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    Mate in Two Moves
    Mate in Two Moves
    Mate in Two Moves
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    Mate in Two Moves

    By William Ashman and Winston K. Marks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Mate in Two Moves - William Ashman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mate in Two Moves, by Winston Marks

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      Title: Mate in Two Moves

      Author: Winston Marks

      Illustrator: Ashman

      Release Date: June 8, 2010 [EBook #32748]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MATE IN TWO MOVES ***

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      MATE IN TWO MOVES

      By WINSTON MARKS

      Illustrated by ASHMAN

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of—it loved its victims to death!

      Love came somewhat late to Dr. Sylvester Murt. In fact, it took the epidemic of 1961 to break down his resistance. A great many people fell in love that year—just about every other person you talked to—so no one thought much about Dr. Murt's particular distress, except a fellow victim who was directly involved in this case.

      High Dawn Hospital, where 38-year-old Dr. Murt was resident pathologist, was not the first medical institution to take note of the plague. The symptoms first came to the attention of the general practitioners, then to the little clinics where the G. P.s sent their patients. But long before anything medical was done about it, the plague was sweeping North and South America and infiltrating every continent and island in the world.

      Murt's assistant, Dr. Phyllis Sutton, spotted the first irregularity in the Times one morning and mentioned it to him. They were having coffee in Murt's private office-lab, after completing reports on two rush biopsies.

      She looked up from the editorial page and remarked, You know, someone should do a research on the pathology of pantie raids.

      Murt spooned sugar into his mug of coffee and stared at her. In their six months' association, it was the first facetious remark she had made in his presence. To this moment, he had held an increasing regard for her quiet efficiency, sobriety, professional dignity and decorum. True, she wore her white coat more tightly belted than was necessary and, likewise, she refused to wear the very low hospital heels that thickened feminine ankles. But she wore a minimum of come-hither in both her cosmetic and personality makeup. This startling remark, then, was most unexpected.

      Pantie raids? he inquired. Whatever would justify an inquiry into such a patently behavioristic problem?

      The epidemic nature and its increasing virulence, she replied soberly. This spring, the thing has gotten out of hand, according to this editorial. A harmless tradition at a few of the more uninhibited campuses has turned into a national collegiate phenomenon. And now secondary effects are turning up. Instructors say that intramural romance is turning the halls of ivy into amatory rendezvous.

      Murt sipped his coffee and said, Be thankful you aren't a psychiatrist. Bacterial mutations are enough of a problem, without pondering unpredictable emotional disturbances.

      His assistant pursued it further. "It says the classrooms are emptying into the marriage bureaus,

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