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Fanfare, whole no. 10, December 1943

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....Hussies. What happened?
   He looked a bit sheepish. It was a relief after the horsishness. "I thot I knew where he was," he said plaintively. "I had him right there in the book, between two covers. But I went away for a few installments, & when I got back there was a Russian there instead. Marakinoff."* He shuddered. "He's awful. He won't listen. He just laughs. Laughs. He burst into tears."
   Alicia snorted. "Serves you right," she opined. Stop blubbering. Do something."
   "I am," sobbed Cummings. "I made an appointment yesterday, with the detective, Taine,** for tomorrow. It's always today."
  He collapsed on her dry shoulder. Tears welled up as if from an artesian well. In a few seconds Alicia was afloat. She struck out boldly toward the distant range of molecular hills. The last she heard of Cummings was his doleful wail as the flood closed over his head. Then there was silence but for the screams of the parrot. 
   "Von Hetzdorp. Von Hetzdorp...."
   Alicia looked back over her shoulder. A twenty-foot wall of water was bearing down on her, the bow-wave of an enormous blue & yellow mosasaur. On its flat skull rested a burly, bearded individual with a box tucked under his arm. Von Hetzdorp! Behind him swam a troop of slightly smaller green plesiosaurs, whose riders wore the uniform of Yu-Atlanchi.*** High above sounded elfin buglings, like distant roadsters - "Da-de-da-da."# A beam of moonshine smote the churning waters, & down the moon-path drifted a flood of crystal bell-notes. Seven glowing billiard balls spun lazily in a cloud of shattered atoms. The Dweller!## With a despairing cry, Alicia sank beneath the waves. 
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*The original villain of The Moon Pool, soon after the first world war, was one Von Hetzsorp, but by the time later editions appeared, Russian villains were all the rage, so it became Marakinoff. Latest edition no on the press has it Yatomato.
**No-nicotaine of San Francisco, a Keller Kharacter.
***Near the Face in the Abyss, home of the Snake Mother.
# Acclaimed some years ago by EESmith as the most priceless, the almost sacrilegious, passage in stf.
## of the Moon Pool.

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12 ....Hussies. What happened? He looked a bit sheepish. It was a relief after the horsishness. "I thot I knew where he was," he said plaintively. "I had him right there in the book, between two covers. But I went away for a few installments, & when I got back there was a Russian there instead. Marakinoff."* He shuddered. "He's awful. He won't listen. He just laughs. Laughs. He burst into tears." Alicia snorted. "Serves you right," she opined. Stop blubbering. Do something." "I am," sobbed Cummings. "I made an appointment yesterday, with the detective, Taine,** for tomorrow. It's always today." He collapsed on her dry shoulder. Tears welled up as if from an artesian well. In a few seconds Alicia was afloat. She struck out boldly toward the distant range of molecular hills. The last she heard of Cummings was his doleful wail as the flood closed over his head. Then there was silence but for the screams of the parrot. "Von Hetzdorp. Von Hetzdorp...." Alicia looked back over her shoulder. A twenty-foot wall of water was bearing down on her, the bow-wave of an enormous blue & yellow mosasaur. On its flat skull rested a burly, bearded individual with a box tucked under his arm. Von Hetzdorp! Behind him swam a troop of slightly smaller green plesiosaurs, whose riders wore the uniform of Yu-Atlanchi.*** High above sounded elfin buglings, like distant roadsters - "Da-de-da-da."# A beam of moonshine smote the churning waters, & down the moon-path drifted a flood of crystal bell-notes. Seven glowing billiard balls spun lazily in a cloud of shattered atoms. The Dweller!## With a despairing cry, Alicia sank beneath the waves. _____________________________________ *The original villain of The Moon Pool, soon after the first world war, was one Von Hetzsorp, but by the time later editions appeared, Russian villains were all the rage, so it became Marakinoff. Latest edition no on the press has it Yatomato. **No-nicotaine of San Francisco, a Keller Kharacter. ***Near the Face in the Abyss, home of the Snake Mother. # Acclaimed some years ago by EESmith as the most priceless, the almost sacrilegious, passage in stf. ## of the Moon Pool.