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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Garrity's Annuities - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: January 20, 2016 [EBook #50981] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GARRITY'S ANNUITIES *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>Garrity's Annuities</h1> - -<p>By DAVID MASON</p> - -<p>Illustrated by RAY</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction April 1956.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Every planet is badly in need of family men,<br /> -naturally—but the same one on all of them?</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>You might say Garrity brought it on himself. The way I put it, Garrity -was the architect of his own disasters. It's a nicely put phrase, I -think. Anyway, a lot of people tried to tell him what might happen. I -did, for one, though I'd never have thought it would happen in just -that way. What I would have predicted for Garrity would be trouble, but -just ordinary trouble: jail, or getting his Space Engineer's ticket -suspended, or something like that. Not the kind of trouble he's got.</p> - -<p>I remember distinctly the first time I heard Garrity explaining his -theory. It wasn't a new theory, but the way Garrity talked about -it, you'd think he'd invented it personally. We were sitting in the -messroom in the <i>Aloha</i>—that was the old <i>Aloha</i>, the one that -belonged to the Muller Space Lines. Talking about women—trip like -that.</p> - -<p>Neither Garrity nor I had ever touched down on Seranis, which was where -we'd be in another week or so. The other off-watch man, Gloster, had -been there several times and liked the place.</p> - -<p>"A lot of Earthside Oriental in 'em," Gloster said. "They're little -brown characters, real obliging. The girls especially. You just treat -'em polite and they'll treat you right back."</p> - -<p>"Uh-huh," I said, considering the idea.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Garrity curled his long lip. "It'll cost you just as much in the end. -Women are always looking for something."</p> - -<p>"Not this kind on Seranis," Gloster said. "Best port I've ever been in. -I'm staying on the <i>Aloha</i> till I get to putting curtains on my cabin -port."</p> - -<p>Garrity shook his head. He looked as cynical as he could, for his age, -which was twenty-four. We were all of us fresh out of Lunar, with the -ink hardly dry on our Engineer tickets.</p> - -<p>"I'll tell you," said Garrity. "I haven't seen a woman yet that -wouldn't cost you more than she was worth in the long run."</p> - -<p>"Long run?" I asked him. "We don't spend more than a few days down on -Seranis. Isn't going to <i>be</i> any long run. If she runs, let her to -catch her before takeoff time."</p> - -<p>Gloster chuckled, but Garrity just looked righteous.</p> - -<p>"You'll see what I mean," he told us.</p> - -<p>"Yeah," Gloster said. "I guess you and me will go downtown and pick up -a couple girls and take in some high-priced amusements, like listening -to records at the Spaceman's Union Lounge. After which we hurl our -hard-earned cash away on a quart of pink arrack and we take the girls -home with it. In the morning, we haven't got a credit left, so we blast -off with nothing but a set of beautiful memories." Gloster crowed. -"What's the matter, anyway, Garrity? The Union gets us the best wage -scale in any space fleet and you still think girls cost too much? Even -the Seranese?"</p> - -<p>Garrity kept on looking wise. "I'm not kidding. I've seen a lot of men -come up to retirement without a credit put away. Half-pay and nothing -else, all because they spent everything having a good time."</p> - -<p>"You can do without women, maybe?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"No," Garrity admitted. "I'm a normal man."</p> - -<p>"Yeah," said Gloster, very flat.</p> - -<p>Garrity looked peeved. "Well, I am. But I'm careful, too. I figured it -all out a long time back. I aim to have everything you guys look for -and not go to half the trouble and expense."</p> - -<p>"What did you figure out?"</p> - -<p>"I'm going to get married."</p> - -<p>Gloster and I just sat there, looking at each other. After a while, -Gloster finished his coffee in silence. He got up, looked at Garrity, -shook his head sadly, and went out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It took me a while to finish looking Garrity over, myself. When I -managed to get my voice under control, I asked him what he was talking -about.</p> - -<p>"I saw what happened to my old man," Garrity told me. "When he came -up for retirement, he was broke. He doesn't complain, but he never -has anything left out of his retirement pay. Spends his time loafing -around and writing his memoirs. It was women, mostly; after he lost my -mother—she died when I was born—he went off to space again. Sent back -enough to keep me, spent the rest in one port or another."