The Loo Sanction [antikvár]

st. The n His pain was vast But at least it was finite. Sharpedged waves of agony climaxed in intensity until his body convulsed and his mind was awash. Then, just before madness, the crests broke and swirled over his limen of consciousness, and he escaped into oblivion. But always he emerged again from the delirium, cold and perspiring, weaker than before, and more frightened. A crisp wind fluted through the arches of the belfry in which he was prisoner and drove his tears horizontally back to his temples. During troughs of awareness between crises of pain, his mind cleared, and he was bewildered by his reactions to impending death. Matthew Parnell-Greene ("Uranus" in the planet-code of the counterespionage agency that employed him) had always known that violent death was a very real alternative to retirement in his line of work. He was not physicaliy brave-his imagination was too active for that-so he had sought to 7