Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 137: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION baring its enormous white teeth, and as he brushed against the cage tried to grab him by the sleeve of his coat. ““What’s biting that little fellow?’ said the detective- sergeant good humouredly. “Oh, don’t take any notice of Casanova’s tantrums,” said the doctor airily. ““He hasn’t long been out of Africa and I imagine he objects to being confined. He'll settle down. They all do in time—as you can see from his stable com- panion, Napoleon, who has adopted—shall we say—a more philosophical attitude.” A half an hour later, as the two police officers made their way back to their headquar- ters, the younger said: ““Do you think the doc maltreats those animals, Sarge? That chimp certainly seemed to have it in for him.” ‘““No, I shouldn’t think so,” replied the plethoric detective- sergeant. “He strikes me as the type that wouldn’t hurt a fly—besides, if he’d mal- treated it the brute would be more likely to cower and 136 cringe away than go for him.” A year passed by and still there were no signs of the whereabouts of Paul Stock. Public interest, which had flared for a while, had by now almost completely waned. The police file, it is true, still re- mained open, as it always must in the case of missing persons who are not traced, but official activity by now was practically nil. As for Varya, the doctor’s wife, it would not be easy to describe the agonies of mind through which she had passed. Still believing that the doctor was unaware of her clandes- tine liaison with Stock, she had had to struggle to preserve an outwardly natural mien, striving to present no more concern in the matter than would be expected from a woman to whom the missing man was merely a family friend. But there were times when she gave way to the most terrible misgivings. Times when she thought she could discern, whenever the conversation touched upon comicloooks.com