EMPIRE-15

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Greg Manning swiveled his chair. "Well, Russ, we're ready to begin. Let's get Wrail first." Russ nodded silently, his mind still half full of fleeting thought. Absent-mindedly he knocked out his pipe and pocketed it, swung around to the manual of the televisor. His fingers reached out and tapped a pattern. Callisto appeared within the screen, leaped upward at them. Then the surface of the frozen little world seemed to rotate swiftly and a dome appeared. The televisor dived through the dome, sped through the city, straight for a penthouse apartment. Ben Wrail sat slumped in a chair. A newspaper was crumpled at his feet. In his lap lay a mangled dead cigar. "Greg!" yelled Russ. "Greg, there's something wrong!" Greg leaped forward, stared at the screen. Russ heard his smothered cry of r

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