down empty handed.

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"Take your young man from the bed, said Montague, and we'll steal a soul someplace.

"I guess that will work,

said Fortesque and they shot down to the nearest street corner and stood there holding a rather rubbery young man between them.

They had stood there only a moment when the president of a large and very influential school board came by and paused at the corner. He was debating with himself whether or not to approve the construction of an auxiliary indoor tennis court. He knew that this would mean the sacrifice of six English teachers and a library but with a flash of the miraculous insight unique to his kind, he decided that a library full of books of English would be quite use- less without teachers to teach English and, conversely, why would anyone learn all about books that didn't exist; if there were no library teachers were certainly superfluous. He decided on the tennis court.

The Devils found no trouble in slipping this gentleman's soul out from beneath his coat tails and jamming it into the gelatinous shape of the young man. The president of the school board did not miss his soul as he had never had occasion to use it and did not

know it was gone. He walked jauntily off across the street, against the lights. The Devils with their ersatz prize disappeared down the nearest laundry chute. "Remember," Fortesque's voice came back through a sulphurous fog, "Mum's the word! "

"And stay away from FP's in the future," said Monty.

In New York at about this time the nominations for the country- 's best dressed women were taking place. The people who decide such things gave first place, as usual, to an extravagantly gor- geous blonde who was said to be the most charming and feminine woman in the city (even if her breasts were slightly large and vulgar). Not only did she command first place but, in deference to her magnificent wardrobe, she was given the next three places on the list as well.

Little was known about this lady's origins or family except that she did have a rather shy and ser sitive brother who made an occasional appearance on Friday afternoons when he was wont to shoot a game of rotation with the boys, and enjoy a long cigar.

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