room muttering to
himself. His hands danced gently in his lap and his shadow-rimmed eyes blinked too rapidly. "That's not
my idea of a hero."

Chief Prittikin said, "It's a shame so many martyrs end up looking so unattractive."

"Where is Cutler now?" Jolson asked.

"In a sanitarium near here. We brought him in secretly from Pedra after his pardon came through." The
Chief reached up and punched the switch that cut oft the pictures. "I can't stand too much of him. He
doesn't lift my spirits."

"He's not hero material," said Azeler. "So few heroes are. That's where you come in, Jolson."

The Chief laughed with relief. "Let's look at those pictures of F. Scott Cutler at his trial." He threw
another switch and the top bank of monitor screens lit up and showed an assortment of younger upright
Cutlers. "He was thirty-four then. A bit weak in the chin perhaps but I could buy that man as a positive
figure."

"I go along," said Azeler. "Jolson we want you to be the man Cutler might have been if he had aged more
gracefully and not succumbed to prison conditions."

Jolson stood and came up to study the images. "Isn't there a chance Cutler will recuperate on his own?
Why not wait?"

"It will take," said Azeler, "a full year and even then we can't be sure."

"A clean limbed, sturdy, positive-looking F. Scott Cutler has to appear on Barafunda by this weekend,"
explained the Chief.



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His eyes on the moving pictures of the former Cutler, Jolson said, "Why?"

"Barafunda, as you may know," said Azeler, "still uses reactivated workers in many of its nonskilled
industries."

"Zombies," said Jolson. "That's right. Cutler got in trouble, in part, because he was against the using of
zombies."

"There is still a strong pro-zombie faction on Barafunda," said the Junior Chief. "The president of the