Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Letter of the Law
    Letter of the Law
    Letter of the Law
    Ebook41 pages31 minutes

    Letter of the Law

    By Alan Edward Nourse

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Letter of the Law

    Read more from Alan Edward Nourse

    Related to Letter of the Law

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      Abrama’s End Game

      May 10, 2021

      Abrama had been summoned to the Grand Temple by one of the more fascinating outsiders, the paladin Sir Gödel. Between stone pillars the crowd bustled with the trailing cloaks of shadow elves, the glimmering pauldrons of paladins, the broad shoulders

      19 min read

    • Article

      From Hell To The Heavens

      Oct 12, 2021

      From Hell To The Heavens
      8 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      1. Here there’s no rainy season.Sun scalds my forehead,yet the pool is empty. Beside it,a toppled table, its glass surface shattered.The asphalt is too hot for bare feet. 2. Far away: white hillocksand white dunes under a deepblue sky. Swirling winds

      5 min read

    • Article

      From Hell To The Heavens

      Oct 12, 2021

      From Hell To The Heavens
      8 min read

    • Article

      From Hell To The Heavens

      Oct 12, 2021

      From Hell To The Heavens
      8 min read

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Means, Bitter Ends

      Nov 10, 2021

      “In order for this speech to mean anything to me, I’ll need to dispense with the usual demagoguery and, instead, make an attempt at honesty. With this in mind, there is one thing I have to make clear. I’m not in this race to serve your interests, but

      12 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Iľja Rákoš

      Dec 12, 2021

      As long as there are authors, translators, publishers large or small committed to the deliberate word deliberately committed to the page, and so many who still need those words on pages, legal or illegal, right, left, or center, we’ll find our feet a

      8 min read

    • Article

      I, Spy

      Aug 7, 2018

      Many things happened to me for the first time on a night in April 1944. I rode in a Black Maria; I jumped from a bomber with a tangled parachute; and I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. We drove in the Black Maria from Int

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Ferris wheel

      Jan 16, 2022

      The Ferris wheel
      4 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 1, 2021

      If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. —Rudyard Kipling, “Epitaphs of the War,” The Years Between, 1919 She consulted me, a glance, and said: “I think not anything off the wagon. It arrives too quickly. Let’s have somethi

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Bargain

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Which one of you owns G2V3889?” Cygnus glided through a luminescent star field suspended in the center of an otherwise dark, oblong studio, then turned in a slow circle to survey the twenty Agents surrounding him. “Come on, speak up.” Vega shuddered

      16 min read

    • Article

      Magnets: Carried through time, lovers seek their purpose.

      Feb 6, 2014

      Moon Colony B, 2213 Former Ponzi-schemer Mary Pillar digs through a trashcan. It smells like rotten eggs and milk. She is elderly and homeless, living in an alley between two eco-efficient skyscrapers. Dust particles dance around her. She has lost ev

      11 min read

    • Article

      The Trials of Jared K.

      Apr 22, 2020

      The Trials of Jared K.
      6 min read

    • Article

      Elf Quest

      Nov 30, 2022

      Elf Quest
      11 min read

    • Article

      Roger's PROFANISAURUS

      Nov 19, 2020

      Roger's PROFANISAURUS
      8 min read

    • Article

      79 The Terrible Grinning Men

      Sep 10, 2020

      79 The Terrible Grinning Men
      8 min read

    • Article

      From EastEnders To Afghanistan, To The World’s Toughest Gangs, Welcome Now To THE NEW DEEP SEA TREASURE-HUNTING ADVENTURES OF ROSS KEMP

      Apr 10, 2023

      It must be weird to be Ross Kemp. One minute you’re a TV mechanic married to Martine McCutcheon, the next, you’re in LA talking to some kid who’s prepared to battle to the death with a rival gang and wondering, “How did he end up like this?” A few ye

      5 min read

    • Article

      Chronicles of NOELLA BRY

      Sep 9, 2022

      Chronicles of NOELLA BRY
      3 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 29, 2023

      Books
      6 min read

    Reviews for Letter of the Law

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Letter of the Law - Alan Edward Nourse

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Letter of the Law, by Alan Edward Nourse

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Letter of the Law

      Author: Alan Edward Nourse

      Release Date: January 14, 2008 [EBook #24275]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTER OF THE LAW ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Letter

      of

      the

      Law

      by Alan E. Nourse

      The place was dark and damp, and smelled like moldy leaves. Meyerhoff followed the huge, bear-like Altairian guard down the slippery flagstones of the corridor, sniffing the dead, musty air with distaste. He drew his carefully tailored Terran-styled jacket closer about his shoulders, shivering as his eyes avoided the black, yawning cell-holes they were passing. His foot slipped on the slimy flags from time to time, and finally he paused to wipe the caked mud from his trouser leg. How much farther is it? he shouted angrily.

      The guard waved a heavy paw vaguely into the blackness ahead. Quite suddenly the corridor took a sharp bend, and the Altairian stopped, producing a huge key ring from some obscure fold of his hairy hide. I still don't see any reason for all the fuss, he grumbled in a wounded tone. We've treated him like a brother.

      One of the huge steel doors clicked open. Meyerhoff peered into the blackness, catching a vaguely human outline against the back wall. Harry? he called sharply.

      There was a startled gasp from within, and a skinny, gnarled little man suddenly appeared in the guard's light, like a grotesque, twisted ghost out of the blackness. Wide blue eyes regarded Meyerhoff from beneath uneven black eyebrows, and then the little man's face broke into a crafty grin. "Paul! So they sent you! I knew I could count on it! He executed a deep, awkward bow, motioning Meyerhoff into the dark cubicle. Not much to offer you, he said slyly, but it's the best I can do under the circumstances."

      Meyerhoff scowled, and turned abruptly to the guard. We'll have some privacy now, if you please. Interplanetary ruling. And leave us the light.

      The guard grumbled, and started for the door. It's about time you showed up! cried the little man in the cell. Great day! Lucky they sent you, pal. Why, I've been in here for years—

      "Look, Zeckler,

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1