"Eric Frank Russell - With a Strange Device" - читать интересную книгу автора (Russell Eric Frank)

fishing somewhere quiet and peaceful and come back in due course feeling like a milliondollars. '



`I'm not interested in fishing.'



'Then what the devil ate you interested in? What do you intend to do after you've left here?'
`I want to amble around for a time, wherever the fancy takes me. I want to be free to go where I
please.'



Frowning tohimself , Laidler chipped in with, `Do you plan to leave this country?'



`Not immediately,' said Haperny.



`Your personal record shows that you have never been issued with a passport,' Laidler went on. 'I had
better warn you that you may have to face some mighty awkward questions if ever you do apply for one.
You possess information thatcouid be useful to an enemy. The government cannot afford toiguore that
fact.'



`Are you implying that I might be persuaded to sell such information?' demandedHapemy , reddening
slightly.



`Not at all - not in present circumstances,' said Laidler, evenly. `Right now your character is above
reproach. Nobody doubts your loyalty. But-'



`But what?'



`Circumstances can change. A fellow wandering aimlessly around without a job, with no source of
income, must eventually come to the end of his savings. He then experiences his first taste of poverty. His
ideas start altering. See what I mean?'



`I'll get a job sometime, somewhere, when I'm good and ready.'