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    Garth and the Visitor
    Garth and the Visitor
    Garth and the Visitor
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    Garth and the Visitor

    By Dick Francis and Joseph Wesley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Garth and the Visitor - Dick Francis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Garth and the Visitor, by L. J. Stecher

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

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      Title: Garth and the Visitor

      Author: L. J. Stecher

      Illustrator: Dick Francis

      Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31956]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GARTH AND THE VISITOR ***

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      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction April 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Garth and The Visitor

      BY L. J. STECHER

      If you could ask them, you might be greatly surprised—some tabus very urgently want to be broken!

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      Although as brash as any other ace newspaper reporter for a high school weekly—and there is no one brasher—Garth was scared. His head crest lifted spasmodically and the rudimentary webbing between his fingers twitched. To answer a dare, Garth was about to attempt something that had never been dared before: a newspaper interview with The Visitor. There had been questions enough asked and answered during the thousands of years The Visitor had sat in his egg-shaped palace on the mountaintop, but no interviews. It was shocking even to think about—something like requesting a gossippy chat with God.

      Of course, nobody believed the fable any longer that The Visitor would vanish if he was ever asked a personal question—and that he would first destroy the man who asked. It was known, or at least suspected, that the Palace was merely a mile-long spaceship.

      Garth, as tradition required, climbed the seven-mile-long rock-hewn path to the Palace on foot. He paused for a moment on the broad platform

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