DARREL T. LANGART
Reading edition
anything you can do ...
1963 Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York
A shorter version of this work appeared in ANALOG Science Fact—Science Fiction.
All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 62-7710 COPYRIGHT © 1963 BY DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT © 1962 BY THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FIRST EDITION
Transcriber's Note:
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:
[1], [2], [3], [4]
FIRST INTERLUDE
[5], [6]
SECOND INTERLUDE
[7], [8], [9]
THIRD INTERLUDE
[10], [11], [12], [13]
FOURTH INTERLUDE
[14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]
FINAL INTERLUDE
[21], [22], [23]
For mon cher ami Frère Gascé
a man whom I may truly call ... ... my brother