 What happened to Mr. Palugger?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1959. The Weblor I had taken off on the first trip to Antheon five years before with a thousand families, reached the planet with less than five hundred surviving colonists. "We have conquered the problem of small groups in space—witness the discovery of Antheon, for example—but when there are large groups, control is more difficult." "Assuming no accident in space," Phipps said, "it was a wrong decision. We don't think anything is going to happen, but if it does, we want to get an impersonal, unprejudiced view. Basically, it was an instrument which would open distant vistas to colonization, reducing the shoulder-to-shoulder pressure of a crowded solar system. A space-borne metropolis, it would be the home for three thousand persons outward bound, only the crew on the return trip. On loan from Transworld, he will have an observer status." Branson detained him after the others had gone. The theft of Carver Janssen's attache case occurred on the thirty-first day out. He said it was significant that all en route had passed stability tests, and that it was to the ship's discredit that someone with criminal tendencies should have been permitted aboard. What did Captain Branson think of those colonists who killed each other on the Weblor I ?
 He died of his illness.
 He was pushed out of the airlock.  He was beaten to death.  The man in the red mask shot him.  He died of his illness.