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    Consignment
    Consignment
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    Consignment

    By Alan E. Nourse

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Consignment - Alan E. Nourse

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Consignment, by Alan E. Nourse

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Consignment

      Author: Alan E. Nourse

      Release Date: December 5, 2012 [EBook #41565]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONSIGNMENT ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      CONSIGNMENT

      BY ALLAN E. NOURSE

      ILLUSTRATED BY SUSSMAN

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Science Fiction Adventures Magazine December 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. ]

      In the jungle the vicious man-killer is king, but what chance would a tiger have in the Times Square traffic.

      The three shots ripped through the close night air of the prison, sharply, unbelievably. Three guards crumpled like puppets in the dead silence that followed. The thought flashed through Krenner's mind, incredibly, that possibly no one had heard.

      He hurled the rope with all his might up the towering rock wall, waited a long eternity as the slim strong line swished through the darkness, and heard the dull clank as the hook took hold at the top. Like a cat he started up, frantically, scrambling, and climbing, the sharp heat of the rope searing his fingers. Suddenly daylight was around him, the bright unearthly glare of arc lights, the siren cutting in with its fierce scream. The shouts of alarm were far below him as he fought up the line, knot after knot, the carefully prepared knots. Twenty seconds to climb, he thought, just twenty seconds—

      Rifle shots rang out below, the shells smashing into the concrete around him. Krenner almost turned and snarled at the little circle of men in the glaring

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