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Title: Be It Ever Thus

Author: Robert Moore Williams

Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29240]

Language: English

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_Men have fought and died for life and liberty since the beginning
of time, and they will continue the fight until time finally comes
to an end. Here is a thoroughly readable story about just such a
situation--a story which could well be a forecast of the chilling
future of your children and ours._

be
it
ever
thus

_by ... Robert Moore Williams_

The planet's natives were so similar to their conquerors that no
one could tell them apart--except for their difference in thinking.

This was Graduation Day. The senior class from the Star Institute of
Advanced Science was scheduled to go through the Museum of the Conquered
and observe the remnants of the race that had once ruled this planet.
There were many such museums maintained for the purpose of allowing the
people to see the greatness their ancestors had displayed in conquering
this world and also to demonstrate how thorough and how complete that
conquest had been. Perhaps the museums had other reasons for existing,
but the authorities did not reveal these reasons. Visiting such a museum
was part of the exercises of every graduating class.

Billy Kasker arrived early, to take care of all last minute problems for
Mr. Phipper, the instructor who would take the group through the museum,
and to make certain that all of the members of the graduating class knew
what they were supposed to do on the trip. Billy Kasker was class
president. A handsome, husky youth, accommodating, generous, and
thoughtful to a fault. He was well liked both by the faculty and the
students. He was pleasant to everybody, even to Joe Buckner, who called
him "teacher's pet" and sneeringly remarked that he had been elected
class president as a result of a superb job of boot-licking.

Even