HIGHWAYS IN HIDING
GEORGE O. SMITH
Copyright 1956 by George O. Smith
Highways in Hiding is based upon material originally copyrighted by Greenleaf Publishing Co., 1955.
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 56-10457
Printed in the U.S.A.
Cover painting by Roy G. Krenkel
A LANCER BOOK, 1967
LANCER BOOKS, INC., 185 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016
[Transcriber's note: This is a rule 6 clearance. PG has not been able to find a U.S. copyright renewal.]
For my drinking uncle
DON
and, of course
MARIAN
CONTENTS
Historical Note
STALEMATE
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Historical Note
In the founding days of Rhine Institute the need arose for a newpunctuation mark which would indicate on the printed page that thepassage was of mental origin, just as the familiar quotation marksindicate that the words between them were of verbal origin. Accordingly,the symbol # was chosen, primarily because it appears on everytypewriter.
Up to the present time, the use of the symbol # to indicate directedmental communication has been restricted to technical papers, termtheses, and scholarly treatises by professors, scholars, and students oftelepathy.
Here, for the first time in any popular work, the symbol # is used tosignify that the passage between the marks was mental communication.
Steve Cornell, M. Ing.
STALEMATE
Macklin said, "Please put that weapon down, Mr. Cornell. Let's not addattempted murder to your other crimes."
"Don't force me to it, then," I told him.
But I knew I couldn't do it. I hated them all. I wanted the wholeHighways in Hiding rolled up like an old discarded carpet, with everyMekstrom on Earth rolled up in it. But I couldn't pull the trigger. Thesurvivors would have enough savvy to clean up the mess before our bodiesgot cold, and the Highways crowd would be doing business at the same oldstand. Without, I might add