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a stretcher, and were half-way to the door, when the police stepped out of the cupboards and nabbed the lot. Then we raided Sam's place, caught Sam and the rest of his crew, collected all sorts of fancy espionage equipment from various secret hiding-places- and that was that."

"I'm glad it went off so well, said Jenny. But her eyes did not sparkle. She felt as if she had betray- ed so me on e even if that someone was a traitor, and a would-be kidnapper. And besides, had she dared to hope that Sam might be in love with her? Perhaps her girl-heart had almost been given away.

But Valerie was saying, with determined gaiety: "Now you can go back to being the famous John Cara- velle again, and not a mere typist any more. John in- stead of Jenny."

There was a silence. Then" "But you see, Val- erie, I don't want to be John again. I want to be Jenny. I've always wanted to live as a girl, and I always will. Oh, I know it sounds ridiculous, and I would like to get my teeth into some research again, but couldn't I do it as Jenny? Isn't there any way? Why can't we TVs dress as we like all the time? We're not hurting any- one. There's nothing wrong in wearing girl's clothes, is there? After all, millions of girls do it every day'. Why can't we be accepted as we are? Why do we have to live our lives out, pretending to be what we aren't?"

Valerie's soft, dark eyes were brimming with sympathy and understanding.

"I know," she said quietly. "It's hard. And it's wrong. In some societies you could live as a girl if you wanted to, an d girls could live as boys if they wanted to. But not in our society, yet. We hope to change all that some day, which is why we want your help at the Club. You're famous, and you'll be all the more famous when this story breaks, and what you do, and what you are, will mean a lot to many people. We're working to change society's ideas about us - but for you to do your best work in that cause, you've got to appear as Dr. Caravelle again, and join us publicly-