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diff --git a/31755.txt b/31755.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a263b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/31755.txt @@ -0,0 +1,695 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Political Application, by John Victor Peterson + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Political Application + +Author: John Victor Peterson + +Release Date: March 24, 2010 [EBook #31755] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POLITICAL APPLICATION *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe, September + 1956. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the + U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + + + _John Victor Peterson lives in Jackson Heights, almost a + stone's throw from La Guardia Airfield. But he doesn't just + stand and watch the big planes roar past overhead. He has the + kind of brilliant technical know-how which makes what goes on + inside of a plane of paramount interest to him. He's + interested, too, in the future superduper gadgetry, as this + hilarious yarn attests._ + + + + +POLITICAL APPLICATION + +_by ... John Victor Peterson_ + + + If matter transference really works--neanderthalers can pop up + anywhere. And that's very hard on politicians! + + +Some say scientists should keep their noses out of politics. Benson +says it's to prevent damage to their olfactory senses. Benson's a +physicist. + +I've known Allan Benson for a long time. In fact I've bodyguarded him +for years and think I understand him better than he does himself. And +when he shook security at White Sands, my boss didn't hesitate to tell +me that knowing Benson as I do I certainly shouldn't have let him skip +off. Or crisp words to that effect. + +The pressure was on. Benson was seeking a new fuel--or a way of +compressing a known fuel--to carry a torchship to Mars. His loss could +mean a delay of decades. We knew he'd been close, but not _how_ close. + +My nickname's Monk. I've fought it, certainly, but what can you do +when a well-wishing mother names you after a wealthy uncle and your +birth certificate says Neander Thalberg? As early as high school some +bright pundit noted the name's similarity to that of a certain +prehistoric man. Unfortunately the similarity is not in name alone: +I'm muscular, stooped, and, I must admit, not handsome hero model +material. + +Well, maybe the nickname's justified, but still, Al Benson didn't have +to give the crowning insult. And yet, if he hadn't, there probably +wouldn't be a torchship stern-ending on Mars just about now. + +C. I. (Central Intelligence, that is) at the Sands figured Benson +would head for New York. Which is why the boss sent me here. I +registered in a hotel in the 50's and, figuring that whatever Benson +intended to do would have spectacular results, I kept the stereo on +News. + +Benson's wife hadn't yielded much info. Sure she described the clothes +he was wearing and said he'd taken nothing else except an artist's +case. What was in that was anybody's guess; his private lab is such a +jumble nobody could tell what, if anything, was missing. + +C. I. knew his political feelings. Seems he'd been talking wild about +the upcoming presidential election and had sworn he'd nip the +draft-Cadigan movement in the bud. Cadigan's Mayor of New York City. +He's anti-space. In fact, Cadigan's anti just about everything in +science except intercontinental missiles. Strictly for defense, of +course. Cadigan says. + + * * * * * + +A weathercaster was making rash promises on the stereo when the potray +dinged. The potray? I certainly wasn't expecting mail. Only C. I. knew +where I was and they'd have closed-circuited me on visio if they +wanted contact. + +The potray dinged and there was a package in it. + +Now matter transference I knew. It put mailmen out of business. +There's a potray in every domicile and you can put things in it, dial +the destination and they come out there. They come out the same size +and weight and in the same condition as they went in, provided they +didn't go in alive. Life loses, as many a shade of a hopeful guinea +pig could relate. + +So the potray dinged and here was this package. At first glance it +looked like one of those cereal samples manufacturers have been +everlastingly sending through since postal rates dropped after cost of +the potrays had been amortized. But cereal samples don't come through +at midday; they're night traffic stuff. + +The package was light, its wrapping curiously smooth. There was an +envelope attached with my correct name and potray number. Whoever had +mailed it must be in C. I. or must know someone in C. I. who knew +where I was. + +The postmark was blurred but I could make out that it had been cast +from Grand Central. Time didn't matter. It couldn't have been cast +more than a microsecond earlier. + +The envelope contained a card upon which was typed: + +"Caution! Site on cylinder of 2 ft. radius and 6 ft. height. Unwrap at +armslength." + +Now what? A practical joke? If so, it must be Benson's work. He's +played plenty, from pumping hydrogen sulphide (that's rotten egg gas, +as you know) into the air-conditioning system at high school to +calling a gynecologist to the launching stage at the Sands to sever an +umbilical cord which he neglected to say was on a Viking rocket. + +I followed the instructions. As I bent back the first fold of the +strange wrapping it came alive, unfolding itself with incredible +swiftness. + +Something burst forth like a freed djinn--almost instantaneously +lengthening, spreading--a thing with beetling brows, low, broad +forehead, prognathous jaw, and a hunched, brutally muscular body, with +a great club over its swollen shoulder. + +I went precipitously backward over a coffee table. + +It stabilized, a dead mockery, replica of a Neanderthal. + +A placard hung on its chest. I read this: + +"Even some of the early huntsmen weren't successful. Abandon the +chase, Monk. I've things to do and this--your blood brother, no +doubt--couldn't catch me any more than you can!" + +Which positively infuriated me. + +Do you blame me? + +A few cussing, cussed minutes later I realized what Al Benson had +apparently done: solved the torchship's fuel problem. + +Oh, I'd seen Klein bottles and Mobius strips and other things that +twist in on themselves and into other dimensions, twisting into +microcosms and macrocosms--into elsewhere, in any event. And here I +had visual evidence that Benson had had something nearly six feet tall +and certainly