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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. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Love and Moondogs - -Author: Richard McKenna - -Release Date: November 9, 2019 [EBook #60654] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE AND MOONDOGS *** - - - - -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="344" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>Love and Moondogs</h1> - -<h2>BY RICHARD MCKENNA</h2> - -<p class="ph1">"<i>The true dog, madame, was<br /> -originally the golden jackal</i>,<br /> -Canis aureus.... <i>He must love<br /> -and be loved, or he dies.</i>"</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1959.<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>The headline on the newspapers stacked in front of the drugstore read -"RUSS DOG REACHES MOON ALIVE." A man in a leather jacket stopped to -scan it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="616" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Across the street, frost lay crisp on the courthouse lawn, and the -white and tan spotted hound put up his forepaws on the kitchen stool as -if to warm them. The four women were too busy hauling down the flag to -notice.</p> - -<p>Martha Stonery in the persian lamb coat paid out the halyard. Monica -Flint in the reddish muskrat and Paula Hart in the brown fox caught -the flag and folded it, careful not to let it touch the wet cement. A -postman and the man in the leather jacket stopped on the sidewalk to -watch.</p> - -<p>Martha, plump face grim under pinchnose spectacles, fastened one -halyard snap to a metal ring taped and wired to the dog's right hind -leg.</p> - -<p>"Hoist away, girls."</p> - -<p>Monica, Paula and Abigail Silax in nutria hauled in unison while -Martha held the flag. The hound scrabbled with his forepaws and barked -frantically. As he went struggle-twisting upward he began to howl in -a bell-like voice. The women grunted with effort. People were coming -across the lawn and pale faces moved behind the courthouse windows.</p> - -<p>"Two block," Martha said. "Vast hauling and belay."</p> - -<p>She pulled the kitchen stool nearer the flagpole and climbed on it to -face the small crowd across the shelf of her bosom. Cars were stopping, -people streaming in from all sides. Martha patted her piled gray hair -and made her thin lips into a parrot beak.</p> - -<p>"Fellow Americans!" she cried above the howling. "Our leaders are -cowards and it is time for the people to act before the Russians come -and murder us all in our beds! We, the United Dames of the Dog, hereby -protest the Russian crime of putting a trusting, loving dog on the -moon to starve and freeze and smother and die of loneliness! This dog -above our heads cries out to the world against the Russian breach of -faith between dog and man. He will stay there until the Russians bring -their dog home safely or make amends for their crime!"</p> - -<p>"Like hell!" said the man in the leather jacket, moving in.</p> - -<p>"<i>Martha!</i>" Abigail shrieked. "He's taking it down!"</p> - -<p>Monica pulled at his wrists. Paula slapped and scratched at his face. -"You brute! You coward!" they shrilled.</p> - -<p>Martha jumped off the stool and kicked him. He backed away, bent and -holding himself.</p> - -<p>"Look, ladies," he gasped, "for God's sake—"</p> - -<p>"Here now, here now, this is county property," said a fat man in -shirtsleeves with pink sleeve garters, pushing through the crowd. -"What's all this? Take that dog down, somebody!"</p> - -<p>"Never!" Martha snapped. She put her back against the halyard cleat, -unfolded the flag and draped it around herself. A loose strand of gray -hair fell across her face.</p> - -<p>"If you're so big and brave, go bring down the Russian dog," she told -the fat man coldly.</p> - -<p>"Now <i>listen</i>, lady," the fat man said. The <i>Clarion</i> press -photographer was sprinting across the lawn.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>George Stonery was tall, thin, stooped and anxious in a gray business -suit.</p> - -<p>"I came as soon as I could," he told Sheriff Breen across the scarred, -paper-littered wooden desk. "I was away checking one of our warehouses."</p> - -<p>"You can make bail for her in two minutes, right across the hall," the -sheriff said, scratching his jowl. "She wouldn't make it for herself, -said we had to lock her in our sputnik."</p> - -<p>"Where is she now?"</p> - -<p>"In the sputnik."</p> - -<p>The desk phone rang and the sheriff growled into it, "Hell you say. -State forty-three just past Roy Farm? Right. I s'pose you already heard -what we had on the lawn here this morning?"</p> - -<p>The phone gave forth an excited gobbling. The sheriff's red eyebrows -rose in disbelief and his heavy jaw dropped in dismay. He put down the -phone.</p> - -<p>"That was city," he told Stonery. "Complaint about a dog hanging -by one leg from a tree just outside city limits. But it's going -on all over town too—dogs hanging on trees, out of windows, off -clotheslines—every squad car is out. Your old lady sure started -something!"</p> - -<p>"What did she <i>do</i>?" Stonery asked in anguish.</p> - -<p>The sheriff told him. "Kicked a big fat deputy where it hurts, too. -Maybe we ought to hold her after all. She says she's president of the -United Dogs of something."</p> - -<p>"United Dames of the Dog," the thin man corrected. "They hold meetings -and things. She started it when the Russians put up their second -sputnik."</p> - -<p>"Well, I hope none of them dames lives out in the county," the sheriff -said, rising. "You fix up bail, Mr. Stonery. I got to send out a -deputy."</p> - -<p>Walking past the flagpole with her husband, Martha Stonery wore an -exalted look.</p> - -<p>"All over America dogs will cry out in protest against the Russian -crime," she said. "I have kindled a flame, George, that will sweep away -the Kremlin. I, a weak woman...."</p> - -<p>She insisted on driving herself home in her new station wagon.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sirening police cars passed Stonery three times as he drove home in the -evening. Outside the tan stucco ranch-style house on Euclid Avenue, -cars blocked the driveway and a crowd milled on the lawn. Stonery -parked under the oak tree at the curb and got out.</p> - -<p>Martha stood in the living room by the picture window and harangued the -crowd through a screened side panel. Centered in the window her spaniel -Fiffalo writhed, hanging by a hind leg from the massive gilt floor lamp -and yipping piteously. Martha had on her suit of gray Harris tweed and -her diamond brooch.