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    The First One
    The First One
    The First One
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    The First One

    By H. R. van Dongen and Herbert D. Kastle

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The First One - H. R. van Dongen

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The First One, by Herbert D. Kastle

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      Title: The First One

      Author: Herbert D. Kastle

      Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24192]

      Language: English

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      THE FIRST ONE

      By HERBERT D. KASTLE

      Illustrated by von Dongen

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog July 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The first man to return from beyond the Great Frontier may be welcomed ... but will it be as a curiosity, rather than as a hero...?

      There was the usual welcoming crowd for a celebrity, and the usual speeches by the usual politicians who met him at the airport which had once been twenty miles outside of Croton, but which the growing city had since engulfed and placed well within its boundaries. But everything wasn't usual. The crowd was quiet, and the mayor didn't seem quite as at-ease as he'd been on his last big welcoming—for Corporal Berringer, one of the crew of the spaceship Washington, first to set Americans upon Mars. His Honor's handclasp was somewhat moist and cold. His Honor's eyes held a trace of remoteness.

      Still, he was the honored home-comer, the successful returnee, the hometown boy who had made good in a big way, and they took the triumphal tour up Main Street to the new square and the grandstand. There he sat between the mayor and a nervous young coed chosen as homecoming queen, and looked out at the police and fire department bands, the National Guard, the boy scouts and girl scouts, the Elks and Masons. Several of the churches in town had shown indecision as to how to instruct their parishioners to treat him. But they had

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