code. But enlarged pictures of the individuals,
separated from the total, disporting themselves in lewd, naked positions
would do the job.

Clearly the police must put a stop to this. He would have every
organization in the universe dedicated to dictating the morals of others
on his side. No politician would have the guts to stand up in
opposition.

There remained only one thing to do. Go out and get that Junior E, place
him under arrest, bring him back for trial. Perhaps it might be wise to
let the colonists off easy--he could easily show that it was the
influence of the Junior which had made a disgusting orgy develop there
on Eden. Never mind that they were naked before the Junior arrived. The
public could always be razzle-dazzled about the nature of the evidence,
its order and meaning. It was an old police, prosecution, and political
trick to separate a few items from the total context, but still a good
one; for the public never bothered to know the whole context of
anything. An old trick to fasten on phrases and slogans to fix an
attitude in the public mind, for a phrase or slogan was about all the
public was able to master. Anyone who had ever served on a jury,
observed its deliberations, knew that out of all the welter of evidence,
only certain isolated statements or facts, often minor and
insignificant, penetrated the juror's mind, and around these bits he
formed his conclusions. Any smart lawyer knew that, and tried to set up
his case accordingly.

His own course was clear.

His orders to the selected captain of his police ship were equally
clear:

_1. Proceed at once to Eden, the scene of the crime._

_2. Ignore any protests from the E ship already out there, or any
other ship E.H.Q. might have sent._

_3. Ignore any signals from the Junior E on the planet._

_4. Land on the planet at the site of Appletree, the main site of
the lewd and obscene crime._

_5. Place Junior E Calvin Gray under arrest._

_6. Place the crew of the Junior E's ship, Thomas Lynwood, Franklin
Norton, Louis LeBeau, under arrest._

_7. Place any colonist who opposed the police under arrest._

_8. Place the remainder of the colonists in detention under
protective custody._

_9. Place E McGinnis under arrest if he interfered in any way with
the police in carrying out the foregoing orders._

The police captain raised his eyebrows when he read the fin