Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 114: what you’re looking at

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PARTING go hot and cold inside me.” He finished breathlessly. It was an unusually long speech for him, but he hated robots, as well he might, for robot gardeners had ousted him from a good job many a time. His long speech amazed Pamela. When he had finished she stood staring at him, her clear blue eyes wide open, and her cherubic mouth form- ing an ““O” of surprise. Adam’s anger left him. His final remark was, gruffly: “You'll be gettin’ another one to play with afore the month’s out. Anyway, your daddy’s got the key, so you’d better go and see him about Py Pamela had remained strangely quiescent while Adam had been speaking, but his last remarks. had stirred her into action as she thought again what had happened to her beloved Tinlid. She ran back to the house and into the hall. “Where’s daddy?’ she demanded of the amazed maid. “Why, he’s in his study with a visitor, Miss Pamela. He says not to disturb him and he . . .” But Pamela did not stay to hear the rest of what the maid had to say. She galloped off up the stairs. She ran along the corridor to her father’s study and went right in without knock- ing. Ignoring her father’s visitor she began: “Daddy, why have you locked Tinlid in his room? I want to play with him, and he’ll be lonely without me. You’ve no right to lock him in there. Give me the key at once!” “Pamela!” exclaimed Samuel Warburton, reproach- fully. “You have no right to come barging in here when I am entertaining a visitor, and you shouldn’t speak to me like that.’’ He paused. ““However, now that you are here, and as you have found out about your robot com- panion, you may as well stay and hear what we were discussing.” He turned away from his crestfallen daughter and spoke to his visitor, Michael Clayton. “I’m sorry for the inter- ruption, Mr. Clayton, though now you can, perhaps, see the affection my daughter has for her robot companion. Her name is Pamela.” He turned to his daughter again: “Now, if you are prepared to speak in a Civi- lized manner we can begin. 113 conmicloooks.conm