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Title: The Blue Tower

Author: Evelyn E. Smith

Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23104]

Language: English

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THE

BLUE

TOWER

By EVELYN E. SMITH

_As the vastly advanced guardians
of mankind, the Belphins knew how
to make a lesson stick--but whom?_

Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy, February,
1958. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed.

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.

Ludovick Eversole sat in the golden sunshine outside his house, writing
a poem as he watched the street flow gently past him. There were very
few people on it, for he lived in a slow part of town, and those who
went in for travel generally preferred streets where the pace was
quicker.

Moreover, on a sultry spring afternoon like this one, there would be
few people wandering abroad. Most would be lying on sun-kissed white
beaches or in sun-drenched parks, or, for those who did not fancy being
either kissed or drenched by the sun, basking in the comfort of their
own air-conditioned villas.

Some would, like Ludovick, be writing poems; others composing
symphonies; still others painting pictures. Those who were without
creative talent or the inclination to indulge it would be relaxing
their well-kept golden bodies in whatever surroundings they had chosen
to spend this particular one of the perfect days that stretched in an
unbroken line before every member of the human race from the cradle to
the crematorium.

Only the Belphins were much in evidence. Only the Belphins had duties
to perform. Only the Belphins worked.

Ludovick stretched his own well-kept golden body and rejoiced in the
knowing that he was a man and not a Belphin. Immediately afterward,
he was sorry for the heartless thought. Didn't the Belphins work only
to serve humanity? How un