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... well, it smelled
nasty to the public. I could say that media reporters who didn't see it happen
could not possibly understand why it happened. I could assert truthfully that
what we did was moral in context-that time, that place, those circumstances. I
could- Never mind, dear; let it stand that my band of brothers are all in
hiding. Tracing them all down could be a tediously long chore."
"But you want to talk to just one, don't you? The one who was in touch with
this Schultz."
"Yes but I don't know which one that is."
"Richard, would it be easier to backtrack Schultz to find that one than it
would be to locate six people all in hiding, some under assumed names, and
scattered all over the Solar System? Or even outside it."
I stopped to consider it. "Maybe. But how do I backtrack Schultz? Do you
have an inspiration, my love?"
"No inspiration. But I do remember that, when I arrived here in Golden
Rule, they asked me at the hub not only where I lived, and checked it against my
passport, but also where I had come from that trip-and checked that against my
visa stamps. Not just that I had come from Luna-almost everyone arrives here
from Luna-but how I got to Luna. Weren't you asked that?"
"No. But I was carrying a Luna Free State passport showing mat I was bom in
the Moon."
"I thought you were bom on Earth?"
"Gwen, Colin Campbell was bom dirtside
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