Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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THE PHOENIX NEST _ up to the side of the nest to prevent this, and Knaut crossed quickly to~ Stroth- meyer’s control panel, leaving the now scowling Churchill One to fend for himself. The web bounced and smacked against the naked back of Churchill Two. The ray projector hummed. The scientists stood like frantic posts, waiting for the first breath, but still it did not come. “I’m afraid he isn’t going to wake, Professor!’ Stroth- meyer gasped. “*He’s got to wake!” Knaut snarled. “I’m depending on it!’ He pressed the cold water stud all the way in and held it. A frigid shower struck Churchill Two and sprayed Strothmeyer on the rebound. Churchill Two opened his mouth and said: ““Ach!”? He began to breathe—with more difficulty than his twin, but successfully, nevertheless. Strothmeyer shouted: “We've done it! We’ve done it!’ He jumped up and down in his excitement. Knaut neutralised the board, and Churchill Two settled down into more natural efforts, as 27 the bouncing stopped, and began to breathe deeply and regularly. Knaut rushed to the nest and peered down at him. His eyes were open. When Knaut leaned over him, he looked back at the professor suspi- ciously. He allowed the scien- tists to turn him to a sitting position, but then he seemed faint and unable to sit up. They lifted him out of the nest and carried him to the bed, where they covered him with a blanket. Knaut took his pulse. ““He’s not taking it too well,” he said to Strothmeyer. Churchill Two’s eyes were closed again, and he seemed to have lost consciousness. Knaut was about to examine him further, when a strange, and yet familiar, voice sounded be- hind the scientists. They had become so ab- sorbed in bringing Churchill Two into the world that they had forgotten the better-co- ordinated Churchill One. They turned together, hearing not his words but only the won- drous fact that he had spoken. He stood before them, a British Adam, young, robust, conmicloooks.Cconn ~