RUNDOWN
BY ROBERT LORY
All panhandlers ask for dimes—but
this one had a very special purpose!
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1963.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
The subway train announced its arrival with a screech of grating steel. The man was shoved from the car onto the platform by the eight p.m. crowd. The noise and the abrupt handling of his body brought him to awareness.
Not that he had been asleep or unconscious. Although he might have been. He didn't know for sure.
He found it hard to concentrate, but soon a sign over the platform came into focus:
WESTBORO