Jim Baen's Universe

The Tongue Cannot Tell Full Story

by Manly Wade Wellman

So much had been said, written and theorized about John Latimer and by comparison, so little about Elspeth Dawes, that this one account may well begin with her—begin in the parlor of her New York apartment at mid-afternoon on June 18 of last year, which year already bears in sensational journals the awesome title of the Year of the Conquest of Space.