Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction February 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

THE PLAGUE

By TEDDY KELLER

Suppose a strictly one hundred per cent American plague showed up.... One that attacked only people within the political borders of the United States!

Illustrated by Schoenherr


ergeant Major Andrew McCloud ignored the jangling telephones and the excited jabber of a room full of brass, and lit a cigarette. Somebody had to keep his head in this mess. Everybody was about to flip.