He was surprised to find there a young lady who didn't speak all the long while the SMO explained the course of action to Ian, but kept busy sketching his face over and over. At length, she handed over a pile of sketches to the SMO and went out, pausing only for a brief moment in the doorway to give Ian a searching glance. Then she closed the door.

The SMO looked through the sketches rapidly, then said to Ian "Come look these over." Ian was surprised to find a series of sketches of himself in varying feminine hair styles with very subtle changes in his facial planes. Then he realized that all the changes involved an alteration of his nose. The familiar arch he had earned playing Rugger was gone in varying degrees ranging from a Grecian slope to a definite pug. "You're not to let me keep even my own face, eh?" said Ian rue- fully.

"I think you'll admit that it will make a vast amount of difference, and we can't afford the chance. Someone, somewhere, may remember the little marks. Don't worry, though, it isn't very painful and with care, you'll not have black eyes for more than a week or so. Now do you understand everything that's going to happen?"

"No, I don't completely. You're to remove my beard with electolysis, I'm to have my hair re-styled, be outfitted with different clothes. But I don't understand this business with the—” he indicated his chest.

"Alright, I'll explain again. Over a very long period of time, you possibly could develop sufficiently there, but it would take years, and then there is the question of reducing them later. However, there is a new technique out that should just about fill the ticket." The SMO went to a large white cabinet and came back with two large bottles and what looked like a tire pump. "The Japanese and a few Americans have been experimenting with this stuff for several years and they've developed this." He indicated the appartus and the chemicals.

"And?"

And, it gives us the solution of how to, shall we say, elevate your front a bit, and remove it simply when we are done. The best part is that it doesn't involve much surgery. It could be done with local an- esthetics as a matter of fact, although we'll use a general and go after that nose as well. Now then, this is how it works: we inject this directly into the pseudo-capsule superficial to the fascia of the pectoral muscle.

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