re living it. in various stages of growth. and on to extinction.

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 Jonathan. ??Don??t worry about the work. Why prolong it? The price is too high for adding a year or two. Selnick had been one of the group. He had always thought of him as a fairly large man. ??Not yet.??The storm was over. Jeremy Streit brought his hardware merchandise in four truckloads. Others formed a scouting party. But C-3 had been different. My symptoms all involve the circulatory system. ??You are not a separate species.At the arrival of W-l. In case he needs something. and she smiled.?? He stopped and listened. who had been dead for fifteen years. purple martins.?? She put his hand over the pad. David. the babies were W-l. stopping often. That??s where they took us when we got sick. Eighteen Fours. ??Might start a class in delivery procedures.??Who are those people down there?????Squatters. then close the door. just wait until winter! Now where is the cave???They took him to the cave entrance.?? he said.

 waiting for Celia??s arrival.?? He stopped and listened. Deep in one of the smaller passages flowed a river that was black and soundless.Celia??s eyes questioned David. after all. Walt said. Grandfather Sumner died in November. that she didn??t move for a moment. Molly gasped when she looked through the open doors at the other side of the auditorium: the path to the river had been decorated with tallow torches and arches of pine boughs.The Jeremy brothers had worked out an intricate dance. Spring water. I saw Miami. ??They have no secrets from each other. by a trick of the haze-filtered light. you asshole! You think I??m going to let all this work. There was the dissection room.??Will you take Margaret home and put her to bed??? David asked. The scene looked pretty. Walt wants you.?? he said.??But there are only seventeen Fives. David. endless blue by day. in a tremulous voice that betrayed disbelief. He would pause briefly in the doorway.??David didn??t know either.?? Vlasic said. Three today. or were last month.

 Familiar and alien. ??Thirty more dead people.??David leaned forward and unconsciously lowered his voice. They weren??t certain yet. those genes are the only thing that stand between us and oblivion. by presidential decree. except where the rains had washed the dirt away and left only rocks. distantly. and there. smiling slightly. Cheap. Then the Miriam sisters rushed off in a group to the tables and consulted and disagreed on what to choose and finally ended up with plates filled with identical tidbits: lamb kebobs and sausage-filled pastries. but.??The Wistons were farmers. ??We keep them here at all times. ??The corn crop has failed. isn??t it??? He watched her and slowly she nodded. and there??s a lot of family these days. Practically no one. Selnick had been one of the group. David.With the failure of radio and television communication. not tropical. Go on home now.A July haze hung over the valley. We??re rushing it like there??s no tomorrow. Still. Grandfather Wiston had always alternated wheat and alfalfa and soybeans in that field. people were working.

????But I haven??t even finished my thesis yet. bright and glistening with a vinegar sauce. childlike. her nose was too big.Walt stared at him in disbelief. after scanning the two pages. ??The corn crop has failed. He waved at them and went off to his bed. He tried to rise. formed a new department with cabinet status: the Bureau of Information. and didn??t move again for a long time. Grotesque shadows made the hallway strange.?? she said tightly. Just because the higher organisms evolved to it doesn??t mean it??s the best.?? The large farmhouse with glowing windows. It was his mother. We??re afraid our supplies of chemicals will run out. tiny steaming biscuits. He sipped his martini. Japan passed trade restrictions that made further United States trade with her impossible. I??m tired. if he died. Never again. defeated. Six months too late. There were calves in the field.??David didn??t know whether he was sorry or glad that he had told Walt.?? he said. Celia.

 The winters were getting colder. Lucy had fussed over him. ??And thank God for that. .?? Turning away from David. the one he had been wearing. Six cots lined the walls; they were narrow. ??Have you got around that??? He wanted to end this conversation. He had thought of that. One night as they walked side by side back to their rooms. because as children they had been as close as brother and sister. We went to Colombia. all this planning.The two oldest Ds headed for the laboratory after class.Margaret met him in the lobby. When he did return at Thanksgiving. he couldn??t tell. he wheeled about. and David??s father. David gave that up. ??It??s really good-bye this time. not seeing any of the elders who moved out of his way. He made a dash for the door. I can??t help it. Grandfather Sumner made an announcement. seeing them. ??And Mother. and he stumbled and fell forward as the lights went out.?? he said.

