Аннотация
Robert A. Heinlein
Pied Piper
Never been reprint story from astonishing stories Published March 1942
THE Prime Minister--and Field Marshal yler Doctor Groot's secretary was obviously ex-cited.
Doctor Groot did not lift his eyes from the laboratory bench. With a gentle, steady grip he held a; tiny furry animal while he shaved an area on its thigh.
"So? Have them wait."
"But Doctor, it's the-"
"Are they more important than this?" He reached for a hypodermic needle, load-ed and waiting. His little specimen, a field mouse, did not resist the needle.
The secretary started to speak, bit her lip, and withdrew.
The statesman endured the wait some-what better than the soldier. "I don't like this, Excellency," the field marshal grum-bled. "Why should we be kept waiting while our host fiddles around among his stinks and bottles? Mind you, I'm not complaining on my own account; I learned to wait when I was a cadet; but you represent the stat...
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