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+Title: Man-Trap
+
+Author: Hal Annas
+
+Release Date: August 30, 2021 [eBook #66183]
+
+Language: English
+
+Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed
+ Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN-TRAP ***
+
+
+
+
+
+ Jerry vowed no woman would ever entice
+ him into matrimony. But of course, that was
+ before Professor Madigan's invention, the--
+
+ MAN-TRAP
+
+ By Hal Annas
+
+ [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
+ Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
+ December 1953
+ Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+ the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+
+
+Jerry Kerran watched the news analyst fade from the screen to be
+replaced by a woman who looked directly at him and said, "Listen,
+girls! Professor Madigan's greatest invention. A new kind of magnetism
+more powerful than gravity. Works as a supplement to a natural
+magnetism. Can be controlled--"
+
+Kerran switched off the current. "Women," he growled. "Bah!"
+
+He had three rules concerning woman: a) if she won't stay home and neck
+on the sofa get rid of her; b) if she will stay home and neck on the
+sofa suspect her of matrimonial intentions and get rid of her; c) don't
+monkey with her to begin with and avoid the nuisance of bothering with
+the first two rules.
+
+He rose to his lanky six feet of height, brushed the unruly red hair
+out of his eyes, strode to the door and turned the knob. The door
+swung wide. He glanced about briefly, then looked down and saw the girl.
+
+She had, he realized, removed her highheels. Ordinarily the top of her
+platinum hair came an inch above his shoulders. Not that he was in the
+habit of getting close enough to determine this factor accurately, but
+he couldn't help seeing her enter and leave the apartment across the
+way from time to time.
+
+"You knocked?" he said bruskly.
+
+Her head was tilted back, her blue eyes wide. "I need a pound of
+sugar," she said. "My pneumatic is out of order. Can't get deliveries."
+
+"You mean, you cook?" He stared in awe.
+
+"I'm making a cake," she breathed, inching closer.
+
+He backed out of the doorway and she entered. Without giving him
+another glance, she went to the pneumatic, cut in the phone and ordered
+a pound of sugar. She turned back to him.
+
+"It shouldn't be a minute. I'll wait--if you don't mind."
+
+He had tried to keep himself from studying her. Despite this, his
+eyes told him that her figure was just about perfect and as both a
+counteraction and a stimulant to the mounting tension in him, her smile
+was surprisingly bright and full. There was little danger of the flavor
+of her warpaint confusing a man. She wore little, if any. Her bright
+lips and cheeks seemed to need no added color.
+
+"Don't bother to stand," she said considerately. She waited until he
+had lowered himself to the couch, then dropped down beside him, a
+trifle too close to allow him to put his mind on other things.
+
+"I hope I haven't troubled you." Her hand brushed his.
+
+"Not at all." He drew his hand away.
+
+"From the looks of your side-board," she went on cheerily, "you were
+just getting ready to mix a drink. I'm an expert. Shall I mix a couple?"
+
+He resisted the inclination to rise when she did, and deliberately kept
+his eyes from following her. He snatched up the paper, rustled it
+noisily and tried to concentrate on the headlines.
+
+Two things distracted him. One was the faint scent of perfume and the
+other was the chinking of ice and glasses. He put the paper aside,
+tried to put his mind on distant things. This soon palled. He was about
+to get up and pace the floor when she returned and handed him a cool
+glass.
+
+"Thanks," he said and leaned back.
+
+She sat down again, so close that her shoulder brushed his. He
+edged over against the arm of the couch, putting an inch of space
+between them, glanced sidelong at her, and drank. He rolled his eyes
+ceiling-ward, smacked his lips and drank again.
+
+"What did you put in it?"
+
+"About a spoonful of creme de menthe, a couple drops of bitters and
+about two ounces of rye. Like it?"
+
+He scowled deliberately, armoring himself against his feelings. "It's
+fair--for a woman's mixings. You should have put in more liquor."
+
+"Of course. I'll learn."
+
+"Not from me," he snapped. "I'm a woman-hater."
+
+She leaned toward him. "Why?"
+
+He tossed off the balance of the drink, set the glass on the table and
+made a sweeping gesture. "They're all alike," he said brutally. "Fickle
+and treacherous. Deceivers. Always flinging their sex around."
+
+"Not all women," she countered. "Take this Professor Madigan who
+discovered that new adhesion force."
+
+"A woman?"
+
+"Of course. Professor Madigan is a scholarly young woman. Her sex
+appeal might not win a beauty contest, but she discovered a perfectly
+wonderful man-catcher."
+
+"What?"
+
+"A new force. Works like gravity--only it's different. Its strength
+increases in ratio to the square of the distance."
