Jack McDevitt - Deuteronomy

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JACK McDEVITT

CRUISING THROUGH DEUTERONOMY

The banging sounded like distant thunder.

Cardwell was slow to move, had in fact been sitting in the dying firelight,

allowing the storm to carry away his gloomy mood. Kick padded barefoot from

the

kitchen through the hallway and opened the front door. The wind blew louder.

There were whispers in the hall, and an authoritarian voice that he did not

recognize. Rick appeared. "Dad," he said. "You have a visitor."

A tall, severe figure followed the boy into the room. Cardwell saw at once

that

he was a clergyman, one of those advanced types that affect plaid jackets. He

was quite tall, with intense dark eyes contrasted against a bland smile. He

shook rain off his hat and coat, and held them out for Rick. "Dr. Cardwell?"

asked, coming forward.

Cardwell heaved himself out of his chair. "You have the advantage of me, sir."

"I'm Pastor Gant." His glance swept the room, and registered diffident

approval.

"From the Good Shepherd Church over in Bridgeton." He said it as if it

explained

his visit.

Cardwell debated whether he could leave him standing. But his breeding got the

better of him, and he indicated a chair. "What can I do for you, Pastor?"

"I'll come right to the point if you don't mind." He sat down and held his

hands

out to the fire.

"Yes. Good. Can I offer you a brandy?"

He waved the idea away with a choreographed gesture. His fingers were long and

graceful. "No, thank you. I'm not opposed to drink on principle, you

understand.

But I prefer to abstain."

Rick, whose boredom with Cardwell's inner circle was usually painfully

obvious,

took a chair where he could watch.

Pastor Gant reached into his pocket, and took out precisely what Cardwell had

expected: the clipping from last Tuesday's News. He held it toward the

firelight, and looked at it as though it were vaguely loathesome. "Is there

actually anything to this?" he asked.

"The Displacer?"

"The time machine."

"The story is correct in its essentials."

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