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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +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. + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN-TRAP *** + +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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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. 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