Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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STRANGE SUICIDE alternating with greater and greater speed as the being that was no more than an eye swam through them on strange tides and weirder eddies, swam past them and swam past them on and on, its visions—as each one was registered—juggling their way into position one with the other to thus build up anew that phantasmagorical collection of vari-ievel images that was the substance of memory for one certain figure that lay without motion upon acertain couch... o 9 9 HE KRISTOFR THAT SAT AT the desk was a different Kristofr to the one that had interviewed Dr. Robt Jaksn’s widow. Gone were the deli- cate synthiskin disguises that had so effectively altered his features. Gone, too, were the vivid suit and the aroma of MaskAlin 90b. As the summer evening light faded to a certain mizi- mum of briiliance with the setting sun- the tubelights buzzed and flickered on all round the office. He glanced up from his work. Late, he thought. So 43 late already. Perhaps too late! He looked down again at his desk. Strewn all over it were reports from numerous Security officers on matters connected with the Jaksn case that he had ordered them to check. He had just completed his own deductions from the mass of statements and facts, and he needed now to check these with the Analyzer’s findings. If the two agreed then he could be more or less certain of cracking the case with sufficient success to warrant jumpgrading, even if he did have to go over the finer points later. General of Security Police, he mused, would be a very pleasant title. It took him ten minutes to correlate the Analyzer’s de- ductions, when they arrived, with those he had made him- self. The two agreed in ali but minor details, as he had suspected would be the case. The moment his comparisons were completed he snapped on his inter-departmenta!l visor and ordered five of his men to leave their routine jobs and assemble outside the building. He then contacted the Roof- comicloooks.corn