PFLEUGER,
DISCOVERER OF
PFLEUGERSVILLE

_Born: May 5. 1941. Died: ----_

_Profession Inventor. On the first day of April of the year of our
Lord, 1962, Francis Farnsworth Pfleuger brought into being a Moebius
coincidence field and established multiple contact with the
twenty-first satellite of the star Sirius, thereby giving the
people of Valleyview access, via their back doorways, to a New
World. Here we have come to live. Here we have come to raise our
children. Here, in this idyllic village, which the noble race that
once inhabited this fair planet left behind them when they migrated
to the Greater Magellanic Cloud, we have settled down to create a
new and better Way of Life. Here, thanks to Francis Farnsworth
Pfleuger, we shall know happiness prosperity and freedom from fear._

FRANCIS FARNSWORTH PFLEUGER, WE, THE NEW INHABITANTS OF SIRIUS XXI,
SALUTE YOU!

Philip wiped his forehead again.

Presently he noticed that the flesh-and-blood Francis Pfleuger was
looking in his direction. "Me," the flesh-and-blood Francis Pfleuger
said, pointing proudly at the statue. "Me."

"So I gather," Philip said dryly. And then. "Zarathustra--come back
here!"

The little dog had started down one of the paths that converged on the
statue. At Philip's command, he stopped but did not turn; instead he
remained where he was, as though waiting for someone to come down the
path. After a moment, someone did--Judith Darrow.

She was wearing a simple white dress, reminiscent both in design and
decor of a Grecian tunic. A wide gilt belt augmented the effect, and her
delicate sandals did nothing to mar it. In the radiance of the
star-flowers, her eyes were more gray than green. There were shadows
under them, Philip noticed, and the lids were faintly red.

She halted a few feet from him and looked at him without saying a word.
"I ... I brought your dog back," he said lamely. "I found him in the
back seat of my car."

"Thank you. I've been looking all over Pfleugersville for him. I left my
Valleyview doors open, hoping he'd come home of his own accord, but I
guess he had other ideas. Now that you've discovered our secret, Mr.
Myles, what do you think of our brave new world?"

"I think it's lovely," Philip said, "but I don't believe it's where you
seem to think it is."

"Don't you?" she asked. "Then suppose you show me the full moon that
rose over Valleyview tonight. O