+
+"What are you talking about? Women don't understand things like that."
+
+"No?"
+
+"No! Need I spell it out for you? Your delivery should be in the
+pneumatic by now. Why don't you pick it up and go home and make your
+cake?"
+
+"I shall. I had no idea I was living next door to a misogynist, and a
+brutal one at that."
+
+"I don't like women," Kerran said emphatically. "They're all alike.
+Fickle. Deceivers. Everything about them artificial. Lips, color,
+shape."
+
+The girl rose and stood over him. "I'm not wearing make-up," she
+asserted. "You flatter yourself in thinking I would put on my face to
+come across the hall."
+
+"Your shape! Your hips aren't that neat!"
+
+The color rose in her cheeks. She lifted a hand as though to strike
+him. The hand trembled. She lowered it to her side. "I do not wear a
+girdle. Want to feel?"
+
+"No," he said, his own color rising. "Go on home."
+
+Ignoring the pneumatic, she crossed to the door, snatched it open,
+marched into the corridor. Through the open doorway he heard the knob
+turn on her door. He went to the pneumatic, picked up the sugar, strode
+across the corridor and knocked. In a moment her head appeared, then
+the door swung wide.
+
+"You forgot something," he said contritely. "Sorry I was rude. I'm
+a natural woman-hater, and a moment before you came in some wench
+on television triggered my feelings on the subject.... Just keep on
+your own side of the fence and I'll stay on mine. I'll even speak
+to you occasionally, if you wish, but that's as far as I'll go in
+neighborliness."
+
+"Thanks," she said. "You're more than kind. But I shan't trouble you.
+I've just become a man-hater."
+
+Kerran turned to go. Halfway across the corridor he felt something tug
+at him. It was a steady and increasingly powerful pull, forcing him
+into the girl's apartment. He lost his balance, reeled through the
+doorway, came to a halt against the table, noticed that the force still
+drew him toward the girl on the far side of the table.
+
+"Well?" she said.
+
+"Er-uh, just dropped in. Going right back out."
+
+He got halfway to the door before it again took effect. He leaned
+against it, dug his feet into the carpet, pushed. He almost reached the
+door. He could go no farther, knew he was going to be snatched back to
+the table.
+
+He turned, dug in his heels, braced himself, and then the girl came
+flying over the table and directly into his arms. Instantly the force
+released him and he fell with the girl on top.
+
+The platinum hair was in his eyes, against his face, the scent of
+perfume all about, the full weight of the soft warm flesh pressing him
+down. Then she struggled up, stood erect.
+
+Getting his feet under him, he said, "I want to apologize. Your shape
+is natural. You don't wear a girdle. And now I'll be going."
+
+He had scarcely turned before he felt it again. He swung back quickly,
+saw that the girl was hanging on the sofa. He lost his balance, went
+staggering toward her, flung out his arms, and the next thing he knew
+she was pressing against him, standing on her toes, and her lips were
+brushing his cheek, and they were moist and warm and soft.
+
+She drew back and said, belligerently, "I wish you'd get out of here."
+
+He started again, hesitated when he felt the force, turned back. "I've
+heard of magnetic women," he said with restraint. "I never believed in
+it. But now--" He gestured vaguely. "Please turn off your charms."
+
+She lowered her eyes. "I thought it was you. I've been drawn to you
+from the first and I thought you'd suddenly become irresistible. Do you
+mean you feel it too?"
+
+He nodded. "I've read about magnetic women in the best books. Now, dash
+it, turn it off! I'm getting tired of hanging around here."
+
+"It's you," she insisted. "You turn it off."
+
+He shook his head. "I'm plain as an old shoe. Everybody knows. But you!
+One look at you and anybody'd know you've got this magnetism. That's
+why I had to be so brutal. It was the only way I could resist and keep
+my woman-hating integrity. I can feel your magnetism now. It's getting
+stronger."
+
+"And I feel yours. It's pulling me right into your arms."
+
+"Stay back. I can't stand much more. I'm a confirmed misogynist, and if
+you keep on I'll have to go against my principles, and that wouldn't be
+honest."
+
+"I can't help it," she murmured from two feet away. "I can't resist
+you."
+
+Kerran puzzled briefly. "Maybe that's it. I remember when I was
+overseas. But no! All they wanted was chewing gum and cigarets. Still,
+you never can tell. Maybe it came on me suddenly. Maybe looking at you
+sort of triggered my magnetism."
+
+She smiled. "If you'll quit looking at me maybe we can stop it. Look
+the other way and I'll try to stop thinking about you because you do
+something to me."
+
+Kerran nodded. "That's it. Beat it! I'll put my mind on something else."