</p> - -<p>I didn't say anything, but it was beginning to add up. I don't know -anything about psychology, but I thought there might be something -like a reason in what Garrity was telling me for the way Garrity was. -Somewhere he'd got the idea that his old man wasn't happy. I doubted -it, because I've seen and talked to lots of old retired hands. Most -of them had a good life behind them and they were still enjoying the -taste of it.</p> - -<p>But I didn't argue with Garrity about it. I've got more sense. When a -man's got a pet notion, leave it alone. You won't pry him off it and -you might get him mad at you. A spaceship's too small to make enemies -in.</p> - -<p>"Suppose you get married," I asked him. "So you have a place to go, and -a girl in it, in one port. How about all the others? Going to take a -permanent port watch instead of seeing a little fun?"</p> - -<p>"Easy," Garrity said. "I'll just get married in all of them."</p> - -<p>"<i>All</i> of them?"</p> - -<p>"Well, the ones I'm in most often. Terra City, Chafanor, some other -places. I'm thinking of homesteading on one line as soon as I pad on a -little seniority."</p> - -<p>The notion did have a certain cold practicality about it. I didn't like -it, but as far as getting away with it went, he could.</p> - -<p>Garrity went on to explain a bit more; his system seemed to have been -worked out to the last detail. He'd set up two, three, maybe four or -five happy little households, spend his end-of-run leave in each, -dividing up his time nice and even. All of them together wouldn't cost -him what a night or two on the town might.</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="348" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>To add to that, he'd pick out his wives with care. They'd all be -different in a lot of ways, for the sake of variety, but they'd all -be affectionate, home-loving girls, and careful with money. They'd -save his credits for him. And when he retired, he could keep active -and happy visiting them and his various families, which he expected to -include a real lot of kids and grandchildren.</p> - -<p>"I don't believe in small families," he explained.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>At the time, I never thought he'd try to carry it through. I've heard -wild ideas in messrooms before, particularly halfway through a long -trip. They usually fade out when a man gets his feet down on gravity -again. This one didn't.</p> - -<p>But it might have worked out, at that. It was just Garrity's luck that -he signed on the <i>Brooklyn</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Brooklyn</i> carried ore from Serco to Terra, and Terran machinery -back to Serco, a regular, steady run. When I bumped into Garrity in the -hiring hall, he told me he'd just signed on her, and I told him I had, -too. Naturally, I asked him how the Garrity old-age-insurance system -was working out.</p> - -<p>"Well," he confessed, "I'm not married yet. But I've got a likely girl -here in Terra City. All I've got to do is ask her. Now if I can line -one up in Serco—"</p> - -<p>"In Serco?" I turned a little pale, I think. "Listen, Garrity, have -you ever been in Serco?"</p> - -<p>"No. Why? Aren't they humanoids?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, sure." I was trying to think just how you'd describe Serco and its -peculiar people. "Only different."</p> - -<p>"How're they different?"</p> - -<p>Looking at that stubborn mug of his, I knew I wasn't going to be able -to explain this in a million years. It was just no use. Garrity had -everything all figured out. But I took one try.</p> - -<p>"They've never been much of a mechanical culture; they buy all their -stuff from outside, in exchange for ore and timber. But they're one of -the oldest civilizations in the Galaxy. They've spent a million years -learning about minds and thoughts, all that philosophy sort of thing. -I don't mean they aren't perfectly all right. They're human, but they -know a lot. It wouldn't pay to fool around with them."</p> - -<p>Garrity laughed. "Maybe they might read my mind?"</p> - -<p>I knew it was no use. I just shrugged, bought Garrity a beer to -celebrate, and we headed for the spaceport.</p> - -<p>No, the Sercoans don't read minds. At least, I don't think they do, -though there are times when they're that clever at adding you up that -you'd think they <i>were</i> looking at your thoughts.</p> - -<p>Garrity didn't get caught that way. He got caught because he couldn't -keep from telling the rest of us about his great idea. One of the -navigators, a man named Lane, was the one who told Katha about it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Lane was in love with Katha, naturally. Everybody was. She worked in -the port medical office and she was one of the reasons why it took a -high-seniority card to sign on a ship for Serco. There were a lot of -men who'd take an extra set of immune shots just to have Katha give it -to them. And it isn't a bit easy to figure out why.</p> - -<p>She wasn't any beauty. Good-looking, sort of, but not especially so; -a tallish girl, with gray eyes and a long, narrow, sensitive face. -Browny-red hair that always looked a little carelessly cut. As I said, -nothing at all special. It was just something about her. She could have -had her pick and she picked Garrity. And only Lane broke the rules and -told her. Trouble is, he told her a couple of weeks too late.