</p> - -<p>"... moral pressure the Russians simply <i>cannot</i> resist," Stonery heard -her shouting as he joined the crowd. "The men talk, but the United -Dames of the Dog are not afraid to act. Putting a dear little dog on -the moon to die of heart-break!"</p> - -<p>Several young men near the window scribbled on white pads.</p> - -<p>"How many members do you have, Mrs. Stonery?" one asked.</p> - -<p>"The U.D.D. is bigger than you think, young man. Bigger than the -Russians think, for all their spies and traitors!"</p> - -<p>Stonery sidled in and tried the front door.</p> - -<p>"She locked it," one of the reporters told him. "The cops went back for -a warrant. Say! You're Stonery!"</p> - -<p>"Yes," the thin man said, flushing. A press camera flashed and he put -up his hands too late to shield his face.</p> - -<p>"Give us a statement, Mr. Stonery, before the cops come back," the -reporters clamored.</p> - -<p>Stonery backed off, waving his hands. "Please, please," he said.</p> - -<p>"She cracked?" a reporter asked. "When did you first notice?"</p> - -<p>"Please," Stonery said. "Yes, she's upset. Her oldest son went into the -state penitentiary in California last week. She's very upset about it."</p> - -<p>"He kill somebody?" the same reporter asked.</p> - -<p>"No, oh no ... just armed robbery ... please don't print that, boys."</p> - -<p>"Here come the cops back!" someone shouted.</p> - -<p>Two policemen crossed the lawn, one waving a paper. "Here is our -warrant of forcible entry, Mrs. Stonery," he called out. He began -reading it aloud.</p> - -<p>"The U.D.D. will not shrink from any extremes of police brutality," -Martha cried sharply. Fiffalo struggled and yelped louder.</p> - -<p>The second policeman smashed the lock with a ten-pound sledge. The -reporters swept Stonery into the house with them. One policeman untied -Fiffalo and held him in his arms. He strained his head back and away -from the spaniel's whimpering kisses. Martha glared selflessly while -flash bulbs popped.</p> - -<p>Stonery pulled gently at the other policeman's sleeve.</p> - -<p>"May I come along, officer?" he asked. "I'm her husband. I'll have to -arrange bail."</p> - -<p>"Not taking her," the policeman said. "No room left in the pokey. Since -two o'clock we been arresting the dogs."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The bellboy put down the silver bucket of ice cubes, pocketed the -quarter and went out. The skinny secretary put a bottle of whisky -beside it and turned to that fat adjutant sprawled shoeless on the bed.</p> - -<p>"Looks like Governor Bob'll be a while yet, Sam," the secretary said. -"Shall we drink without him?"</p> - -<p>"Hell yes, I need one, Dave," the adjutant said in his frog voice, -wiggling his toes. "Bob must be having himself a time with that Stonery -dame." He chuckled and slapped his belly.</p> - -<p>The secretary tore wrappers off two tumblers and clinked ice into them. -His rabbit face with its spectacles framed in clear plastic expressed a -rabbity concern.</p> - -<p>"It ain't for laughs, Sam," he said. "It's like the dancing mania of -the Middle Ages, ever hear of it?"</p> - -<p>"No. D'they string up dogs by a hind leg too?"</p> - -<p>"No, only danced. But it was catching, like this is. My God, Sam, -it's all over the state now, U.D.D. women running in packs at night, -singing, hanging up every dog they can catch. Sam, it <i>scares</i> me."</p> - -<p>He splashed whisky into the two glasses. The adjutant belched, sat up -in a creaking of bed springs, and scratched his heavy jaw.</p> - -<p>"You're thinking they might start hanging up us poor sons of bitches, -ain't you?" he asked. "Hell, call out the Guard. Clamp on a curfew." He -reached for a glass.</p> - -<p>"Yes, and the Russians'll fake pictures of your boys sticking old -women with bayonets," the secretary said. "Governor Bob couldn't get -reelected as dogcatcher, even."</p> - -<p>The adjutant drained his glass, lipping back the ice, and whistled his -breath out through pouting lips.</p> - -<p>"Good! Needed that," he grunted. "Dave, Bob's got that Stonery dame by -the short hairs, he'll swing her into line. Just that about her boy in -the state pen out in California is enough. Brown would do Bob a favor -and spring him. Or the papers here would splash it. Either way."</p> - -<p>"I know, I know," the secretary said, sipping at his drink. "We'll see, -when Bob gets here. Meanwhile, as of yesterday we had thirty-three -thousand seven hundred twenty-six dogs in protective custody and God -knows how many more under house arrest. Sixteen thousand bucks a day -it's costing us—"</p> - -<p>He broke off as a knock sounded on the door. He hastily tore the -wrapper off another glass and splashed it full of ice and bourbon. -The adjutant padded to the door and opened it. The governor, a stout, -florid man in a gray sports coat, came in and sat stiffly on the edge -of the bed. The secretary handed him the drink and he gulped half of it -before speaking.</p> - -<p>"No smoke, boys," he said finally. "She give it to me just like she -does to the papers. We got to go to the moon, or make the Russians do -it, and bring that poor, dear, sweet, trusting, cuddly little dog back -to Earth again."</p> - -<p>"How about her kid out on the coast?" the adjutant asked.</p> - -<p>"She spit in my eye, Sam. Said she was just as brave to be a martyr as -the dogs they string up. Why, she even told me about another boy of -hers, living in sin with a black woman down in Cuba, and dared me to -give that to the papers too."</p> - -<p>"She sounds tough as she looks."</p> - -<p>"She's tougher," the governor groaned. "Like blue granite. I felt -like I was back in the third grade." He handed his empty glass to the -secretary.</p> - -<p>"What did you finally do?" the secretary asked.</p> - -<p>"What the hell <i>could</i> I do? I want that U.D.D. vote, it must be a -whopper. I wagged my tail and barked for her and said I had an idea."</p> - -<p>"And now I got to think up the idea," the secretary said, still holding -the empty glass.</p> - -<p>"No, I thought it up on my way back," the governor said. "I'm going to -fly to Washington this afternoon."</p> - -<p>"Not the army, for God's sake," pleaded the adjutant.</p> - -<p>"No, I'm going to dump it on the Russian embassy. Damn their black -hearts, they started this. Hurry up with that drink!"</p> - -<p>"Watch out you don't lose your donkey for sure and all," the adjutant -said. "Them Russians are smart cookies."