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                              the Divers

                           By JAMES STAMERS

                      _The key to Fred's success
                    was simple ... he may not have
                      had much of a mind, but it
                     was all his, nobody else's!_

           [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.]


He had forgotten the beer again. He remembered that he had forgotten
only as he opened the apartment door. A wave of smoke and onions and
hamburger flowed past him into the dingy corridor and he stumbled on
the garbage pail, plunked right in the doorway for him to lug along the
passage to the chute. The bed was not made in one of their two rooms
and