Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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STRANGE SUICIDE said he was working at the laboratory—and not working alone, possibly, since the woman had mentioned an A Class ManUIl that Jaksn had employed in his laboratory as an assistant; check on him, too. And above ail there was the fact that Jaksn’s wife had had a feeling of something impending for a couple of months or more. She had felt, Kristofr gathered, that she was being more and more shut out from her husband’s life. The death was really the climax to a long period of tension that simply had to have a climax. It was unfortunate that the woman had been unable to give him more specific information regarding Jaksn’s friends, but it couldn’t be helped. He had got enough leads to work on and he was practically certain that one or other of them would take him elsewhere than into the proverbial blind alley. As for Mrs. Ena Jaksn, well, she would be psychoblokt re- garding their recent conversa- tion, and her subsequent fate depended on further develop- ments of the case. If he 35 discovered that no method had been devised for blocking the Detector’s influence, then the suicide could be exposed as an attempt at an anti-State Class One felony, inasmuch as the State had been initiaily deceived into thinking that Jaksn had taken his own life. As a consequence of being related to the person involved in such a deception, Mrs. Jackson would be down- graded, etc., accordingly, and the State would have a scape- gcoat—what on Terra did the word mean?—to hold before the public eye and thus prove its own omniscience. But for the initiative and courage of. General of Security Police R. N. Kristofr—tlate Over- Inspector Kristofr—the whole intricate nature of the crime might have gone unnoticed... R. N. Kristefr believed in the State above. everything, but R. N. Kristofr came a very good second in his thoughts. He stood up. ““You’ve been very helpful, Mrs. Jaksn,’’ he said. ‘“Now, if you wouldn’t mind accompanying me...?” He motioned towards the door. Comicbooks.corm