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+Title: With a Vengeance
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+Author: J. B. Woodley
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+[Illustration: Illustrated by KNOTH]
+
+
+With a Vengeance
+
+By J. B. WOODLEY
+
+
+ _Keep this in mind in teaching
+ apprentices: They are future
+ journeymen--and even masters!_
+
+
+                                                      October 10, 2119
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+Today, at precisely 9:50 a.m., Kyle became First Imperator of Terra. His
+coup was so fantastically direct and facile that I am almost tempted to
+believe that old cliche "the time was right."
+
+Well, however badly it can be expressed, I suppose the world _was_ ripe
+for this sort of thing. I can remember when much the same used to
+happen in elections. One man would win over another by a tremendous
+majority, and historians would then set about to show how "the time was
+right."
+
+Why do I persist in tormenting myself with that phrase! Analytically, I
+might say I resent this new aristocracy of politics. Specifically, I
+might say I resent Kyle.
+
+And both are true, both are true.
+
+This swing, though, to absolute monarchy, complete with the installation
+of the Kyle Dynasty--damn him! This is something which psychologists,
+not historians, must explain. Has the age of the Common Man, so bravely
+flaunted for over one hundred years, truly come to nothing? Would people
+really prefer a figurehead and a symbol of undisputed authority?
+
+In this instance, one may again conclude that "the time was right."
+Contact with planets like Mars and Venus undoubtedly had its influence.
+I must confess that the televised audiences with the Mrit of Venus and
+the Znam of Mars _did_ make Terra's President--I should say, late
+President--look a bit seedy. I daresay there is such a thing as a too
+common Common Man.
+
+Kyle was such, twenty years ago. His name wasn't Kyle then, although it
+was something very like that. I must see if any of the old ledgers are
+about! I'd like to see what the Imperator's name was when His Most
+Imperial Majesty was an apprenticed nobody!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                      October 12, 2119
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+I found it! Buried in stacks of dust behind the old printing press that
+was once the heart of my _Beacon-Sentinel_. There were others there too.
+Spent a delightful morning with them, reading back through those old
+account books.
+
+I wonder whatever happened to Hastings? And Drew? Best linotype men I
+ever had. They became pilots, or something, as I recall. Too bad, too
+bad. They could have had such brilliant futures, both of them. Why they
+felt they must ally themselves with the non-thinking, muscle-flexing
+variety of mankind--of which our Ruler is an excellent example--I'll
+never know.
+
+Ah, yes, Kyle! In those days he was Kilmer Jones. I don't remember him
+too well, actually, except for the day I fired him.
+
+I suppose he was right in changing his name. We couldn't very well have
+an Imperator named Kilmer the First, or Jones the First. Much too
+common, not at all in keeping.
+
+Gawky fellow--that Kilmer. When Bard brought me a sample of his work--I
+guess I'll have to call it that--we both had a good laugh over it!
+Atrocious spelling! Couldn't follow the proofreader's marks. Indeed, I
+wonder if the fellow could even read! The punctuation! And the grammar!
+
+I called the boy to the office that morning--or was it the next day? No
+matter. I called him in and told him, as kindly as possible, that I
+thought there were other vocations to which he might be better suited.
+The irony of it! Kilmer Jones--Kyle I!
+
+And he stood there, I remember, with those seventeen-year-old hands that
+were all knuckles and bone and chapped skin, twisting those hands and
+shifting his weight from one foot to the other.
+
+"Please, Mr. Booth," he said, his voice cracking. "I ain't got no other
+job in mind. I wanna be a noospaper man. I ain't got no--"
+
+If not for that "ain't got no," I think I might have relented. But no
+one is going to ruin the English language as he did! Not in my offices!
+
+I took him to task severely for his offensive usage, outlined a correct
+example of what he had attempted to say, gave him a brief lesson in the
+history of the tongue, and explained why it had been chosen as the
+official Terran speech. I think my conclusion was, "You'll be much
+better off in a position which requires you to quote neither Milton nor
+Shakespeare nor any author save possibly those who write the comic
+strips."
+
+"Got no training," he said softly. (I supposed it was to keep his voice
+from exhibiting its usual adolescent gymnastics.)
+
+I shuddered slightly, I remember. "You mean, 'I _have_ no training.'"
+
+"Yeah ..." softly again. "Yeah, Mr. Booth."
+
+"_Yes!_" I cried impatiently. "Not 'yeah,' but _yes_!"
+
+I searched for his severance pay on my desk, wondering who the devil had
+hired him in the first place. Gave him three weeks pay, as I recall it,
+one more than necessary.