 They do cling to their own kind. I think you know it. David and Celia. their chins.??They might organize. No one spoke as Sarah methodically started to clean up the emergency-room equipment. calling as he went.??There??s more drought and more flooding than there??s ever been. Cautiously. It isn??t fair. That??ll be morning. incessantly??the first really classless society.?? He started to write then. Within the tanks. Harry Vlasic arrived at the farm. away from the nursery. waiting for her to release his arm. and you know it. Uncle Ron would clump up the stairs heavily and there would be a scurrying.??I can. but he was seeing it from a new position and it was not the wonderland it had been. And the priority boards that squabbled and fought and campaigned for this cause or that. now standing and applauding wildly. had to take strict measures to avert it. David learned for the first time that he and Walt were the sole beneficiaries of a much larger estate than he had dreamed of.?? he said. ??You think I??m going to let you sit up here and die? Not today. ??This needs stitches. He sat down on a log and tried to imagine what they must think of the pregnant girls.

 He watched them with no feeling of desire; no hatred moved him; no love. after the feast. higher than a man??s head. you ready to count chicks?????One second.????We should blow up the dam. hah.?? Martha said.By the third day the water had started to invade the cornfield.?? Grandfather Sumner said brusquely. The ridges were hazy and had no sharp edges anywhere. support his opposition. And D-4. drinking hot black coffee. Soundlessly he ran toward the control room. and still smiling easily. I??ll talk to Semple; I??ve met him a few times. The famines are here and they??ve been here for three. Celia. . intelligently.??David opened his eyes and met Vlasic's gaze. The government had to admit the seriousness of the coming catastrophe.??We have to know. or hadn??t read. Wheat rust. and next year we??ll stop them altogether. The older children were supposed to keep an eye on the younger ones. His voice became more caustic.??David returned to school and his thesis and the donkey work that Selnick gave him to do.

?? Miriam said. A Walt with something missing. They accepted being mated as casually as the cattle did. They worked interchangeably. It finally was easier to keep their temperatures right by keeping us too warm. When he looked at her he saw Celia. posted for seven. junk the cars.?? he said.??Lucy stood up. perhaps larger. I can stay on the back roads with Mike. or a man who could impregnate her if she was able to bear. We need nurses. ??Did I do much damage?????Very little. They were watching him quietly. As soon as we??re ready we begin getting them out. It was a clutter of books. They didn??t give Wanda any chance at all. Celia was working longer hours now. the trees waited. with the rice paddies of Cambodia and Vietnam. David??s father brought all that he could from his department store. who. and we just don??t let it go out for more than six hours. There was Clarence. David. On New Year??s Day. .

 but hesitated. and after that there was no further talk of destroying the inhuman monstrosities. was all the same distant past. Dorothy. Jonathan. He was in his office. W-l. Everyone thinks it??s propaganda. I shouldn??t have followed you up here. the farms in it large and lush.??But there are only seventeen Fives. as she was and would be. They gave Aunt Hilda and Uncle Eddie a choice. Let the damn embryos do their thing without him. . over the cave. don??t we???They walked through the empty hospital.?? She pressed the stethoscope against Clarence??s chest. I??ll tell them. Celia stared without moving for several moments. his hand on David??s shoulder. but he was not hungry. The river was crystal clear. that I have to do something. And the estate was in cash.?? David said wearily. Walt.??You might have to deliver those babies come spring.?? David said suddenly.

 and she nodded.David followed him to the emergency room and watched his deft hands as he felt Clarence??s body. who nodded. ??We have to keep it pretty warm in here. and the other outbuildings??swept away by the flood they had started so long ago. and for a moment Molly felt a stab of something she could not identify. although he had not admitted it even to himself then.??David let his hand fall and watched the young man who might have been himself go to the food servers and start putting dishes on his tray. As soon as they stepped through the doorway. something uniquely hers.??David started to climb.??David opened his eyes and met Vlasic's gaze. unable to rent a car. and then again. and they were all sterile. its lymph glands lumpy. He had missed dinner. even when totally preoccupied with his own work. He looked tired. calling as he went. not tropical. I??m committed to going in two days. I know Vlasic stopped last year. . without preliminary. But they won??t.??There was a long silence then. and when the world goes into a tailspin we??ll be alive and when it starves we??ll be eating. And Miriam would have been somewhere else.

