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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Turnover Point + +Author: Alfred Coppel + +Illustrator: Emsh + +Release Date: February 16, 2010 [EBook #31287] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TURNOVER POINT *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Amazing Stories April-May 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="450" height="618" alt="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/image_002.jpg" width="400" height="530" alt="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>TURNOVER POINT</h1> +<p> </p> +<h2>By ALFRED COPPEL</h2> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrator: EMSH</h3> +<p> </p> +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlon's. Along in +years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A +matter of living out their years, following an obscure path +to oblivion.</i></p> + +<p><i>It was that way in ancient Egypt, just as it will be when +the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while +such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the +society that has forgotten them....</i></p></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_p.jpg" alt="P" width="31" height="40" /></div> +<p>op Ganlon was no hero—he was only a spaceman. A spaceman and a +father. In fact, Pop was rather no-account, even in a profession that +abounded with drifters. He had made a meagre living prospecting +asteroids and hauling light freight and an occasional passenger out +in the Belt Region. Coffee and cakes, nothing more. Not many people +knew Pop had a son in the Patrol, and even fewer knew it when the boy +was blasted to a cinder in a back alley in Lower Marsport.</p> + +<p>Pop went on eating and breathing, but his life was over after that. He +hit the bottle a little harder and his ship, <i>The Luck</i>, grew rustier +and tackier, and those were the only outward signs that Pop Ganlon was +a living dead man. He kept on grubbing among the cold rocks and +pushing <i>The Luck</i> from Marsport to Callisto and back with whatever +low-mass payloads he could pick up. He might have lived out his string +of years like that, obscure and alone, if it hadn't been for John +Kane. Kane was Pop Ganlon's ticket to a sort of personal +immortality—if there is such a thing for an old spaceman.</p> + +<p>It was in Yakki, down-canal from Marsport, that Kane found Pop. There +is a small spaceport there—a boneyard, really—for buckets whose +skippers can't pay the heavy tariff imposed by the big ramp. All the +wrecks nest there while waiting hopefully for a payload or a +grubstake. They have all of Solis Lacus for a landing field, and if +they spill it doesn't matter much. The drifting red sands soon cover +up the scattered shards of dural and the slow, lonely life of Yakki +goes on like before.</p> + +<p>The Patrol was on Kane's trail and the blaster in his hand was still +warm when he shoved it up against Pop Ganlon's ribs and made his +proposition.</p> + +<p>He wanted to get off Mars—out to Callisto. To Blackwater, to Ley's +Landing, it didn't matter too much. Just off Mars, and quickly. His +eyes had a metallic glitter and his hand was rock-steady. Pop knew he +meant what he said when he told him life was cheap. Someone else's +life, not Kane's.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>That's how it happened that <i>The Luck</i> lifted that night from Yakki, +outward bound for Ley's Landing, with Pop and Kane aboard her alone.</p> + +<p>Sitting at the battered console of <i>The Luck</i>, Pop watched his +passenger. He knew Kane, of course. Or rather, he knew of him. A +killer. The kind that thrives and grows fat on the frontiers. The +bulky frame, the cropped black hair, the predatory eyes that looked +like two blaster muzzles. They were all familiar to Pop. Kane was all +steel and meanness. The kind of carrion bird that took what others had +worked for. Not big time, you understand. In another age he'd have +been a torpedo—a hireling killer. But out among the stars he was +working for himself. And doing well.</p> + +<p>Pop didn't care. His loyalty to the Patrol had stopped quite suddenly +not long before—in a dark alley in Lower Marsport. This was only a +job, he told himself now. A job for coffee and cakes, and maybe a +grubstake to work a few more lonely rocks. Life had become a habit for +Pop, even if living had ended.</p> + +<p>"What are you staring at, Pop?" Kane's voice was like the rest of him. +Harsh and cold as space itself.</p> + +<p>"At you, I guess," Pop said, "I was wondering what you'd done—and +where—and to whom."</p> + +<p>"You're a nosey old man," Kane said. "Just get me to Ley's Landing. +That's what I'm paying for, not a thing more."</p> + +<p>Pop nodded slowly and turned back to the control board. They were +above the Belt by now, and a few short hours from turnover point. The +cranky drives of <i>The Luck</i> needed all his attention.