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Title: Dearest

Author: Henry Beam Piper

Illustrator: Vincent Napoli

Release Date: August 22, 2006 [EBook #19102]

Language: English

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Transcriber's notes.

This etext was produced from Weird Tales March 1951. Extensive research
did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was
renewed.
 Dearest
BY

H. Beam Piper


Heading by Vincent Napoli
Colonel Ashley Hampton chewed his cigar and forced himself to relax, his glance slowly traversing the
room, lingering on the mosaic of book-spines in the tall cases, the sunlight splashed on the faded pastel
colors of the carpet, the soft-tinted autumn landscape outside the French windows, the trophies of Indian
and Filipino and German weapons on the walls. He could easily feign relaxation here in the library of
"Greyrock," as long as he looked only at these familiar inanimate things and avoided the five people
gathered in the room with him, for all of them were enemies.