_The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth's proffered gift of rich land, much water, new power. They fought Rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman, who wanted only the secret that lay at the end of ..._ The door was low, deep-sunk into the thickness of the wall. Carey knocked and then he waited, stooped a bit under the lintel-stone, fitting his body to the meagre shadow as though he could really hide it there. A few yards away, beyond cracked and tilted paving-blocks, the Jekkara Low-Canal showed its still black water to the still black sky, and both were full of stars.…
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