The Mad Monster of Mogo by Wilcox Don

Author:Wilcox, Don [Wilcox, Don]
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Amazing Stories
Published: 1952-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

ANNA’S EYES swept the outlines of roofs, black against the floodlighted yard beyond. She couldn’t see a soul anywhere—winged or otherwise. Had the custodian actually spotted a runaway—or was he bluffing?

“I see you, Gray Boy,” he repeated. “Walk back to this door at once and give yourself up or I’ll shoot… Are you coming?… I’m not bluffing, Gray Boy. These mirrors show me every hiding place around every building, and over the roofs as well.”

The roofs? Anna’s heart fairly stopped. He must be seeing her! There was surely no one else on the roof. She tried to rise.

“For the last time, start walking to this door,” the loud-speaker boomed. “If you haven’t started by the time I count three, I’ll shoot to kill. One…Two…” On the shout of “Three!” Anna sprang up and started walking.

“Don’t shoot! I’m coming!” she cried out. She took four quick strides along the rooftop. walking toward the brightest light. “Don’t shoot. I’m not a wingman!”

“Hussssh!” A winged figure flashed down from somewhere overhead and snatched her up. She almost lost a shoe, struggling against the surprise rescue. Her captor flew almost straight up, then darted off toward the black mountainside at high speed.

Bullets whipped past. Anna had the dreadful vision of being shot through the heart, dying as she fell. Once the wingman gave a sharp twitch, as if his right wing had been nipped by a bullet. He swooped downward, he dodged to one side, then darted down again, swifter and swifter. The blackness of the mountainside came up at them. The lights from the Hospital grounds were closed away from view.

With a strong flutter of his two great wings, Anna’s deliverer came gracefully to his feet. He released her from his grasp and said, in precise accents, “There. There you are, Anna.”

“Thank you, Green Flash,” Anna breathed.

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