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-    THE ROTIFERS
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-    BY Robert Abernathy
-
-    _Beneath the stagnant water shadowed by water lilies Harry found
-    the fascinating world of the rotifers--but it was their world,
-    and they resented intrusion._
-
-    _Illustrated by Virgil Finlay_
-
-Henry Chatham knelt by the brink of his garden pond, a glass fish bowl
-cupped in his thin, nervous hands. Carefully he dipped the bowl into the
-green-scummed water and, moving it gently, let trailing streamers of
-submerged water weeds drift into it. Then he picked up the old scissors
-he had laid on the bank, and clipped the stems of the floating plants,
-getting as much of them as he could in the container.
-
-When he righted the bowl and got stiffly to his feet, it contained, he
-thought hopefully, a fair cross-section of fresh-water plankton. He was
-pleased with himself for remembering that term from the book he had
-studied assiduously for the last few nights in order to be able to cope
-with Harry's inevitable questions.
-
-There was even a shiny black water beetle doing insane circles on the
-surface of the water in the fish bowl. At sight of the insect, the eyes
-of the twelve-year-old boy, who had been standing by in silent
-expectation, widened with interest.
-
-"What's that thing, Dad?" he asked excitedly. "What's that crazy bug?"
-
-"I don't know its scientific name, I'm afraid," said Henry Chatham. "But
-when I was a boy we used to call them whirligig beetles."
-
-"He doesn't seem to think he has enough room in the bowl," said Harry
-thoughtfully. "Maybe we better put him back in the pond, Dad."
-
-"I thought you might want to look at him through the microscope," the
-father said in some surprise.
-
-"I think we ought to put him back," insisted Harry. Mr. Chatham held the
-dripping bowl obligingly. Harry's hand, a thin boy's hand with narrow
-sensitive fingers, hovered over the water, and when the beetle paused
-for a moment in its gyrations, made a dive for it.
-
-But the whirligig beetle saw the hand coming, and, quicker than a wink,
-plunged under the water and scooted rapidly to the very bottom of the
-bowl.
-
-Harry's young face was rueful; he wiped his wet hand on his trousers. "I
-guess he wants to stay," he supposed.
-
-The two went up the garden path together and into the house, Mr. Chatham
-bearing the fish bowl before him like a votive offering. Harry's mother
-met them at the door, brandishing an old towel.
-
-"Here," she said firmly, "you wipe that thing off before you bring it in
-the house. And don't drip any of that dirty pond water on my good
-carpet."
-
-"It's not dirty," said Henry Chatham. "It's just full of life, plants
-and animals too small for the eye to see. But Harry's going to see them
-with his microscope." He accepted the towel and wiped the water and
-slime from the outside of the bowl; then, in the living-room, he set it
-beside an open window, where the life-giving summer sun slanted in and
-fell on the green plants.
-
-                                  ----
-
-The brand-new microscope stood nearby, in a good light. It was an
-expensive microscope, no toy for a child, and it magnified four hundred
-diameters. Henry Chatham had bought it because he believed that his only
-son showed a desire to peer into the mysteries of smallness, and so far
-Harry had not disappointed him; he had been ecstatic over the
-instrument. Together they had compared hairs from their two heads, had
-seen the point of a fine sewing needle made to look like the tip of a
-crowbar by the lowest power of the microscope, had made grains of salt
-look like discarded chunks of glass brick, had captured a house-fly and
-marvelled at its clawed hairy feet, its great red faceted eyes, and the
-delicate veining and fringing of its wings.
-
-Harry was staring at the bowl of pond water in a sort of fascination.
-"Are there germs in the water, Dad? Mother says pond water is full of
-germs."
-
-"I suppose so," answered Mr. Chatham, somewhat embarrassed. The book on
-microscopic fresh-water fauna had been explicit about _Paramecium_ and
-_Euglena_, diatomes and rhizopods, but it had failed to mention anything
-so vulgar as germs. But he supposed that which the book called Protozoa,
-the one-celled animalcules, were the same as germs.
-
-He said, "To look at things in water like this, you want to use a
-well-slide. It tells how to fix one in the instruction book."
-
-He let Harry find the glass slide with a cup ground into it, and another
-smooth slip of glass to cover it. Then he half-showed, half-told him how
-to scrape gently along the bottom sides of the drifting leaves, to
-capture the teeming life that dwelt there in the slime. When the boy
-understood, his young hands were quickly more skillful than his
-father's; they filled the well with a few drops of water that was
-promisingly green and murky.
