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one of the machines. The head flew off a fellow worker's pickax and put him in the hospital for a few
days. If it'd hit him in the head instead of the back, it would have killed him. That sort of thing. Finally he
vanished."

"Was it a planned disappearance? I mean—did he accumulate supplies for a stay in the wilderness and
take prospecting equipment with him?"

"I think he did. He had mentioned to one of the workers that he was going back to Pummery the next
morning and leave Llayless on the first ship out. He thought this was an unlucky world for him, and he
could do better starting fresh somewhere else. But that night someone broke into the commissary and
took the sort of supplies a prospector would want, and a worker saw Lefory sneaking away on a
mountain path with a pack on his back."

"Is there any other evidence that he is out there in the wilderness?"

"No. But it's the ideal place for him. No fellow workers he has to get along with, he can work whatever
hours he sets for himself, and take a day off when he wants to. All he has to do is figure out how to eat
regularly."

"And all I have to do," Dantler said, "is figure out how to catch him. A world without a government, and
without any police force, is a poor place for a manhunt."
***

Jeffrey Wallingford Pummery said with interest, "Do you mean you've abandoned your search?"
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"Right. Lefory is bound to show up sometime. I'll leave a warrant for him. You'll have to apprehend him
the moment he appears."

"Solitary prospectors who go off into the blue are usually looking for gold. They show up only at long
intervals to cash in their accumulation, and if they've been lucky, they may buy supplies that will last for
years."

"If he shows up at all, the warrant will see that he is detained for galactic police authorities."

"Have you considered the possibility that he might live the rest of his life out without being seen again?"
Pummery asked. "He might be able to cash in his gold without being seen if he has a confederate. Are
you still intent on changing the status of this world to 'Nullified?' "

"I am."

"We'll contest the petition, of course. And we'll win."

"How can you possibly win? There is no doubt at all that organizations on Llayless harbored a murderer.
Not only did they fail to punish him, but they helped him avoid punishment."

Pummery smiled. "I told you when you arrived—an Unnullified world, a world without government, can