Walker pounded his desk. “What the hell is going on? I can’t get
Security Data, you come marching in here with security men ... what
gives?”
Meriwether gestured to the guards, and they came forward and each took
one of Walker’s arms. “You’re out of a job, Walker,” snarled General
Marcus Meriwether.
“In the name of God, _why_?”
“You know very well. Take him to security detention, Sergeant.”
And suddenly he knew. Meriwether stared indignantly when he started
laughing. It was a hell of a thing to laugh at, but it was also the most
hilarious tragedy he ever hoped to encounter.
Millet. _Security risk._ Untouchable.
Millet would finish his great unified theory, and go down in history as
neither Walker nor Meriwether nor the genius who invented the
Confederation’s neural weapon would. Millet was as safe as he could
possibly want to be.
And so was the Interplanetary Confederation.
*END*
Transcribers note: This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science
Fiction February 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence
that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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