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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Hour of Battle + +Author: Robert Sheckley + +Illustrator: Roy Gerald Krenkel + +Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29445] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUR OF BATTLE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1><big>THE HOUR<br /> +OF BATTLE</big></h1> + +<h2>BY ROBERT SHECKLEY</h2> + +<p class="p1">ILLUSTRATED BY KRENKEL</p> + +<div class="bk1"><p><big>As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the +crew had a problem to solve. Just how do you protect +a race from an enemy who can take over a man's mind +without seeming effort or warning?</big></p></div> + +<p>"That hand didn't move, did +it?" Edwardson asked, standing +at the port, looking at the +stars.</p> + +<p>"No," Morse said. He had +been staring fixedly at the +Attison Detector for over an +hour. Now he blinked three +times rapidly, and looked again. +"Not a millimeter."</p> + +<p>"I don't think it moved +either," Cassel added, from behind +the gunfire panel. And that +was that. The slender black hand +of the indicator rested unwaveringly +on zero. The ship's guns +were ready, their black mouths +open to the stars. A steady hum +filled the room. It came from the +Attison Detector, and the sound +was reassuring. It reinforced +the fact that the Detector was +attached to all the other Detectors, +forming a gigantic network +around Earth.</p> + +<p>"Why in hell don't they +come?" Edwardson asked, still +looking at the stars. "Why don't +they hit?"</p> + +<p>"Aah, shut up," Morse said. +He had a tired, glum look. High +on his right temple was an old +radiation burn, a sunburst of +pink scar tissue. From a distance +it looked like a decoration.</p> + +<p>"I just wish they'd come," +Edwardson said. He returned +from the port to his chair, bending +to clear the low metal ceiling. +"Don't you wish they'd +come?" Edwardson had the narrow, +timid face of a mouse; but +a highly intelligent mouse. One +that cats did well to avoid.</p> + +<div class="figright"><img src="images/001.png" width="361" height="550" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"Don't you?" he repeated.</p> + +<p>The other men didn't answer. +They had settled back to their +dreams, staring hypnotically at +the Detector face.</p> + +<p>"They've had enough time," +Edwardson said, half to himself.</p> + +<p>Cassel yawned and licked his +lips. "Anyone want to play some +gin?" he asked, stroking his +beard. The beard was a memento +of his undergraduate days. +Cassel maintained he could store +almost fifteen minutes worth of +oxygen in its follicles. He had +never stepped into space unhelmeted +to prove it.</p> + +<p>Morse looked away, and Edwardson +automatically watched +the indicator. This routine had +been drilled into them, branded +into their subconscious. They +would as soon have cut their +throats as leave the indicator unguarded.</p> + +<p>"Do you think they'll come +soon?" Edwardson asked, his +brown rodent's eyes on the indicator. +The men didn't answer +him. After two months together +in space their conversational +powers were exhausted. They +weren't interested in Cassel's +undergraduate days, or in +Morse's conquests.</p> + +<p>They were bored to death even +with their own thoughts and +dreams, bored with the attack +they expected momentarily.</p> + +<p>"Just one thing <i>I'd</i> like to +know," Edwardson said, slipping +with ease into an old conversational +gambit. "How far can +they do it?"</p> + +<p>They had talked for weeks +about the enemy's telepathic +range, but they always returned +to it.</p> + +<p>As professional soldiers, they +couldn't help but speculate on +the enemy and his weapons. +It was their shop talk.</p> + +<p>"Well," Morse said wearily, +"Our Detector network covers +the system out beyond Mars' orbit."</p> + +<p>"Where we sit," Cassel said, +watching the indicators now that +the others were talking.</p> + +<p>"They might not even know +we have a detection unit working," +Morse said, as he had said +a thousand times.</p> + +<p>"Oh, stop," Edwardson said, +his thin face twisted in scorn. +"They're telepathic. They must +have read every bit of stuff in +Everset's mind."</p> + +<p>"Everset didn't know we had +a detection unit," Morse said, +his eyes returning to the dial. +"He was captured before we had +it."