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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 5, July-August 1938

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GOOD COMPANY
by 
HELEN CLOUKEY
[IMAGE: Two men, in "futuristic" garb, one holding the handles of a device, the other reacting to him. They are possibly in a vehicle. To the left side appears to be an explosion.]

     A devastated land, a speeding automobile and a young man. The United Americas, a United European Army truck and Batty Anderson. Clad in the dark brown shirt that was his protection from being shot on sight as an American, Batty was to all United European patrols merely a civilian tory American detailed to motor service. As he crossed the Mississippi he berated himself a damned fool.When he crossed the upper Rio Grande, he added a few adjectives and a great deal of speed. Thanks to the invasion, there were no cars that far west to see where he turned aside from his assigned route. From the smooth highway he lambasted himself into a sunbaked ranch house. Still swearing, he unlocked the cellar door and raced along the underground passage to the barn.
     
     "Well, is everything ready this time?" he queried breathlessly of the bespectacled young man who rose at his entrance. "I have the stuff, but I had to swear in to get it. I happened to be detailed to drive it to the west coast. What an easy life I could have had with that outfit, but no, I'm fool enough to fall in with you. Shall I drive the truck in?"

     'When you are finished, yes. Everything will be ready when you get that stuff in. I'll unlock the barn door and you drive in. And fast, too. There might an airplane lurking around."

     "OK by me, " He turned from the barn and ran swiftly out of sight.

     When the great barn door had been slipped insdie and the army truck driven in, it was not long before the cases of canned food and explosives were loaded on the small shiny craft that dominated the center of the room. 

     Built by the two men of cromium alloy, this metal mole, or, as she was called, "Earthworm," had been developed by Splurge for underground exploration. When the

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GOOD COMPANY by HELEN CLOUKEY [IMAGE: Two men, in "futuristic" garb, one holding the handles of a device, the other reacting to him. They are possibly in a vehicle. To the left side appears to be an explosion.] A devastated land, a speeding automobile and a young man. The United Americas, a United European Army truck and Batty Anderson. Clad in the dark brown shirt that was his protection from being shot on sight as an American, Batty was to all United European patrols merely a civilian tory American detailed to motor service. As he crossed the Mississippi he berated himself a damned fool.When he crossed the upper Rio Grande, he added a few adjectives and a great deal of speed. Thanks to the invasion, there were no cars that far west to see where he turned aside from his assigned route. From the smooth highway he lambasted himself into a sunbaked ranch house. Still swearing, he unlocked the cellar door and raced along the underground passage to the barn. "Well, is everything ready this time?" he queried breathlessly of the bespectacled young man who rose at his entrance. "I have the stuff, but I had to swear in to get it. I happened to be detailed to drive it to the west coast. What an easy life I could have had with that outfit, but no, I'm fool enough to fall in with you. Shall I drive the truck in?" 'When you are finished, yes. Everything will be ready when you get that stuff in. I'll unlock the barn door and you drive in. And fast, too. There might an airplane lurking around." "OK by me, " He turned from the barn and ran swiftly out of sight. When the great barn door had been slipped insdie and the army truck driven in, it was not long before the cases of canned food and explosives were loaded on the small shiny craft that dominated the center of the room. Built by the two men of cromium alloy, this metal mole, or, as she was called, "Earthworm," had been developed by Splurge for underground exploration. When the