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Title: Police Your Planet

Author: Lester del Rey

Release Date: December 29, 2006 [EBook #20212]

Language: English

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POLICE YOUR PLANET

By ERIC VAN LHIN

SCIENCE FICTION
AVALON BOOKS
22 EAST 60TH STREET NEW YORK

Copyright, 1956, by Eric van Lhin

[Transcriber's note: This is a rule 6 clearance. A copyright
renewal could not be found.]

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 56-13313

PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA
BY THE RYERSON PRESS, TORONTO

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE COLONIAL PRESS INC., CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS

CONTENTS

I One Way Ticket

II Honest Izzy

III The Graft Is Green

IV Captain Murdoch

V Recall

VI Sealed Letter

VII Electioneering

VIII Vote Early and Often

IX Contraband

X Marriage of Convenience

XI The Sky's the Limit

XII Wife or Prisoner?

XIII Arrest Mayor Wayne!

XIV Full Circle

XV Murdoch's Mantle

XVI Get the Dome!

XVII Security Payoff

POLICE YOUR PLANET

Chapter I

ONE WAY TICKET

There were ten passengers in the little pressurized cabin of the
electric bus that shuttled between the rocket field and Marsport. Ten
men, the driver--and Bruce Gordon.

He sat apart from the others, as he had kept to himself on the ten-day
trip between Earth and Mars, with the yellow stub of his ticket still
stuck defiantly in the band of his hat, proclaiming that Earth had paid
his passage without his permission being asked. His big, lean body was
slumped slightly in the seat. There was no expression on his face.

He listened to the driver explaining to a couple of firsters that they
were actually on what appeared to be one of the mysterious canals