"Lousy fake!" he shouted. 

 Caswell went into the kitchen and opened a bottle of beer. His revolver was still on the table, gleaming dully. 

 Magnessen! You unspeakable treacherous filth! You fiend incarnate! You inhuman, hideous monster! Someone must destroy you, Magnessen! Someone.... 

 Someone? He himself would have to do it. Only he knew the bottomless depths of Magnessen's depravity, his viciousness, his disgusting lust for power. 

 Yes, it was his duty, Caswell thought. But strangely, the knowledge brought him no pleasure. 

 After all, Magnessen was his friend. 

 He stood up, ready for action. He tucked the revolver into his right-hand coat pocket and glanced at the kitchen clock. Nearly six-thirty. Magnessen would be home now, gulping his dinner, grinning over his plans. 

 This was the perfect time to take him. 

 Caswell strode to the door, opened it, started through, and stopped. 

 A thought had crossed his mind, a thought so tremendously involved, so meaningful, so far-reaching in its implications that he was stirred to his depths. Caswell tried desperately to shake off the knowledge it brought. But the thought, permanently etched upon his memory, would not depart. 

 Under the circumstances, he could do only one thing. 

 He returned to the living room, sat down on the couch and slipped on the headband. 

 The Regenerator said, "Yes?" 

 "It's the damnedest thing," Caswell said, "but do you know, I think I do remember my goricae!" 

 

 

 John Rath contacted the New York Rapid Transit Corporation by televideo and was put into immediate contact with Mr. Bemis, a plump, tanned man with watchful eyes. 

 "Alcoholism?" Mr. Bemis repeated, after the problem was explained. Unobtrusively, he turned on his tape recorder. "Among our employees?" Pressing a button beneath his foot, Bemis alerted Transit Security, Publicity, Intercompany Relations, and the Psychoanalysis Division. This done, 

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