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    Tinker's Dam
    Tinker's Dam
    Tinker's Dam
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    Tinker's Dam

    By Joseph Tinker and John Schoenherr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Tinker's Dam - Joseph Tinker

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      Title: Tinker's Dam

      Author: Joseph Tinker

      Illustrator: John Schoenherr

      Release Date: February 20, 2008 [EBook #24655]

      Language: English

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      TINKER'S

      DAM

      By JOSEPH TINKER

      There is something very fundamental indeed about the ancient showman's trick—divert their attention from the thing you're really doing ...

      Illustrated by Schoenherr

      he call on the TV-phone came right in the middle of my shaving. They have orders not to call me before breakfast for anything less than a national calamity. I pressed Accept, too startled to take the lather from my face.

      Hi, Gyp, George Kelly said to me from the screen. Hurry it up, boy. He made no reference to my appearance on his screen. Quit draggin' your feet!

      This I take from George Kelly. First of all, he's Director of the F.B.I. Even more important, he's my boss. Hey, George, I protested, knowing he would not have called on a routine matter. I got up before breakfast as it is. What's up? I hardly needed to ask. When they call me, it's always the same sickening kind of trouble.

      Fred Plaice and his gang got their hands on a telepath in the District last night, George told me. It's been on the newscast already. There'll be a damned ugly mob at the office—a lynch mob. Listen, Gyp, I want you to go through the main entrance this morning.

      I nodded my willingness to fight my way through the crowd that would be gathering at the office. Usually I have my taxi drop me on the roof of the building. Call it a petty vanity if you want. It's one of the perquisites of being Washington brass.

      Swell, Gyp, George Kelly said, as if there had been any question about whether I'd come in through the main entrance. The public has a world of confidence in you. Now, damn it, Gyp, if they want to make a fuss over you this morning, let them. We've got to get that snake out of the building alive!

      Oh, no, I protested. You don't mean Fred took a telepath to the office?

      I'm afraid so, George said, his tone so neutral that I couldn't take it as personal criticism. See you down there. His rugged features faded from the screen as he cut the image.

      I had my driver drop the skim-copter to the street when we got to Pennsylvania Avenue within a block of the building, and he skimmed to the outskirts of the crowd that was pressing around the entrance. There were four or five hundred people there, milling around like a herd of restless cattle. Tighter knots of humanity were pressed around the usual four or five firebrands

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