</p> - -<p>"They'll have to be," the governor said, reaching for the fresh drink. -"They sure ... as ... <i>hell</i> ... will have to be!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>All the folding chairs were taken. Extra women stood in the aisles and -along the side of the hall. Martha Stonery bulged over the rostrum in -blue knitted wool and a pearl necklace. Seated around a half-circle of -chairs behind her, pack leaders and committee chairwomen smoothed at -their skirts. Monica Flint in dove gray sat at the organ.</p> - -<p>Martha pounded with her gavel so hard that her pearls rattled.</p> - -<p>"Everyone will please stand while we sing our hymn," she said into the -resultant hush. She nodded to Monica, who began to play.</p> - -<p>"<i>I did not raise my dog to ride a sputnik, I will not let him wander -to the moon....</i>" The song was a shrill thundering.</p> - -<p>Martha beamed across her bosom as the crowd settled itself again.</p> - -<p>"I have a most thrilling announcement to make before we adjourn, -girls," she said, "but first we will have committee reports. Paula -Hart, will you begin?" She yielded the rostrum.</p> - -<p>All the reports were favorable. The U.D.D. was getting four times as -many column-inches in the state press as the Russian moonship. It was -on TV and radio. A <i>Life</i> team was coming.</p> - -<p>Changes were recommended. Vigilante packs were not to carry hat pins -any more. Two policemen had lost eyes and the police were being ugly -about it. A bar of soap in a man's sock was to be substituted. More -practice on the clove hitch was needed. Too often, in their excitement, -the pack ladies were only putting two half hitches around the leg and -the dog could struggle out of it.</p> - -<p>Martha came back to the rostrum to read the honor roll of those whom -dogs had bitten or policemen had insulted. Each heroine came forward -amid cheers and clapping to receive a certificate exchangeable for the -Bleeding Heart medal as soon as the honors committee could agree on a -design and have a supply made up. Martha shook the hands, some of them -bandaged, and wept a few tears.</p> - -<p>"And now, fellow U.D.D. members," she said, "I will tell you my -surprise. Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with someone coming -from Washington!"</p> - -<p>A sighing murmur swept through the hall.</p> - -<p>"No, not <i>Eisenhower</i>," Martha said scornfully. "A man from the Russian -embassy, a Mr. Cherkassov."</p> - -<p>Applause crashed shrilly. Women wept and hugged each other.</p> - -<p>"They want to make peace," Martha shouted ringingly into the tumult. -"We've won, girls! Sally out tonight and don't come in until the last -dog is hung! We'll show them what it means to challenge the massed -U.D.D.-ers of America!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The state police cordon kept the 2200 block of Euclid Avenue free -of reporters and idle gapers. The state car drove up at 10:00 -A.M. and parked under the oak tree. Mr. Cherkassov and the two -TASS men got out.</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov was stocky and crop-haired in a blue suit. His broad, -high-cheekboned face, with snub nose and an inward tilt about the -eyes, managed to seem both alert and impassive. Carrying a pig-skin -briefcase, he led the way to the Stonery front door.</p> - -<p>He stepped on the doormat and pressed the bell. The doormat whirred and -writhed under his feet and he stepped back hastily. Martha Stonery, -regal in maroon silk, four-inch cameo and piled gray hair, opened the -door.</p> - -<p>"Don't be afraid of the doormat, Mr. Cherkassov—you <i>are</i> Mr. -Cherkassov, aren't you?" she asked sweetly.</p> - -<p>He nodded, looking from her to the doormat.</p> - -<p>"Your weight presses something and the little brushes spin around and -clean your shoes," she explained. "I expect you don't have things like -that in Russia. But <i>do</i>, please, come in and sit down."</p> - -<p>The three men stepped carefully across the mat on entering. In the -oak-paneled living room, Paula Hart waited in black wool and pearls -with Monica Flint, who wore white jade and green jersey. Martha and Mr. -Cherkassov made introductions back and forth and the men bowed stiffly. -Then Martha sat down flanked by her aides on the gray sofa facing the -picture window. The men sat in single chairs and rubbed their polished -black shoes uneasily against the deep-pile gray rug.</p> - -<p>"Madame Stonery, I have come to justify moondog," Mr. Cherkassov said. -His voice was deep and controlled.</p> - -<p>"Two wrongs don't make a right, Mr. Cherkassov," Martha said, raising -her head. "You needn't bring up Hiroshima. We already know about those -thousands of little black and white spaniels. Besides, I saw a <i>Life</i> -picture where you sewed a little dog's head to the side of a big dog's -neck."</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov looked at his stubby fingers and hid them under his -briefcase. Paula and Monica nodded accusingly and one TASS man made a -note.</p> - -<p>"We do not believe it is a wrong when a greater value prevails over a -lesser," Mr. Cherkassov said. "Moondog sends us information that will -hasten the time of safe space-travel for humans."</p> - -<p>"And who might <i>you</i> be, to say which value is greatest? Space travel -is moonshine, just <i>moonshine</i>!"</p> - -<p>"I do not understand your word, madame. If you mean impossible, I must -point out that moondog has already crossed space."</p> - -<p>Martha clasped her hands in her lap. "That's what I mean, grown men -and such <i>silliness</i>, and the poor little dog has to pay."</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov spoke earnestly. "Forgive me if my ignorance of your -language causes me to misunderstand, madame. We believe because man now -has the ability to cross space he therefore has a <i>duty</i> to all life on -Earth to help it reach other planets. Earth is overcrowded with men, -not to speak of the wild life that soon must all die. We believe that -around other suns we will find Earth-like planets where we can plough -and harvest and build homes. I cannot agree that it is silly."</p> - -<p>Martha flung her head back.</p> - -<p>"Well, it <i>is</i> silly. Who'll go? All the men who do things will run -away to them and then where will we be? Oh no, Mr. Cherkassov, that -gets you nowhere!"</p> - -<p>"Your pardon, madame," a TASS man interrupted. "What kind of men will -run away?"</p> - -<p>"The sour-faced men who fix pipes and TV and make A-bombs and -electricity and things."