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got over his fear and was trying frantically to think of an obscene
remark that would be suitable to insult
him with. Usually he didn’t have any trouble with this kind of
composition but nothing came to him now.
His brain, both parts, was completely empty. He couldn’t think even
of the insulting phrases he used
every day.
There were only two children in front of him by now. The first one
shook hands and stepped aside.
Enoch’s heart was beating violently. The child in front of him
finished and stepped aside and left him
facing the ape, who took his hand with an automatic motion.
It was the first hand that had been extended to Enoch since he had
come to the city. It was warm and
soft. For a second he only stood there, clasping it. Then he began to
stammer. “My name is Enoch
Emery,” he mumbled. “I attended the Rodemill Boys’ Bible
Academy. I work at the city zoo. I seen two of
your pictures. I’m only eighteen years old but I already work for the
city. My daddy made me come…”
and his voice cracked.
The star leaned slightly forward and a change came in his eyes: an
ugly pair of human ones moved
closer and squinted at Enoch from behind the celluloid pair. “You go
to hell,” a surly voice inside the apesuit said, low but distinctly, and
the hand was jerked away.