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Graveyard of Dreams
Henry Beam Piper
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 Graveyard of Dreams
Henry Beam Piper
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Graveyard of Dreams

By H. Beam Piper

Despite Mr. Shakespeare,
wealth and name
are both dross compared with
the theft of hope−−
and Maxwell had to rob
a whole planet of it!

Standing at the armor−glass front of the observation deck and watching the mountains rise and grow on the
horizon, Conn Maxwell gripped the metal hand−rail with painful intensity, as though trying to hold back the
airship by force. Thirty minutes−−twenty−six and a fraction of the Terran minutes he had become accustomed
to−−until he'd have to face it.

Then, realizing that he never, in his own thoughts, addressed himself as "sir," he turned.

"I beg your pardon?"

It was the first officer, wearing a Terran Federation Space Navy uniform of forty years, or about ten
regulation−changes, ago. That was the sort of thing he had taken for granted before he had gone away. Now