"Ron Goulart - Shandy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goulart Ron)

"I know. I'm sorry."

Nancy edged around him and went to stand by the stove. "More coffee?"

"Okay." Holman was halfway to her when the knock sounded on the spaceship door.

"Maybe it's Shandy," Nancy said, partly surprised, partly relieved.

"Maybe. I'll get it."

When Holman opened the door a tall, slender young man, wearing a conservative suit, stepped out of the
darkness and into the light of the corridor. He had a neat black moustache and was carrying a big bunch
of red-and-gold forest flowers. "Is Miss Nancy at home?"

"Who are you?" The young man was standing close to him but Holman didn't move back.

The young man bowed slightly and smiled. "Tell Miss Nancy it's Shandy. Or better, Mr. Shandy."



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 Shandy

"Christ," said Holman, backing now.

Shandy bowed again politely and walked to the door of the kitchen, knocking on the wall before he
entered.

Holman jerked himself together when he heard Nancy gasp, and ran back to her.

Shandy was sitting in a kitchen chair, his legs crossed. "It's a rather interesting story. Miss Nancy," he
said, smiling evenly.

Nancy reached out and turned off the stove. "I imagine." Shandy brushed each side of his moustache.
"Well, to begin then. I was in the wood and suddenly I tripped, carelessly, over a fallen log and was
knocked unconscious. When I recovered I found myself in this state." He paused to rub his head. "And,
of course, I remembered."

Looking straight at him, Nancy said, "You had amnesia."

"Yes. You see, Miss Nancy, many years ago, I'm not sure how many, my people lived here and I was
quite a prominent member of the ruling class. But I incurred, unfortunately, the wrath of an evil
scientist."

"And?" asked Holman. For somebody who'd recently been a teddy bear. Shandy looked pretty dapper.

Shandy smiled. "She put a spell on me which caused me to change shape, and also made me forget what
I had originally been."

Nancy laughed softly. "Well, it's good to have you back."