</p> - -<p>"Oh," said Mr. Cherkassov. He drummed on his briefcase. Then, "Perhaps -only Russians will go, madame. You could pass a law. I must confess to -you, we might have sent a man to the moon, but we feared the propaganda -use your country might make of it."</p> - -<p>Martha made her parrot mouth. "You should have sent a <i>man</i>!" She -chomped the last word off short. Paula and Monica nodded vigorously.</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov stroked his briefcase. "Moondog's mistress wished -greatly to go. One might say moondog saved her mistress' life. Is not -that a value to you?"</p> - -<p>Martha stared. "Did you dare think of sending a poor weak <i>woman</i> to -the ... to the <i>moon</i>?"</p> - -<p>"Russian women are coarse and strong," Mr. Cherkassov said soothingly. -"A large number of them, among the scientists, did volunteer."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Martha sat bolt upright and made her parrot beak again. Her fat cheeks -flushed under the powder.</p> - -<p>"No!" she snapped. "I see where you're trying to lead me and I won't -go! You should have sent the hussy! It is <i>immoral</i> to sacrifice a -loving little dog just for a careless whim."</p> - -<p>Her two aides gazed admiringly at their chieftainess. "Think of it, -just for a whim!" Paula echoed.</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov's fingers traced an aimless, intricate pattern on the -briefcase and he crossed his ankles.</p> - -<p>"All dogs are not loving in the same way, madame. Tell me, how do you -know when a dog loves you?"</p> - -<p>"You just know," Martha said. "Take my little Fiffalo—and I just know -he's so miserable now away from me in that dreadful concentration camp -and it's all your fault, really, Mr. Cherkassov—when I pet Fiffalo he -jumps in my lap and kisses me and just <i>wiggles</i> all over. That's real -love!"</p> - -<p>"Ah ... I perhaps understand. What does he do when you speak sharply to -him?"</p> - -<p>"He lies on his back with his paws waving and looks so sad and pitiful -and defenseless that my heart melts and I feel good all over. You just -<i>know</i> that's love, when it happens to you."</p> - -<p>Monica dabbed at a tear. Both TASS men scribbled.</p> - -<p>"I think I may see a way to resolve our differences," Mr. Cherkassov -said. He put his feet side by side and leaned slightly forward, -gripping the briefcase on his knees.</p> - -<p>"What do you know of the history of the dog?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"Well, he's always been man's best friend and the savage Indians used -to eat him and ... and...."</p> - -<p>"The true dog, madame, was domesticated about twenty thousand years -ago. He was originally the golden jackal, <i>Canis aureus</i>, which still -exists in a wild state. Selective breeding for submissiveness and -obedience over that long time has resulted in the retention through -maturity of many traits normal only to puppyhood. The modern pureline -golden jackal dog no longer develops a secret life of his own, with -emotional self-sufficiency. He must love and be loved, or he dies."</p> - -<p>Monica sniffed. "What a beautiful name," Paula murmured. Martha nodded -warily.</p> - -<p>"But, madame, there is also a kind of false dog. Certain Siberian -tribes slow to reach civilized status also domesticated the northern -wolf, <i>Canis lupus</i>. This was many thousands of years later, of course, -and in the false dog the effect of long breeding is not so evident. -He is loving as a puppy, but when he matures he is aloof and reserves -his loyalty to one master. He is intensely loyal and will die for his -master, but even to him he will display little outward affection. -Perhaps a wag of the tail or a head laid on the knee, not too often. -No others except quite young children may pet him at all. To all but -his master he displays a kind of tolerant indifference unless he is -molested, and then he defends himself."</p> - -<p>"What a horrible creature, not a dog at all!" Martha exclaimed.</p> - -<p>"Not culturally, you are quite correct, madame," Mr. Cherkassov agreed, -shifting his hold on the briefcase and leaning further forward, "but -unfortunately he is a dog biologically. Some wolf blood has crept into -most of the jackal-derived breeds, you know. It betrays itself in high -cheekbones and slanting eyes and in the <i>personality</i> of the breed. The -chow, for instance, has considerable wolf blood."</p> - -<p>"Chows!" Martha beaked her lips again. "I despise them! No better than -cats!" Paula nodded emphatic agreement.</p> - -<p>"But your little Fiffalo, as you describe him, is probably of pure -<i>Canis aureus</i> descent and very highly bred."</p> - -<p>"I'm sure he is. Blood will tell. Monica, haven't I always said blood -will tell?"</p> - -<p>Monica nodded, her eyes shining. Mr. Cherkassov shifted his position -slightly, nearer to the chair edge.</p> - -<p>"Now moondog, Madame Stonery, is of the <i>lajka</i> breed and has even more -wolf blood than the chow. If you brought her back to Earth she would -just walk away from you with cold indifference."</p> - -<p>"Not <i>really</i>?"</p> - -<p>"Madame, you know the wolf traits only as you find them tempered with -the loving jackal traits in such dogs as the chow. But a <i>Russian</i> dog! -If you were to hand moondog a piece of meat, do you know what she would -do?"</p> - -<p>"No. Tell me."</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov leaned forward, his slanting gray eyes opening wide, and -dropped his voice almost to a whisper. "Madame, she would <i>bite</i> your -hand!"</p> - -<p>"Then she doesn't deserve to be rescued!" Martha said sharply.</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov straightened up and began stroking his briefcase. "In -one sense she is not even a dog," he suggested.</p> - -<p>"No, she's an old wolf-thing. Like a cat. Dogs are <i>loving</i>!"</p> - -<p>"Perhaps not morally worthy of your campaign?"</p> - -<p>"No, of <i>course</i> not. Mr. Cherkassov, you have given me a new -thought.... I hadn't realized...."</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov waited attentively, his fingers tracing another pattern. -Paula and Monica looked at Martha and held their breaths.</p> - -<p>"... hadn't realized how that subversive wolf blood has been -creeping into our loving dogs all this long time. Why ... why it's -miscegenation! It's <i>bestiality</i>! Confess it, Mr. Cherkassov—that's -one way you Russians have been infiltrating us, now isn't it?"