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Title: He Walked Around the Horses

Author: Henry Beam Piper

Illustrator: Cartier

Release Date: July 11, 2006 [EBook #18807]

Language: English

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This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April 1948.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this
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 HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES
BY H. BEAM PIPER
Illustrated by Cartier
This tale is based on an authenticated, documented fact. A man vanishedтАФright out of this
world. And where he wentтАФ
In November 1809, an Englishman named Benjamin Bathurst vanished, inexplicably and
utterly.
He was en route to Hamburg from Vienna, where he had been serving as his government's
envoy to the court of what Napoleon had left of the Austrian Empire. At an inn in Perleburg, in
Prussia, while examining a change of horses for his coach, he casually stepped out of sight of his
secretary and his valet. He was not seen to leave the inn yard. He was not seen again, ever.
At least, not in this continuum....


(From Baron Eugen von Krutz, Minister of Police, to His Excellency the Count von Berchtenwald,