-
-Already Harry knew how to adjust the lighting mirror under the stage of
-the microscope and turn the focusing screws. He did so, bent intently
-over the eyepiece, squinting down the polished barrel in the happy
-expectation of wonders.
-
-Henry Chatham's eyes wandered to the fish bowl, where the whirligig
-beetle had come to the top again and was describing intricate patterns
-among the water plants. He looked back to his son, and saw that Harry
-had ceased to turn the screws and instead was just looking--looking with
-a rapt, delicious fixity. His hands lay loosely clenched on the table
-top, and he hardly seemed to breathe. Only once or twice his lips moved
-as if to shape an exclamation that was snatched away by some new vision.
-
-"Have you got it, Harry?" asked his father after two or three minutes
-during which the boy did not move.
-
-Harry took a last long look, then glanced up, blinking slightly.
-
-"You look, Dad!" he exclaimed warmly. "It's--it's like a garden in the
-water, full of funny little people!"
-
-Mr. Chatham, not reluctantly, bent to gaze into the eyepiece. This was
-new to him too, and instantly he saw the aptness of Harry's simile.
-There was a garden there, of weird, green, transparent stalks composed
-of plainly visible cells fastened end to end, with globules and bladders
-like fruits or seed-pods attached to them, floating among them; and in
-the garden the strange little people swam to and fro, or clung with odd
-appendages to the stalks and branches. Their bodies were transparent
-like the plants, and in them were pulsing hearts and other organs
-plainly visible. They looked a little like sea horses with pointed
-tails, but their heads were different, small and rounded, with big,
-dark, glistening eyes.
-
-All at once Mr. Chatham realized that Harry was speaking to him, still
-in high excitement.
-
-"What are they, Dad?" he begged to know.
-
-His father straightened up and shook his head puzzledly. "I don't know,
-Harry," he answered slowly, casting about in his memory. He seemed to
-remember a microphotograph of a creature like those in the book he had
-studied, but the name that had gone with it eluded him. He had worked as
-an accountant for so many years that his memory was all for figures now.
-
-He bent over once more to immerse his eyes and mind in the green
-water-garden on the slide. The little creatures swam to and fro as
-before, growing hazy and dwindling or swelling as they swam out of the
-narrow focus of the lens; he gazed at those who paused in sharp
-definition, and saw that, although he had at first seen no visible means
-of propulsion, each creature bore about its head a halo of thread-like,
-flickering cilia that lashed the water and drew it forward, for all the
-world like an airplane propeller or a rapidly turning wheel.
-
-"I know what they are!" exclaimed Henry Chatham, turning to his son with
-an almost boyish excitement. "They're rotifers! That means
-'wheel-bearers', and they were called that because to the first
-scientists who saw them it looked like they swam with wheels."
-
-Harry had got down the book and was leafing through the pages. He looked
-up seriously. "Here they are," he said. "Here's a picture that looks
-almost like the ones in our pond water."
-
-"Let's see," said his father. They looked at the pictures and
-descriptions of the Rotifera; there was a good deal of concrete
-information on the habits and physiology of these odd and complex little
-animals who live their swarming lives in the shallow, stagnant waters of
-the Earth. It said that they were much more highly organized than
-Protozoa, having a discernible heart, brain, digestive system, and
-nervous system, and that their reproduction was by means of two sexes
-like that of the higher orders. Beyond that, they were a mystery; their
-relationship to other life-forms remained shrouded in doubt.
-
-"You've got something interesting there," said Henry Chatham with
-satisfaction. "Maybe you'll find out something about them that nobody
-knows yet."
-
-He was pleased when Harry spent all the rest of that Sunday afternoon
-peering into the microscope, watching the rotifers, and even more
-pleased when the boy found a pencil and paper and tried, in an
-amateurish way, to draw and describe what he saw in the green
-water-garden.
-
-Beyond a doubt, Henry thought, here was a hobby that had captured Harry
-as nothing else ever had.
-
-                                  ----
-
-Mrs. Chatham was not so pleased. When her husband laid down his evening
-paper and went into the kitchen for a drink of water, she cornered him
-and hissed at him: "I told you you had no business buying Harry a thing
-like that! If he keeps on at this rate, he'll wear his eyes out in no
-time."
-
-Henry Chatham set down his water glass and looked straight at his wife.
