man was crazy. But it did look as if he'd
slipped a couple of cogs for sure and for real. "Where?" Charley said.

"Washington," the professor said instantly. "New York. London, Paris.
Rome. The world, Charley. The world that's going to do us homage."

Charley shifted a little in the bed. "Look, professor," he said, "I've
got a job, right here in the carny. I couldn't leave here. So suppose we
just--"

"Your job?" the professor said. "Your job's gone, my boy. Wait. Let me
tell you what I've discovered. Let me tell you what has
happened--happened to you, my boy. To you, and to me."

Charley sat upright, slowly. "Well," he said, "all right, professor."

Professor Lightning beamed, and his eyes glittered brighter and
brighter. "Limb regeneration," he said, and his voice was as soft and
quiet as if he'd been talking about the most beautiful woman in the
world. "Limb regeneration."

* * * * *

Charley waited a long minute before he admitted to himself that he
didn't have the faintest idea what the professor was talking about.
"What?" he said at last.

Professor Lightning shook his head slightly. "Charley," he said softly,
"you're an Armless Wonder. That's right, isn't it?"

"Sure it is, professor," Charley said. "You know that. I was born that
way. Made a pretty good thing out of it, too."

"Well," Professor Lightning said, "you don't have to be one. Can you
realize that?"

Charley nodded slowly. "Sure I don't," he said. "Only it's pretty good
money, you know? And there's no sense in sitting around back home and
feeling sorry for myself, is there? I mean, this way I can make money
and have a job and--"

"No," Professor Lightning said emphatically.

Charley blinked. "No?" he said.

Professor Lightning shook his head, meaningfully. "Charley, my boy," he
said, "I don't mean that you should go home and mope. But think about
this: suppose you had your arms? Suppose you had two arms, just like
everybody else."

"Why think about anything like that?" Charley said. "I mean, I am what I
am. That's the way things are. Right?"

"Wrong," Professor Lightning said. "I can give you arms, Charley. I can
make you normal. Just like everybody else."

"Well," Charley said. After a few seconds he said: "Gee." Then he said:
"You're kidding me, professor."

"I'm perfectly serious," Professor Lightning said.

"But--"

"Let me show you," Professor Lightning said. He stood up and went to the
fl