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    A Matter of Proportion
    A Matter of Proportion
    A Matter of Proportion
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    A Matter of Proportion

    By Bernklau and Anne Walker

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Matter of Proportion - Bernklau

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Matter of Proportion, by Anne Walker

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      Title: A Matter of Proportion

      Author: Anne Walker

      Illustrator: Bernklau

      Release Date: December 19, 2007 [EBook #23920]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MATTER OF PROPORTION ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell

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      A

      MATTER

      OF

      PROPORTION

      In order to make a man stop, you must convince him that it's impossible to go on. Some people, though, just can't be convinced.

      BY ANNE WALKER

      Illustrated by Bernklau

      n the dark, our glider chutes zeroed neatly on target—only Art Benjamin missed the edge of the gorge. When we were sure Invader hadn't heard the crashing of bushes, I climbed down after him. The climb, and what I found, left me shaken. A Special Corps squad leader is not expendable—by order. Clyde Esterbrook, my second and ICEG mate, would have to mine the viaduct while my nerve and glycogen stabilized.

      We timed the patrols. Clyde said, Have to wait till a train's coming. No time otherwise. Well, it was his show. When the next pair of burly-coated men came over at a trot, he breathed, Now! and ghosted out almost before they were clear.

      I switched on the ICEG—inter-cortical encephalograph—planted in my temporal bone. My own senses could hear young Ferd breathing, feel and smell the mat of pine needles under me. Through Clyde's, I could hear the blind whuffle of wind in the girders, feel the crude wood of ties and the iron-cold molding of rails in the star-dark. I could feel, too, an odd, lilting elation in his mind, as if this savage universe were a good thing to take on—spray guns, cold, and all.

      We wanted to set the mine so the wreckage would clobber a trail below, one like they'd built in Burma and Japan, where you wouldn't think a monkey could go; but it probably carried more supplies than the viaduct itself. So Clyde made adjustments precisely, just as we'd figured it with the model back at base. It was a tricky, slow job in the bitter dark.

      I began to figure: If he armed it for this train,

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