</p> - -<p>It was because Lane had never thought that Katha would fall for Garrity -that he hadn't told her before. But when he touched down at Serco port -and heard that Katha and Garrity had gotten married the week before, he -didn't waste any more time. He called Katha up from the spaceport, and -told her all about the Garrity plan, and how she was only the first, -but definitely not the last.</p> - -<p>Lane told me afterward what Katha had said.</p> - -<p>"I am not jealous," she'd answered. "If he had wanted others when he -was away, he could have done as he wished, as a man might. But he has -spoken to you as a child, not a man. I do not like that."</p> - -<p>She didn't sound terribly angry. It was the way she phrased it that -bothered Lane.</p> - -<p>"But he is not a bad man," she said thoughtfully to Lane. "And he is a -good lover and makes a fine husband. I will not hurt him, but I think I -will give him something which will teach him, if he wants to learn. And -when he has learned, I will take it away again and he may be as free as -he can ... as free as any of you of the outside ever are."</p> - -<p>I can't tell you what it was she did. Neither can Garrity. Hell, he -didn't even know she'd done anything! He kissed her good-by at the -port gates and went on his way, and she went back to work in the port -medical office. As far as any of us could see, the Garrity plan was -well under way.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It wasn't six months before I saw the thing starting off. That was -when I was invited to Garrity's second wedding. It was in Terra City, -and when he asked me to come down with him for a witness, I assumed it -would be the girl he had been busily courting before he went to Serco. -But when I walked into the marriage registry office and took a look at -the girl, I got a clear, horrific idea of just what Katha had done to -Garrity.</p> - -<p>He didn't think anything had been done to him. He was all smiles. He -brought the girl toward me, proud and possessive, grinning all over his -face.</p> - -<p>"This is Mary Collins," he told me, and I kept on looking, not saying -anything. She smiled, and shook hands, and I could tell by her -expression that she knew exactly what I was thinking.</p> - -<p>Unfortunately, I couldn't say a word about it to Garrity. There was -always the faint possibility that I might be wrong, in which case I -could make a lot of trouble by saying a few words. The words were -there, though, straining to get out. When he said, "Mary Collins," what -I wanted to say was, "No, it isn't. It's Katha."</p> - -<p>Because it was. After I watched the girl long enough, all the way -through the marriage ceremony, then down in the elevator and out into -the street, I became dead certain.</p> - -<p>There was a brown mole on Katha's arm. Mary had it, too. And there was -a look about the eyes—well, there could only be one Katha.</p> - -<p>What I could not understand was why Garrity didn't see it. After all, -he'd been <i>married</i> to Katha.</p> - -<p>But when I tried to say something to him, he brushed it off.</p> - -<p>"Sure, Mary looks a little like Katha," he agreed with me. "But there -are all kinds of small differences. Things a man finds out as he goes -along. Look, I'm very fond of both of them. I know the difference. -You're just confused by the slight resemblance."</p> - -<p>The clincher was the problem of how Katha had reached Terra City ahead -of Garrity, to begin with, and whether there was still a Katha in -Serco. I asked a man off a ship fresh from Serco and he told me Katha -hadn't been there for some time. No one knew where she'd gone, but she -had said she'd be back.</p> - -<p>So Mary <i>could</i> be Katha, given a fast passenger ship.</p> - -<p>And Arnel could be Katha, too. Arnel had a mole in the right place. So -did Lillian. And Ruth. And Virginia.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Yes, Garrity married every one of them. Six girls, six planets. It took -him a while, and by the time he got as far as Ruth, he was going to a -lot of trouble to arrange his shipping runs so he could make the full -circuit. But every so often I'd hear from him, or run into him, and -there would always be a new one.</p> - -<p>The Garrity plan was going fine, but it lacked that one ingredient he -had counted on—variety. Every one of those girls was Katha.</p> - -<p><i>He</i> didn't think so. He could call off the differences between them -by the hour. To listen to him, if you hadn't actually seen them, you'd -have believed every word he said.</p> - -<p>Each one of them gets a share of Garrity's pay—a big share, from the -looks of it. Each one of them keeps a nice place for Garrity and, -when he comes into port, he eats and sleeps as well as any honest -groundwalker. And each one of them has a small fat baby boy, of whose -exact age Garrity never seems to be quite sure. Two or three of the -kids seem extremely advanced for their ages and they were all born -fairly close together, which was enough to make Garrity as proud as a -rooster.