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dispatches. A rescuing angel to the students of Percival Lowell Academy.
Richard, or Colin, my oldest daughter was one of those students."
"I'll be eternally damned."
"I doubt it."
"And because of this you intend to marry me?"
"No, dear man. That reason sufficed a year ago. But now I've had many
months to discover the human being behind the storybook hero. And... I did hurry
you into bed last night but neither of us would marry for that reason alone. Do
you want to know about my own tarnished past? I'll tell."
"No." I faced her, took both her hands. "Gwendolyn, I want you to be my
wife. Will you have me as your husband?"
"I will."
"I, Colin Richard, take thee, Gwendolyn, to be my wife, to have and to
hold, to love and to cherish, as long as you will have me."
"I, Sadie Gwendolyn, take thee, Colin Richard, to be my husband, to care
for and love and cherish for the rest of my lif&."
"Whew! I guess that does it."
"Yes. But kiss me."
I did. "When did 'Sadie' show up?"
"Sadie Lipschitz, my family name. I didn't like it so I changed it.
Richard, the only thing left to make it official is to publish it. That ties it
down. And I do want to tie it down while you're still groggy."
"All right. Publish it how?"
"May I use your terminal?"
"Our terminal. You don't have to ask to use it."
" 'Our terminal.' Thank you, dear." She got up, went to the terminal, keyed
for directory, then called the Golden Rule Herald, asked for the society editor.
"Please record. Dr. Richard
Ames and Mistress Gwendolyn Novak are pleased to announce their marriage
this date. No presents, no flowers. Please confirm." She switched off. They
called back at once; I answered and confirmed.
She sighed. "Richard, I hurried you. But I had to. Now I can no longer be
required to testify against you in any jurisdiction anywhere. I want to help in
any way that I can. Why did you kill him, dear? And how?"

II
"In waking a tiger, use a long stick.**
MAO TSE-TUNG 1893-1976
I stared thoughtfully at my bride. "You are a gallant lady, my love, and I
am grateful that you do not want to testify against me. But I am not sure that
the legal principle you cited can be applied in this jurisdiction."
"But that's a general rule of justice, Richard. A wife can't be forced to
testify against her husband. Everyone knows that."
"The question is: Does the Manager know it? The Company asserts that the
habitat has only one law, the Golden Rule, and claims that the Manager's
regulations are merely practical interpretations of that law, just guidelines
subject to change-change right in the middle of a hearing and retroactive, if
the Manager so decides. Gwen, I don't know. The Manager's Proxy might decide
that you are the Company's star witness."
"I won't do it! I won't!"