</p> + +<p>"Look," Edwardson said, +"They ask him, 'Boy, what +would you do if you knew a telepathic +race was coming to take +over Earth? How would you +guard the planet?'"</p> + +<p>"Idle speculation," Cassel +said. "Maybe Everset didn't +think of this."</p> + +<p>"He thinks like a man, doesn't +he? Everyone agreed on this +defense. Everset would, too."</p> + +<p>"Syllogistic," Cassel murmured. +"Very shaky."</p> + +<p>"I sure wish he hadn't been +captured," Edwardson said.</p> + +<p>"It could have been worse," +Morse put in, his face sadder +than ever. "What if they'd captured +<i>both</i> of them?"</p> + +<p>"I wish they'd come," Edwardson +said.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Richard Everset and C. R. +Jones had gone on the first interstellar +flight. They had +found an inhabited planet in +the region of Vega. The rest +was standard procedure.</p> + +<p>A flip of the coin had decided +it. Everset went down in the +scouter, maintaining radio contact +with Jones, in the ship.</p> + +<p>The recording of that contact +was preserved for all Earth to +hear.</p> + +<p>"Just met the natives," Everset +said. "Funny-looking bunch. +Give you the physical description +later."</p> + +<p>"Are they trying to talk to +you?" Jones asked, guiding the +ship in a slow spiral over the +planet.</p> + +<p>"No. Hold it. Well I'm +damned! They're telepathic! +How do you like that?"</p> + +<p>"Great," Jones said. "Go on."</p> + +<p>"Hold it. Say, Jonesy, I don't +know as I like these boys. They +haven't got nice minds. Brother!"</p> + +<p>"What is it?" Jones asked, +lifting the ship a little higher.</p> + +<p>"Minds! These bastards are +power-crazy. Seems they've hit +all the systems around here, +looking for someone to—"</p> + +<p>"Yeh?"</p> + +<p>"I've got that a bit wrong," +Everset said pleasantly. "They +are not so bad."</p> + +<p>Jones had a quick mind, a suspicious +nature and good reflexes. +He set the accelerator for all the +G's he could take, lay down on +the floor and said, "Tell me +more."</p> + +<p>"Come on down," Everset +said, in violation of every law +of spaceflight. "These guys are +all right. As a matter of fact, +they're the most marvelous—"</p> + +<p>That was where the recording +ended, because Jones was pinned +to the floor by twenty G's acceleration +as he boosted the ship +to the level needed for the C-jump.</p> + +<p>He broke three ribs getting +home, but he got there.</p> + +<p>A telepathic species was on +the march. What was Earth going +to do about it?</p> + +<p>A lot of speculation necessarily +clothed the bare bones of +Jones' information. Evidently +the species could take over a +mind with ease. With Everset, +it seemed that they had insinuated +their thoughts into his, +delicately altering his previous +convictions. They had possessed +him with remarkable ease.</p> + +<p>How about Jones? Why hadn't +they taken him? Was distance +a factor? Or hadn't they been +prepared for the suddenness of +his departure?</p> + +<p>One thing was certain. Everything +Everset knew, the enemy +knew. That meant they knew +where Earth was, and how defenseless +the planet was to their +form of attack.</p> + +<p>It could be expected that they +were on their way.</p> + +<p>Something was needed to +nullify their tremendous advantage. +But what sort of something? +What armor is there +against thought? How do you +dodge a wavelength?</p> + +<p>Pouch-eyed scientists gravely +consulted their periodic tables.</p> + +<p>And how do you know when +a man has been possessed? Although +the enemy was clumsy +with Everset, would they continue +to be clumsy? Wouldn't +they learn?</p> + +<p>Psychologists tore their hair +and bewailed the absence of an +absolute scale for humanity.</p> + +<p>Of course, something had to +be done at once. The answer, +from a technological planet, was +a technological one. Build a +space fleet and equip it with +some sort of a detection-fire network.</p> + +<p>This was done in record time. +The Attison Detector was developed, +a cross between radar +and the electroencephalograph. +Any alteration from the typical human +brain wave pattern of +the occupants of a Detector-equipped +ship would boost the +indicator around the dial. Even +a bad dream or a case of indigestion +would jar it.</p> + +<p>It seemed probable that any +attempt to take over a human +mind would disturb something. +There had to be a point of interaction, +somewhere.