-"Sally, Harry's eyes are young and he's using them to learn with. You've
-never been much worried over me, using my eyes up eight hours a day,
-five days a week, over a blind-alley bookkeeping job."
-
-He left her angrily silent and went back to his paper. He would lower
-the paper every now and then to watch Harry, in his corner of the
-living-room, bowed obliviously over the microscope and the secret life
-of the rotifers.
-
-Once the boy glanced up from his periodic drawing and asked, with the
-air of one who proposes a pondered question: "Dad, if you look through a
-microscope the wrong way is it a telescope?"
-
-Mr. Chatham lowered his paper and bit his underlip. "I don't think
-so--no, I don't know. When you look through a microscope, it makes
-things seem closer--one way, that is; if you looked the other way, it
-would probably make them seem farther off. What did you want to know
-for?"
-
-"Oh--nothing," Harry turned back to his work. As if on after-thought, he
-explained, "I was wondering if the rotifers could see me when I'm
-looking at them."
-
-Mr. Chatham laughed, a little nervously, because the strange fancies
-which his son sometimes voiced upset his ordered mind. Remembering the
-dark glistening eyes of the rotifers he had seen, however, he could
-recognize whence this question had stemmed.
-
-At dusk, Harry insisted on setting up the substage lamp which had been
-bought with the microscope, and by whose light he could go on looking
-until his bedtime, when his father helped him arrange a wick to feed the
-little glass-covered well in the slide so it would not dry up before
-morning. It was unwillingly, and only after his mother's strenuous
-complaints, that the boy went to bed at ten o'clock.
-
-In the following days his interest became more and more intense. He
-spent long hours, almost without moving, watching the rotifers. For the
-little animals had become the sole object which he desired to study
-under the microscope, and even his father found it difficult to
-understand such an enthusiasm.
-
-During the long hours at the office to which he commuted, Henry Chatham
-often found the vision of his son, absorbed with the invisible world
-that the microscope had opened to him, coming between him and the
-columns in the ledgers. And sometimes, too, he envisioned the dim green
-water-garden where the little things swam to and fro, and a strangeness
-filled his thoughts.
-
-On Wednesday evening, he glanced at the fish bowl and noticed that the
-water beetle, the whirligig beetle, was missing. Casually, he asked his
-son about it.
-
-"I had to get rid of him," said the boy with a trace of uneasiness in
-his manner. "I took him out and squashed him."
-
-"Why did you have to do that?"
-
-"He was eating the rotifers and their eggs," said Harry, with what
-seemed to be a touch of remembered anger at the beetle. He glanced
-toward his work-table, where three or four well-slides with small green
-pools under their glass covers now rested in addition to the one that
-was under the microscope.
-
-"How did you find out he was eating them?" inquired Mr. Chatham, feeling
-a warmth of pride at the thought that Harry had discovered such a
-scientific fact for himself.
-
-The boy hesitated oddly. "I--I looked it up in the book," he answered.
-
-His father masked his faint disappointment. "That's fine," he said. "I
-guess you find out more about them all the time."
-
-"Uh-huh," admitted Harry, turning back to his table.
-
-There was undoubtedly something a little strange about Harry's manner;
-and now Mr. Chatham realized that it had been two days since Harry had
-asked him to "Quick, take a look!" at the newest wonder he had
-discovered. With this thought teasing at his mind, the father walked
-casually over to the table where his son sat hunched and, looking down
-at the litter of slides and papers--some of which were covered with
-figures and scribblings of which he could make nothing. He said
-diffidently, "How about a look?"
-
-Harry glanced up as if startled. He was silent a moment; then he slid
-reluctantly from his chair and said, "All right."
-
-Mr. Chatham sat down and bent over the microscope. Puzzled and a little
-hurt, he twirled the focusing vernier and peered into the eyepiece,
-looking down once more into the green water world of the rotifers.
-
-                                  ----
-
-There was a swarm of them under the lens, and they swam lazily to and
-fro, their cilia beating like miniature propellers. Their dark eyes
-stared, wet and glistening; they drifted in the motionless water, and
-clung with sucker-like pseudo-feet to the tangled plant stems.
-
-Then, as he almost looked away, one of them detached itself from the
-group and swam upward, toward him, growing larger and blurring as it
-rose out of the focus of the microscope. The last thing that remained
-defined, before it became a shapeless gray blob and vanished, was the
-dark blotches of the great cold eyes, seeming to stare full at
-him--cold, motionless, but alive.
