Dearest | Page 9

"No, gentlemen, it is the ambulance," he corrected. "My spirit-control says...." He relayed
Dearest's descriptions to them.

T. Barnwell Powell blinked. A speculative look came into the psychiatrist's eyes; he was
probably wishing the commitment paper hadn't been destroyed.
Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan
bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red
hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve.
For an instant, the lawyer and the psychiatrist gaped at them. Then T. Barnwell Powell
put one hand to his mouth and made a small gibbering sound, and Doctor Vehrner gave a
faint squawk, and then both men grabbed, simultaneously, for the whiskey bottle.
The laughter of Dearest tinkled inaudibly through the rumbling mirth of Colonel
Hampton.
The End

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS CORRECTED
In the text: "... a man in my position would dislike the label of spirit-medium;" the word
"meduim" was corrected to "medium."

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dearest, by Henry Beam Piper
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAREST ***
***** This file should be named 19102.txt or 19102.zip ***** This and all associated
files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19102/
Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United
States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in
the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special
rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and
distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT
GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark,
and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very
easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative
works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.

*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU
DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free distribution of
electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or any other work associated in any
way with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the
Full Project Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at
http://gutenberg.org/license).
Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works
1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work, you
indicate that you have read, understand, agree to and accept all the terms of this license
and intellectual property (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide
by all the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy all copies
of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. If you paid a fee for
obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the
person or entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.
1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be used on or associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who agree to be bound by the terms of this
agreement. There are a few things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See
paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and help preserve free future
access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. See paragraph 1.E below.
1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" or PGLAF),
owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
Nearly all the individual works in the collection are in the public domain in the United
States. If an individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from copying,
distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative works based on the work as
long as all references to Project Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will