Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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mean, how do we know Superior is maintaining the same position up here "We could tell by the sun, silly." "Of course," he said, grinning at his stupidity. "And I guess we're not faces peering out of the windows. They waved and thought they saw one or nothing was simple about Superior except its citizens. Calmly they that they know. Maybe we'll begin to get some answers. Or, if not But after a couple of weeks of floating around, it began to be obvious days on the smallest—and the nuttiest—planet in the galaxy! They were in the midst of an extremely pleasant kiss when the brief case at the end of Don's handcuff began to talk to him. relatively smooth, and did not smell of high explosives. He'd found no people, no houses—no sign of anything except the pit itself. and hoped never to see one, was afraid now that he had. The object course to avoid it. He noted with only minimum satisfaction that his plaintively: The conductor looked into the car. The redhead across the aisle in whom The girl's hair was a subtle red, but false. When Don had entered the along the part was dark. Her eyes had been on a book and Don had the opportunity for a brief study of her face. The cheeks were full and untouched by make-up. There were lines at the corners of her mouth which indicated a tendency to arrange her expression into one of disapproval. The lips were full, like the cheeks, but it was obvious that the scarlet lipstick had contrived a mouth a trifle bigger than the one nature had been about to go on to her figure. Later, though, he was able to observe with once-blond hair now verging on dark brown, a face neither handsome nor ugly, and a habit of drawing the inside of his left cheek between But it was likely that all she noticed then was the brief case he reason why his interest in the redhead had been only passing. Don hesitated, shrugged at the redhead, said, "Excuse me," and followed covered with every imaginable kind of warning device. There were red to an old bearded gentleman wearing a civil defense helmet, a topcoat "Look for yourself," the old man in the white helmet said. "Go ahead. I don't see nothing." The tracks seemed to stretch forever into the darkness. Don Cort and the fireman walked cautiously toward the edge while the the edge. He didn't have to stand on tiptoe any more than he had to sit on the edge of his seat during the exciting part of a movie, but the "You see what I mean," he said. "You would have gone right over. I Don Cort, sitting in the back seat of the car with the redhead from the say your name was, miss?" "Jen Jervis," she said. "Geneva Jervis, formally." "Miss Jervis. I'm Civek. You know Mr. Cort, I suppose." The girl smiled sideways. "We have a nodding acquaintance." Don nodded and grinned. "There's plenty of room in the dormitories," Civek said. "People don't "Are you connected with the college?" Don asked. "Me? No. I'm the mayor of Superior. The old town's really come up in the world, hasn't it?" "Overnight," Geneva Jervis said. "If what Mr. Cort and the fireman say is true. I haven't seen the edge myself." "You'll have a better chance to look at it in the morning," the mayor Civek—'everything's up in the air.' He was having his little joke, of course. I said, 'What?' and then he told me." "Told you what?" Jen Jervis asked. "I mean, does he have any theory about it?" the mayor wouldn't look foolish the next morning, not knowing his town had flown the coop." "What's the population of Superior?" "Well, I don't see how you can get down. Do you?" "No helicopters here, either." "Maybe not. But I'll bet they're swarming all over you by morning." "Hm," said Hector Civek. Don couldn't quite catch his expression in the Garet. I've got to see him—excuse me." The mayor was off across the campus. Don looked at Geneva Jervis, who was frowning. "Are you thinking," he asked, "that Mayor Civek was perhaps just a little less than completely honest with us?" "I'm thinking," she said, "that I should have stayed with Aunt Hattie "Not everybody. Me, for instance." "No?" she said. "Judging by that satchel you're handcuffed to, I'd have "I'm with Senator Bobby Thebold, S.O.B." Don laughed again. "He sure is." " Cort!" she said, annoyed. "You know as well as I do that you, you'll probably be surrounded by co-eds, even if I could get out of He took her bag in his free hand and they were met by a gray-haired They had a glimpse of the professor, still in his CD helmet, going around a corner, gesticulating wildly to someone wearing a white Don Cort had slept, but not well. He had tried to fold the brief case to himself at one end of a dormitory and he'd taken his pants off but had members. The air was very clear and the long morning shadows distinct. He went through the dormitory. A few students were still sleeping. The visibly. First he'd eat, he decided, so he'd be strong enough to go take got in line with a tray for juice, eggs and coffee. He saw no one he "The mystery man with the handcuff. You'd be hard to miss. I'm "The same," she said. "Also the only. A pity, because if there'd been , Mr. Cort. As for it being deliberate, that seems to be "I didn't know there were any." "Actually there's only one, the her purse and unfolded a four-page tabloid. Town Gets High the meantime all are warned to stay well away from the edge. The law of the same exemption would apply to a dubious individual bent on Don skimmed the rest. "I don't see anything about it being deliberate." Alis had been creaming and sugaring Don's coffee. She pushed it across to him and said, "It's not on page one. Ed Clark and Mayor Civek don't get along, so you'll find the mayor's statement in a box on page three, bottom." Don creased the paper the other way, took a sip of coffee, nodded his thanks, and read: Mayor Claims Secession From Earth Mayor Hector Civek, in a proclamation issued locally by hand and dropped to the rest of the world in a plastic shatter-proof bottle, said today that Superior has seceded from Earth. His reasons were as vague as his explanation. and which (it being atrociously handwritten) he (c) has not the temerity to ask his linotype operator to "Not to me he doesn't. I'm one of those banes of his existence, a ever since." emphasizing her good figure. To a male friend Don would have described "I'll admit to the except for the conductor, who had dutifully spent the night aboard. "What's happening?" he asked when he saw them. "Any word from down "What can I do?" the conductor asked. "Don't! You'll fall off!" him, a few feet behind. He stopped a yard from the brink and waited for topographer's map, far below. Don took another wary step, then sat down. panting, head pressed to the ground. "Scared. When I get my courage back I'll pick up my head and look." He held it out beyond the edge and peered into it, focusing it on the "It isn't? Then where is it going?" "Why? How?" out of play, Don thought) and on to the edge again. Smaller print on the sign said: It was signed: Vincent Grande, Chief of Police, Hector Civek, Mayor . "What's the other source, besides the faucet in your bathroom?" Don

<question>:
Who seems to have the least to hide in the text?

<options>:
A Don Cort
B Jen Jervis
C Ed Clark
D Mayor Civek

<answer>:

C