-
-It was a curious experience. Henry Chatham drew suddenly back from the
-eyepiece, with an involuntary shudder that he could not explain to
-himself. He said haltingly, "They look interesting."
-
-"Sure, Dad," said Harry. He moved to occupy the chair again, and his
-dark young head bowed once more over the microscope. His father walked
-back across the room and sank gratefully into his arm-chair--after all,
-it had been a hard day at the office. He watched Harry work the focusing
-screws as if trying to find something, then take his pencil and begin to
-write quickly and impatiently.
-
-It was with a guilty feeling of prying that, after Harry had been sent
-reluctantly to bed, Henry Chatham took a tentative look at those papers
-which lay in apparent disorder on his son's work table. He frowned
-uncomprehendingly at the things that were written there; it was neither
-mathematics nor language, but many of the scribblings were jumbles of
-letters and figures. It looked like code, and he remembered that less
-than a year ago, Harry had been passionately interested in cryptography,
-and had shown what his father, at least, believed to be a considerable
-aptitude for such things.... But what did cryptography have to do with
-microscopy, or codes with--rotifers?
-
-Nowhere did there seem to be a key, but there were occasional words and
-phrases jotted into the margins of some of the sheets. Mr. Chatham read
-these, and learned nothing. "Can't dry up, but they can," said one.
-"Beds of germs," said another. And in the corner of one sheet, "1--Yes.
-2--No." The only thing that looked like a translation was the note:
-"rty34pr is the pond."
-
-Mr. Chatham shook his head bewilderedly, replacing the sheets carefully
-as they had been. Why should Harry want to keep notes on his scientific
-hobby in code? he wondered, rationalizing even as he wondered. He went
-to bed still puzzling, but it did not keep him from sleeping, for he was
-tired.
-
-Then, only the next evening, his wife maneuvered to get him alone with
-her and burst out passionately:
-
-"Henry, I told you that microscope was going to ruin Harry's eyesight! I
-was watching him today when he didn't know I was watching him, and I saw
-him winking and blinking right while he kept on looking into the thing.
-I was minded to stop him then and there, but I want you to assert _your_
-authority with him and tell him he can't go on."
-
-Henry Chatham passed one nervous hand over his own aching eyes. He asked
-mildly, "Are you sure it wasn't just your imagination, Sally? After all,
-a person blinks quite normally, you know."
-
-"It was not my imagination!" snapped Mrs. Chatham. "I know the symptoms
-of eyestrain when I see them, I guess. You'll have to stop Harry using
-that thing so much, or else be prepared to buy him glasses."
-
-"All right, Sally," said Mr. Chatham wearily. "I'll see if I can't
-persuade him to be a little more moderate."
-
-He went slowly into the living-room. At the moment, Harry was not using
-the microscope; instead, he seemed to be studying one of his cryptic
-pages of notes. As his father entered, he looked up sharply and swiftly
-laid the sheet down--face down.
-
-Perhaps it wasn't all Sally's imagination; the boy did look nervous, and
-there was a drawn, white look to his thin young face. His father said
-gently, "Harry, Mother tells me she saw you blinking, as if your eyes
-were tired, when you were looking into the microscope today. You know if
-you look too much, it can be a strain on your sight."
-
-Harry nodded quickly, too quickly, perhaps. "Yes, Dad," he said. "I read
-that in the book. It says there that if you close the eye you're looking
-with for a little while, it rests you and your eyes don't get tired. So
-I was practising that this afternoon. Mother must have been watching me
-then, and got the wrong idea."
-
-"Oh," said Henry Chatham. "Well, it's good that you're trying to be
-careful. But you've got your mother worried, and that's not so good. I
-wish, myself, that you wouldn't spend all your time with the microscope.
-Don't you ever play baseball with the fellows any more?"
-
-"I haven't got time," said the boy, with a curious stubborn twist to his
-mouth. "I can't right now, Dad." He glanced toward the microscope.
-
-"Your rotifers won't die if you leave them alone for a while. And if
-they do, there'll always be a new crop."
-
-"But I'd lose track of them," said Harry strangely. "Their lives are so
-short--they live so awfully fast. You don't know how fast they live."
-
-"I've seen them," answered his father. "I guess they're fast, all
-right." He did not know quite what to make of it all, so he settled
-himself in his chair with his paper.
