74
AWESOME ADVENTURES
The door slid open and
Perlock
crawled
in,
muttering.
The secretary screamed.
"Sir, what's happened?
Are you all right? I've
been terribly worried.”
"We've
been
terribly
worried," corrected the
door.
"Water,"
Perlock.
water."
mumbled
"Must
have
His secretary stretched
out an arm to the watercooler then, taking the
cup, she placed it on the
floor. Perlock drank his
fill, and sighed. With
great
difficulty
he
climbed onto his chair.
The
secretary
began
making soothing noises
and placed two aspirins
and several tranks on the
desk-top.
The door spoke. "Aren't
humans lucky, dearest of
all masters, to have robots
always at hand to look to
every need?"
"Door is right, isn't he,
Sir,” said the secretary.
After she was repaired,
she often wondered why
her master had thrown
her with such vehemence
at door.
And, as he told his
maintenance robot later,
door wondered too.
In the next Awesome
issue:
THE PREPOSTERATOR .....
Virgil Benson Clyde
He had invented a
machine that could make
the wildest things happen.
But could he switch it off
before it wrecked the
planet?