She sighed at last. For the first time since he had known her, she seemed to give in completely. And for that brief moment, he loved what she could have been, but never would be. "All right, Dan," she said quietly. "I can't fight you. I never could, I see now. I'll take the rocket back. What are you going to do?" He hadn't bothered to think, but he knew the answer. "Research. What else?" There would be a lot of research done here. It had been suppressed too long, and had piled up a back-pressure that would have to be relieved. And from that research, he suspected, would come the end of the stable oligarchy of Earth. It could never stand against the changes that would be pouring out of Mars. She put her hands on his shoulders and moved forward to kiss him. He bent down to meet her, and found her eyes were wet. Maybe his were, too. Then she broke free. "You're a fool, Dan Feldman," she whispered, and began moving down the hallway and out of the council hall of Mars. Doc Feldman nodded slowly as he let her go. He was a fool. He had always been a fool, and always would be. And that was why he could never take over leadership here. Fools and idealists should never govern a world. It took practical men such as Jake to do that. But the practical men needed the foolish idealists, too. And maybe for a time here on Mars their kind of men and his kind of fools could make one more stab at the ancient puzzle of freedom. Outside the war rockets of Earth began landing quietly on the free soil of Mars. [Transcriber's Note: The following errors in the original have been corrected in this version: Page 5: 'and there was' to 'and there were' Page 9: 'ideopathic gastroentiritis' to 'idiopathic gastroenteritis' Page 29: 'The cheapness of snythetics' to 'The cheapness of synthetics' Page 42: 'huband's' to 'husband's' Page 43: 'Southpost' to 'Southport' Page 47: 'laywer' to 'lawyer' Page 50: 'in a can' to 'to a can' Page 118: 'Selnick's' to 'Selznick's' ] * * * * * ANDRE NORTON 051615 #Beast Master# 75c 092668 #Catseye# 75c 123117 #The Crossroads of Time# 60c 137950 #Dark Piper# 60c 139923 #Daybreak, 2250 A.D.# 75c 142323 #Defiant Agents# 75c 166694 #Dread Companion# 75c 223651 #Exiles of the Stars# 95c 272260 #Galactic Derelict# 75c 337014 #High Sorcery# 75c 354217 #Huon of the Horn# 60c 358408 #Ice Crown# 75c 415513 #Judgment on Janus# 75c 436725 #Key Out of Time# 75c 471615 #The Last Planet# 60c 492363 #Lord of Thunder# 75c 541011 #Moon of Three Rings# 75c 577510 #Night of Masks# 60c 634105 #Operation Time Search# 60c 638213 #Ordeal In Otherwhere# 60c 668319 #Plague Ship# 60c 675553 #Postmarked the Stars# 75c _#Available wherever paperbacks are sold or use this coupon.#_ * * * * * #ace books#, (Dept. MM) Box 576, Times Square Station New York, N.Y. 10036 Please send me titles checked above. I enclose $__________________Add 15c handling fee per copy.