Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 133: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION destine affair Varya was con- stantly reproaching him for the open recklessness of his behaviour. He made little attempt to conceal his fas- cination for her, and com- pelled her to face risks which must have been extremely nerve-wracking for any woman who wished to con- ceal her unfaithfulness from her husband. To such re- proaches he would invariably reply: ““Don’t worry, my dear. That absent-minded Professor will never know a thing. He’s got his mind permanently buried in a test-tube.” But, of course, Dr. Blaise knew almost from the outset, and never ceased to nurture his project of revenge. It was about a year after Dr. Blaise had so astonishingly proved the possibility of in- duced evolution that Paul Stock disappeared for the second time, occasion it was not as a result of one of his spectacu- lar flights; on the contrary, it was from the heart of the teeming capital. 132 but on this. Not unsurprisingly, for some months no move was made to check his whereabouts. His only living relative, a maiden aunt he was in the habit of visiting once or twice a year, had received a rather long but vague tele- gram, in which he stated that he might have to go to South America, and that he might not be able to see her for some time. But eventually, having received no word from him for nine months, this elderly lady became perturbed and notified the police. The usual routine action for trac- ing missing persons was set in motion, and very soon in- vestigations established the fact that the last person to have seen him was Dr. Blaise. The doctor lived in the Holland Park area in a large mansion backed by extensive grounds—not far, in fact, from the noble ruins of historic Holland Park House. It was to this mansion that — the investigating police detec- tives repaired to obtain the doctor’s views on the matter. comicloooks.com