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“Good,” Dr. Light said. “Now keep doing as you are told.”

Dr. Light was a round fat man with a pale, pink baby skin and a very light, almost white mustache. His
hair was not white, but extremely blond, and in his eyes there was a lack of coloration, such an absence
of it that he came near having the pink eyes of an albino, a person whose body is lacking in coloring
pigment. He was not a true albino, though. He was just a very pale and very blond man. His spectacles
with magnifying lenses gave him a goblin aspect.

“Walk with me,” he said.

Chapter II. FLOCK TOGETHER

DR. LIGHT and Dr. Wilson walked along the streets of Logantown in the gathering dusk. Dr. Light kept
his hand and the gun in his coat pocket.

“You're doing fine,” he told Dr. Wilson.

“But just do not get it in your head that I would not shoot you, because I would. “

“You would be hanged!” said Dr. Wilson.

“I might be. But they would have to catch me first. And if they didn't catch me, it would be worth it.”

They went into a shack section on the outskirts of town. It was the section called Honesty Flats, and it
was not called Honesty Flats because the name fitted.

Dr. Light turned their course into a weed-grown yard which was occupied by a three-room shack which,
apparently, had never been painted.

A woman in a cheap red dress opened the door, smirked and said, “Why, hello, Doc Light.” Then she
saw Dr. Wilson, looked startled, and said, “Hell, Doc, I didn't know you had highborn company.”

“Kate, where's Snuffy?” Dr. Light asked.

The woman eyed Dr. Wilson suspiciously.

“What you want with him?”

Dr. Light took the hand and the gun out of his pocket and showed the woman that it was pointed at Dr.
Wilson.

“Oh, jeeps!” the woman said. “I'll get Snuffy!”

She went away in a hurry.

Snuffy Gonner was a small furtive man with the large eyes and large ears of a fox.

He carried himself as if he were always looking around for a hole into which he could dodge in an
emergency. And there had been quite a few such emergencies in his life.