Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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THE PHOENIX NEST reborn from the pheenix nest.” Knaut shot Strothmeyer a heavy look and then took up the explanation. “You have been reborn from your cells. You have a chance to live again,” he told Churchill Two. A look of even deeper dis- trust crossed the duplicate’s face. ““Where did you get my cells ?”’ “Why, you gave them!” Knaut was taken aback. Churchill Two drew his legs in and edged away from the scientists. “You are Americans.”’ He spoke with obvious distaste. “Yes, that’s right,” Stroth- meyer put in. “We are Americans.” *“And I gave you my cells?” Churchill Two shook his head in disbelief and reproach. Knaut affected joviality. “That you did, sir! That you did! Don’t forget, you are part-American yourself.” Churchill Two’s sullenness flashed into anger. “I am what!” He half rose. ““What did you call me?” Knaut saw that he wouid have to humour the obviously damaged twin. “‘Well, that is just a little joke we have——” 31 He interrupted himself. ““But let me show you how well we have duplicated your body.” Churchill Two looked about the laboratory, as if to find the body which Knaut had offered to show him. “Just come over here.” Knaut stepped to a panel which hid a mirror, and slid it back. “Look at yourself in this mirror. Dr. Strothmeyer will help you to rise and walk.” Strothmeyer started to take the -duplicate’s arm, but his help was rudely refused. ““Let go!’ Churchill Two growled. “TI can do it alone.” He got to his feet, and Strothmeyer could see by the way he moved that he was gaining strength. As Churchill Two walked © stiffly toward the mirror, Knaut said to him: “When you see how exactly like your- self you look and how well and healthy, you will feel better about us, I am sure.” The duplicate stopped and turned to face the mirror. Knaut was about to say: “There! You see?’ But the words never came out. Churchill Two had frozen, and horror burst from his face. He looked down at his body COMIC OOOKS.COM