</p> - -<p>And Garrity seems to be the only one who can't tell.</p> - -<p>Thinking about it might make a man want to rush off to Serco and find a -girl like Katha ... and Serco is full of them. I'd <i>like</i> having a girl -like Katha. I'd like having <i>six</i> Kathas even better.</p> - -<p>But I'm not going to.</p> - -<p>I won't drive myself batty trying to figure out how she'd be keeping me -fooled.</p> - -<p>And especially <i>why</i>.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Garrity's Annuities, by David Mason - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GARRITY'S ANNUITIES *** - -***** This file should be named 50981-h.htm or 50981-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/9/8/50981/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Garrity's Annuities - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: January 20, 2016 [EBook #50981] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GARRITY'S ANNUITIES *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Garrity's Annuities - - By DAVID MASON - - Illustrated by RAY - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction April 1956. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Every planet is badly in need of family men, - naturally--but the same one on all of them? - - -You might say Garrity brought it on himself. The way I put it, Garrity -was the architect of his own disasters. It's a nicely put phrase, I -think. Anyway, a lot of people tried to tell him what might happen. I -did, for one, though I'd never have thought it would happen in just -that way. What I would have predicted for Garrity would be trouble, but -just ordinary trouble: jail, or getting his Space Engineer's ticket -suspended, or something like that. Not the kind of trouble he's got. - -I remember distinctly the first time I heard Garrity explaining his -theory. It wasn't a new theory, but the way Garrity talked about -it, you'd think he'd invented it personally. We were sitting in the -messroom in the _Aloha_--that was the old _Aloha_, the one that -belonged to the Muller Space Lines. Talking about women--trip like -that. - -Neither Garrity nor I had ever touched down on Seranis, which was where -we'd be in another week or so. The other off-watch man, Gloster, had -been there several times and liked the place. - -"A lot of Earthside Oriental in 'em," Gloster said. "They're little -brown characters, real obliging. The girls especially. You just treat -'em polite and they'll treat you right back." - -"Uh-huh," I said, considering the idea. - - * * * * * - -Garrity curled his long lip. "It'll cost you just as much in the end. -Women are always looking for something." - -"Not this kind on Seranis," Gloster said. "Best port I've ever been in. -I'm staying on the _Aloha_ till I get to putting curtains on my cabin -port." - -Garrity shook his head. He looked as cynical as he could, for his age, -which was twenty-four. We were all of us fresh out of Lunar, with the -ink hardly dry on our Engineer tickets. - -"I'll tell you," said Garrity. "I haven't seen a woman yet that -wouldn't cost you more than she was worth in the long run." - -"Long run?" I asked him. "We don't spend more than a few days down on -Seranis. Isn't going to _be_ any long run. If she runs, let her to -catch her before takeoff time." - -Gloster chuckled, but Garrity just looked righteous. - -"You'll see what I mean," he told us. - -"Yeah," Gloster said. "I guess you and me will go downtown and pick up -a couple girls and take in some high-priced amusements, like listening -to records at the Spaceman's Union Lounge. After which we hurl our -hard-earned cash away on a quart of pink arrack and we take the girls -home with it. In the morning, we haven't got a credit left, so we blast -off with nothing but a set of beautiful memories." Gloster crowed. -"What's the matter, anyway, Garrity? The Union gets us the best wage -scale in any space fleet and you still think girls cost too much? Even -the Seranese?" - -Garrity kept on looking wise. "I'm not kidding. I've seen a lot of men -come up to retirement without a credit put away. Half-pay and nothing -else, all because they spent everything having a good time." - -"You can do without women, maybe?" I asked. - -"No," Garrity admitted. "I'm a normal man." - -"Yeah," said Gloster, very flat. - -Garrity looked peeved. "Well, I am. But I'm careful, too. I figured it -all out a long time back. I aim to have everything you guys look for -and not go to half the trouble and expense." - -"What did you figure out?" - -"I'm going to get married." - -Gloster and I just sat there, looking at each other. After a while, -Gloster finished his coffee in silence. He got up, looked at Garrity, -shook his head sadly, and went out. - - * * * * * - -It took me a while to finish looking Garrity over, myself. When I -managed to get my voice under control, I asked him what he was talking -about. - -"I saw what happened to my old man," Garrity told me. "When he came -up for retirement, he was broke. He doesn't complain, but he never -has anything left out of his retirement pay. Spends his time loafing -around and writing