The Clean and Wholesome Land

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Clean and Wholesome Land, by Ralph Sholto This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Clean and Wholesome Land Author: Ralph Sholto Release Date: November 5, 2009 [EBook #30405] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Utopia had been reached. All the problems of mankind had been solved. It was the perfect State. If you doubted it, you died. The Clean and Wholesome Land By Ralph Sholto HILE Professor Cargill lectured from the rostrum, Neal Pardeau prowled the dark auditorium. This, he knew, was the place to find them. Here wasW where they whispered and plotted and schemed—feeling safe in this pure, hard core of patriotism. Safe because Cargill was the Director of Education in the New State, just as Pardeau was the Director of Public Security. Safe because Cargill's lectures were given before a commanded audience, with attendance strictly mandatory. The insistence was not really necessary of course. The people would have come to hear Cargill regardless. His was a compelling, magnetic personality.