Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1956 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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I wish to make it clear at once that I agree completely this bit of illuminating brilliance recorded, I hasten to that the amusement park is a place to have fun. With ( add that none of the three people you are about to meet at this amusement park is destined to have much fun, As a maiter of fact, one of them is slated for per- sonal acquaintanceship with rigor mortis. | His saw a pink-striped arm with a pointing hand shoot past his face. A woman’s breathless voice said, “Oh, look at that girl! What’s she poing todo?” .. There wasn’t any doubt what the girl was going to do. The amuse- ment pier had a fence all around it, to stand between the deep blue _ sea and the people with devils after them, people who wanted to do what this girl was trying. She had hung her big straw hat, with the straw horse and rider on the side of it, over a fence post. Over that she'd hung her big, dirty embroi- dered handbag. Now she had one toe stuck through the wire mesh and she was trying to get her other knee over the top of the fence. She wore no stockings and her legs were pale and very thin. Cliff heard himself say foolishly, “That girl’s going to get hurt.” He made it to the fence in three jumps. He stuck his own toe in the mesh and got up high enough to take her by the elbow. ? here lies ... by C. L. Moore “Lady,” he said, “you want to fall off the pier? Come on down.” She looked at him over her shoulder, the darkness blurring her face so that he could only guess she was young. Not much older than me, he thought, and pulled downward on the bony elbow. “Lady—” “T’m not a lady,” she told him in a fierce whisper. “Let go, will you? Let go!” “You don’t want to do this,” he said, trying to throw persuasion into his voice. “There’s a lot of cold water down there. Look.” A wave crashed over and hissed up the beach below them in the dark. 2 ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE GEomichbookstGco