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Stock knows of this plan, and tricks Altmayer, preventing the assassination, and sending Altmayer to jail for the second time.

The story then jumps to the final arrest, which occurs many years later, when Altmayer is an old man.

He tells Altmayer that Earth has been at war with the Diaboli for the last six months.

No doubt Altmayer believes, Stock says, that humanity would unite in indignation and defeat the Diaboli, but Stock knows better.

Stock wants Altmayer to be Earth's representative to the galactic conference to form the union.

The story winds up with Stock visiting Altmayer in jail, to set him free.

They are the three dates Altmayer went to prison for his beliefs.

Brief summary: The story opens describing a statute of Richard Altmayer that stands in the center of the courtyard of the capital of the galactic union.

He explains how when he first visited a Diaboli world, he realized it was eventually going to be humanity or them (just as Altmayer had realized).

Stock tells Altmayer that he always misunderstood human nature.

Stallman kind of reminds me of Richard Altmayer from the Asimov store "In A Good Cause--".

Stallman is basically like Richard Altmayer from the Asimov short story "In a Good Cause—" [1].

Altmayer barely hears his last words as he leaves: "and when they build their statues, they will build none for me".

A war had just broke out, and Altmayer, and his friend Geoffrey Stock, had just been drafted from college.

Altmayer manages to get the documents to a broadcaster before Stock (now leader of Earth's government) comes to arrest him.

Altmayer is stunned and doesn't understand, since Stock turns out to have been right all along.