“Ah," said the doctor. "I see the transposition has been very satis- factory in every way. Sometimes there are complications.'

"What's the idea in doing this to me," demanded Hank." I am no woman."

"You are now," said Lydia with a smile.

"Yes, yes,” said the doctor. “You see my assistant and I are from another planet. We have been sent, along with some others, to make a peaceful study and observance of the life and customs on your earth. On our planet we have learned how under the right conditions to trans- pose ourselves to another body if we so desire. But it is very necessary that certain characteristics are right before it can be accomplished. You must understand that we cannot change with just anybody, but only with those that have similar genes. Now in our own world, I am one of the leading women scientists, and Lydia, pointing to his com- panion, is my assistant.

“Oh,” exclaimed Hank, "so that is what all the questions on my health were about.”

"Yes," continued the doctor. "Lydia was very anxious to have your body, but we had to know if you qualified.'

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"And you certainly did," exclaimed the assistant.

"Yes it appears to be working out very well," the doctor said, and continued to explain. "For the accomplishment of our mission on this earth it was thought best that we; that is myself and my assistant assume a masculine role. Fortunately I was able to find a man in Russia with the proper genes, and had no difficulty in transposing my body with his."

"The poor man,” said Hank.

"Why do you say that," asked the doctor, somewhat annoyed.” “It appears I gave him a better body than he gave me. He has a bad case of hay fever. Lydia was not so fortunate and could not find anyone suitable until she met you. Time is getting short for us, and there was not much time for any preliminary explanations, and you two people have trans- posed very successfully.

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