</p> + +<p>That was what the Attison +Detector was supposed to detect. +Maybe it would.</p> + +<p>The spaceships, three men to +a ship, dotted space between +Earth and Mars, forming a gigantic +sphere with Earth in the +center.</p> + +<p>Tens of thousands of men +crouched behind gunfire panels, +watching the dials on the Attison +Detector.</p> + +<p>The unmoving dials.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>"Do you think I could fire a +couple of bursts?" Edwardson +asked, his fingers on the gunfire +button. "Just to limber the +guns?"</p> + +<p>"Those guns don't need limbering," +Cassel said, stroking +his beard. "Besides, you'd throw +the whole fleet into a panic."</p> + +<p>"Cassel," Morse said, very +quietly. "Get your hand off your +beard."</p> + +<p>"Why should I?" Cassel +asked.</p> + +<p>"Because," Morse answered, +almost in a whisper, "I am about +to ram it right down your fat +throat."</p> + +<p>Cassel grinned and tightened +his fists. "Pleasure," he said. +"I'm tired of looking at that +scar of yours." He stood up.</p> + +<p>"Cut it," Edwardson said +wearily. "Watch the birdie."</p> + +<p>"No reason to, really," Morse +said, leaning back. "There's an +alarm bell attached." But he +looked at the dial.</p> + +<p>"What if the bell doesn't +work?" Edwardson asked. +"What if the dial is jammed? +How would you like something +cold slithering into your mind?"</p> + +<p>"The dial'll work," Cassel +said. His eyes shifted from Edwardson's +face to the motionless +indicator.</p> + +<p>"I think I'll sack in," Edwardson +said.</p> + +<p>"Stick around," Cassel said. +"Play you some gin."</p> + +<p>"All right." Edwardson found +and shuffled the greasy cards, +while Morse took a turn glaring +at the dial.</p> + +<p>"I sure wish they'd come," he +said.</p> + +<p>"Cut," Edwardson said, handing +the pack to Cassel.</p> + +<p>"I wonder what our friends +look like," Morse said, watching +the dial.</p> + +<p>"Probably remarkably like +us," Edwardson said, dealing +the cards. Cassel picked them +up one by one, slowly, as if he +hoped something interesting +would be under them.</p> + +<p>"They should have given us +another man," Cassel said. "We +could play bridge."</p> + +<p>"I don't play bridge," Edwardson +said.</p> + +<p>"You could learn."</p> + +<p>"Why didn't we send a task +force?" Morse asked. "Why didn't +we bomb their planet?"</p> + +<p>"Don't be dumb," Edwardson +said. "We'd lose any ship we +sent. Probably get them back at +us, possessed and firing."</p> + +<p>"Knock with nine," Cassel +said.</p> + +<p>"I don't give a good damn if +you knock with a thousand," Edwardson +said gaily. "How much +do I owe you now?"</p> + +<p>"Three million five hundred +and eight thousand and ten. +Dollars."</p> + +<p>"I sure wish they'd come," +Morse said.</p> + +<p>"Want me to write a check?"</p> + +<p>"Take your time. Take until +next week."</p> + +<p>"Someone should reason with +the bastards," Morse said, looking +out the port. Cassel immediately +looked at the dial.</p> + +<p>"I just thought of something," +Edwardson said.</p> + +<p>"Yeh?"</p> + +<p>"I bet it feels horrible to have +your mind grabbed," Edwardson +said. "I bet it's awful."</p> + +<p>"You'll know when it happens," +Cassel said.</p> + +<p>"Did Everset?"</p> + +<p>"Probably. He just couldn't +do anything about it."</p> + +<p>"My mind feels fine," Cassel +said. "But the first one of you +guys starts acting queer—watch +out."</p> + +<p>They all laughed.</p> + +<p>"Well," Edwardson said, "I'd +sure like a chance to reason with +them. This is stupid."</p> + +<p>"Why not?" Cassel asked.</p> + +<p>"You mean go out and meet +<i>them</i>?"</p> + +<p>"Sure," Cassel said. "We're +doing no good sitting here."</p> + +<p>"I should think we could do +something," Edwardson said +slowly. "After all, they're not invincible. +They're reasoning beings."</p> + +<p>Morse punched a course on +the ship's tape, then looked +up.</p> + +<p>"You think we should contact +the command? Tell them what +we're doing?"</p> + +<p>"No!" Cassel said, and Edwardson +nodded in agreement. +"Red tape. We'll just go out and +see what we can do. If they +won't talk, we'll blast 'em out +of space."</p> + +<p>"Look!"</p> + +<p>Out of the port they could see +the red flare of a reaction engine; +the next ship in their sector, +speeding forward.</p> + +<p>"They must have got the same +idea," Edwardson said.