</p> + +<p>Presently he said, "We'll be turning over soon. Want to get some +rest?"</p> + +<p>Kane laughed. "No thanks, old man. I'll stay here and watch you."</p> + +<p>Pop eyed the ready blaster and nodded again. He wondered vaguely how +it would feel to die under the blast of such a weapon. It couldn't be +very painful. He hoped it wasn't painful. Perhaps the boy hadn't +suffered. It would be nice to be sure, he thought.</p> + +<p>There wasn't much for Pop to remember about the boy. He'd never been +one for writing many letters. But the District Patrolman had come down +to Yakki and looked Pop up—afterward. He'd said the boy was a good +officer. A good cop. Died doing his job, and all that sort of thing. +Pop swallowed hard. His job. What had 'his job' been that night in +Lower Marsport, he wondered. Had someone else finished it for him?</p> + +<p>He remembered about that time hearing on the Mars Radio that a +Triangle Post Office had been knocked over by a gunman. That might +have been it. The Patrol would be after anyone knocking over EMV +Triangle property. The Earth-Mars-Venus Government supported the +Patrol for things like that.</p> + +<p>Pop guided <i>The Luck</i> skillfully above the Belt, avoiding with +practiced ease the few errant chunks of rock that hurtled up out of +the swarms. He talked to Kane because he was starved for +talk—certainly not because he was trying to play Sherlock. Pop had +long ago realized that he was no mental giant. Besides, he owed the +Patrol nothing. Not a damned thing.</p> + +<p>"Made this trip often?" Pop tried to strike up a conversation with +Kane. His long loneliness seemed sharper, somehow, more poignant, +when he actually had someone to talk to.</p> + +<p>"Not often. I'm no space pig." It was said with scorn.</p> + +<p>"There's a lot to spacing, you know," Pop urged.</p> + +<p>Kane shrugged. "I know easier ways to make a buck, old timer."</p> + +<p>"Like how?"</p> + +<p>"A nosey old man, like I said," Kane smiled. Somehow, the smile wasn't +friendly. "Okay, Pop, since you ask. Like knocking off wacky old +prospectors for their dust. Or sticking up sandcar caravans out in +Syrtis. Who's the wiser? The red dust takes care of the leftovers."</p> + +<p>Pop shook his head. "Not for me. There's the Patrol to think of."</p> + +<p>Kane laughed. "Punks. Bell-boys. They'd better learn to shoot before +they leave their school-books."</p> + +<p>Pop Ganlon frowned slightly. "You talk big, mister."</p> + +<p>Kane's eyes took on that metallic glitter again. He leaned forward and +threw a canvas packet on the console. It spilled crisp new EMV +certificates. Large ones. "I take big, too," he said.</p> + +<p>Pop stared. Not at the money. It was more than he had ever seen in one +pile before, but it wasn't that that shook him. It was the canvas +packet. It was marked: <i>Postal Service, EMV</i>. Pop suddenly felt cold, +as though an icy wind had touched him.</p> + +<p>"You ... you killed a Patrolman for this," he said slowly.</p> + +<p>"That's right, Pop," grinned Kane easily. "Burned him down in an alley +in Lower Marsport. It was like taking candy from a baby...."</p> + +<p>Pop Ganlon swallowed hard. "Like taking candy from a ... baby. As easy +as that...."</p> + +<p>"As easy as that, old man," Kane said.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Pop knew he was going to die then. He knew Kane would blast him right +after turnover point, and he knew fear. He felt something else, too. +Something that was new to him. Hate. An icy hate that left him shaken +and weak.</p> + +<p>So the boy's job hadn't been finished. It was still to do.</p> + +<p>There was no use in dreaming of killing Kane. Pop was old. Kane was +young—and a killer. Pop was alone and without weapons—save <i>The +Luck</i>....</p> + +<p>Time passed slowly. Outside, the night of deep space keened +soundlessly. The stars burned bright, alien and strange. It was time, +thought Pop bleakly. Time to turn <i>The Luck</i>.</p> + +<p>"Turnover point," he said softly.</p> + +<p>Kane motioned with his blaster. "Get at it."</p> + +<p>Pop began winding the flywheel. It made a whirring sound in the +confined space of the tiny control room. Outside, the night began to +pivot slowly.</p> + +<p>"We have to turn end-for-end," Pop said. "That way we can decelerate +on the drop into Callisto. But, of course, you know all about that, +Mr. Kane."</p> + +<p>"I told you I'm no space pig," Kane said brusquely. "I can handle a +landing and maybe a takeoff, but the rest of it I leave for the +boatmen. Like you, Pop."</p> + +<p>Pop spun the flywheel in silence, listening to the soft whir. +Presently, he let the wheel slow and then stop. He straightened and +looked up at Kane. The blaster muzzle was six inches from his belly. +He swallowed against the dryness in his throat.</p> + +<p>"You ... you're going to kill me," Pop said. It wasn't a question. +Kane smiled, showing white teeth.</p> + +<p>"I ... I know you are," Pop said unsteadily. "But first, I want to say +something to you."