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    He Walked Around the Horses
    He Walked Around the Horses
    He Walked Around the Horses
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    He Walked Around the Horses

    By Edd Cartier and H. Beam Piper

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
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      He Walked Around the Horses - Edd Cartier

      Project Gutenberg's He Walked Around the Horses, by Henry Beam Piper

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES ***

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      Transcriber's note:

      This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April 1948. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.

      HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES

      BY H. BEAM PIPER

      Illustrated by Cartier

      This tale is based on an authenticated, documented fact. A man vanished—right out of this world. And where he went—

      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, Chancellor to His Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.)

      25 November, 1809

      Your Excellency:

      A circumstance has come to the notice of this Ministry, the significance of which I am at a loss to define, but, since it appears to involve matters of State, both here and abroad, I am convinced that it is of sufficient importance to be brought to your personal attention. Frankly, I am unwilling to take any further action in the matter without your advice.

      Briefly, the situation is this: We are holding, here at the Ministry of Police, a person giving his name as Benjamin Bathurst, who claims to be a British diplomat. This person was taken into custody by the police at Perleburg yesterday, as a result of a disturbance at an inn there; he is being detained on technical charges of causing disorder in a public place, and of being a suspicious person. When arrested, he had in his possession a dispatch case, containing a number of papers; these are of such an extraordinary nature that the local authorities declined to assume any responsibility beyond having the man sent here to Berlin.

      After interviewing this person and examining his papers, I am, I must confess, in much the same position. This is not, I am convinced, any ordinary police matter; there is something very strange and disturbing here. The man's statements, taken alone, are so incredible as to justify the assumption that he is mad. I cannot, however, adopt this theory, in view of his demeanor, which is that of a man of perfect rationality, and because of the existence of these papers. The whole thing is mad; incomprehensible!

      The papers in question

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