</p> + +<p>"Let's get there first," Cassel +said. Morse shoved the accelerator +in and they were thrown +back in their seats.</p> + +<p>"That dial hasn't moved yet, +has it?" Edwardson asked, over +the clamor of the Detector alarm +bell.</p> + +<p>"Not a move out of it," Cassel +said, looking at the dial with +its indicator slammed all the way +over to the highest notch.</p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="141" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Space Science Fiction</i> September 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hour of Battle, by Robert Sheckley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUR OF BATTLE *** + +***** This file should be named 29445-h.htm or 29445-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/4/29445/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Hour of Battle + +Author: Robert Sheckley + +Illustrator: Roy Gerald Krenkel + +Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29445] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUR OF BATTLE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +THE HOUR OF BATTLE + +BY ROBERT SHECKLEY + +ILLUSTRATED BY KRENKEL + + + As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a + problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who + can take over a man's mind without seeming effort or warning? + + +"That hand didn't move, did it?" Edwardson asked, standing at the port, +looking at the stars. + +"No," Morse said. He had been staring fixedly at the Attison Detector +for over an hour. Now he blinked three times rapidly, and looked again. +"Not a millimeter." + +"I don't think it moved either," Cassel added, from behind the gunfire +panel. And that was that. The slender black hand of the indicator rested +unwaveringly on zero. The ship's guns were ready, their black mouths +open to the stars. A steady hum filled the room. It came from the +Attison Detector, and the sound was reassuring. It reinforced the fact +that the Detector was attached to all the other Detectors, forming a +gigantic network around Earth. + +"Why in hell don't they come?" Edwardson asked, still looking at the +stars. "Why don't they hit?" + +"Aah, shut up," Morse said. He had a tired, glum look. High on his right +temple was an old radiation burn, a sunburst of pink scar tissue. From a +distance it looked like a decoration. + +"I just wish they'd come," Edwardson said. He returned from the port to +his chair, bending to clear the low metal ceiling. "Don't you wish +they'd come?" Edwardson had the narrow, timid face of a mouse; but a +highly intelligent mouse. One that cats did well to avoid. + +[Illustration] + +"Don't you?" he repeated. + +The other men didn't answer. They had settled back to their dreams, +staring hypnotically at the Detector face. + +"They've had enough time," Edwardson said, half to himself. + +Cassel yawned and licked his lips. "Anyone want to play some gin?" he +asked, stroking his beard. The beard was a memento of his undergraduate +days. Cassel maintained he could store almost fifteen minutes worth of +oxygen in its follicles. He had never stepped into space unhelmeted to +prove it. + +Morse looked away, and Edwardson automatically watched the indicator. +This routine had been drilled into them, branded into their +subconscious. They would as soon have cut their throats as leave the +indicator unguarded. + +"Do you think they'll come soon?" Edwardson asked, his brown rodent's +eyes on the indicator. The men didn't answer him. After two months +together in space their conversational powers were exhausted. They +weren't interested in Cassel's undergraduate days, or in Morse's +conquests. + +They were bored to death even with their own thoughts and dreams, bored +with the attack they expected momentarily. + +"Just one thing _I'd_ like to know," Edwardson said, slipping with ease +into an old conversational gambit. "How far can they do it?" + +They had talked for weeks about the enemy's telepathic range, but they +always returned to it. + +As professional soldiers, they couldn't help but speculate on the enemy +and his weapons. It was their shop talk. + +"Well," Morse said wearily, "Our Detector network covers the system out +beyond Mars' orbit." + +"Where we sit," Cassel said, watching the indicators now that the others +were talking. + +"They might not even know we have a detection unit working," Morse said, +as he had said a