Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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- STRANGER IN TIME he dived out of bed and hastily started to dress. ““‘What’s up? Who was it?” - “Revilstone. He *phoned from the shop. Somebody dead in our department, ap- parently. The police are there. He wants me to go on over.” “Dead! Who ?” “T don’t know any more than you do. Strangers. Two of them.”’ He fumbled for his shoes. She threw the covers back and slipped to the floor. “You must have something to eat before you go—lI’ll get something for you.” She slid her feet into slippers, and ran out to the tiny kitchen, snatch- ing up a wrap as she went. Dinton found Revilstone talking to a quiet, gentle- mannered individual who turned out to be Inspector Benner. “This is terrible—of course, it would happen in our depart- ment—Mr. Quillon is on his way in; I ’phoned for him, too. The Inspector wants to know if you can identify these people, Dinton. He thought at first they might be employed _ by Quillon’s—I was able to tell him they were not...” —gitl’s hair, Dinton shook his head as he looked down at the two crumpled shapes beneath the sheets which had been flung over them, leaving only the | heads visible. “T’ve never seen either of them, to the best of my recollection; and I wouldn’t be likely to forget the man’s hair style, if I’d seen it. Shoul- der length at the sides, fringe in front——”’ “And shaved up to the crown at the back,” the In- spector finished for him. “Something odd about the too, for that matter, although women have some pretty queer styles these days. But their hair isn’t the only thing. They are both stark naked, and the tan on the bodies seems to indicate that the man was in the habit of wearing nothing but trunks, and the girl not much more.” “Could they be people from some nudist colony who de- cided to come here and com- mit suicide for some reason?” Dinton suggested. “Incident- ally, who found them? And what killed them?” Benner shook his head. “The night watchman found comicloooks.corn