stead of the usual
pre-printed memory of a Mars vacation. And all this might have worked if
the Alice android had not been defective also. A normal android has
protective mechanisms that make accidents and subsequent discovery
impossible. But the Alice android failed, and you set out on a course to
uncover us. I had to find a way to destroy you--murder.

"I'm truly sorry. I don't know how an android thinks or feels. Sometimes
I'm afraid of all of you. You are like men, but I've seen the factories
in which you are produced. There are many things I do not know. I know
only that I had to obey the Galactic Council or Earth would have been
destroyed long ago.

"And something else I know: Alice and Mel Hastings are content and
happy. They are on a lovely world, very much like Central Valley."

He closed his eyes as he felt the life--or whatever it was--seeping out
of him. It came out right, after all, he thought.

Like a wooden soldier with a painted smile, fallen from a shelf, he lay
twisted upon the floor.

THE END

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ December 1961.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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