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    Accidental Death
    Accidental Death
    Accidental Death
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    Accidental Death

    By PETER BAILY and John Schoenherr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Accidental Death - PETER BAILY

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Accidental Death, by Peter Baily

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

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      Title: Accidental Death

      Author: Peter Baily

      Illustrator: John Schoenherr

      Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24517]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ACCIDENTAL DEATH ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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      ACCIDENTAL DEATH

      BY PETER BAILY

      The most dangerous of weapons

      is the one you don't know is loaded.

      Illustrated by Schoenherr

      he wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. All the way up the half-mile precipice it fingered and wrenched away at groaning ice-slabs. It screamed over the top, whirled snow in a dervish dance around the hollow there, piled snow into the long furrow plowed ruler-straight through streamlined hummocks of snow.

      The sun glinted on black rock glazed by ice, chasms and ridges and bridges of ice. It lit the snow slope to a frozen glare, penciled black shadow down the long furrow, and flashed at the furrow's end on a thing of metal and plastics, an artifact thrown down in the dead wilderness.

      Nothing grew, nothing flew, nothing walked, nothing talked. But the thing in the hollow was stirring in stiff jerks like a snake with its back broken or a clockwork toy running down. When the movements stopped, there was a click and a strange sound began. Thin, scratchy, inaudible more than a yard away, weary but still cocky, there leaked from the shape in the hollow the sound of

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