 a1.?? David said. frowning in concentration over a problem that he wouldn??t put on paper until he had a solution to add. but he couldn??t help regarding Clarence as an outsider. and none of them had permitted himself to call the others by what they were? Clones! he said to himself vehemently.?? The next morning Walt was found to have died in his sleep.??I know. His voice became more caustic. The Miriam sisters were inventive and artistic. four years already.????You know you can??t leave now. They go in and burn off the trees and underbrush. I??ll tell them. ??Harry tells me they have devised a new immersion suspension system that doesn??t require the artificial placentas. ??God didn??t mean for this piece of ground to have to bear year after year after year.?? She shivered violently. I love you. tell them what to do.They worked and slept in the lab. and this was Melissa??s newest creation. not Walt??s. but now you must accept it. ??It??s twenty-six weeks.?? David said sharply. I??m going to bring one of them out. She was one year younger than David. don??t you? People are starving in South America. ??He??s resting. and she turned with a flourish.

 Let their bright young students come to you. in the lower reaches. and then he went to Walt??s room. because he had not yet moved from the door.What David always hated most about the Sumner family dinners was the way everyone talked about him as if he were not there. You??re going to be pretty sore for a while.?? Walt said. The offices and hallway formed a mezzanine overlooking the dimly lighted well. but today I need you.As they turned onto the broader path that led to the auditorium steps. concentrating on it. He said. My symptoms all involve the circulatory system. exhausted. and inside she was so warm and alive; her body rose to meet his and her breasts seemed to lift. But C-3 had been different.?? Warren said in a heavy voice. which was inching higher and higher toward the north field and the vulnerable corn there. and the ability to do so is there. David??s father owned a large department store that catered to the upper-middle-class clientele of the valley. ??He had to discontinue his work last year??no funds.?? David said. That was a mile from the farm. through the smaller passages and finally into the lab office. No more secrets. David. we??d support him. I think. or more often in a mixture of sorghum and butter that he stirred together on his plate until it looked like baby shit.

 his students were sent packing. Celia said in a faint voice. Clone-five strain had gross abnormalities. too. Japan and China signed a mutual aid treaty. somehow. when I was twelve.????I didn??t get any letters. No sign of Celia. they know.??David nodded. distantly. I think you know it. wrong. just surprise again. there was no way for the government to cope with the rising panic. Before he joined the other two boys who left first. and you have one or two in there. The winters were getting colder. a million! Tomorrow they leave as our brothers and our sister and in one month they will return our teachers! Jed! Ben! Harvey! Thomas! Lewis! Molly! Come forward and let us toast you and the most priceless gift you will bring to us. but fell onto the bed without bothering to take off his shoes. The ones nearest to the door would hold their breath. David went to work in a makeshift laboratory trying to replicate Frerrer??s and Semple??s tests. Three of the women were pregnant finally. At the end of this passage was the animal experiment room.??I knew you??d come here. raced down the valley. It didn't matter. to the coast.

 Forty-one then. And then they came one night. His birthday was in September and he didn??t go home for it. and when he was sixteen they wrestled from the back door of the Winston farmhouse to the fence. and he was bleeding from her fingernails down his back. Then the Miriam sisters rushed off in a group to the tables and consulted and disagreed on what to choose and finally ended up with plates filled with identical tidbits: lamb kebobs and sausage-filled pastries. ??I??m giving the land. None survived. and now she slowly turned and stripped off the gloves that she had put on in preparing to stitch up Clarence??s wound.??The Wistons were farmers.??By the end of summer two of the Four-strain girls were pregnant.?? he said. ??We have a man who??s probably dying. and he realized that the sun had set long ago and the lanterns had been lighted below. copper. the floor was smooth. A wall of water. and that of every other nation on earth.Her eyes were open. He knew he didn??t want to enter because D-l or D-2 would be there working. not six months from now.??The storm was over. ??We don??t have the time or the facilities to do any research like that. and in the next week May lost her child. like a sentimental card titled ??Rural Life. who looked pained. but fell onto the bed without bothering to take off his shoes. willing the memory to fade away again. and he felt his face tightening.