his memoirs. It was women, mostly; after he lost my -mother--she died when I was born--he went off to space again. Sent back -enough to keep me, spent the rest in one port or another." - -I didn't say anything, but it was beginning to add up. I don't know -anything about psychology, but I thought there might be something -like a reason in what Garrity was telling me for the way Garrity was. -Somewhere he'd got the idea that his old man wasn't happy. I doubted -it, because I've seen and talked to lots of old retired hands. Most -of them had a good life behind them and they were still enjoying the -taste of it. - -But I didn't argue with Garrity about it. I've got more sense. When a -man's got a pet notion, leave it alone. You won't pry him off it and -you might get him mad at you. A spaceship's too small to make enemies -in. - -"Suppose you get married," I asked him. "So you have a place to go, and -a girl in it, in one port. How about all the others? Going to take a -permanent port watch instead of seeing a little fun?" - -"Easy," Garrity said. "I'll just get married in all of them." - -"_All_ of them?" - -"Well, the ones I'm in most often. Terra City, Chafanor, some other -places. I'm thinking of homesteading on one line as soon as I pad on a -little seniority." - -The notion did have a certain cold practicality about it. I didn't like -it, but as far as getting away with it went, he could. - -Garrity went on to explain a bit more; his system seemed to have been -worked out to the last detail. He'd set up two, three, maybe four or -five happy little households, spend his end-of-run leave in each, -dividing up his time nice and even. All of them together wouldn't cost -him what a night or two on the town might. - -To add to that, he'd pick out his wives with care. They'd all be -different in a lot of ways, for the sake of variety, but they'd all -be affectionate, home-loving girls, and careful with money. They'd -save his credits for him. And when he retired, he could keep active -and happy visiting them and his various families, which he expected to -include a real lot of kids and grandchildren. - -"I don't believe in small families," he explained. - - * * * * * - -At the time, I never thought he'd try to carry it through. I've heard -wild ideas in messrooms before, particularly halfway through a long -trip. They usually fade out when a man gets his feet down on gravity -again. This one didn't. - -But it might have worked out, at that. It was just Garrity's luck that -he signed on the _Brooklyn_. - -The _Brooklyn_ carried ore from Serco to Terra, and Terran machinery -back to Serco, a regular, steady run. When I bumped into Garrity in the -hiring hall, he told me he'd just signed on her, and I told him I had, -too. Naturally, I asked him how the Garrity old-age-insurance system -was working out. - -"Well," he confessed, "I'm not married yet. But I've got a likely girl -here in Terra City. All I've got to do is ask her. Now if I can line -one up in Serco--" - -"In Serco?" I turned a little pale, I think. "Listen, Garrity, have -you ever been in Serco?" - -"No. Why? Aren't they humanoids?" - -"Oh, sure." I was trying to think just how you'd describe Serco and its -peculiar people. "Only different." - -"How're they different?" - -Looking at that stubborn mug of his, I knew I wasn't going to be able -to explain this in a million years. It was just no use. Garrity had -everything all figured out. But I took one try. - -"They've never been much of a mechanical culture; they buy all their -stuff from outside, in exchange for ore and timber. But they're one of -the oldest civilizations in the Galaxy. They've spent a million years -learning about minds and thoughts, all that philosophy sort of thing. -I don't mean they aren't perfectly all right. They're human, but they -know a lot. It wouldn't pay to fool around with them." - -Garrity laughed. "Maybe they might read my mind?" - -I knew it was no use. I just shrugged, bought Garrity a beer to -celebrate, and we headed for the spaceport. - -No, the Sercoans don't read minds. At least, I don't think they do, -though there are times when they're that clever at adding you up that -you'd think they _were_ looking at your thoughts. - -Garrity didn't get caught that way. He got caught because he couldn't -keep from telling the rest of us about his great idea. One of the -navigators, a man named Lane, was the one who told Katha about it. - - * * * * * - -Lane was in love with Katha, naturally. Everybody was. She worked in -the port medical office and she was one of the reasons why it took a -high-seniority card to sign on a ship for Serco. There were a lot of -men who'd take an extra set of immune shots just to have Katha give it -to them. And it isn't a bit easy to figure out why. - -She wasn't any beauty. Good-looking, sort of, but not especially so; -a tallish girl, with gray eyes and a long, narrow, sensitive face. -Browny-red hair that always looked a little carelessly cut. As I said, -nothing at all special. It was just something about her. She could have -had her pick and she picked Garrity. And only Lane broke the rules and -told her. Trouble