two feet in breadth enclosed in a nearly weightless +carton less than eight inches on the side! + +Sufficient fuel for a Marstrip? Just wrap it up! + +The stereo's audio was saying: "... from the Museum of Natural +History. Curators are compiling a list of the missing exhibits which +we will reveal to you on this channel as soon as it's available. Now +we switch to Dick Joy at City Hall with news of the latest exhibit +found. Come in, Dick!" + +On the steps of City Hall was a full size replica of a mastodon over +whose massive back was draped a banner bearing the slogan: "The +Universal Party is for you! Don't return to prehistory with Cadigan! +Re-elect President Ollie James and go to the stars!" + +And there was a closeup of Mayor Cadigan standing pompous and +wrathful--and looking very diminutive--behind the emblem of his +opposition party. + +Dick Joy was saying, "Eyewitnesses claim that this replica--obviously +one of the items stolen from the Museum of Natural History--suddenly +materialized here. Immediately prior to the alleged materialization a +man--whose photograph we show now--ostensibly bent down to tie a +shoelace, setting a shoebox beside him. He left the box, walking off +into the gathering crowd, and this mastodon _seemed_ to spring into +being where the shoebox had been. + +"The mastodon replica has been examined. A report just handed me says +it is definitely that from the Museum and that it could not +conceivably have been contained in a shoebox. It's obviously a case of +mass hypnotism. The replica must have been trucked here. There's no +other possible explanation. Excuse me!" + +Dick Joy turned away, then back. + +"I have just been handed a notice that Mayor Cadigan wishes to say a +few words and I hereby introduce him, His Honor the Mayor, Joseph F. +Cadigan!" + +His balding, fragmentarily curly-haired Honor glared. + +"Friends," he said chokingly, "whatever madman is responsible for this +outrageous act will not go unpunished. I call upon the City's Finest +to track him down and bring him to justice. + +"I am for justice, for equality and peace. I--" + +His Honor was apparently determined to use all the time he could. +Being a newscast, it was for free. + +I killed the stereo. And the visio rang. It was Phil Pollini, the C. +I. Chief. + +"Monk," he said, "guess you've seen the stereo. Al's out to fix the +Mayor's wagon." + +"Say that again," I said, having a brainstorm. + +"Now, look--" he started. + +"Maybe you've got something there, Chief," I cut in. "Cadigan's got +the superduper of all wagons--a seven passenger luxury limousine with +bulletproof glass, stereo, a bar, venetian blinds and heaven knows +what else. Hot and cold running androids, maybe. He prowls the +elevated highways with an 'In Conference' sign flashing over the +windshield. So's he can't be wire-tapped or miked, I guess. It'd be a +natch for Al Benson to go for." + +Pollini grinned. + +"So if you were Benson what'd you do to fix the Mayor's wagon?" + +"Hitch it to a star," I said, "and the closest spot to a star would be +the observation platform of the Greater Empire State." + +"You're probably right," the Chief said. "Get going!" + +I got. + +Ten minutes later I walked out onto the observation platform on the +150th floor of the Greater Empire State Building--and found an +incredulous crowd gathered around the mayor's limousine. I felt good. +I'd predicted. + +I asked a guard, "How'd it get here?" + +His eyebrows were threatening a back somersault. + +"Don't know," he said. "I was looking over the side; then turned +around and here it was! You have any ideas?" + +Which is when I spotted Al Benson. + +I settled for shoving Benson toward the elevator, being careful since +he had a box under each arm. We made the elevator and went down and it +stopped on the 120th floor and the operator said, "Change here for all +lower floors and the street--" + +As we waited on the 120th for the down elevator, the P. A. system +barked: + +"Attention all building occupants. By order of the Mayor no one will +be permitted to leave the building until further notice. Please remain +where you are. We will try not to inconvenience you for any great +time." + +There was no one close to us. + +"Al," I said, "look, stinker, you've had your fun but this is it. I +don't know what you've got in those boxes but you've got to turn them +over--and yourself--to the next copper who shows. This is a civil +matter, strictly local, and not C. I." + +Benson grinned. "Got to make a delivery first, Monk. Look, there's a +potray over there. Can I use it?" + +His grin was infectious. "So what are you going to send where?" I +asked as sternly as I could. + +"The Mayor's personal files," he said. "I managed to carry them out of +City Hall--once they'd been suitably wrapped, of course! I'm sending +them to the Senate Investigation Committee. Don't worry, Monk, His +Honor won't be President this or any year!" + +I helped him dial the SIC number. + +"What about the other package?" I asked him then. + +"Insurance," he said. "Come out on the setback." + +He placed the last package on the mosaic tile of the terrace, untied +its string, flipped open the edge of the Benson wrapping and jumped +back. + +It was an NYC police helicopter. + +We potrayed it back from the Sands. Suitably wrapped, of course. + +That was a month ago. Most of it never came out in the papers. Nothing +of Benson's invention. C. I. thought it should be squelched, at least +until Benson and the boys get back from Mars. + +Which would be the end except for the packages. Yes, Benson left a +gross of them with me and I've been mailing them one a day to the +leaders of the opposition party. I don't truly know what's in them, of +course. But it's very curious that the day before the torchship left +exactly one hundred and forty-four cylinders of hydrogen sulphide were +missing from quartermaster stores. Coincidentally one of my C. I. +friends tells me Benson had him rig up a gross of automatic releases +for gas cylinders. + +Adding it up, it could be a good lesson for politicians to keep their +noses out of science. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Political Application, by John Victor Peterson + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POLITICAL APPLICATION *** + +***** This file should be named 31755.txt or 31755.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/7/5/31755/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier 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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