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I don't find Nicholas Gevers attempts to find a link between "One-Two-Three for Me" and "And When They Appear" to be convincing. If there is another story that will help to explain "One-Two-Three for Me," we will have to look for it outside of Strange Travelers. Another story that came to my mind is "The Most Beautiful Woman on the World" in Endangered Species. I don't think the stories are linked in any direct way, but they both share have a story within a story and ii is very hard to be sure what is going on in either the inner or the outer story.
I accidentally sent out this message before I was quite done. That last sentence should be replaced by the following:
I don't think the stories are linked in any direct way, but they both are science fiction stories that seem to involve a supernatural event which results in the death of a woman. They both contain a story within a story and it is very hard to be sure what is going on in either the inner (supernatural) or the outer (science fiction) story, at least in part because of a lack of information.
And I will add a final indication that Wolfe wasn't entirely serious in writing this story. On page 43 of Strange Travelers, there is the following passage:
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... her bot said it was for calling people who weren't there, and was well known to science and all that. So we asked what the buttons were for and the bot said they were to say who you wanted.
"That's crazy," Jo An said, "why not just say who you want, like we do?"
And the bot said that back then people mostly thought they were too
good to talk to machines unless to call them names, so they did this.
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Now, I don't find this a convincing explanation, personally. Someone is having some fun here. It could be Jak or the bot, but my money is on Wolfe.
William Ansley