John Rackham (24 page)

"You did that very well," he said.
"I have never seen Earl Dudley so meek. Is that one jewel worth so
much?"

"And more.
And Dudley knows it. You did your part very well, Silvana. You
impressed
me.
You completely destroyed
Dudley." She smiled and bowed.

"But what of me?"
Edwina spoke up in bewilderment

and
dismay. "I do not understand. What has
happened?" She looked at Haldar. "What am I, now?"

Haldar
went close, took her hand. "I had to pretend, just a little. Dudley thinks
that you are to remain here as my servant and housekeeper. Of course that is
not so. Between us, this will always be your home, and I your guest
...
until, perhaps, you can bring yourself
to see me as something a little more enduring than that7
Some
day?"

The
scarlet in her cheeks betrayed the fact that she understood his meaning
perfectly, but she did not snatch her hand away, nor look offended.

Silvana
whispered mischievously, "I think you are soon to have a new father, Jack.
What do you say to that?"

"I
could not wish better. Unless it can be that my mother will soon have a new
daughter, with blue eyes and jewels in her hair!"

"And they lived happily ever after. Oh,
Jack! I'm home.
At last!"

"And
the food grows cold!" Jasar remarked, coming up with mock grimness.
"At least let me have a good meal before I leave you. And name the first
of the children for me
...
I'd like
that!"

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THE
TAKING
OF
HILAX
FOUR

Behind every folktale there is a true story and behind every legend a
lost fact of history, distorted by word of mouth of people who did not
understand what was really happening. In the case of the infiltration of the
highly strategic space station upon which the battle between the Salviar
Federation and the Hilax Combine pivoted, the account of Earth's role in the
affair has become greatly distorted. Because that was eight hundred years ago
and the men of Olde England never even knew the world was round,

let
alone that it was a planet. Earth still doesn't
know which side we were on and because we are out on a far limb of Galactic
Sector
Seven
they haven't contacted us yet. But our
very position in the Milky Way just that once made our little planet strategic
-and when Salviar's scout Jasar-am-Bax had to enlist the aid of a clever young
yeoman to launch his kamikaze attack the result became legend.

But it took John Rackham to uncover the real story behind the event.
It's all in BEANSTALK-it just depends on how you look at it.

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