</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov raised his sandy eyebrows, and a frosty twinkle shone in -his tilted eyes.</p> - -<p>"You must realize that I could hardly admit to such a thing, even if it -were true, Madame Stonery," he said judiciously.</p> - -<p>"It <i>is</i> true! Go back to your Kremlin, Mr. Cherkassov, and shoot every -wolf in Russia to the moon. I'm sure the U.D.D. won't mind!"</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov and the TASS men stood up and bowed. Martha rose and -sailed ahead of them to the door. Hand on knob, she turned to face them.</p> - -<p>"Our meeting will be historic, Mr. Cherkassov," she said. "I have -forced you to betray your country's plot to undermine our loving -dogs. You may expect from the U.D.D. instant and massive retaliation! -An aroused America will move at once, to set up miscegenation and -segregation barriers against your despicable wolf blood!"</p> - -<p>Paula and Monica stood up, each with her hands clasped under her -flushed and excited face. Mr. Cherkassov bowed again. Martha opened the -door.</p> - -<p>"Goodbye, Mr. Cherkassov," she said. "You will, no doubt, be liquidated -in a few days."</p> - -<p>Mr. Cherkassov stepped carefully across the doormat.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Love and Moondogs, by Richard McKenna - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE AND MOONDOGS *** - -***** This file should be named 60654-h.htm or 60654-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/6/5/60654/ - -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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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A man in a leather jacket stopped to -scan it. - -Across the street, frost lay crisp on the courthouse lawn, and the -white and tan spotted hound put up his forepaws on the kitchen stool as -if to warm them. The four women were too busy hauling down the flag to -notice. - -Martha Stonery in the persian lamb coat paid out the halyard. Monica -Flint in the reddish muskrat and Paula Hart in the brown fox caught -the flag and folded it, careful not to let it touch the wet cement. A -postman and the man in the leather jacket stopped on the sidewalk to -watch. - -Martha, plump face grim under pinchnose spectacles, fastened one -halyard snap to a metal ring taped and wired to the dog's right hind -leg. - -"Hoist away, girls." - -Monica, Paula and Abigail Silax in nutria hauled in unison while -Martha held the flag. The hound scrabbled with his forepaws and barked -frantically. As he went struggle-twisting upward he began to howl in -a bell-like voice. The women grunted with effort. People were coming -across the lawn and pale faces moved behind the courthouse windows. - -"Two block," Martha said. "Vast hauling and belay." - -She pulled the kitchen stool nearer the flagpole and climbed on it to -face the small crowd across the shelf of her bosom. Cars were stopping, -people streaming in from all sides. Martha patted her piled gray hair -and made her thin lips into a parrot beak. - -"Fellow Americans!" she cried above the howling. "Our leaders are -cowards and it is time for the people to act before the Russians come -and murder us all in our beds! We, the United Dames of the Dog, hereby -protest the Russian crime of putting a trusting, loving dog on the -moon to starve and freeze and smother and die of loneliness! This dog -above our heads cries out to the world against the Russian breach of -faith between dog and man. He will stay there until the Russians bring -their dog home safely or make amends for their crime!" - -"Like hell!" said the man in the leather jacket, moving in. - -"_Martha!_" Abigail shrieked. "He's taking it down!" - -Monica pulled at his wrists. Paula slapped and scratched at his face. -"You brute! You coward!" they shrilled. - -Martha jumped off the stool and kicked him. He backed away, bent and -holding himself. - -"Look, ladies," he gasped, "for God's sake--" - -"Here now, here now, this is county property," said a fat man in -shirtsleeves with pink sleeve garters, pushing through the crowd. -"What's all this? Take that dog down, somebody!" - -"Never!" Martha snapped. She put her back against the halyard cleat, -unfolded the flag and draped it around herself. A loose strand of gray -hair fell across her face. - -"If you're so big and brave, go bring down the Russian dog," she told -the fat man coldly. - -"Now _listen_, lady," the fat man said. The _Clarion_ press -photographer was sprinting across the lawn. - - * * * * * - -George Stonery was tall, thin, stooped and anxious in a gray business -suit. - -"I came as soon as I could," he told Sheriff Breen across the scarred, -paper-littered wooden desk. "I was away checking one of our warehouses." - -"You can make bail for her in two minutes, right across the hall," the -sheriff said, scratching his jowl. "She wouldn't make it for herself, -said we had to lock her in our sputnik." - -"Where is she now?" - -"In the sputnik." - -The desk phone rang and the sheriff growled into it, "Hell you say. -State forty-three just past Roy Farm? Right. I s'pose you already heard -what we had on the lawn here this morning?" - -The phone gave forth an excited gobbling. The sheriff's red eyebrows -rose in disbelief and his heavy jaw dropped in dismay. He put down the -phone. - -"That was city," he told Stonery. "Complaint about a dog hanging -by one leg from a tree just outside city limits. But it's going -on all over town too--dogs hanging on trees, out of windows, off -clotheslines--every squad car is out. Your old lady sure started -something!" - -"What did she _do_?" Stonery asked in anguish. - -The sheriff told him. "Kicked a big fat deputy where it hurts, too. -Maybe we ought to hold her after all. She says she's president of the -United Dogs of something." - -"United Dames of the Dog," the thin man corrected. "They hold meetings -and things. She started it when the Russians put up their second -sputnik." - -"Well, I hope none of them dames lives out in the county," the sheriff -said, rising. "You fix up bail, Mr. Stonery. I got to send out a -deputy." - -Walking past the flagpole with her husband, Martha Stonery wore an -exalted look. - -"All over America dogs will cry out in protest against the Russian -crime," she said. "I have kindled a flame, George, that will sweep away -the Kremlin. I, a weak woman...." - -She insisted on driving herself home in her new station wagon. - - * * * * * - -Sirening police cars passed Stonery three times as he drove home in the -evening. Outside the tan stucco ranch-style house on Euclid