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    Hex
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    Hex

    By Laurence M. Janifer

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
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    Laurence M. Janifer

    Laurence M. Janifer (born Laurence M. Harris; March 17, 1933 - July 10, 2002) was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, but in 1963 took the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Many of his early stories appeared under the "Larry M. Harris" byline.

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      Hex - Laurence M. Janifer

      Project Gutenberg's Hex, by Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)

      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

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Hex

      Author: Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)

      Release Date: January 22, 2008 [EBook #24397]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEX ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      HEX

      BY LARRY M. HARRIS

      Illustrated by Summers

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction May 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      She was a young, enthusiastic worker for the Welfare Department. She liked helping people ... only she really-but-good helped them!

      The office wasn't very bright or sunny, but that didn't matter. In the first place, if Gloria really wanted sun, she could always get some by tuning in on a mind outside, someone walking the streets of downtown New York. And, in the second place, the weather wasn't important; what mattered was how you felt inside. Gloria took off her beret and crammed it into a drawer of her desk. She sat down, feeling perfectly ready for work, her bright eyes sparkling and her whole twenty-one-year-old body eager for the demands of the day.

      It was ten minutes to nine in the morning.

      On the desk was a mass of reports and folders. Gloria looked at them and sighed; the cleaning woman, she thought, must have upset everything again.

      But neatness was the keystone of good, efficient work in any field. Gloria set to work rearranging everything in a proper order. The job took her nearly twenty minutes and, by the time she was finished, the office was full.

      Mr. Fredericksohn hadn't arrived yet, naturally. He always came in around nine-thirty. But all of the case workers were ready for the day's work. Gloria looked around the office at them, beaming. It was good to be able to help people and to know that what you were doing was right.

      She remembered wondering how you could be sure you were right about somebody else, if you couldn't read minds. But, then, there were rules to go by, and all of the fine classes and textbooks that a social case worker had to have. If you paid attention, and if you really wanted to help people, Gloria supposed, it was all right. Certainly everything in her own office seemed to run smoothly.

      Not that she would ever do anything about another worker, no matter what. Gloria remembered what Mr. Greystone, a teacher of hers had said, a year or so before: Never interfere with the case load of another worker. Your sole job is represented by your own case load.

      That was good advice, Gloria thought. And, anyhow, her assistance didn't seem to be too badly needed, among the others. She had quite enough to do in taking care of her own clients.

      And here she was, wasting time! She shook her head and breathed a little sigh, and began on the first folder.

      Name: GIRONDE, JOSE R.

      Name: Wladek, Mrs. Marie Posner. She was no fool. She knew about the reports they had to make, and the sheets covered with all the details of your very own private life; she had seen them on a desk when she had come to keep her appointment. Mrs. Wladek was her name, and that was how the report would look, with her name all reversed in order right on the top. And underneath that there would be her address and her story, all that she had told the case workers, set right down in black and white for anybody

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