+
+Visualizing a horse race in which he had his money on the bang-tail
+just ready to break the tape, he didn't feel the tug for several
+seconds. He struggled mightily but futilely to resist. He wound up in
+the kitchen where the girl was holding onto the electric range.
+
+"You didn't play fair," he said accusingly. "Treacherous. Just like
+all your sex. You thought about me."
+
+She lowered her eyes. "I--I just couldn't help it."
+
+Kerran felt his chest expand involuntarily. "One of us is
+irresistible," he said. "It isn't you because I positively was not
+thinking about you. So it must be me." His chest expanded another inch.
+"I guess a girl who can't resist me would be true. And since we can't
+beat this force, the only solution is to get married."
+
+She nodded. "That's the only solution. But maybe I don't want to solve
+the problem. You'll have to persuade me."
+
+The voice from the television in the living room was barely audible in
+the kitchen: "The new force was originally developed for the purpose
+of drawing troops into a compact group so they could be atom-bombed.
+Professor Madigan refused to disclose its secret to be used for that
+purpose. She pointed out that it had a far more useful potential. A
+field of it, built into a woman's garments, enables her to attract at
+a distance the man of her choice. She can control this with a switch
+conveniently located in a pocket. Her own charms do the rest."
+
+Kerran ignored the telecast. She was in his arms and he had his face
+half-buried in her silken hair. "I don't even know your name ..." he
+laughed embarrassedly.
+
+Her voice was low and soft as she murmured, "Madigan--Joyce Madigan."
+
+He stiffened suddenly. "You mean you're _Professor_ Madigan--"
+
+She snuggled closer against him and somehow it didn't really seem to
+matter now what her name was. "Let's say I _was_ Professor Madigan--a
+woman's place is in the home, don't you agree?"
+
+After a few emphatic kisses he did.
+
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+<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN-TRAP ***</div>
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+<div class="titlepage">
+
+<p>Jerry vowed no woman would ever entice<br />
+him into matrimony. But of course, that was<br />
+before Professor Madigan's invention, the—</p>
+
+<h1>MAN-TRAP</h1>
+
+<h2>By Hal Annas</h2>
+
+<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br />
+Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br />
+December 1953<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>Jerry Kerran watched the news analyst fade from the screen to be
+replaced by a woman who looked directly at him and said, "Listen,
+girls! Professor Madigan's greatest invention. A new kind of magnetism
+more powerful than gravity. Works as a supplement to a natural
+magnetism. Can be controlled—"</p>
+
+<p>Kerran switched off the current. "Women," he growled. "Bah!"</p>
+
+<p>He had three rules concerning woman: a) if she won't stay home and neck
+on the sofa get rid of her; b) if she will stay home and neck on the
+sofa suspect her of matrimonial intentions and get rid of her; c) don't
+monkey with her to begin with and avoid the nuisance of bothering with
+the first two rules.</p>
+
+<p>He rose to his lanky six feet of height, brushed the unruly red hair
+out of his eyes, strode to the door and turned the knob. The door
+swung wide. He glanced about briefly, then looked down and saw the girl.</p>
+
+<p>She had, he realized, removed her highheels. Ordinarily the top of her
+platinum hair came an inch above his shoulders. Not that he was in the
+habit of getting close enough to determine this factor accurately, but
+he couldn't help seeing her enter and leave the apartment across the
+way from time to time.</p>
+
+<p>"You knocked?" he said bruskly.</p>
+
+<p>Her head was tilted back, her blue eyes wide. "I need a pound of
+sugar," she said. "My pneumatic is out of order. Can't get deliveries."</p>
+
+<p>"You mean, you cook?" He stared in awe.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm making a cake," she breathed, inching closer.</p>
+
+<p>He backed out of the doorway and she entered. Without giving him
+another glance, she went to the pneumatic, cut in the phone and ordered
+a pound of sugar. She turned back to him.</p>
+
+<p>"It shouldn't be a minute. I'll wait—if you don't mind."</p>
+
+<p>He had tried to keep himself from studying her. Despite this, his