thousand times. + +"Oh, stop," Edwardson said, his thin face twisted in scorn. "They're +telepathic. They must have read every bit of stuff in Everset's mind." + +"Everset didn't know we had a detection unit," Morse said, his eyes +returning to the dial. "He was captured before we had it." + +"Look," Edwardson said, "They ask him, 'Boy, what would you do if you +knew a telepathic race was coming to take over Earth? How would you +guard the planet?'" + +"Idle speculation," Cassel said. "Maybe Everset didn't think of this." + +"He thinks like a man, doesn't he? Everyone agreed on this defense. +Everset would, too." + +"Syllogistic," Cassel murmured. "Very shaky." + +"I sure wish he hadn't been captured," Edwardson said. + +"It could have been worse," Morse put in, his face sadder than ever. +"What if they'd captured _both_ of them?" + +"I wish they'd come," Edwardson said. + + * * * * * + +Richard Everset and C. R. Jones had gone on the first interstellar +flight. They had found an inhabited planet in the region of Vega. The +rest was standard procedure. + +A flip of the coin had decided it. Everset went down in the scouter, +maintaining radio contact with Jones, in the ship. + +The recording of that contact was preserved for all Earth to hear. + +"Just met the natives," Everset said. "Funny-looking bunch. Give you the +physical description later." + +"Are they trying to talk to you?" Jones asked, guiding the ship in a +slow spiral over the planet. + +"No. Hold it. Well I'm damned! They're telepathic! How do you like +that?" + +"Great," Jones said. "Go on." + +"Hold it. Say, Jonesy, I don't know as I like these boys. They haven't +got nice minds. Brother!" + +"What is it?" Jones asked, lifting the ship a little higher. + +"Minds! These bastards are power-crazy. Seems they've hit all the +systems around here, looking for someone to--" + +"Yeh?" + +"I've got that a bit wrong," Everset said pleasantly. "They are not so +bad." + +Jones had a quick mind, a suspicious nature and good reflexes. He set +the accelerator for all the G's he could take, lay down on the floor and +said, "Tell me more." + +"Come on down," Everset said, in violation of every law of spaceflight. +"These guys are all right. As a matter of fact, they're the most +marvelous--" + +That was where the recording ended, because Jones was pinned to the +floor by twenty G's acceleration as he boosted the ship to the level +needed for the C-jump. + +He broke three ribs getting home, but he got there. + +A telepathic species was on the march. What was Earth going to do about +it? + +A lot of speculation necessarily clothed the bare bones of Jones' +information. Evidently the species could take over a mind with ease. +With Everset, it seemed that they had insinuated their thoughts into +his, delicately altering his previous convictions. They had possessed +him with remarkable ease. + +How about Jones? Why hadn't they taken him? Was distance a factor? Or +hadn't they been prepared for the suddenness of his departure? + +One thing was certain. Everything Everset knew, the enemy knew. That +meant they knew where Earth was, and how defenseless the planet was to +their form of attack. + +It could be expected that they were on their way. + +Something was needed to nullify their tremendous advantage. But what +sort of something? What armor is there against thought? How do you dodge +a wavelength? + +Pouch-eyed scientists gravely consulted their periodic tables. + +And how do you know when a man has been possessed? Although the enemy +was clumsy with Everset, would they continue to be clumsy? Wouldn't they +learn? + +Psychologists tore their hair and bewailed the absence of an absolute +scale for humanity. + +Of course, something had to be done at once. The answer, from a +technological planet, was a technological one. Build a space fleet and +equip it with some sort of a detection-fire network. + +This was done in record time. The Attison Detector was developed, a +cross between radar and the electroencephalograph. Any alteration from +the typical human brain wave pattern of the occupants of a +Detector-equipped ship would boost the indicator around the dial. Even a +bad dream or a case of indigestion would jar it. + +It seemed probable that any attempt to take over a human mind would +disturb something. There had to be a point of interaction, somewhere. + +That was what the Attison Detector was supposed