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    Goodbye, Dead Man!
    Goodbye, Dead Man!
    Goodbye, Dead Man!
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    Goodbye, Dead Man!

    By Tom W. Harris

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Goodbye, Dead Man! - Tom W. Harris

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      Title: Goodbye, Dead Man!

      Author: Tom W. Harris

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      Release Date: September 12, 2009 [EBook #29963]

      Language: English

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      Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy—

      Goodbye, Dead Man!

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      Tom W. Harris

      It was Orley Mattup's killing of the old lab technician that really made us hate him.

      Mattup was a guard at the reactor installation at Bayless, Kentucky, where my friend Danny Hern and I were part of the staff when the Outsiders took everything over. In what god-forsaken mountain hole they had found Mattup, and how they got him to sell out to them, I don't know. He was an authentic human, though. You can tell an Outsider.

      Mattup and Danny and I were playing high-low-jack the night Uncle Pete was killed, sitting on the widewalk where Mattup had a view of the part of the station he was responsible for. High-low-jack is a

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