"That's not right ... I mean, they were going to torture him to death." "Not 'to death'. It was 'until death'. There's a difference." "But that bawling noise he made--" "Ah ... that was due to the one restrictive qualification to the benign terms of his exile. Every woman on his estate was to be removed before he reached there, leaving men servants only. Patrol boats will see to it that for so long as he lives no woman shall ever set foot on the Sea Islands." Rockford smiled again. "Lord Narf succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in keeping his boyhood vow of being always a man among men." Transcriber's Note This etext was produced from _Analog Science Fact and Fiction_ December 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. End of Project Gutenberg's --And Devious the Line of Duty, by Tom Godwin