_Buzz-buzz! Buzz-buzz-buzzzzzz!_

It was an instrument of some kind. He recognized it as the device that
he had seen the dead being speak into while he, himself, had been
watching from the concealment of the undergrowth, trying to decide
whether or not to approach. The device was obviously a communicator of
some kind, and someone at the other end was trying to make contact.

If it were not answered, whoever was calling would certainly deduce that
something had gone wrong at this end. And, of course, there was no way
for it to be answered.

It would be necessary, then, to leave the body here for others of its
kind to find. Doubtless they would dispose of it properly.

He would have to leave quickly. It was necessary that he find one of
their centers of production or supply, and he would have to do it alone,
with only the equipment he had on him. The utter destruction of his ship
had left him seriously hampered.

He began moving, staying in the protection of the trees. He had no way
of knowing whether investigators would come by air or on the
slave-animals, and there was no point in taking chances.

His sense of ethics still bothered him. It was not at all civilized to
leave a body at the mercy of lesser animals or monocells in that
fashion. What kind of monster would they think he was?

Still, there was no help for it. If they caught him, they might think
him a lower animal and shoot him. He would not have put an onus like
that upon them.

He moved on.

_[4]_

Government City was something of a paradox. It was the largest capital
city, in terms of population, that had ever been built on Earth, and
yet, again in terms of population, it was nowhere near as large as Tokyo
or London. The solution to the paradox lies in discovering that the term
"population" is used in two different senses, thus exposing the logical
fallacy of the undistributed middle. If, in referring to London or
Tokyo, the term "population" is restricted to those and only those who
are actively engaged in the various phases of actual government--as it
is when referring to Government City--the apparent paradox resolves
itself.

Built on the slagged-down remains of New York's Manhattan Island, which
had been destroyed by a sun bomb during the Holocaust nearly a century
before, Government City occupied all but the upper three miles of the
island, and the population consisted almost entirely of men and women
engaged, either directly o