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THE
CROW
’
S
NEST
by
Ben
Caxton
Everyone
knows
that
jails
and
hospitals
have
one
thing
in
common
:
they
both
can
be
very
hard
to
get
out
of
.
In
some
ways
a
prisoner
is
less
cut
off
than
a
patient
;
a
prisoner
can
send
for
his
lawyer
,
can
demand
a
Fair
Witness
,
he
can
invoke
habeas
corpus
and
require
the
jailor
to
show
cause
in
open
court
.
But
it
takes
only
a
simple
NO
VISITORS
sign
,
ordered
by
one
of
the
medicine
men
of
our
peculiar
tribe
,
to
consign
a
hospital
patient
to
oblivion
more
thoroughly
than
ever
was
the
Man
in
the
Iron
Mask
.
To
be
sure
,
the
patient
’
s
next
of
kin
cannot
be
kept
out
by
this
device
-
but
the
Man
from
Mars
seems
to
have
no
next
of
kin
.
The
crew
of
the
ill
-
fated
Envoy
had
few
ties
on
Earth
;
if
the
Man
in
the
Iron
Mask
-
pardon
me
I
mean
the
"
Man
from
Mars
"
-
has
any
relative
who
is
guarding
his
interests
,
a
few
thousand
inquisitive
reporters
(
such
as
your
present
scrivener
)
have
been
unable
to
verify
it
.
Who
speaks
for
the
Man
from
Mars
?
Who
ordered
an
armed
guard
placed
around
him
?
What
is
his
dread
disease
that
no
one
may
catch
a
glimpse
of
him
,
nor
ask
him
a
question
?
I
address
you
,
Mr
.
Secretary
General
;
the
explanation
about
"
physical
weakness
"
and
"
gee
-
fatigue
"
won
’
t
wash
;
if
that
were
the
answer
,
a
ninety
-
pound
nurse
would
do
as
well
as
an
armed
guard
.
Could
this
disease
be
financial
in
nature
?
Or
(
let
’
s
say
it
softly
)
is
it
political
?
There
was
more
,
all
in
the
same
vein
;
Jill
could
see
that
Ben
was
deliberately
baiting
the
administration
,
trying
to
force
them
to
bring
Smith
out
into
the
open
.
What
that
would
accomplish
she
did
not
know
,
her
own
horizon
not
encompassing
high
politics
and
high
finance
.
She
felt
,
rather
than
knew
,
that
Caxton
was
taking
serious
risk
in
challenging
the
established
authorities
,
but
she
had
no
notion
of
the
size
of
the
danger
,
nor
of
what
form
it
might
take
.
She
thumbed
through
the
rest
of
the
paper
.
It
was
well
loaded
with
follow
-
up
stories
on
the
return
of
the
Champion
.
with
pictures
of
Secretary
General
Douglas
pinning
medals
on
the
crew
,
interviews
with
Captain
van
Tromp
and
other
members
of
his
brave
company
,
pictures
of
Martians
and
Martian
cities
.
There
was
very
little
about
Smith
,
merely
a
medical
bulletin
that
he
was
improving
slowly
but
satisfactorily
from
the
effects
of
his
trip
.
