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"None if you feel that way. But if you feel as Bowdler did and as I
do, that it is worth anything to be a man, then it is worth while. Any
chance is worth taking."
Grundy's tone changed. He said, "When I turn the next corner I'll slow
the team down. When I do, jump out."
Jump out? What new madness was this? But before he had a chance to
argue, Grundy had pulled hard on the bits and snapped, "Now!"
Rolling free of the carriage on his side, Comstock saw even as he fell
to the ground, that Grundy had thrown himself out of the other side of
the carriage.
The team raced on, dragging the empty carriage banging and clattering
at their multiple heels.
* * * * *
Shaken, bruised, sore from head to foot, Comstock said as Grundy pulled
himself to his feet. "Why did you do that?"
"Let the R.A.'s keep their radio tail on the carriage. A lot of good
it'll do them!"
Grundy again helped him to his feet, and then said, "Follow me."
Comstock's mind was a whirl again. What was a radio?
The street was even quieter than most in Comstock's city. Small houses,
a decent distance apart, lined the lawns where the purplish grass
sparkled in the light of the twin moons.
The house that Grundy stopped in front of was identical with all the
others. He took a key from his pocket and opened the door. Then he
called out, "Helen!"
* * * * *
Comstock had come a long way at that moment when he had waited futilely
for The Grandfather's wrath to strike him dead, but he had not come
to the point where he could watch the indecency of the scene that
followed. Averting his eyes as the young girl entered the room, he
wished desperately that he might be struck deaf so as not to have to
hear what followed their entry.
In the first place she was obscenely young, not more than twenty-five.
In the second place her ugly young skin was completely without
wrinkles. In the third place she threw her round young arms around
Grundy's neck, and in the fourth place she k....d him hard and long on
the l..s and in the fifth place she crooned to him l..e words that no
one should ever be forced to hear.
"Darling, darling, darling," she said over and over again. "I've missed
you so terribly, I've been so worried ... but it's over and you're near
me again."
"Dearest," Comstock could not help hearing Grundy say and his opinion
of the man descended sharply, "My loveliest sweetheart."
Then their l.ps met again in a sustained and prolonged bit of
pornographic action that left Comstock weak. Worse perhaps than the way
they were pushing their l..s against each other was the way they had
glued their bodies together.
He coughed trying to bring them back to their senses.
Grundy broke away from the girl. "Thank The Grandfather," Comstock
thought, and then bit his lip as he realized that he no longer had the
right to call on that name....
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