Transedia back in the body. So, they left him there in all his ugliness and went to wire up. Steve felt no opposition from his partner as he carefully put the electrodes through her long hair and pricked them into the scalp. He just murmured "Left side, since I'm left-handed, " and managed to ignore the fact that the lobes of the brain control the OPPOSITE side of the body. But Maria was oblivious; her murmur said "SSO!"), over and over, so his chicanery went undetected. They sat in his chair for the longest ten minutes in history, busily thinking "Sevens" and glancing at the clock. Presently the dice seemed to vibrate; he forced him- self to repeat, in a squeaky, trembling voice neither had ever heard. "Perhaps if I touch the table a little, and leaned forward right on time. And right on time came the un bearable flare, the wave of heat as 500 watts of microwave power burst into his skull, and oblivion. But he felt, even as he went, that the impact had been less; this time he had heard the fuses blow.

When he woke, he knew at once the deception had succeded; he was lying on the blankets and quilt spread to spare her fragile bones! And he was alone in her mind! Or was there still a touch of her about? Before he could be sure, heavy steps sounded behind him, and he was lifted like a leaf. Strong arms went around him, and a grinning face with 36 hours worth of beard was thrust over his shoulder. "Pretty cute trick, Steve," she growled. And then his slim wrists were pinioned in one large hand, while Maria's heavy shoe crunched rhythmicly on every tunable part of the unit. "Let's see you reverse it now!" Both knew without saying it that they would never dare trust any duplicate apparatus in fact, that their chances of surviving the repeat ex- periment had been perilously slight.

She released him, and stepped back. "It was tough

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