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Hamm + </title> + <style type="text/css"> + + p {margin-top: .75em; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: .75em;} + h1,h2,.bk2 {text-align: center;} + h2 {margin-bottom: 2em;} + body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} + img {border: none;} + a:link,a:visited {text-decoration: none;} + p.cap:first-letter {float: left; margin-right: .05em; padding-top: .05em; font-size: 300%; line-height: .8em; width: auto;} + .dcap {text-transform: uppercase;} + .figt {float: left; clear: left; margin: 15px; padding: 0; width: 137px;} + .trn {border: solid 1px; margin: 3em 15%; min-height: 230px;} + .trn p {margin: 15px;} + .bk1 {margin-right: 40%;} + .sp1 {font-size: 150%;} + .bk2 {margin-top: 2em;} + + </style> + </head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30348 ***</div> + +<div class="bk1"><p><big><i>Before reading this story, prepare yourself for a +jolt and a chill in capsule form. O. Henry could +have been proud of it. It could well become a +minor classic.</i></big></p></div> + +<h1><span class="sp1">The Last Supper</span></h1> + +<h2>By T. D. Hamm</h2> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Hampered</span> as she was by the +child in her arms, the woman +was running less fleetly now. A wave +of exultation swept over Guldran, +drowning out the uneasy feeling of +guilt at disobeying orders.</p> + +<p>The instructions were mandatory +and concise: "<i>No</i> capture must be +attempted individually. In the +event of sighting any form of human +life, the ship MUST be notified +immediately. All small craft +must be back at the landing space +not later than one hour before take-off. +Anyone not so reporting will be +presumed lost."</p> + +<p>Guldran thought uneasily of the +great seas of snow and ice sweeping +inexorably toward each other +since the Earth had reversed on its +axis in the great catastrophe a millennium +ago. Now, summer and winter +alike brought paralyzing gales +and blizzards, heralded by the sleety +snow in which the woman's skin-clad +feet had left the tracks which +led to discovery.</p> + +<p>His trained anthropologist's mind +speculated avidly over the little they +had gotten from the younger of the +two men found nearly a week before, +nearly frozen and half-starved. +The older man had succumbed almost +at once; the other, in the most +primitive sign language, had indicated +that, of several humans living +in caves to the west, only he and +the other had survived to flee some +mysterious terror. Guldran felt a +throb of pity for the woman and her +child, left behind by the men, no +doubt, as a hindrance.</p> + +<p>But what a stroke of fortune that +there should be left a male and female +of the race to carry the seed +of Terra to another planet. And +what a triumph if he, Guldran, +should be the one to return at the +eleventh hour with the prize. No +need of calling for help. This was +no armed war-party, but the most +defenseless being in the Universe—a +mother burdened with a child.</p> + +<p>Guldran put on another burst of +speed. His previous shouts had +served only to spur the woman to +greater efforts. Surely there was +<i>some</i> magic word that had survived +even the centuries of illiteracy. +Something equivalent to the "bread +and salt" of all illiterate peoples. +Cupping his hands to his mouth, +he shouted, "Food! food!"</p> + +<p>Ahead of him the woman turned +her head, leaped lightly in mid-stride, +and went on; slowing a little +but still running doggedly.</p> + +<p>Guldran's pulse leaped. He yelled +again, "Food!"</p> + +<p>The instant that his foot touched +the yielding surface of the trap, he +knew that he had met defeat. As his +body crashed down on the fire-sharpened +stakes, he knew too the +terror from which the last men of +the human race had fled.</p> + +<p>Above him the woman looked +down, her teeth gleaming wolfishly. +She pointed down into the pit; +spoke exultantly to the child.</p> + +<p>"Food!" said the last woman on +earth.</p> + +<p class="bk2"><b>THE END</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/001-2.jpg"><img src="images/001-1.jpg" width="137" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>If Worlds of Science Fiction</i> September 1952. +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> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30348 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/30348-h/images/001-1.jpg b/30348-h/images/001-1.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e87a8b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/30348-h/images/001-1.jpg diff --git a/30348-h/images/001-2.jpg b/30348-h/images/001-2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b603f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/30348-h/images/001-2.jpg |
