Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction May 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

NOR IRON BARS A CAGE....

Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....

JONATHAN BLAKE MACKENZIE

ILLUSTRATED BY SCHOENHERR


Her red-blond hair was stained and discolored when they found her in the sewer, and her lungs were choked with muck because her killer hadn't bothered to see whether she was really dead when he dumped her body into the manhole, so she had breathed the stuff in with her last gasping breaths. Her face was bruised, covered with great blotches, and three of her ribs had been broken. Her thighs and abdomen had been bruised and lacerated.