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                             the good seed

                            By MARK MALLORY

                   _The island was drowning--if they
                  failed to find some common ground,
                      both of them were doomed._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


They said--as they have said of so many frontiersmen just like
him--that there must have been a woman in his past, to make him what he
was. And indeed there had, but she was no flesh-and-blood female. The
name of his lady was Victoria, whom the Greeks called Nike and early
confounded with the Pallas Athena, that sterile maiden. And at the age
of thirty-four she had Calvin Mulloy most firmly