</p> + +<p>"Talk, old timer," Kane said. "But not too much."</p> + +<p>"That boy—that boy you killed in Marsport. He was my son," Pop said.</p> + +<p>Kane's face did not change expression. "Okay. So what?"</p> + +<p>Pop's lips twitched. "I just wanted to hear you say it." He looked at +the impassive face of the killer. "You made a mistake, Mr. Kane. You +shouldn't have done that to my boy."</p> + +<p>"Is that all?"</p> + +<p>Pop nodded slowly. "I guess that's all."</p> + +<p>Kane grinned. "Afraid, old man?"</p> + +<p>"I'm a space pig," Pop said. "Space takes care of its own."</p> + +<p>"You're in a bad way, old timer," Kane said, "and you haven't much +sense. I'm doing you a favor."</p> + +<p>Pop lifted his hands in an instinctive gesture of futile protection as +the blaster erupted flame.</p> + +<p>There was a smell in the control room like burnt meat as Kane +holstered his weapon and turned the old man over with a foot. Pop was +a blackened mass. Kane dragged him to the valve and jettisoned the +body into space.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Alone among the stars, <i>The Luck</i> moved across the velvet night. The +steady beat of flame from her tubes was a tiny spark of man-made +vengeance on the face of the deeps.</p> + +<p>From her turnover point, she drove outward toward the spinning Jovian +moons. For a short while she could be seen from the EMV Observatory on +Callisto, but very soon she faded into the outer darkness.</p> + +<p>Much later, the Observatory at Land's End on Triton watched her +heading past the gibbous mass of Pluto—out into the interstellar +fastnesses.</p> + +<p>The thrumming of the jets was still at last. A wild-eyed thing that +may once have been a man stared in horror at the fading light of the +yellow star far astern.</p> + +<p>It had taken Kane time to understand what had happened to him, and now +it was too late. Space had taken care of its own. The air in <i>The +Luck</i> was growing foul and the food was gone. Death hung in the fetid +atmosphere of the tiny control room.</p> + +<p>The old man—the boy—the money. They all seemed to spin in a +narrowing circle. Kane wanted suddenly to shriek with laughter. A +circle. The turnover circle. The full circle that the old man had made +instead of the proper half-turn of a turnover. Three hundred sixty +degrees instead of one hundred eighty. Three hundred sixty degrees to +leave the nose of <i>The Luck</i> pointing outward toward the stars, +instead of properly toward the Sun. A full circle to pile G on G until +the Jovian moons were missed, and the Uranian moons and Triton, too. +<i>Ad Astra per Ardua....</i></p> + +<p>With the last fragment of his failing sanity, Kane thought of how Pop +Ganlon and the boy must be laughing. He was still thinking that as the +long night closed in around him.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Turnover Point, by Alfred Coppel + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TURNOVER POINT *** + +***** This file should be named 31287-h.htm or 31287-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/2/8/31287/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Turnover Point + +Author: Alfred Coppel + +Illustrator: Emsh + +Release Date: February 16, 2010 [EBook #31287] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TURNOVER POINT *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from Amazing Stories April-May 1953. Extensive + research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this + publication was renewed. + + + TURNOVER POINT + + + By ALFRED COPPEL + + + Illustrator: EMSH + + + _Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlon's. Along in + years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A + matter of living out their years, following an obscure path + to oblivion._ + + _It was that way in ancient Egypt, just as it will be when + the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while + such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the + society that has forgotten them...._ + + * * * * * + + + + +Pop Ganlon was no hero--he was only a spaceman. A spaceman and a +father. In fact, Pop was rather no-account, even in a profession that +abounded with drifters. He had made a meagre living prospecting +asteroids and hauling light freight and an occasional passenger out +in the Belt Region. Coffee and cakes, nothing more. Not many people +knew Pop had a son in the Patrol, and even fewer knew it when the boy +was blasted to a cinder in a back alley in Lower Marsport. + +Pop went on eating and breathing, but his life was over after that. He +hit the bottle a little harder and his ship, _The Luck_, grew rustier +and tackier, and those were the only outward signs that Pop Ganlon was +a living dead man. He kept on grubbing among the cold rocks and +pushing _The Luck_ from Marsport to Callisto and back with whatever +low-mass payloads he could pick up. He might have lived out his string +of years like that, obscure and alone, if it hadn't been for John +Kane. Kane was Pop Ganlon's ticket to a sort of personal +immortality--if there is such a thing for an old spaceman. + +It was in Yakki, down-canal from Marsport, that Kane found Pop. There +is a small spaceport there--a boneyard, really--for buckets whose +skippers can't pay the heavy tariff imposed by the big ramp. All the +wrecks nest there while waiting hopefully for a payload or a +grubstake. They have all of Solis Lacus for a landing field, and if +they spill it doesn't matter much. The drifting red sands soon cover +up the scattered shards of dural and the slow, lonely life of Yakki +goes on like before. + +The Patrol was on Kane's trail and the blaster in his hand was still +warm when he shoved it up against Pop Ganlon's ribs and made his +proposition. + +He wanted to get off Mars--out to Callisto. To Blackwater, to Ley's +Landing, it didn't matter too much. Just off Mars, and quickly. His +eyes had a metallic glitter and his hand was rock-steady. Pop knew he +meant what he said when he told him life was cheap. Someone else's +life, not Kane's. + + * * * * * + +That's how it happened that _The Luck_ lifted that night from Yakki, +outward bound for Ley's Landing, with Pop and Kane aboard her alone. + +Sitting at the battered console of _The Luck_, Pop watched his +passenger. He knew Kane, of course. Or rather, he knew of him. A +killer. The kind that thrives and grows fat on the frontiers. The +bulky frame, the cropped black hair, the predatory eyes that looked +like two blaster muzzles. They were all familiar to Pop. Kane was all +steel and meanness. The kind of carrion bird that took what others had +worked for. Not big time, you understand. In another age he'd have +been a torpedo--a hireling killer. But out among the stars he was +working for himself. And doing well. + +Pop didn't care. His loyalty to the Patrol had stopped quite suddenly +not long before--in a dark alley in Lower Marsport. This was only a +job, he told himself now. A job for coffee and cakes, and maybe a +grubstake to work a few more lonely rocks. Life had become a habit for +Pop, even if living had ended. + +"What are you staring at, Pop?" Kane's voice was like the rest of him. +Harsh and cold as space itself. + +"At you, I guess," Pop said, "I was wondering what you'd done--and +where--and to whom." + +"You're a nosey old man," Kane said. "Just get me to Ley's Landing. +That's what I'm paying for, not a thing more." + +Pop nodded slowly and turned back to the control board. They were +above the Belt by now, and a few short hours from turnover point. The +cranky drives of _The Luck_ needed all his attention. + +Presently he said, "We'll be turning over soon. Want to get some +rest?" + +Kane laughed. "No thanks, old man. I'll stay here and watch you." + +Pop eyed the ready blaster and nodded again. He wondered vaguely how +it would feel to die under the blast of such a weapon. It couldn't be +very painful. He hoped it wasn't painful. Perhaps the boy hadn't +suffered. It would be nice to be sure, he thought. + +There wasn't much for Pop to remember about the boy. He'd never been +one for writing many letters. But the District Patrolman had come down +to Yakki and looked Pop up--afterward. He'd said the boy was a good +officer. A good cop. Died doing his job, and all that sort of thing. +Pop swallowed hard. His job. What had 'his job' been that night in +Lower Marsport, he wondered. Had someone else finished it for him? + +He remembered about that time hearing on the Mars Radio that a +Triangle Post Office had been knocked over by a gunman. That might +have been it. The Patrol would be after anyone knocking over EMV +Triangle property. The Earth-Mars-Venus Government supported the +Patrol for things like that. + +Pop guided _The Luck_ skillfully above the Belt, avoiding with +practiced ease the few errant chunks of rock that hurtled up out of +the swarms. He talked to Kane because he was starved for +talk--certainly not because he was trying to play Sherlock. Pop had +long ago realized that he was no mental giant. Besides, he owed the +Patrol nothing. Not a damned thing. + +"Made this trip often?" Pop tried to strike up a conversation with +Kane. His long loneliness seemed sharper, somehow, more poignant, +when he actually had someone to talk to. + +"Not often. I'm no space pig." It was said with scorn. + +"There's a lot to spacing, you know," Pop urged. + +Kane shrugged. "I know easier ways to make a buck, old timer." + +"Like how?" + +"A nosey old man, like I said," Kane smiled. Somehow, the smile wasn't +friendly. "Okay, Pop, since you ask. Like knocking off wacky old +prospectors for their dust. Or sticking up sandcar caravans out in +Syrtis. Who's the wiser? The red dust takes care of the leftovers." + +Pop shook his head. "Not for me. There's the Patrol to think of." + +Kane laughed. "Punks. Bell-boys. They'd better learn to shoot before +they leave their school-books." + +Pop Ganlon frowned slightly. "You talk big, mister." + +Kane's eyes took on that