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GULF

THE FIRST-QUARTER ROCKET from Moonbase put him
down at Pied-a-Terre. The name he was traveling
under beganЧby foresightЧwith the letter "A"; he
was through port inspection and into the shuttle tube
to the city ahead of the throng. Once in the tube car
he went to the men's washroom and locked himself
in.

Quickly he buckled on the safety belt he found
there, snapped its hooks to the wall fixtures, and
leaned over awkwardly to remove a razor from his
bag. The surge caught him in that position; despite
the safety belt he bumped his headЧand swore. He
straightened up and plugged in the razor. His mous-
tache vanished; he shortened his sideburns, trimmed
the comers of his eyebrows, and brushed them up.

He towelled his hair vigorously to remove the oil
that had sleeked it down, combed it loosely into a
wavy mane. The car was now riding in a smooth,
unaccelerated 300 mph; he let himself out of the
safety belt without unhooking it from the walls and,
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working very rapidly, peeled off his moonsuit, took
from his bag and put on a tweedy casual outfit suited
to outdoors on Earth and quite unsuited to Moon
Colony's air-conditioned corridors.

His slippers he replaced with walking shoes from
the bag; he stood up. Joel Abner, commercial trav-
eler, had disappeared; in his place was Captain Jo-
seph Gilead, explorer, lecturer, and writer. Of both
names he was the sole user; neither was his birth
name.

He slashed the moonsuit to ribbons and flushed it
down the water closet, added "Joel Abner's" identifi-
cation card; then peeled a plastic skin off his travel
bag and let the bits follow the rest- The bag was now
pearl grey and rough, instead of dark brown and
smooth. The slippers bothered him; he was afraid
they might stop up the car's plumbing. He contented
himself with burying them in the waste receptacle.

The acceleration warning sounded as he was doing