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                               ASSASSIN

                         By BASCOM JONES, JR.

                        _Everyone is allowed to
                     commit an error. The trouble
                         was that I couldn't._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1961.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


I deliberately dug my heels into the concrete floor of the corridor of
the Pentagon. The steel plates on the heels of my black uniform boots
heralded my approach with sharp anvil sounds as I marched confidently
toward the unmarked door five hundred feet ahead.

What was that expression used by Earth people of the 20th century? I
shifted back through my training, shuffled through the facts about
Earth'