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Transcriber's note:
This e-text was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction, July, 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.



FAIR and WARMER

By E. G. von Wald

Illustrated by Paul Orban


Tensor's melancholia threatened to disturb the entire citizenry, and that was most uncivil! So—if these peculiar aliens caused him this distress, by provoking his intellectual curiosity, the remedy was for him to investigate them to his complete satisfaction.... Thus, in this manner, did Tensor get well—and did he learn a bit too....

Tensor gazed helplessly at the fine mist sifting down from a hazy, violet sky. "I told you I was having these spells."