metallic glitter again. He leaned forward and +threw a canvas packet on the console. It spilled crisp new EMV +certificates. Large ones. "I take big, too," he said. + +Pop stared. Not at the money. It was more than he had ever seen in one +pile before, but it wasn't that that shook him. It was the canvas +packet. It was marked: _Postal Service, EMV_. Pop suddenly felt cold, +as though an icy wind had touched him. + +"You ... you killed a Patrolman for this," he said slowly. + +"That's right, Pop," grinned Kane easily. "Burned him down in an alley +in Lower Marsport. It was like taking candy from a baby...." + +Pop Ganlon swallowed hard. "Like taking candy from a ... baby. As easy +as that...." + +"As easy as that, old man," Kane said. + + * * * * * + +Pop knew he was going to die then. He knew Kane would blast him right +after turnover point, and he knew fear. He felt something else, too. +Something that was new to him. Hate. An icy hate that left him shaken +and weak. + +So the boy's job hadn't been finished. It was still to do. + +There was no use in dreaming of killing Kane. Pop was old. Kane was +young--and a killer. Pop was alone and without weapons--save _The +Luck_.... + +Time passed slowly. Outside, the night of deep space keened +soundlessly. The stars burned bright, alien and strange. It was time, +thought Pop bleakly. Time to turn _The Luck_. + +"Turnover point," he said softly. + +Kane motioned with his blaster. "Get at it." + +Pop began winding the flywheel. It made a whirring sound in the +confined space of the tiny control room. Outside, the night began to +pivot slowly. + +"We have to turn end-for-end," Pop said. "That way we can decelerate +on the drop into Callisto. But, of course, you know all about that, +Mr. Kane." + +"I told you I'm no space pig," Kane said brusquely. "I can handle a +landing and maybe a takeoff, but the rest of it I leave for the +boatmen. Like you, Pop." + +Pop spun the flywheel in silence, listening to the soft whir. +Presently, he let the wheel slow and then stop. He straightened and +looked up at Kane. The blaster muzzle was six inches from his belly. +He swallowed against the dryness in his throat. + +"You ... you're going to kill me," Pop said. It wasn't a question. +Kane smiled, showing white teeth. + +"I ... I know you are," Pop said unsteadily. "But first, I want to say +something to you." + +"Talk, old timer," Kane said. "But not too much." + +"That boy--that boy you killed in Marsport. He was my son," Pop said. + +Kane's face did not change expression. "Okay. So what?" + +Pop's lips twitched. "I just wanted to hear you say it." He looked at +the impassive face of the killer. "You made a mistake, Mr. Kane. You +shouldn't have done that to my boy." + +"Is that all?" + +Pop nodded slowly. "I guess that's all." + +Kane grinned. "Afraid, old man?" + +"I'm a space pig," Pop said. "Space takes care of its own." + +"You're in a bad way, old timer," Kane said, "and you haven't much +sense. I'm doing you a favor." + +Pop lifted his hands in an instinctive gesture of futile protection as +the blaster erupted flame. + +There was a smell in the control room like burnt meat as Kane +holstered his weapon and turned the old man over with a foot. Pop was +a blackened mass. Kane dragged him to the valve and jettisoned the +body into space. + + * * * * * + +Alone among the stars, _The Luck_ moved across the velvet night. The +steady beat of flame from her tubes was a tiny spark of man-made +vengeance on the face of the deeps. + +From her turnover point, she drove outward toward the spinning Jovian +moons. For a short while she could be seen from the EMV Observatory on +Callisto, but very soon she faded into the outer darkness. + +Much later, the Observatory at Land's End on Triton watched her +heading past the gibbous mass of Pluto--out into the interstellar +fastnesses. + +The thrumming of the jets was still at last. A wild-eyed thing that +may once have been a man stared in horror at the fading light of the +yellow star far astern. + +It had taken Kane time to understand what had happened to him, and now +it was too late. Space had taken care of its own. The air in _The +Luck_ was growing foul and the food was gone. Death hung in the fetid +atmosphere of the tiny control room. + +The old man--the boy--the money. They all seemed to spin in a +narrowing circle. Kane wanted suddenly to shriek with laughter. A +circle. The turnover circle. The full circle that the old man had made +instead of the proper half-turn of a turnover. Three hundred sixty +degrees instead of one hundred eighty. Three hundred sixty degrees to +leave the nose of _The Luck_ pointing outward toward the stars, +instead of properly toward the Sun. A full circle to pile G on G until +the Jovian moons were missed, and the Uranian moons and Triton, too. +_Ad Astra per Ardua...._ + +With the last fragment of his failing sanity, Kane thought of how Pop +Ganlon and the boy must be laughing. 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