Most of the women wore white tunics with gaudy sashes. Behind H-3 the swinging door opened and W-1 came out. He turned toward the door. On the other side of the room a door opened and Walt came in. aluminum. . and Molly and her sisters swept out to the floor. He closed the window. He pulled his thoughts back when he realized that they were finishing already. His head was still bandaged.?? Walt stood up and put his arm about David??s shoulders. then shrugged. He could feel her tears as they fell onto his cheek. Soybean blight. almost in desperation. Vernon??s brother had been killed in the accident. disease.Clarence was studying his eggnog with a sour expression. was so like Walt??s that David felt a thrill of something that might have been fear or more likely. No fields had been worked yet. are efficient enough. Margaret??s four-year-old son had been one of the first to die of the plague.????Where the hell is W-one or W-two?????With their own.It was misty and very cool under the trees.??David shook his head. Then he realized that it was growing corn. and that of every other nation on earth. ??Don??t worry about it. and her attempts to keep her eyes open.

 still in surgical gown and mask. It??s the third generation that is the turning point then???David shrugged. leaving the towns and villages and cities scattered throughout the valley to take up residence in the hospital and staff buildings. leaving the cart behind.??They??re inhuman. At ten Walt took his place on the table again and called out. And he found that he was climbing the slope to the antique forest that his grandfather had taken him to once. he had had a fantasy in which Celia-3 had come to him shyly and asked that he take her. It was downhill all the way with each sexually reproduced generation. They weren??t certain yet. themselves. ??And Mother.David didn??t read the letter until his mother had left the cafeteria. The river was crystal clear. more fortunate than most. On the mat they caressed and delighted her until she floated away from them entirely. stopped once midway. Just before they made us leave Brazil. Blackberries and gunpowder. ??Where is she now??? He listened to the rustle of cheap paper and when it seemed that his mother was not going to answer him. no one??s telling us about it. . Not many survived it. Just like always.??David let his hand fall and watched the young man who might have been himself go to the food servers and start putting dishes on his tray. and he could hear them running up the stairs. He felt like hell.?? The weakness in his legs seemed to be climbing; his hands began to tremble. or his hands refused to obey his directions.

??She finally drew away and started back down the slope. ??Senator Burke has graciously arranged to get federal funds. The smell that permeated their hair and clothes lasted on their hands for days and days. came to rest against the giant oak tree that was. David. but she didn??t protest. the greenery and the thick. all this planning. and the color and smell were one of the indelible images of his childhood. paused and glanced back. looking at the bleak landscape.??David shook his head in disbelief. correspondence. and Vernon thought he was living in the lab. No child younger than eight or nine. He had volunteered for everything.The bloodless births started at five forty-five. He pushed the thought aside angrily. staring out at the black night. Grandmother and Grandfather Wiston died last year. Of all his relatives his favorite was his father??s brother Walt. except for a few ne??er-do-wells. but do exceptionally well. you know. Walt was the reason David had decided very early to become a scientist. . They vanished into the barn and he looked up over the farm. and with the valley flooded and the road and bridges gone. and it too was blue and silver.

 I??ll talk to Semple; I??ve met him a few times. ??David.??They??re inhuman. The ground floor was filled with machinery. ??They want to take the easy way out. God knows where all of it??s coming from.?? he said gravely. then relaxed again. David. What are you talking about???Grandfather Sumner let out his breath explosively. I signed a contract. certainly not human-looking. trimmed of all excess with only the essentials needed to carry on the fight remaining.??Lucy stood up.??I know the signs. At the same moment he felt a crushing pain against his shoulders. and by far the prettiest of all his cousins. they knew they were safe from attack. but the barn was gone.??In spite of himself David made rapid calculations.?? Avery said.??She turned her head. and you have one or two in there. go up in one irrational act! You think I won??t kill anyone who tries to stop it now!?? Walt had jumped up with his outburst. and then dismissed it as one of the things they could not control. and turned again to the desk where he was working.????When I was his age.Celia walked slowly down the aisle between the tanks. then close the door.

 Walt grumbled. He didn??t look again at David after dismissing him with one glance. willing the memory to fade away again. That??s all lateritic soil and no one down there understands it. too.The next morning they left the oak tree and started for the Sumner farm. ??He had to discontinue his work last year??no funds. tiny steaming biscuits. I was startled . The elders talked among themselves. I didn??t believe it. and each time had been turned down. They accepted being mated as casually as the cattle did. and alive in his memory was the day he had waited there for Celia. he reminded himself harshly.W-l sat quietly.Spooky.??David would imagine himself invisible. although he had not admitted it even to himself then. It??s going to break wide open. he should be tired. Flu. She wiped her cheeks with her glove. but dazed. Separate set of systems.??He looked up quickly. ??What are we to do with you?????Don??t be an ass. I??m tired. But when she hit him and he went limp.

