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At that moment the dim circle of the as intersected by a shter circle He autoirl in the rooht Now she thren a cloak and walked around the roo, the horsetail of black hair flirting from side to side as she turned her head this way and that She was less than twenty feet away and he could see her clearly She earing a gray suit fashionably pied with great splotches of black Her face was compact, nose small, mouth broad, eyes very wide set, and, as Phil now noticed definitely for the first time, her ears were lobeless and curved up to an almost faun-like tip As on those rare occasions when he&039;d glied her shoulders, as if giving up her hunt, and walked over to the , looking straight at Phil He shrank back a bit, though he kneas invisible She grasped a knob on the riradually blacking out as she did so

Then, just as Phil started to turn away, thebegan to brighten again until it was almost as transparent as before He realized what lass had missed its catch and revolved silently onward a few extra inches He&039;d known it to happen to his own

The girl across the way thought she was hidden She wasn&039;t

She stretched and took off her coat Phil gnawed his lip He didn&039;t quite want to watch her But anything elcoht hich his last reverie had ended, and, Phil knew very well, thiscould provide , if barren, distractions

She slowly parted the netic clasps on her blouse, then slipped out of it with a lithe twist of her shoulders Phil forgot his fears, enthralled by the beauty of her dark-nippled breasts Below the soararhs It puzzled him, perhaps because of the faint smokiness of theIt looked al expertly on one leg, she drew the stocking frorotesque ten-inch platform shoes

Only - and here Phil&039;s heart jumped - she seemed to have stripped off much more than that To be precise, her foot

Then he saw she hadn&039;t taken off quite all her foot At the point where her ankle should have been, her leg curved backward a trifle, then sharply forward again, sli down abruptly to end in a neat little black hoof

She stripped off the other stocking and shoe with the same result Phil could see how the foot fitted into a well in the dummy foot and the platform, and was in that way concealed

She danced exuberantly around the room He could hear the clicks of the little hoofs He re tap He could see very distinctly her slim pasterns, her dainty fetlocks tufted with fur exactly the saar, took up an electric razor, and began critically to shave the edge of her "undergarot as far as "First a green cat, then -" The next ed for the door

He wasn&039;t very clear about anything for a while after that For instance, when he darted across the street two blocks away fro black electric, stylishly designed in the antique,Cookie, the Akeleys and Swish Jack Jones with a box on his lap Phil didn&039;t even recognize them at the time

All he was really conscious of hat his hand clutched in his pocket - the crumpled phonoscribe tape with Dr Romadka&039;s name and address