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Vigorish, by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Title: Vigorish
Author: Gordon Randall Garrett
Release Date: January 21, 2008 [EBook #24382]
Language: English
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VIGORISH
By WALTER BUPP
Illustrated by Petrizzo
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
If it "takes a thief to catch a thief" ... what does it take to catch a psi-gifted thief?
What do you hate and fear the most? I know a girl who gags and throws up at the mere sight of a bird. Poor kid, when she was a barefoot moppet she stepped on a fledgling robin in the grass. She hasn't gotten over the squish of it yet.
Birds don't trouble me. I can look at them all day. It takes snakes to give me the green shudders. I hate them.
She was getting better at them, I decided. This was the fourth one since breakfast and the roughest-looking of the lot. It was a diamondback rattler, and lay coiled on the rug at my feet. I turned my swivel chair slowly back to my desk and riveted my eyes to the blot