Sci-Fi Trilogy: Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters & The Planet of Doubt. Stanley G. Weinbaum

with a Yankee poacher? I fancy not!"

      "And then," he continued imperturbably, "we can cross comfortably to Erotia, a good American town."

      Patricia reached for her emergency pack, slung it over her shoulders. She retrieved a thick bundle of notes, written in aniline ink on transkin, brushed off a few vagrant molds, and slipped it into the pack. She picked up a pair of diminutive mudshoes and turned deliberately to the door.

      "So you're coming?" he chuckled.

      "I'm going," she retorted coldly, "to the good British town of Venoble. Alone!"

      "Venoble!" he gasped. "That's two hundred miles south! And across the Greater Eternities, too!"