The Highest Treason

by Randall Garrett

Transcriber's Note: Transcriber's Note: This e-text was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction, January, 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

The highest treason of all is not so easy to define—and be it noted carefully that the true traitor in this case was not singular, but very plural . . .

THE HIGHEST . . . TREASON

By

RANDALL GARRETT

Illustrated by Gardner

The Prisoner

HE two rooms were not luxurious, but MacMaine hadn't expected that they would be. The walls were a flat metallic gray, unadorned and windowless. The ceilings and floors were simply continuations of the walls, except for the glow-plates overhead. One room held a small cabinet for his personal possessions, a wide, reasonably soft bed, a small but adequate desk, and, in one corner, a cubicle that contained the necessary sanitary plumbing facilities.