Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 53: what you’re looking at

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THE HAPPINESS EFFECT figured Arnold was safe and made a sign for him to let them go ahead and run it to the ground and make fools of themselves. ““Have you ever cashed any checks in town and gotten any twenty dollar bills here locally?” asked Tuttle. Arnold smiled. “I learned a long time ago not to try to cash checks, as a stranger, in a small town.” ““Have you ever changed fifties or hundreds and gotten our local twen- ties in exchange?” Arnold waved a hand. “In towns like Benton,”’ he said, “‘the merchants don’t change fifties or hundreds for strangers either.” Everybody grinned at that. At any of our shops they scream the eaglescream whenever you try to change a twenty, let alone a fifty ora hundred. “Have you ever received wages or loans from any local citizens which would’ve included Tony’s marked bills?” asked the judge. “I’m afraid my art doesn’t inspire banking confidence,” smiled Arnold. “Then if you have any of Tony’s marked twenty dollar bills, it’d be pretty hard to explain,” said Judge Tuttle. 3 Arnold nodded. “I couldn’t pos- sibly have any of your local twenties, judge. That is, unless—” Suddenly a look of horror came over his face. He turned on me and shouted something vile and got up and tried to run out of the room. I grabbed him, feeling everything flying apart. He was struggling with me and shouting. . The place was in a turmoil. He gave me one blasting look of hate and slugged me. And I slugged him back and he went down limp and I was standing there feeling foolish, trying to figure what had gone wrong with a guy so honest and carefree and alented. A guy that was like myself welve years ago. (@) fanilice S51 OOK KS5(EC) aa