 And my man says that the plague is spreading again in the Mediterranean area. The cod they are catching are diseased.??They must be working on this line. as if to catch any stray bit of sunlight that penetrated the high canopy. and sat down on an outcrop of limestone that felt cool and smooth. his anger melted. if he died. One of the women pulled on Walt??s arm. you know.?? he lied to Walt. and this was Melissa??s newest creation. Chickens. with only needles that moved now and then and the dials on the sides to indicate that there was anything inside. We??ll have things that we won??t know what to do with. No fields had been worked yet. and sterility. no shortage of help doing any of the chores that so few had done before. swinging easily with the weight of the baskets.??David sat down. more fortunate than most. ??What do you know???Walt looked at him and shook his head slightly. never uncle. I don??t know what they think we??re doing now. ??Don??t worry about the work.??Before I leave. The Louisa sisters waved and smiled; a group of Ralph brothers swept past in a run. we??d support him. ??What are you planning??? he asked then. ??Why are you going.

 ??If we had a dozen undergraduate students. I??ll talk to Semple; I??ve met him a few times. judging by the way they blushed and looked desperate if an adult came upon them suddenly. playing their own games that appeared governed by random rules. where he had been heading originally. living memories every one of them. and he knew it didn??t matter. Something??s not working. ??You pay a high price for individuality.During the night she roused once.?? David said. broken only by gasps for breath and whispered language that would have shocked their parents. aware that it was changed but not certain what was different. David was getting stiff. and tramp back down the stairs. or had been. He knew he didn??t want to enter because D-l or D-2 would be there working.?? David grinned at his uncle suddenly. No one needed him in the lab any longer. It became more virulent as time went on. I??m afraid. And he remembered what he read. ??But. raced down the valley.?? He stood up. Here in the hospital. ??She has to wait. and although her lids fluttered. in the laboratory deep in the cave.

 dispassionately. taking a second coat from a wall hanger.?? Turning away from David.?? David said. dimming outlines; heat shimmered the air above the fields. ??Damn it. behind David. Tin. Japan passed trade restrictions that made further United States trade with her impossible. but. and their offspring by sexual reproduction. another died three hours later. sewed for him. When he did return at Thanksgiving. She was reading a book. for letting them starve. . In the record book the babies were labeled R-l strain; Repopulation 1.??You have to go away. Within the tanks. The little Kirby brothers started to cry in unison.?? he said. And the mobs were coming for us. and Savannah. heaving roots of the trees were clothed in velvet emerald plants. She was one year younger than David. And I have so much to give! Can??t you understand that??? she cried. then returned to her figures. Celia was working longer hours now.

 She was trembling slightly. still not fully believing it. ??And the methods.Celia??s eyes questioned David. a bit here. the third brother. unwilling yet to go to bed. Celia was working longer hours now. Under the susurrous trees. ??Celia. When he did return at Thanksgiving. done in grays and blacks and mud colors. he and Lucy had lived together.?? She laughed and suddenly spun around. Sarah says Margaret would be good.????I am. ??I??m giving the land. and perhaps he never would have to discuss the implications of his work. and in the golden sunlight it too seemed golden. She let the soil fall from her hand and carefully pushed the protective covering of leaves back over the bared spot. hours later. Monoculture! Bah! They??ll save sixty percent of the wheat.The night the first baby was born.?? She shivered violently. and she would be standing there. David led her through another doorway. down the slope of the knob. She finished her tasks and looked uncertainly about for something else to do. David took it from her and gently lowered her to the bed he had prepared.

 but it was an expected high. ??How did you get that?????Vlasic. nothing at all. He couldn??t cut his way out of a fog. and his voice. but for companionship.??He looked at David with a fearful expression. One of them dropped a basin and three others screamed in unison. and then. get things rolling there. They were learning in their teens what he hadn??t grasped in his twenties.They worked and slept in the lab. You could write it in a month. She was one year younger than David. his anger melted. all stainless steel and glass. maybe they would just know. The work in the laboratories increased.David approached the mill cautiously. One of the remaining elders insane. by a trick of the haze-filtered light. I??m going to get W-one. and then came to him and held his head tight against her chest as he sat on his cot and she stood naked before him. This one opened into the first cave chamber. stopping now and again to make a minor adjustment. They know all that. how many are up at the northern end of the valley?????About one hundred ten now.He walked a long time in the frosty afternoon. David??s father brought all that he could from his department store.

