Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 60: what you’re looking at

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CONSPIRACY sary. I have to avoid every- thing of that kind.” She said, in despair: ““And that’s the future—that’s - all you have to look forward to? Years of hiding—not being able even to ride in a bus— and then, in the end, them running things here as they do on your world? What kind of life is that going to be?” ‘**A better one than the old. You can’t understand. You haven’t seen the big metal gates close behind you.” “But isn’t there anything you can do—anything that can be done?” “Jenny,” he said, “‘you’re the only person I can trust— and you don’t really believe me, do you?” Dr. Morenberg said: “One of the most interesting illusions I’ve come across. The kind of thing that Spencer : Decidedly interesting. What did he say happened to the thing he came across the— the barrier in? An armoured car, wasn’t it? I should have 59 thought that would attract some attention ?” ““He was supposed to come over as an Army man—he said they had it all fixed for him—trecords and papers and that kind of stuff. It was a duplicate of the armoured cars the Army uses. He said he ditched it—drove it up to the edge of a lake, got out and sent it on in.” “Vibrator and all?” “‘That’s what he said. He thought maybe they might be fooled—that they might think there had been some kind of accident and he had never arrived. He said there were accidents like that from time to time.” “He said that, did he? Remarkable evidence of sys- tem in the story.’’ He nodded, as though confirming some- thing to himself. “‘Spencer’s kind of thing, all right. You usually meet your friend in the park? South side ?’”’ She nodded. “Most times we sit on the seat by the summer house, at the edge of the lake.”’ comiclooks.corn