+eyes told him that her figure was just about perfect and as both a
+counteraction and a stimulant to the mounting tension in him, her smile
+was surprisingly bright and full. There was little danger of the flavor
+of her warpaint confusing a man. She wore little, if any. Her bright
+lips and cheeks seemed to need no added color.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't bother to stand," she said considerately. She waited until he
+had lowered himself to the couch, then dropped down beside him, a
+trifle too close to allow him to put his mind on other things.</p>
+
+<p>"I hope I haven't troubled you." Her hand brushed his.</p>
+
+<p>"Not at all." He drew his hand away.</p>
+
+<p>"From the looks of your side-board," she went on cheerily, "you were
+just getting ready to mix a drink. I'm an expert. Shall I mix a couple?"</p>
+
+<p>He resisted the inclination to rise when she did, and deliberately kept
+his eyes from following her. He snatched up the paper, rustled it
+noisily and tried to concentrate on the headlines.</p>
+
+<p>Two things distracted him. One was the faint scent of perfume and the
+other was the chinking of ice and glasses. He put the paper aside,
+tried to put his mind on distant things. This soon palled. He was about
+to get up and pace the floor when she returned and handed him a cool
+glass.</p>
+
+<p>"Thanks," he said and leaned back.</p>
+
+<p>She sat down again, so close that her shoulder brushed his. He
+edged over against the arm of the couch, putting an inch of space
+between them, glanced sidelong at her, and drank. He rolled his eyes
+ceiling-ward, smacked his lips and drank again.</p>
+
+<p>"What did you put in it?"</p>
+
+<p>"About a spoonful of creme de menthe, a couple drops of bitters and
+about two ounces of rye. Like it?"</p>
+
+<p>He scowled deliberately, armoring himself against his feelings. "It's
+fair—for a woman's mixings. You should have put in more liquor."</p>
+
+<p>"Of course. I'll learn."</p>
+
+<p>"Not from me," he snapped. "I'm a woman-hater."</p>
+
+<p>She leaned toward him. "Why?"</p>
+
+<p>He tossed off the balance of the drink, set the glass on the table and
+made a sweeping gesture. "They're all alike," he said brutally. "Fickle
+and treacherous. Deceivers. Always flinging their sex around."</p>
+
+<p>"Not all women," she countered. "Take this Professor Madigan who
+discovered that new adhesion force."</p>
+
+<p>"A woman?"</p>
+
+<p>"Of course. Professor Madigan is a scholarly young woman. Her sex
+appeal might not win a beauty contest, but she discovered a perfectly
+wonderful man-catcher."</p>
+
+<p>"What?"</p>
+
+<p>"A new force. Works like gravity—only it's different. Its strength
+increases in ratio to the square of the distance."</p>
+
+<p>"What are you talking about? Women don't understand things like that."</p>
+
+<p>"No?"</p>
+
+<p>"No! Need I spell it out for you? Your delivery should be in the
+pneumatic by now. Why don't you pick it up and go home and make your
+cake?"</p>
+
+<p>"I shall. I had no idea I was living next door to a misogynist, and a
+brutal one at that."</p>
+
+<p>"I don't like women," Kerran said emphatically. "They're all alike.
+Fickle. Deceivers. Everything about them artificial. Lips, color,
+shape."</p>
+
+<p>The girl rose and stood over him. "I'm not wearing make-up," she
+asserted. "You flatter yourself in thinking I would put on my face to
+come across the hall."</p>
+
+<p>"Your shape! Your hips aren't that neat!"</p>
+
+<p>The color rose in her cheeks. She lifted a hand as though to strike
+him. The hand trembled. She lowered it to her side. "I do not wear a
+girdle. Want to feel?"</p>
+
+<p>"No," he said, his own color rising. "Go on home."</p>
+
+<p>Ignoring the pneumatic, she crossed to the door, snatched it open,
+marched into the corridor. Through the open doorway he heard the knob
+turn on her door. He went to the pneumatic, picked up the sugar, strode
+across the corridor and knocked. In a moment her head appeared, then
+the door swung wide.</p>
+
+<p>"You forgot something," he said contritely. "Sorry I was rude. I'm
+a natural woman-hater, and a moment before you came in some wench
+on television triggered my feelings on the subject.... Just keep on
+your own side of the fence and I'll stay on mine. I'll even speak
+to you occasionally, if you wish, but that's as far as I'll go in
+neighborliness."</p>
+
+<p>"Thanks," she said. "You're more than kind. But I shan't trouble you.