Avenue, -cars blocked the driveway and a crowd milled on the lawn. Stonery -parked under the oak tree at the curb and got out. - -Martha stood in the living room by the picture window and harangued the -crowd through a screened side panel. Centered in the window her spaniel -Fiffalo writhed, hanging by a hind leg from the massive gilt floor lamp -and yipping piteously. Martha had on her suit of gray Harris tweed and -her diamond brooch. - -"... moral pressure the Russians simply _cannot_ resist," Stonery heard -her shouting as he joined the crowd. "The men talk, but the United -Dames of the Dog are not afraid to act. Putting a dear little dog on -the moon to die of heart-break!" - -Several young men near the window scribbled on white pads. - -"How many members do you have, Mrs. Stonery?" one asked. - -"The U.D.D. is bigger than you think, young man. Bigger than the -Russians think, for all their spies and traitors!" - -Stonery sidled in and tried the front door. - -"She locked it," one of the reporters told him. "The cops went back for -a warrant. Say! You're Stonery!" - -"Yes," the thin man said, flushing. A press camera flashed and he put -up his hands too late to shield his face. - -"Give us a statement, Mr. Stonery, before the cops come back," the -reporters clamored. - -Stonery backed off, waving his hands. "Please, please," he said. - -"She cracked?" a reporter asked. "When did you first notice?" - -"Please," Stonery said. "Yes, she's upset. Her oldest son went into the -state penitentiary in California last week. She's very upset about it." - -"He kill somebody?" the same reporter asked. - -"No, oh no ... just armed robbery ... please don't print that, boys." - -"Here come the cops back!" someone shouted. - -Two policemen crossed the lawn, one waving a paper. "Here is our -warrant of forcible entry, Mrs. Stonery," he called out. He began -reading it aloud. - -"The U.D.D. will not shrink from any extremes of police brutality," -Martha cried sharply. Fiffalo struggled and yelped louder. - -The second policeman smashed the lock with a ten-pound sledge. The -reporters swept Stonery into the house with them. One policeman untied -Fiffalo and held him in his arms. He strained his head back and away -from the spaniel's whimpering kisses. Martha glared selflessly while -flash bulbs popped. - -Stonery pulled gently at the other policeman's sleeve. - -"May I come along, officer?" he asked. "I'm her husband. I'll have to -arrange bail." - -"Not taking her," the policeman said. "No room left in the pokey. Since -two o'clock we been arresting the dogs." - - * * * * * - -The bellboy put down the silver bucket of ice cubes, pocketed the -quarter and went out. The skinny secretary put a bottle of whisky -beside it and turned to that fat adjutant sprawled shoeless on the bed. - -"Looks like Governor Bob'll be a while yet, Sam," the secretary said. -"Shall we drink without him?" - -"Hell yes, I need one, Dave," the adjutant said in his frog voice, -wiggling his toes. "Bob must be having himself a time with that Stonery -dame." He chuckled and slapped his belly. - -The secretary tore wrappers off two tumblers and clinked ice into them. -His rabbit face with its spectacles framed in clear plastic expressed a -rabbity concern. - -"It ain't for laughs, Sam," he said. "It's like the dancing mania of -the Middle Ages, ever hear of it?" - -"No. D'they string up dogs by a hind leg too?" - -"No, only danced. But it was catching, like this is. My God, Sam, -it's all over the state now, U.D.D. women running in packs at night, -singing, hanging up every dog they can catch. Sam, it _scares_ me." - -He splashed whisky into the two glasses. The adjutant belched, sat up -in a creaking of bed springs, and scratched his heavy jaw. - -"You're thinking they might start hanging up us poor sons of bitches, -ain't you?" he asked. "Hell, call out the Guard. Clamp on a curfew." He -reached for a glass. - -"Yes, and the Russians'll fake pictures of your boys sticking old -women with bayonets," the secretary said. "Governor Bob couldn't get -reelected as dogcatcher, even." - -The adjutant drained his glass, lipping back the ice, and whistled his -breath out through pouting lips. - -"Good! Needed that," he grunted. "Dave, Bob's got that Stonery dame by -the short hairs, he'll swing her into line. Just that about her boy in -the state pen out in California is enough. Brown would do Bob a favor -and spring him. Or the papers here would splash it. Either way." - -"I know, I know," the secretary said, sipping at his drink. "We'll see, -when Bob gets here. Meanwhile, as of yesterday we had thirty-three -thousand seven hundred twenty-six dogs in protective custody and God -knows how many more under house arrest. Sixteen thousand bucks a day -it's costing us--" - -He broke off as a knock sounded on the door. He hastily tore the -wrapper off another glass and splashed it full of ice and bourbon. -The adjutant padded to the door and opened it. The governor, a stout, -florid man in a gray sports coat, came in and sat stiffly on the edge -of the bed. The secretary handed him the drink and he gulped half of it -before speaking. - -"No smoke, boys," he said finally. "She give it to me just like she -does to the papers. We got to go to the moon, or make the Russians do -it, and bring that poor, dear, sweet, trusting, cuddly little dog back -to Earth again." - -"How about her kid out on the coast?" the adjutant asked. - -"She spit in my eye, Sam. Said she was just as brave to be a martyr as -the dogs they string up. Why, she even told me about another boy of -hers, living in sin with a black woman down in Cuba, and dared me to -give that to the papers too." - -"She sounds tough as she looks." - -"She's tougher," the governor groaned. "Like blue granite. I felt -like I was back in the third grade." He handed his empty glass to the -secretary. - -"What did you finally do?" the secretary asked. - -"What the hell _could_ I do? I want that U.D.D. vote, it must be a -whopper. I wagged my tail and barked for her and said I had an idea." - -"And now I got to think up the idea," the secretary said, still holding -the empty glass. - -"No, I thought it up on my way back," the governor said. "I'm going to -fly to Washington this afternoon." - -"Not the army, for God's sake," pleaded the adjutant. - -"No, I'm going to dump it on the Russian embassy. Damn their black -hearts, they started this. Hurry up with that drink!" - -"Watch out you don't lose your donkey for sure and all," the adjutant -said. "Them Russians are smart cookies." - -"They'll have to