-
-But that night, after Harry had gone later than usual to bed, he stirred
-himself to take down the book that dealt with life in pond-water. There
-was a memory pricking at his mind; the memory of the water beetle, which
-Harry had killed because, he said, he was eating the rotifers and their
-eggs. And the boy had said he had found that fact in the book.
-
-Mr. Chatham turned through the book; he read, with aching eyes, all that
-it said about rotifers. He searched for information on the beetle, and
-found there was a whole family of whirligig beetles. There was some
-material here on the characteristics and habits of the Gyrinidae, but
-nowhere did it mention the devouring of rotifers or their eggs among
-their customs.
-
-He tried the topical index, but there was no help there.
-
-Harry must have lied, thought his father with a whirling head. But why,
-why in God's name should he say he'd looked a thing up in the book when
-he must have found it out for himself, the hard way? There was no sense
-in it. He went back to the book, convinced that, sleepy as he was, he
-must have missed a point. The information simply wasn't there.
-
-He got to his feet and crossed the room to Harry's work table; he
-switched on the light over it and stood looking down at the pages of
-mystic notations. There were more pages now, quite a few. But none of
-them seemed to mean anything. The earlier pictures of rotifers which
-Harry had drawn had given way entirely to mysterious figures.
-
-Then the simple explanation occurred to him, and he switched off the
-light with a deep feeling of relief. Harry hadn't really _known_ that
-the water beetle ate rotifers; he had just suspected it. And, with his
-boy's respect for fair play, he had hesitated to admit that he had
-executed the beetle merely on suspicion.
-
-That didn't take the lie away, but it removed the mystery at least.
-
-                                  ----
-
-Henry Chatham slept badly that night and dreamed distorted dreams. But
-when the alarm clock shrilled in the gray of morning, jarring him awake,
-the dream in which he had been immersed skittered away to the back of
-his mind, out of knowing, and sat there leering at him with strange,
-dark, glistening eyes.
-
-He dressed, washed the flat morning taste out of his mouth with coffee,
-and took his way to his train and the ten-minute ride into the city. On
-the way there, instead of snatching a look at the morning paper, he sat
-still in his seat, head bowed, trying to recapture the dream whose
-vanishing made him uneasy. He was superstitious about dreams in an
-up-to-date way, believing them not warnings from some Beyond outside
-himself, but from a subsconscious more knowing than the waking conscious
-mind.
-
-During the morning his work went slowly, for he kept pausing, sometimes
-in the midst of totalling a column of figures, to grasp at some mocking
-half-memory of that dream. At last, elbows on his desk, staring
-unseeingly at the clock on the wall, in the midst of the subdued murmur
-of the office, his mind went back to Harry, dark head bowed motionless
-over the barrel of his microscope, looking, always looking into the pale
-green water-gardens and the unseen lives of the beings that....
-
-All at once it came to him, the dream he had dreamed. _He_ had been
-bending over the microscope, _he_ had been looking into the unseen
-world, and the horror of what he had seen gripped him now and brought
-out the chill sweat on his body.
-
-For he had seen his son there in the clouded water, among the twisted
-glassy plants, his face turned upward and eyes wide in the agonized
-appeal of the drowning; and bubbles rising, fading. But around him had
-been a swarm of the weird creatures, and they had been dragging him
-down, down, blurring out of focus, and their great dark eyes glistening
-wetly, coldly....
-
-He was sitting rigid at his desk, his work forgotten; all at once he saw
-the clock and noticed with a start that it was already eleven a.m. A
-fear he could not define seized on him, and his hand reached
-spasmodically for the telephone on his desk.
-
-But before he touched it, it began ringing.
-
-After a moment's paralysis, he picked up the receiver. It was his wife's
-voice that came shrilly over the wires.
-
-"Henry!" she cried. "Is that you?"
-
-"Hello, Sally," he said with stiff lips. Her voice as she answered
-seemed to come nearer and go farther away, and he realized that his hand
-holding the instrument was shaking.
-
-"Henry, you've got to come home right now. Harry's sick. He's got a high
-fever, and he's been asking for you."
-
-He moistened his lips and said, "I'll be right home. I'll take a taxi."
-
-"Hurry!" she exclaimed. "He's been saying queer things. I think he's
-delirious." She paused, and added, "And it's all the fault of that
-microscope _you_ bought him!"
-
-"I'll be right home," he repeated dully.