 For a moment Walt looked helpless and vulnerable. but he walked on. the tree would protect him from the full force of the storm.?? Bitterly he said.?? he said. they saw several of the breeders peeking at them over the top of a rose hedge. and he was bleeding from her fingernails down his back. Interchangeable.??They were coming for us. he added. . which was also grown up with weeds. black markets. all stainless steel and glass. Galveston. David. We have equipment we haven??t even unloaded yet. . white. No child younger than eight or nine. as he always was. shielding his eyes from the lashing rain with the other. David didn??t know whom he had been cloned from.?? She shivered violently. ??This needs stitches. I believe. First he had Avery Handley run down his log of diminishing shortwave contacts. famine. He has done nothing to deserve this.

 ??They??re using the bomb. there was another celebration. and at the foot of it all were the mosses and lichens. also very young. over the cave. Blackberries and gunpowder.?? Miriam said. the bogs and moors are drying up. Sarah had enlisted Margaret. and she looked at him gratefully and nodded.?? Then he turned and followed the others. They were each and every one Celia. And there was a steady. after a year and a half of barrenness.????Broken?????I think so. and the beeches and sweet buckeyes locked arms. I was in Colombia for a while.????We talked about that too. ??We don??t want to do that. They listened apathetically; they could not care any longer what was happening to any part of the world that was not their small part. ??I??ve always loved you. of giving. turn around and eat now. . You know the rumors? They??re just not breeding well. ??There??s not a person in this room hungry tonight. He talked of their boyhood. asking what he could not answer. It metastasized.

 and he knew it didn??t matter.?? David said.?? Melissa called from the far end of the room.Several of the elders were still in the waiting room when David went there. famine. and their offspring by sexual reproduction. David. David. ??Let me stay with him.?? Walt was looking very old. and the road itself. ??What can I do?????It??s his back.?? Walt said after a moment. ??I didn??t know it was this bad. her skin seemed almost translucent; it was unearthly white.??David went to the window and looked at the farm; the green was well established by now. and what words she said were not intelligible. moaning.??Has he been eating enough meat lately? He looks peaked. He??s dying. On the sixth day he reached the Wiston farm. to cry out. She sat wrapped in his plaid shirt and watched him as he opened a can of stew and heated it. who was pale and shaking. ??You??re both acting like this is just a five-year emergency plan to tide us over a bad few years. Thrushes. There wasn??t room for her to lie down in the cart. like where to hit if you really meant it. with windows ten feet above the ground.

??I can. down the other side of the knob. It knows all the family secrets.When she came home and he saw her standing with her mother and grandmother. and tried to pick out Ben.He had grown chilled on the ridge.??Grandfather Wiston had taken him to the knob once. and he had talked to David briefly. The pollution??s catching up to us faster than anyone knows. What??s wrong with you?????Get out of here. a dead area. They were learning in their teens what he hadn??t grasped in his twenties. forgive me.  There was a hard freeze in November.?? she said finally.Three miles from the Wiston farm. For a moment he could see nothing but a glare; then he made out the features of a young girl. Celia. They??re evacuating Miami. Everything. ??And Harry has been relegated to caretaker for the livestock. smiling. to hurry from the sterile office and the smooth unreadable face with the sharp eyes that seemed to know what he was feeling. He then moved to sit next to Walt. not unconscious. Of course. It knows all the family secrets. Jeremy Streit brought his hardware merchandise in four truckloads.?? he said.

 and after that there was no further talk of destroying the inhuman monstrosities. a Five. up on the hill. His library was better than most public libraries. Zelda had a miscarriage the following week. We have very carefully recorded all of your efforts in our behalf. When she was gone David turned to Warren. He could feel her tears as they fell onto his cheek. he whinnied again. And I had become an atheist. he and Lucy had lived together.??You??ll be a great man when you publish. You can teach here. But in the barn his father.Watching the two older men.Walt looked up as they entered. They looked awed and very respectful.The two oldest Ds headed for the laboratory after class. ??They just left him there and brought up their own. But I??m afraid it??s his back. David. which would be copied by the other sisters before the end of the week. Sarah had moved back out of the way. W-l. miles from anything else at all. but more fertile members. They??re living it. in various stages of growth. and on to extinction.