be," the governor said, reaching for the fresh drink. -"They sure ... as ... _hell_ ... will have to be!" - - * * * * * - -All the folding chairs were taken. Extra women stood in the aisles and -along the side of the hall. Martha Stonery bulged over the rostrum in -blue knitted wool and a pearl necklace. Seated around a half-circle of -chairs behind her, pack leaders and committee chairwomen smoothed at -their skirts. Monica Flint in dove gray sat at the organ. - -Martha pounded with her gavel so hard that her pearls rattled. - -"Everyone will please stand while we sing our hymn," she said into the -resultant hush. She nodded to Monica, who began to play. - -"_I did not raise my dog to ride a sputnik, I will not let him wander -to the moon...._" The song was a shrill thundering. - -Martha beamed across her bosom as the crowd settled itself again. - -"I have a most thrilling announcement to make before we adjourn, -girls," she said, "but first we will have committee reports. Paula -Hart, will you begin?" She yielded the rostrum. - -All the reports were favorable. The U.D.D. was getting four times as -many column-inches in the state press as the Russian moonship. It was -on TV and radio. A _Life_ team was coming. - -Changes were recommended. Vigilante packs were not to carry hat pins -any more. Two policemen had lost eyes and the police were being ugly -about it. A bar of soap in a man's sock was to be substituted. More -practice on the clove hitch was needed. Too often, in their excitement, -the pack ladies were only putting two half hitches around the leg and -the dog could struggle out of it. - -Martha came back to the rostrum to read the honor roll of those whom -dogs had bitten or policemen had insulted. Each heroine came forward -amid cheers and clapping to receive a certificate exchangeable for the -Bleeding Heart medal as soon as the honors committee could agree on a -design and have a supply made up. Martha shook the hands, some of them -bandaged, and wept a few tears. - -"And now, fellow U.D.D. members," she said, "I will tell you my -surprise. Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with someone coming -from Washington!" - -A sighing murmur swept through the hall. - -"No, not _Eisenhower_," Martha said scornfully. "A man from the Russian -embassy, a Mr. Cherkassov." - -Applause crashed shrilly. Women wept and hugged each other. - -"They want to make peace," Martha shouted ringingly into the tumult. -"We've won, girls! Sally out tonight and don't come in until the last -dog is hung! We'll show them what it means to challenge the massed -U.D.D.-ers of America!" - - * * * * * - -The state police cordon kept the 2200 block of Euclid Avenue free -of reporters and idle gapers. The state car drove up at 10:00 -A.M. and parked under the oak tree. Mr. Cherkassov and the two -TASS men got out. - -Mr. Cherkassov was stocky and crop-haired in a blue suit. His broad, -high-cheekboned face, with snub nose and an inward tilt about the -eyes, managed to seem both alert and impassive. Carrying a pig-skin -briefcase, he led the way to the Stonery front door. - -He stepped on the doormat and pressed the bell. The doormat whirred and -writhed under his feet and he stepped back hastily. Martha Stonery, -regal in maroon silk, four-inch cameo and piled gray hair, opened the -door. - -"Don't be afraid of the doormat, Mr. Cherkassov--you _are_ Mr. -Cherkassov, aren't you?" she asked sweetly. - -He nodded, looking from her to the doormat. - -"Your weight presses something and the little brushes spin around and -clean your shoes," she explained. "I expect you don't have things like -that in Russia. But _do_, please, come in and sit down." - -The three men stepped carefully across the mat on entering. In the -oak-paneled living room, Paula Hart waited in black wool and pearls -with Monica Flint, who wore white jade and green jersey. Martha and Mr. -Cherkassov made introductions back and forth and the men bowed stiffly. -Then Martha sat down flanked by her aides on the gray sofa facing the -picture window. The men sat in single chairs and rubbed their polished -black shoes uneasily against the deep-pile gray rug. - -"Madame Stonery, I have come to justify moondog," Mr. Cherkassov said. -His voice was deep and controlled. - -"Two wrongs don't make a right, Mr. Cherkassov," Martha said, raising -her head. "You needn't bring up Hiroshima. We already know about those -thousands of little black and white spaniels. Besides, I saw a _Life_ -picture where you sewed a little dog's head to the side of a big dog's -neck." - -Mr. Cherkassov looked at his stubby fingers and hid them under his -briefcase. Paula and Monica nodded accusingly and one TASS man made a -note. - -"We do not believe it is a wrong when a greater value prevails over a -lesser," Mr. Cherkassov said. "Moondog sends us information that will -hasten the time of safe space-travel for humans." - -"And who might _you_ be, to say which value is greatest? Space travel -is moonshine, just _moonshine_!" - -"I do not understand your word, madame. If you mean impossible, I must -point out that moondog has already crossed space." - -Martha clasped her hands in her lap. "That's what I mean, grown men -and such _silliness_, and the poor little dog has to pay." - -Mr. Cherkassov spoke earnestly. "Forgive me if my ignorance of your -language causes me to misunderstand, madame. We believe because man now -has the ability to cross space he therefore has a _duty_ to all life on -Earth to help it reach other planets. Earth is overcrowded with men, -not to speak of the wild life that soon must all die. We believe that -around other suns we will find Earth-like planets where we can plough -and harvest and build homes. I cannot agree that it is silly." - -Martha flung her head back. - -"Well, it _is_ silly. Who'll go? All the men who do things will run -away to them and then where will we be? Oh no, Mr. Cherkassov, that -gets you nowhere!" - -"Your pardon, madame," a TASS man interrupted. "What kind of men will -run away?" - -"The sour-faced men who fix pipes and TV and make A-bombs and -electricity and things." - -"Oh," said Mr. Cherkassov. He drummed on his briefcase. Then, "Perhaps -only Russians will go, madame. You could pass a law. I must confess to -you, we might have sent a man to the moon, but we feared the propaganda -use your country might make of it." - -Martha made her parrot mouth. "You should have sent a _man_!" She -chomped the last word off short. Paula and Monica nodded vigorously. - -Mr. Cherkassov stroked his briefcase. "Moondog's mistress