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    The Envoy, Her
    The Envoy, Her
    The Envoy, Her
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    The Envoy, Her

    By Horace Brown Fyfe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Envoy, Her - Horace Brown Fyfe

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      Title: The Envoy, Her

      Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

      Release Date: June 1, 2010 [EBook #32637]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Planet Stories March 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Vyrtl weighed a pebble in his hand. You expect to be executed, he stated flatly.

      the envoy, Her

      by H. B. Fyfe

      The Emperor must be getting old, they thought, to deal so mercifully with the upstart Jursan Rebels—which was quite true. He was not too young to dream....

      espite the concentrated patrol defenses, the Emperor's space yacht slipped down to the surface of Klo, second moon of Jursa, without incident. Only recently, such a show of force would have drawn a flight of torpedo rockets from the rebellious planet; but the Jursan agitators for a scientific renaissance had at last been beaten to their knees.

      A landing tube was connected between the ship and the transparent dome that had been constructed on this airless satellite for the convenience of the lord of the system. Notables in military posts or present on some other excuse gathered to greet their master.

      By Pollux! gasped one onlooker. Those guards must all be seven feet tall!

      The file of magnificent soldiers, who gave the impression of being almost entirely armor-plated, deployed on either side of the landing tube exit. They were followed by a figure glittering enough to be an emperor; but since he was attended by only four officials in bejeweled scarlet the crowd recognized him for a chamberlain.

      "His Illustrious Sublimity the

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