+I've just become a man-hater."</p>
+
+<p>Kerran turned to go. Halfway across the corridor he felt something tug
+at him. It was a steady and increasingly powerful pull, forcing him
+into the girl's apartment. He lost his balance, reeled through the
+doorway, came to a halt against the table, noticed that the force still
+drew him toward the girl on the far side of the table.</p>
+
+<p>"Well?" she said.</p>
+
+<p>"Er-uh, just dropped in. Going right back out."</p>
+
+<p>He got halfway to the door before it again took effect. He leaned
+against it, dug his feet into the carpet, pushed. He almost reached the
+door. He could go no farther, knew he was going to be snatched back to
+the table.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p>He turned, dug in his heels, braced himself, and then the girl came
+flying over the table and directly into his arms. Instantly the force
+released him and he fell with the girl on top.</p>
+
+<p>The platinum hair was in his eyes, against his face, the scent of
+perfume all about, the full weight of the soft warm flesh pressing him
+down. Then she struggled up, stood erect.</p>
+
+<p>Getting his feet under him, he said, "I want to apologize. Your shape
+is natural. You don't wear a girdle. And now I'll be going."</p>
+
+<p>He had scarcely turned before he felt it again. He swung back quickly,
+saw that the girl was hanging on the sofa. He lost his balance, went
+staggering toward her, flung out his arms, and the next thing he knew
+she was pressing against him, standing on her toes, and her lips were
+brushing his cheek, and they were moist and warm and soft.</p>
+
+<p>She drew back and said, belligerently, "I wish you'd get out of here."</p>
+
+<p>He started again, hesitated when he felt the force, turned back. "I've
+heard of magnetic women," he said with restraint. "I never believed in
+it. But now—" He gestured vaguely. "Please turn off your charms."</p>
+
+<p>She lowered her eyes. "I thought it was you. I've been drawn to you
+from the first and I thought you'd suddenly become irresistible. Do you
+mean you feel it too?"</p>
+
+<p>He nodded. "I've read about magnetic women in the best books. Now, dash
+it, turn it off! I'm getting tired of hanging around here."</p>
+
+<p>"It's you," she insisted. "You turn it off."</p>
+
+<p>He shook his head. "I'm plain as an old shoe. Everybody knows. But you!
+One look at you and anybody'd know you've got this magnetism. That's
+why I had to be so brutal. It was the only way I could resist and keep
+my woman-hating integrity. I can feel your magnetism now. It's getting
+stronger."</p>
+
+<p>"And I feel yours. It's pulling me right into your arms."</p>
+
+<p>"Stay back. I can't stand much more. I'm a confirmed misogynist, and if
+you keep on I'll have to go against my principles, and that wouldn't be
+honest."</p>
+
+<p>"I can't help it," she murmured from two feet away. "I can't resist
+you."</p>
+
+<p>Kerran puzzled briefly. "Maybe that's it. I remember when I was
+overseas. But no! All they wanted was chewing gum and cigarets. Still,
+you never can tell. Maybe it came on me suddenly. Maybe looking at you
+sort of triggered my magnetism."</p>
+
+<p>She smiled. "If you'll quit looking at me maybe we can stop it. Look
+the other way and I'll try to stop thinking about you because you do
+something to me."</p>
+
+<p>Kerran nodded. "That's it. Beat it! I'll put my mind on something else."</p>
+
+<p>Visualizing a horse race in which he had his money on the bang-tail
+just ready to break the tape, he didn't feel the tug for several
+seconds. He struggled mightily but futilely to resist. He wound up in
+the kitchen where the girl was holding onto the electric range.</p>
+
+<p>"You didn't play fair," he said accusingly. "Treacherous. Just like
+all your sex. You thought about me."</p>
+
+<p>She lowered her eyes. "I—I just couldn't help it."</p>
+
+<p>Kerran felt his chest expand involuntarily. "One of us is
+irresistible," he said. "It isn't you because I positively was not
+thinking about you. So it must be me." His chest expanded another inch.
+"I guess a girl who can't resist me would be true. And since we can't
+beat this force, the only solution is to get married."</p>
+
+<p>She nodded. "That's the only solution. But maybe I don't want to solve
+the problem. You'll have to persuade me."</p>
+
+<p>The voice from the television in the living room was barely audible in
+the kitchen: "The new force was originally developed for the purpose
+of drawing troops into a compact group so they could be atom-bombed.
+Professor Madigan refused to disclose its secret to be used for that
+purpose. She pointed out that it had a far more useful potential. A
+field of it, built into a woman's garments, enables her to attract at
+a distance the man of her choice. She can control this with a switch
+conveniently located in a pocket. Her own charms do the rest."</p>
+
+<p>Kerran ignored the telecast. She was in his arms and he had his face
+half-buried in her silken hair. "I don't even know your name ..." he
+laughed embarrassedly.</p>
+
+<p>Her voice was low and soft as she murmured, "Madigan—Joyce Madigan."</p>
+
+<p>He stiffened suddenly. "You mean you're <i>Professor</i> Madigan—"</p>
+
+<p>She snuggled closer against him and somehow it didn't really seem to
+matter now what her name was. "Let's say I <i>was</i> Professor Madigan—a
+woman's place is in the home, don't you agree?"</p>
+
+<p>After a few emphatic kisses he did.</p>
+
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