+
+Unmannerly pup! He just stood there for a minute and then finally left
+without even a "Thank you," or "Good-by."
+
+And this is the man who is Kyle the First, Ruler of Terra at the age of
+thirty-seven! I wonder what he is like now....
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                          January 1, 1
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+There is no longer any need to wonder. Surprisingly few heads have
+rolled, but apparently Jonesy chooses to exhibit his power in other
+ways.
+
+Thanksgiving Day, a custom preserved in certain portions of the
+Directorate of North America, is three weeks away--even though it is
+January.
+
+The Year One. There used to be some childish joke about the Year One.
+Don't remember it just now.
+
+Thanksgiving harvest in January. Christmas celebration in February.
+Spring planting in July! To say nothing of the inconvenience this has
+caused in my bookkeeping department! I suppose the man will now try to
+change the weather to suit his new calendar!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                          January 8, 1
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+He can't last! He can't! A dictator is one thing. A monarch is another.
+But Kyle is something else!
+
+Naturally he had to remove certain persons from his way. And his summer
+palace in the plains region of America--that's all right, that's all
+right! An authority of Kyle's stature is expected to remove
+undesirables, and to have a summer palace, and a winter palace, and
+anything else he wants! Of course!
+
+But why this? Why _this_ of all things!
+
+No newspapers! Just like that! _He_ waves an edict, and just like that,
+_no newspapers_! The _Beacon-Sentinel_ has been a great paper for the
+last twenty-five years! It was nothing, and I was nothing, and together
+we became a Voice! And now again, we are nothing!
+
+Oh, I see what's behind it! It's revenge, that's what it is! Because he
+once couldn't become a "noospaper" man, he's taking his vengeance this
+way.
+
+A man as petty as that shall be overthrown! Mark my words! And the
+clumsiness of it!
+
+I see what he is! I know him! He's still that pup of seventeen, playing
+king with the world, twisting his hands in glee over his childish
+triumph.
+
+No subtlety! Just a direct pushing over an applecart he couldn't steer!
+Doesn't matter whose apples you destroy, does it, Jonesy? Just push it
+over--push it over!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                         January 16, 1
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+Closed the _Beacon-Sentinel_ yesterday. My savings are enough to take
+care of me for a few years. After that--ah, well, I am no longer a young
+man. I am glad that Elsa is not here to see this.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                        February 12, 1
+                                                     New San Francisco
+
+Received a letter this morning, requesting me to appear at the chambers
+of His Most Imperial Majesty, Kyle the First, on Tuesday of next week.
+His Most Imperial Majesty can see me between 10:15 and 10:25 on that
+morning.
+
+Ten minutes--rather a brief spell in which to roll another head.
+
+I find myself amazed, though. Is this man so truly powerful that he
+needs no police to make his arrests for him? Can he really send messages
+via jetmail and be certain his enemies will not try to escape?
+
+I don't want to attempt flight. Life without my work is no longer life.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                        February 17, 1
+                                         Kyleton Palace, North America
+
+I don't understand. I've gone over it twice, and I don't understand. If
+only Elsa were still with me! I could talk to her. She would help me
+decipher what it's all about.
+
+This morning, at 10:15 sharp, I was taken to the public audience chamber
+in the palace.
+
+His Majesty was seated behind a desk facing the doors. Behind him, on
+the wall, was His Coat of Arms.
+
+He stood up and walked toward me, waving away the guards. "How are you,
+Mr. Booth?" he said. And offered me His Hand!
+
+I recovered my presence of mind, of course, and replied as was fitting.
+
+And then He said it! "I shall be at liberty later this week to discuss
+more fully the details of these past years." (Shades of "ain't got no!")
+"Meanwhile, my secretary will give you a complete dossier on my planned
+Official Bulletin." He lighted a cigarette after offering me one. "I
+should deem it an honor," he continued, "to have a man of your literary
+versatility and--I must add--your vast practical experience become Chief
+Editor of that Bulletin. The publication, which I should enjoy
+christening _The Terran Beacon-Sentinel_--with your permission,
+sir--shall be more than my official organ. It shall set the standards
+for the coming newspaper world."
+
+He cocked an eyebrow at me and smiled. "I believe we are in perfect
+accord about certain standards, are we not, Mr. Booth? The deplorable
+grammatical practices of some newspapers! Well, really, Mr. Booth! I
+feel assured of your agreement!"
+
+He led me around the desk and pointed to the Coat of Arms. As He stood
+silent, I felt obliged to look more closely. I had seen it before, of
+course, but seeing it now, greatly enlarged, I was able to make out its
+detail.
+
+What I had thought was a mere decorative border, I now realized was a
+motif I have seen all my life! A tiny lighthouse sending forth a beam!
