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Line to Tomorrow by Henry Kuttner "Acknowledging. The initial steps have been accomplished. I am now fitted satisfactorily into the basic sociological pattern." "Good. The contact is established. From time to time directions and guidance will be issued, Korys-" The telephone rang. Fletcher kept his eyes shut and pretended not to hear it. He tried to recapture a rather pleasant dream, but the insistent shrilling would not stop. His time-sense was sufficiently warped by half-sleep so that the intervals between the rings seemed to stretch pleasantly into interminable minutes. Then tr-r-r-ranggg! Finally he slid out of bed, fumbled his way across the room and, after a brief altercation with the door, located the telephone. He picked it up and muttered an inarticulate something. "Korys," a voice said. "Is that you?" "Wrong number," Fletcher growled, but before he could replace the receiver, the voice went on. "Good. For a while I couldn't make contact. There was a temporal storm-at least, we think that was it-though it might have been the creebs shifting. You know how difficult it is to maintain a circuit like this-what took you so long to answer? There was |
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