to detect. Maybe it +would. + +The spaceships, three men to a ship, dotted space between Earth and +Mars, forming a gigantic sphere with Earth in the center. + +Tens of thousands of men crouched behind gunfire panels, watching the +dials on the Attison Detector. + +The unmoving dials. + + * * * * * + +"Do you think I could fire a couple of bursts?" Edwardson asked, his +fingers on the gunfire button. "Just to limber the guns?" + +"Those guns don't need limbering," Cassel said, stroking his beard. +"Besides, you'd throw the whole fleet into a panic." + +"Cassel," Morse said, very quietly. "Get your hand off your beard." + +"Why should I?" Cassel asked. + +"Because," Morse answered, almost in a whisper, "I am about to ram it +right down your fat throat." + +Cassel grinned and tightened his fists. "Pleasure," he said. "I'm tired +of looking at that scar of yours." He stood up. + +"Cut it," Edwardson said wearily. "Watch the birdie." + +"No reason to, really," Morse said, leaning back. "There's an alarm bell +attached." But he looked at the dial. + +"What if the bell doesn't work?" Edwardson asked. "What if the dial is +jammed? How would you like something cold slithering into your mind?" + +"The dial'll work," Cassel said. His eyes shifted from Edwardson's face +to the motionless indicator. + +"I think I'll sack in," Edwardson said. + +"Stick around," Cassel said. "Play you some gin." + +"All right." Edwardson found and shuffled the greasy cards, while Morse +took a turn glaring at the dial. + +"I sure wish they'd come," he said. + +"Cut," Edwardson said, handing the pack to Cassel. + +"I wonder what our friends look like," Morse said, watching the dial. + +"Probably remarkably like us," Edwardson said, dealing the cards. Cassel +picked them up one by one, slowly, as if he hoped something interesting +would be under them. + +"They should have given us another man," Cassel said. "We could play +bridge." + +"I don't play bridge," Edwardson said. + +"You could learn." + +"Why didn't we send a task force?" Morse asked. "Why didn't we bomb +their planet?" + +"Don't be dumb," Edwardson said. "We'd lose any ship we sent. Probably +get them back at us, possessed and firing." + +"Knock with nine," Cassel said. + +"I don't give a good damn if you knock with a thousand," Edwardson said +gaily. "How much do I owe you now?" + +"Three million five hundred and eight thousand and ten. Dollars." + +"I sure wish they'd come," Morse said. + +"Want me to write a check?" + +"Take your time. Take until next week." + +"Someone should reason with the bastards," Morse said, looking out the +port. Cassel immediately looked at the dial. + +"I just thought of something," Edwardson said. + +"Yeh?" + +"I bet it feels horrible to have your mind grabbed," Edwardson said. "I +bet it's awful." + +"You'll know when it happens," Cassel said. + +"Did Everset?" + +"Probably. He just couldn't do anything about it." + +"My mind feels fine," Cassel said. "But the first one of you guys starts +acting queer--watch out." + +They all laughed. + +"Well," Edwardson said, "I'd sure like a chance to reason with them. +This is stupid." + +"Why not?" Cassel asked. + +"You mean go out and meet _them_?" + +"Sure," Cassel said. "We're doing no good sitting here." + +"I should think we could do something," Edwardson said slowly. "After +all, they're not invincible. They're reasoning beings." + +Morse punched a course on the ship's tape, then looked up. + +"You think we should contact the command? Tell them what we're doing?" + +"No!" Cassel said, and Edwardson nodded in agreement. "Red tape. We'll +just go out and see what we can do. If they won't talk, we'll blast 'em +out of space." + +"Look!" + +Out of the port they could see the red flare of a reaction engine; the +next ship in their sector, speeding forward. + +"They must have got the same idea," Edwardson said. + +"Let's get there first," Cassel said. Morse shoved the accelerator in +and they were thrown back in their seats. + +"That dial hasn't moved yet, has it?" Edwardson asked, over the clamor +of the Detector alarm bell. + +"Not a move out of it," Cassel said, looking at the dial with its +indicator slammed all the way over to the highest notch. + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Space Science Fiction_ September 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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