Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 116: what you’re looking at

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PARTING how rusty and dirty her present robot really is.” . Clayton pondered. ‘Well, all right. It should be safe enough for another ten days. By then the new one might be ready. I know that the engin- eers always allow a _ wide margin of error when they condemn a robot; and, as you say, she will probably change her mind when she sees this new one, with its—”’ - he glanced at Pamela “‘—shiny metal body and big green eyes. It looks more life-like too, and this one will be able to talk to her. You will like that, won’t you, Pamela?” he finished. “No,”’ retorted Pamela. ‘Pamela!’ shouted War- burton. “Where are your manners? You do not deserve to have a new robot bought for you if you are so un- grateful.” Pamela was crying now. “Don’t wanna new robot,”’ she wailed. “I want Tinlid!”’ “My word!” exclaimed her father. He crossed the room and opened the door. “Ethel!’’ he shouted. ““Come here.” On hearing Warburton’s tone of voice, Ethel hurried up the stairs apprehensively. “Take Miss Pamela with you,” he said, ‘‘and put her to bed at once.” Pamela was so upset and had got herself so worked up at the thought of losing her beloved Tinlid that she was too tired to remonstrate with her father. -She went off docilely with Ethel, and when, later in the evening, her father looked into her bedroom, she was fast asleep. When Pamela awoke the following morning, she tumbled out of bed right away, threw on some clothes and hurtled like a small tornado down to the basement. She nearly fell down the last three steps for there he was—Tinlid, her very own Tinlid. She flew into his strong arms and babbled hysterically to him. She told him how lonely she had been without him, and how much she had missed him, and how she loved him. Then she took a step back and gazed at him. The letter- © ing on his chest, Robot Nurse- maid and Child Companion No. 117, was almost unde-’ cipherable now. He had a big scratch along his body where Pamela had bumped into him on a swing, there was a jagged line down one leg where she had grazed 115 comiclooks.conn