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. Beloved, I'm not going to tell you
another word about me until you check my chop and print on the Declaration. I
can feel your disbelief... and it humiliates me."
(What do you do when your wife persists? Marriage is the greatest human
art.. .when it works.) "Sweetheart, I don't want to humiliate you. But I'm not
competent to match thumb-prints. But there is more than one way to cook a wolf.
This second wife of your son Roger: Is she still alive?"
"Very much so. Dr. Edith Stone."
"Then there is probably a record right here in Luna City of her marriage to
your son and- Is he the Roger Stone who was once mayor?"
"Yes. From 2122 to 2130. But he's not available; he left here in 2148."
"Where is he now?"
"Several light years away. Edith and Roger out-migrated, to Fiddler's
Green. None of that branch of my family is around any longer. It won't work,
dear-you're looking for someone who can identify me as Hazel Stone. Aren't you?"
"Well... yes. I thought Dr. Edith Stone would be an expert and unbiased
witness."
"Mmm,.. she still can be."
"How?"
"Blood typing, Richard."
"Look, Gwen, blood typing is a subject I've had to know something about,
because of field surgery. I saw to it that every man in my regiment was typed.
Blood typing can show who you are not; it cannot prove who you are. In a number
as small as a regiment even the rare AB negative will be matched more than once;
they run one in two hundred
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