wished -greatly to go. One might say moondog saved her mistress' life. Is not -that a value to you?" - -Martha stared. "Did you dare think of sending a poor weak _woman_ to -the ... to the _moon_?" - -"Russian women are coarse and strong," Mr. Cherkassov said soothingly. -"A large number of them, among the scientists, did volunteer." - - * * * * * - -Martha sat bolt upright and made her parrot beak again. Her fat cheeks -flushed under the powder. - -"No!" she snapped. "I see where you're trying to lead me and I won't -go! You should have sent the hussy! It is _immoral_ to sacrifice a -loving little dog just for a careless whim." - -Her two aides gazed admiringly at their chieftainess. "Think of it, -just for a whim!" Paula echoed. - -Mr. Cherkassov's fingers traced an aimless, intricate pattern on the -briefcase and he crossed his ankles. - -"All dogs are not loving in the same way, madame. Tell me, how do you -know when a dog loves you?" - -"You just know," Martha said. "Take my little Fiffalo--and I just know -he's so miserable now away from me in that dreadful concentration camp -and it's all your fault, really, Mr. Cherkassov--when I pet Fiffalo he -jumps in my lap and kisses me and just _wiggles_ all over. That's real -love!" - -"Ah ... I perhaps understand. What does he do when you speak sharply to -him?" - -"He lies on his back with his paws waving and looks so sad and pitiful -and defenseless that my heart melts and I feel good all over. You just -_know_ that's love, when it happens to you." - -Monica dabbed at a tear. Both TASS men scribbled. - -"I think I may see a way to resolve our differences," Mr. Cherkassov -said. He put his feet side by side and leaned slightly forward, -gripping the briefcase on his knees. - -"What do you know of the history of the dog?" he asked. - -"Well, he's always been man's best friend and the savage Indians used -to eat him and ... and...." - -"The true dog, madame, was domesticated about twenty thousand years -ago. He was originally the golden jackal, _Canis aureus_, which still -exists in a wild state. Selective breeding for submissiveness and -obedience over that long time has resulted in the retention through -maturity of many traits normal only to puppyhood. The modern pureline -golden jackal dog no longer develops a secret life of his own, with -emotional self-sufficiency. He must love and be loved, or he dies." - -Monica sniffed. "What a beautiful name," Paula murmured. Martha nodded -warily. - -"But, madame, there is also a kind of false dog. Certain Siberian -tribes slow to reach civilized status also domesticated the northern -wolf, _Canis lupus_. This was many thousands of years later, of course, -and in the false dog the effect of long breeding is not so evident. -He is loving as a puppy, but when he matures he is aloof and reserves -his loyalty to one master. He is intensely loyal and will die for his -master, but even to him he will display little outward affection. -Perhaps a wag of the tail or a head laid on the knee, not too often. -No others except quite young children may pet him at all. To all but -his master he displays a kind of tolerant indifference unless he is -molested, and then he defends himself." - -"What a horrible creature, not a dog at all!" Martha exclaimed. - -"Not culturally, you are quite correct, madame," Mr. Cherkassov agreed, -shifting his hold on the briefcase and leaning further forward, "but -unfortunately he is a dog biologically. Some wolf blood has crept into -most of the jackal-derived breeds, you know. It betrays itself in high -cheekbones and slanting eyes and in the _personality_ of the breed. The -chow, for instance, has considerable wolf blood." - -"Chows!" Martha beaked her lips again. "I despise them! No better than -cats!" Paula nodded emphatic agreement. - -"But your little Fiffalo, as you describe him, is probably of pure -_Canis aureus_ descent and very highly bred." - -"I'm sure he is. Blood will tell. Monica, haven't I always said blood -will tell?" - -Monica nodded, her eyes shining. Mr. Cherkassov shifted his position -slightly, nearer to the chair edge. - -"Now moondog, Madame Stonery, is of the _lajka_ breed and has even more -wolf blood than the chow. If you brought her back to Earth she would -just walk away from you with cold indifference." - -"Not _really_?" - -"Madame, you know the wolf traits only as you find them tempered with -the loving jackal traits in such dogs as the chow. But a _Russian_ dog! -If you were to hand moondog a piece of meat, do you know what she would -do?" - -"No. Tell me." - -Mr. Cherkassov leaned forward, his slanting gray eyes opening wide, and -dropped his voice almost to a whisper. "Madame, she would _bite_ your -hand!" - -"Then she doesn't deserve to be rescued!" Martha said sharply. - -Mr. Cherkassov straightened up and began stroking his briefcase. "In -one sense she is not even a dog," he suggested. - -"No, she's an old wolf-thing. Like a cat. Dogs are _loving_!" - -"Perhaps not morally worthy of your campaign?" - -"No, of _course_ not. Mr. Cherkassov, you have given me a new -thought.... I hadn't realized...." - -Mr. Cherkassov waited attentively, his fingers tracing another pattern. -Paula and Monica looked at Martha and held their breaths. - -"... hadn't realized how that subversive wolf blood has been -creeping into our loving dogs all this long time. Why ... why it's -miscegenation! It's _bestiality_! Confess it, Mr. Cherkassov--that's -one way you Russians have been infiltrating us, now isn't it?" - -Mr. Cherkassov raised his sandy eyebrows, and a frosty twinkle shone in -his tilted eyes. - -"You must realize that I could hardly admit to such a thing, even if it -were true, Madame Stonery," he said judiciously. - -"It _is_ true! Go back to your Kremlin, Mr. Cherkassov, and shoot every -wolf in Russia to the moon. I'm sure the U.D.D. won't mind!" - -Mr. Cherkassov and the TASS men stood up and bowed. Martha rose and -sailed ahead of them to the door. Hand on knob, she turned to face them. - -"Our meeting will be historic, Mr. Cherkassov," she said. "I have -forced you to betray your country's plot to undermine our loving -dogs. You may expect from the U.D.D. instant and massive retaliation! -An aroused America will move at once, to set up miscegenation and -segregation barriers against your despicable wolf blood!" - -Paula and Monica stood up, each with her hands clasped under her -flushed and excited face. Mr. Cherkassov bowed again. Martha opened the -door. - -"Goodbye, Mr. Cherkassov," she said. 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