The man who wouldn't sign up

by Tom Purdom

the man who wouldn't sign up

By THOMAS E. PURDOM

Chances are you'll sympathize deeply
with Henry Westing, who merely wanted
to go on living his own life in his own
manner. But under the same circumstances,
how would you go about doing it?

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Infinity October 1958.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

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All his life people had been trying to get Henry Westing to sign up. They were all signing up themselves and they wanted everybody else to sign up too.

In college it had been the fraternities. Mr. Westing hadn't tried to join one.

"But you've got to belong to something," they said. "Everybody does."

"I don't."

"Sure you do. You're just being rebellious."