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Faithfully Yours, by Lou Tabakow
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Title: Faithfully Yours
Author: Lou Tabakow
Release Date: February 10, 2008 [EBook #24566]
Language: English
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FAITHFULLY YOURS
BY LOU TABAKOW
Illustrated by Emsh
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note | | | | This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction | | December 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any | | evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was | | renewed. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
If it's too impossibly difficult to track down and recapture an escaped criminal ... there's a worse thing one might do....
[Illustration]
JULY 18, 1949 A.D.
The fugitive lay face down in the fetid undergrowth, drawing in spasmodic lungfuls of air through cracked and swollen lips. Long before, his blue workshirt had been ripped to ribbons and his exposed chest showed a spiderwork of scratches, where branches and brambles had sought to restrain him in his frenzied flight. Across his back from shoulder to shoulder ran a deeper cut around which