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Delayed Action - Charles Devet
DELAYED ACTION
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Charles Devet
JOVIAN PRESS
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DELAYED ACTION
DELAYED ACTION
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IT WAS JUST A HUNCH. Johnson knew that, but his hunches had often paid off in the past, and now he waited with a big man’s patience. For five hours he sat in the wooden stands, under the rumpled canvas the concessionaires had put up to protect the tourists from Marlock’s yellow sun.
The sun was hot and soon Johnson’s clothing was marked with large soiled patches of sweat. Now and then a light breeze blew across the stands from the native section and at each breath his nostrils crinkled in protest at the acrid smell.
Marlock wasn’t much of a planet. Its one claim to fame was its widely advertised Nature’s Moebius Strip. For eighteen months of the year—nine months of sub-zero cold, and nine months of sultry, sand-driven summer—the only outsiders to visit the planet came to buy its one export, the fur of the desert ox. But during the two months of fall and two months of spring the tourists poured in to gape at the Strip.
Idly, for the hundredth time, Johnson let his gaze run over the tourists lining up for their thrill
journey out onto the Strip. Most of them wouldn’t go far; they only wanted