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Title: The Envoy, Her

Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

Release Date: June 1, 2010 [EBook #32637]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Planet Stories March 1951. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this
publication was renewed.

[Illustration: _Vyrtl weighed a pebble in his hand. "You expect to be
executed," he stated flatly._]

the envoy, _Her_

by H. B. Fyfe

_The Emperor must be getting old, they thought, to deal so
mercifully with the upstart Jursan Rebels--which was quite
true. He was not too young to dream...._

* * * * *

Despite the concentrated patrol defenses, the Emperor's space yacht
slipped down to the surface of Klo, second moon of Jursa, without
incident. Only recently, such a show of force would have drawn a
flight of torpedo rockets from the rebellious planet; but the Jursan
agitators for a scientific renaissance had at last been beaten to
their knees.

A landing tube was connected between the ship and the transparent dome
that had been constructed on this airless satellite for the
convenience of the lord of the system. Notables in military posts or
present on some other excuse gathered to greet their master.

"By Pollux!" gasped one onlooker. "Those guards must all be seven feet
tall!"

The file of magnificent soldiers, who gave the impression of being
almost entirely armor-plated, deployed on either side of the landing
tube exit. They were followed by a figure glittering enough to be an
emperor; but since he was attended by only four officials in bejeweled
scarlet the crowd recognized him for a chamberlain.

"His Illustrious Sublimity the Lord Vyrtl, Viceroy for Terra, Emperor
of Pollux, and of all it