+The trademark of my paper!
+
+As I stood there, gaping, His Majesty laughed softly and said, "That,
+Mr. Booth, I felt impelled to include. For, without your most fortuitous
+termination of my apprenticeship in your organization, I should not have
+risen to my present position."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Again He took my hand and shook it, warmly. His hair is just a bit gray
+at the temples, and there are signs of strain on His finely featured
+face. Those awkward hands are now strong and purposeful.
+
+He apologized that He must return to His duties, and went with me to the
+door. "My secretary will fill in further details about your new
+position. Newspapers shall once again be published. No--don't say a
+word, Mr. Booth! I know what you are thinking.
+
+"Your salary," he continued as we stood at the open door, "shall, of
+course, be commensurate to your high authority in this new field. Allow
+me, now, to thank you most deeply and sincerely for your unwitting aid
+in my youth. I assure you, Mr. Booth, I have often thought of that day
+we talked. And I hope to repay you, in some measure, for what you did."
+
+He said more, mostly polite phrases of good-by. And then I was outside
+after being handed a folder by some man.
+
+An official jetmobile took me to my residence--which turned out to be in
+the East Wing. Here I am, and I don't understand. I came prepared to
+suffer heaven only knows what as part of Kilmer Jones's childish pattern
+for revenge.
+
+Instead, here I am, head of the Official Bulletin, titular ruler and
+ruler-in-fact of the future journalism of the world!
+
+There is something behind this--I keep feeling there is. But what? What?
+Or is he truly generous, to a degree never before known among absolute
+monarchs?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                        February 13, 1
+                                         Kyleton Palace, North America
+
+I am a suspicious and most humble old man. I see now that Kyle's
+generosity amazed me only because I myself would have been incapable of
+such an action.
+
+Just now, I fear for His Majesty. I was right, before, when I said there
+was no subtlety in the man. He is too open, too fair, too forgiving. A
+ruler with such greatness of heart might easily allow some small
+insignificant person in too far, too close. I fear for him!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                        February 14, 1
+                                         Kyleton Palace, North America
+
+Tomorrow we begin publication! The pressroom is magnificent! I can
+hardly wait. It's been a long time since I've felt such exuberance.
+
+This afternoon I am to conduct a conference of some eight hundred
+editors! His Majesty's secretary has sent me an outline on Journalistic
+Standards, which I shall study after lunch.
+
+There was a note attached, in His Majesty's handwriting--such beautiful
+penmanship, too. "A mere formality," it said, "for, of course, you and I
+know full well what the future of journalism shall be, Mr. Booth."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                               Later--
+
+How wrong can one man be in one lifetime?
+
+I wonder now _why_ he changed the calendar. I wonder now what poor devil
+he destroyed then. But _I'll_ cheat him!
+
+I'll cheat him yet!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                       Obituary, _Trran Bacon-Sntinl_,
+                                                         Fbruary 16, 1
+
+Th unfortunat and untimly dmis of Gorg W. Booth is hrby notd with sorrow
+by thos who knw and lovd him.
+
+Mr. Booth, formr ditor and publishr of th _Bacon-Sntinl_ of Nw San
+Francisco, Dirctorat of North Amrica, had apparntly bn in poor helth for
+som tim. It is blivd that worry ovr th succss of his nw policy-stting
+_Trran Bacon-Sntinl_ was a contributing factor in his suicid lat in th
+aftrnoon of Fbruary 14.
+
+His Most Imprial Majsty Kyl th First has ordrd a fitting monumnt to his
+lat lamntd frind. A simpl shaft of granit shall b rctd in th gardn
+facing th Ast Wing of Kylton Palac, whr Mr. Booth mad his residnc. On th
+shaft shall b inscribd th lgnd:
+
+    "How bautous mankind is! Oh brav nw world,
+    That has much peepl in't!"
+
+Th quotation is from _Th Tmpst_. Mr. Booth was a grat admirr of
+Shakspar.
+
+An vn mor fitting and long-livd mmorial is xprssd in th dict rlasd
+through th offics of His Majsty on th vry day of Mr. Booth's dath. It
+reeds in part:
+
+    "Th nw linguistic policy on Trra, as dmonstratd in th _Trran
+    Bacon-Sntinl_, shall hncforth b known as Boothtalk."
+
+Mr. Booth bfrindd Our Imprial Rulr in His youngr days, and, as w all
+know, His Majsty nvr forgts a frind.
+
+                                                       --J. B. WOODLEY
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ October 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. Calendar
+    dates remain as printed, and, based on the narrative, may be
+    intentional.
+
+
+
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