The Statue. Wolf Mari
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Название: The Statue
Автор: Wolf Mari
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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"Lewis…"
I turned at the head of the stairs and looked back into the room.
"Don't get up, Martha," I said. "I'm going into town."
"All right, Lewis."
She relaxed, and a minute later she was asleep again. I tiptoed downstairs and out the front door to where the trike car was parked, and started for the village a mile to the west.
It was desert all the way. Dry, fine red sand that swirled upward in choking clouds, if you stepped off the pavement into it. The narrow road cut straight through it, linking the outlying district farms to the town. The farms themselves were planted in the desert. Small, glassed-in houses and barns, and large greenhouses roofed with even more glass, that sheltered the Earth plants and gave them Earth air to breathe.
When I came to the second farmhouse John Emery hurried out to meet me.
"Morning, Lewis," he said. "Going to town?"
I shut off the motor and nodded. "I want to catch the early shuttle plane to the spaceport," I said. "I'm going to the city to buy some things…"
I had to lie about it. I didn't want anyone to know we were even thinking of leaving, at least not until we had our tickets in our hands.
"Oh," Emery said. "That's right. I suppose you'll be buying Martha an anniversary present."
I stared at him blankly. I couldn't think what anniversary he meant.
"You'll have been here thirty-five years next week," he said. "That's a long time, Lewis…"
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