is, he told her a couple of weeks too late. - -It was because Lane had never thought that Katha would fall for Garrity -that he hadn't told her before. But when he touched down at Serco port -and heard that Katha and Garrity had gotten married the week before, he -didn't waste any more time. He called Katha up from the spaceport, and -told her all about the Garrity plan, and how she was only the first, -but definitely not the last. - -Lane told me afterward what Katha had said. - -"I am not jealous," she'd answered. "If he had wanted others when he -was away, he could have done as he wished, as a man might. But he has -spoken to you as a child, not a man. I do not like that." - -She didn't sound terribly angry. It was the way she phrased it that -bothered Lane. - -"But he is not a bad man," she said thoughtfully to Lane. "And he is a -good lover and makes a fine husband. I will not hurt him, but I think I -will give him something which will teach him, if he wants to learn. And -when he has learned, I will take it away again and he may be as free as -he can ... as free as any of you of the outside ever are." - -I can't tell you what it was she did. Neither can Garrity. Hell, he -didn't even know she'd done anything! He kissed her good-by at the -port gates and went on his way, and she went back to work in the port -medical office. As far as any of us could see, the Garrity plan was -well under way. - - * * * * * - -It wasn't six months before I saw the thing starting off. That was -when I was invited to Garrity's second wedding. It was in Terra City, -and when he asked me to come down with him for a witness, I assumed it -would be the girl he had been busily courting before he went to Serco. -But when I walked into the marriage registry office and took a look at -the girl, I got a clear, horrific idea of just what Katha had done to -Garrity. - -He didn't think anything had been done to him. He was all smiles. He -brought the girl toward me, proud and possessive, grinning all over his -face. - -"This is Mary Collins," he told me, and I kept on looking, not saying -anything. She smiled, and shook hands, and I could tell by her -expression that she knew exactly what I was thinking. - -Unfortunately, I couldn't say a word about it to Garrity. There was -always the faint possibility that I might be wrong, in which case I -could make a lot of trouble by saying a few words. The words were -there, though, straining to get out. When he said, "Mary Collins," what -I wanted to say was, "No, it isn't. It's Katha." - -Because it was. After I watched the girl long enough, all the way -through the marriage ceremony, then down in the elevator and out into -the street, I became dead certain. - -There was a brown mole on Katha's arm. Mary had it, too. And there was -a look about the eyes--well, there could only be one Katha. - -What I could not understand was why Garrity didn't see it. After all, -he'd been _married_ to Katha. - -But when I tried to say something to him, he brushed it off. - -"Sure, Mary looks a little like Katha," he agreed with me. "But there -are all kinds of small differences. Things a man finds out as he goes -along. Look, I'm very fond of both of them. I know the difference. -You're just confused by the slight resemblance." - -The clincher was the problem of how Katha had reached Terra City ahead -of Garrity, to begin with, and whether there was still a Katha in -Serco. I asked a man off a ship fresh from Serco and he told me Katha -hadn't been there for some time. No one knew where she'd gone, but she -had said she'd be back. - -So Mary _could_ be Katha, given a fast passenger ship. - -And Arnel could be Katha, too. Arnel had a mole in the right place. So -did Lillian. And Ruth. And Virginia. - - * * * * * - -Yes, Garrity married every one of them. Six girls, six planets. It took -him a while, and by the time he got as far as Ruth, he was going to a -lot of trouble to arrange his shipping runs so he could make the full -circuit. But every so often I'd hear from him, or run into him, and -there would always be a new one. - -The Garrity plan was going fine, but it lacked that one ingredient he -had counted on--variety. Every one of those girls was Katha. - -_He_ didn't think so. He could call off the differences between them -by the hour. To listen to him, if you hadn't actually seen them, you'd -have believed every word he said. - -Each one of them gets a share of Garrity's pay--a big share, from the -looks of it. Each one of them keeps a nice place for Garrity and, -when he comes into port, he eats and sleeps as well as any honest -groundwalker. And each one of them has a small fat baby boy, of whose -exact age Garrity never seems to be quite sure. Two or three of the -kids seem extremely advanced for their ages and they were all born -fairly close together, which was enough to make Garrity as proud as a -rooster. - -And Garrity seems to be the only one who can't tell. - -Thinking about it might make a man want to rush off to Serco and find a -girl like Katha ... and Serco is full of them. I'd _like_ having a girl -like Katha. 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