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After all, spending the best part of half a decade playing Satisfaction every night must get a bit tiring, and it isn't as if any of them need the extra money – after all, there are only so many Stanner stairlifts you can buy for your house.

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Just in case, however, he might want to fly out to the New York branch on the day of the occurrence seeing as how he had been the liaison between CENFS and Stanner all week.

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He showered, dressed as the sun was setting, and phoned Devreaux, who welcomed him back, then informed him that Stanner had been found in his home dead of a heart attack.

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When Stanner cut off all communication, Devreaux made his decision.

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Stanner explained that, in theory, there could be billions, but he could, today, prove the existence only of the one most easily accessible.

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Funny, Peterson thought, standing now at the hotel room window, how he and Stanner, two men about the same age, had started on the same metaphysical path at about the same time, but had veered off onto two circuitous routes only to meet again coming from opposite directions, like ...

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And the reason Stanner hadn't known was that, as he'd put it himself, he had only "passed through" this world, exactly as Peterson just had, unable to stop and view it, much less touch it, experience it.

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He could guess the kind of grasping and infighting bound to go on once he convinced the board of directors that the thing was capable of doing just what Stanner had claimed.

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Here, Stanner had traveled to other worlds, while he, Craig Peterson, had dared to pass only a few blocks north of Fifty-seventh Street.

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Naturally, the person he would be most anxious to compare notes with about the journey would be Dr. Jerry Stanner, but that was impossible, because, by this hour, Stanner was dead.

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