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y, they survive. They learn in special schools--" "How do you know?" Bassett demanded. "Maybe it's all a lot of motivationalist propaganda." "We have seen them on the telescreens, no?" "They could be faking the whole thing." "But Leffingwell, he has offered the shots to other governments beside our own. The whole world will adopt them--" "What if some countries don't? What if our kids become midgets and the Asiatics refuse the inoculations?" "They won't. They need room even more than we do." "No sense arguing," Emil Grizek concluded. "It's the law. You know that. And if you don't like it, join the Naturalists." He chuckled. "But better hurry. Something tells me there won't be any Naturalists around after a couple of years. Now that there's a Leff Law, the government isn't likely to stand for too much criticism." He turned to Harry. "What do you think?" he asked. Harry shrugged. "No comment," he said. But the next day he went to Grizek and demanded his pay in full. "Leaving?" Grizek muttered. "I don't understand. You've been with us almost five years. Where you going, what you intend to do? What's got into you all of a sudden?" "Time for a change," Harry told him. "I've been saving my money." "Don't I know it? Never touched a penny in all this time." Grizek ran a hand across his chin. "Say, if it's a raise you're looking for, I can--" "No, thanks. It's not that. I've money enough." "So you have. Around eighteen, twenty thousand, I reckon, what with the bonuses." Emil Grizek sighed. "Well, if you insist, that's the way it's got to be, I suppose. When you plan on taking off?" "Just as soon as there's a 'copter available." "Got one going up to Colorado Springs tomorrow morning for the mail. I can get you aboard, give you a check--" "I'll want my money in cash." "Well, now, that isn't so easy. Have to send up for a special draft. Take a week or so." "I can wait." "All right. And think it over. Maybe you'll decide to change your mind." But Harry didn't change his mind. And ten days later he rode a 'copter into town, his money-belt strapped beneath his safety-belt. From Colorado Springs he jetted to Kancity, and from Kancity to Memphisee. As long as he had money, nobody asked any questions. He holed up in cheap airtels and waited for developments. It wasn't easy to accustom himself to urbanization again. He had been away from cities for over seven years now, and it might we
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