Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
THE DICTATOR
By
Milton Lesser
Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal. But some still wanted more personal attention, and they got it, like—
ust looking at Ellaby, you could tell he was going places. He was five feet nine inches tall and weighed a hundred and fifty pounds. He had an I. Q. of ninety-eight point five-seven, less than four hundredths off the mode. His hair was mousey and worn slightly long for a man, slightly short for a woman. Back in High Falls, where he was born, he was physically weaker than sixty percent of the men but stronger than sixty percent of the women.
He had been in training since his twentieth birthday to assassinate the Dictator. Ellaby was now thirty years old.