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    Step IV
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    Step IV

    By Mel Varga and Rosel George Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Step IV - Mel Varga

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Step IV, by Rosel George Brown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Step IV

      Author: Rosel George Brown

      Illustrator: Varga

      Release Date: January 7, 2010 [EBook #30884]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STEP IV ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Amazing Stories June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Steps 1, 2 and 3 went according to

      plan. Then she moved on to....

      STEP IV

      By ROSEL GEORGE BROWN

      ILLUSTRATOR VARGA

      he first time Juba saw him, she couldn't help recalling the description of Ariovistus in Julius Caesar: Hominem esse barbarum, iracundum, temerarium.

      She unpinned the delicate laesa from her hair, for Terran spacemen are educated, and if they have a choice, or seem to have, prefer seduction to rape.

      Step. I. A soft answer turneth away wrath, leaving time for making plans.

      He caught the flower, pleased with himself, Juba saw, for not fumbling, pleased with his manhood, pleased with his morality in deciding not to rape her.

      Rule a—A man pleased with himself is off guard.

      He was big, even for a Man, and all hair, and in his heavy arms the veins were knotted and very blue. He had taken off his shirt, letting the air blow shamelessly over him.

      It was true he was wonderful to see. And Juba knew that such is the nature of our violences, if she had been born into such a body, she too, would be a thing of wars and cruelty, a burner of cities, a carrier of death and desolation.

      His face softened, as though the hand of Juno had passed over it. Softly he gazed at the flower, softly at Juba.

      Rule b—This is the only time they are tractable.

      Vene mecum, she bade him, retreating into the glade—what was left of it after his ship burned a scar into it. She ran lightly, so as

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