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Crossroads of Time by
Andre Norton
PROLOGUE
The office was bare of all furniture except for a seat pulled drawer
fashion out of the softly glowing wall. The report shining in fiery script up
at the Inspector was on a desk. Or perhaps those letters only appeared
fiery because of the possible conflagration to come, masked in the official
idiom of his particular security section. As long ago as his third month in
the Service, a time now he found difficult to recall, he had ceased abruptly
to believe that any operation could run smoothly. In past experience the
most placid landscapes hid the nastiest traps.
Now he leaned back in the seat which accommodatingly changed shape
to fit his middle-aged bulk at the new angle. Though his expression had
not changed, he ran a finger tip nervously back and forth along the edge of
the reader plate on which the message still stood. He had already wasted
too much time on this, butЧ
CLASSIFIED REPORT:
Division 1 Plus Information
PROJECT:4678
NATURE OF OFFENSE:
Attempt to influence other level history.
AGENTS:
Section Leader:
Com Varlt, MW 69321
Crew:
Horman Tilis MW 69345
Fal Korf AW 70958

Pague Lo Sig AW
PROGRESS TO DATE:
Traced subjectЧKmoat Vo PranjЧto Levels 415-426 inclusive.
Established prime base on likeliest world (E641Чmarked, on survey of Kol
30, 51446 E. C. as "culturally retarded, critical, forbidden, except to
sociological investigators, rank 1-2"). But subject may be on another world
of this grouping or engaged in hopping.
COVER:
Have assumed credentials and background of members of native law
enforcement body, national in scope (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
TYPE OF CULTURE:
Dawn atomicЧinhabitants on this level appear to possess no psi
powersЧhighly unstable civilization Чjust the type to attract Pranj.
REMARKS:
There was the meat of it, entered under "remarks." The Inspector's eyes
lifted to the restful, unbroken glow of the opposite wall. They were getting
all too many of such "remarks" at Headquarters lately. Why, when he had
been in the field forceЧHe shook his head and then had the grace to laugh
at his own dawning pomposity. The important point wasЧthe man in the