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By Earthlight - Bryce Walton
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Title: By Earthlight
Author: Bryce Walton
Release Date: October 6, 2010 [EBook #33842]
Language: English
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This etext was produced Science Fiction Stories 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
We all have to die sometime, but it's more the manner of
our going, and the reason why we must die when we do that's the rub.
By Earthlight
by BRYCE WALTON
he rocket skin was like a dun-colored wall in the dim light under the hill. Three anonymous men who were beyond suspicion, who had worked on the rocket, were taking Barlow up in the elevator, up along the rocket's curving walls.
Earlier, scores of men had climbed up many ladders to various platforms where doors opened into the rocket's compartments for the insertion and repair of the many highly-specialized instruments.
It was still—so damn still here!
Some guards were way down below somewhere in the shadows, but they didn't notice anything. The three men were regular workers and there were last minute things to be done. It all looked quite logical.
Over in the blockhouse, some of America's most important political and military figures were sitting over instruments and charts, waiting, discussing.
One of the three men was talking, explaining things to Barlow about the rocket, about the pressure-suit he was to wear. Barlow listened and got it all straight. Barlow was helped into the suit. It weighed 700 pounds, and after they had encased him in it—all but the huge helmet-plate—he lay there absolutely helpless, on a dolly, waiting to be rolled into the rocket's compartment.
The anonymous faces he'd