SPOKEN FOR
By WILLIAM MORRISON
Illustrated by EMSH
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Science Fiction Fiction July 1955.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
He was lost—anyone could see that—but she
had no idea how entirely lost he was nor why!
Half of Jupiter's great disk and most of the other moons were below the horizon when the man stepped out of the plane and changed her life. As far as Carol Marsh was concerned, he was ordinary enough in appearance. And she wasn't ordinarily attracted to ordinary men.
He was slightly over medium height, his features were not quite regular, and he had a deep tan over what had started out as a sunburn, so that she decided he had misjudged the strength of the sun on some planet with a thin atmosphere.