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BAD MEMORY
BY PATRICK FAHY
illustrated by MARTIN
Channing wanted a planet. Had they sold him a pup?
Ex-vector Commander Jim Channing strode purposefully to the reception desk of Planet Enterprises, Inc.
"I want," he told the well-built blonde who was making an interested survey of his lean features, "to buy a planet."
"Yes, sir." Her interest evaporated. She took a card from a filing cabinet and handed it to him. "If you will just fill this out."
It was a simple questionnaire--type, location, size--and Channing's stylo moved rapidly over it. He hesitated only at the last, stark question, "How much are you prepared to pay?" Then he wrote neatly in the space provided "One hundred thousand credits." That was exactly the amount of his signing-off bonus. It also represented his total finances. The unimaginative minds that calculated the pay of a red-blooded space officer didn't take into account all the attractive ways of spending it that a rumbustious pioneer Vector provided.
He gave the blonde the card and she wrote a name on it. The smile she gave him was altogether impersonal. She liked the look of the big, gangling fellow with "Space" written all over his bronzed face and crinkled blue eyes, but....
She said, "Will you come this way, please?"
The name on the desk identified him as "Mr. Folan" and he was a tall, affable man.
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