-
-                                  ----
-
-His wife was not at the door to meet him; she must be upstairs, in
-Harry's bedroom. He paused in the living room and glanced toward the
-table that bore the microscope; the black, gleaming thing still stood
-there, but he did not see any of the slides, and the papers were piled
-neatly together to one side. His eyes fell on the fish bowl; it was
-empty, clean and shining. He knew Harry hadn't done those things; that
-was Sally's neatness.
-
-Abruptly, instead of going straight up the stairs, he moved to the table
-and looked down at the pile of papers. The one on top was almost blank;
-on it was written several times: rty34pr ... rty34pr.... His memory for
-figure combinations served him; he remembered what had been written on
-another page: "rty34pr is the pond."
-
-That made him think of the pond, lying quiescent under its green scum
-and trailing plants at the end of the garden. A step on the stair jerked
-him around.
-
-It was his wife, of course. She said in a voice sharp-edged with
-apprehension: "What are you doing down here? Harry wants you. The doctor
-hasn't come; I phoned him just before I called you, but he hasn't come."
-
-He did not answer. Instead he gestured at the pile of papers, the empty
-fish bowl, an imperative question in his face.
-
-"I threw that dirty water back in the pond. It's probably what he caught
-something from. And he was breaking himself down, humping over that
-thing. It's _your_ fault, for getting it for him. Are you coming?" She
-glared coldly at him, turning back to the stairway.
-
-"I'm coming," he said heavily, and followed her upstairs.
-
-Harry lay back in his bed, a low mound under the covers. His head was
-propped against a single pillow, and his eyes were half-closed, the lids
-swollen-looking, his face hotly flushed. He was breathing slowly as if
-asleep.
-
-But as his father entered the room, he opened his eyes as if with an
-effort, fixed them on him, said, "Dad ... I've got to tell you."
-
-Mr. Chatham took the chair by the bedside, quietly, leaving his wife to
-stand. He asked, "About what, Harry?"
-
-"About--things." The boy's eyes shifted to his mother, at the foot of
-his bed. "I don't want to talk to her. _She_ thinks it's just fever. But
-you'll understand."
-
-Henry Chatham lifted his gaze to meet his wife's. "Maybe you'd better go
-downstairs and wait for the doctor, Sally."
-
-She looked hard at him, then turned abruptly to go out. "All right," she
-said in a thin voice, and closed the door softly behind her.
-
-"Now what did you want to tell me, Harry?"
-
-"About _them_ ... the rotifers," the boy said. His eyes had drifted
-half-shut again but his voice was clear. "They did it to me ... on
-purpose."
-
-"Did _what_?"
-
-"I don't know.... They used one of their cultures. They've got all
-kinds: beds of germs, under the leaves in the water. They've been
-growing new kinds, that will be worse than anything that ever was
-before.... They live so fast, they work so fast."
-
-Henry Chatham was silent, leaning forward beside the bed.
-
-"It was only a little while, before I found out they knew about me. I
-could see them through my microscope, but they could see me too.... And
-they kept signaling, swimming and turning.... I won't tell you how to
-talk to them, because nobody ought to talk to them ever again. Because
-they find out more than they tell.... They know about us, now, and they
-hate us. They never knew before--that there was anybody but them.... So
-they want to kill us all."
-
-"But why should they want to do that?" asked the father, as gently as he
-could. He kept telling himself, "He's delirious. It's like Sally says,
-he's been wearing himself out, thinking too much about--the rotifers.
-But the doctor will be here pretty soon, the doctor will know what to
-do."
-
-"They don't like knowing that they aren't the only ones on Earth that
-can think. I expect people would be the same way."
-
-"But they're such little things, Harry. They can't hurt us at all."
-
-The boy's eyes opened wide, shadowed with terror and fever. "I told you,
-Dad--They're growing germs, millions and billions of them, _new_
-ones.... And they kept telling me to take them back to the pond, so they
-could tell all the rest, and they could all start getting ready--for
-war."
-
-He remembered the shapes that swam and crept in the green water gardens,
-with whirling cilia and great, cold, glistening eyes. And he remembered
-the clean, empty fish bowl in the window downstairs.
-
-"Don't let them, Dad," said Harry convulsively. "You've got to kill them
-all. The ones here and the ones in the pond. You've got to kill them
-good--because they don't mind being killed, and they lay lots of eggs,
-and their eggs can stand almost anything, even drying up. _And the eggs
-remember what the old ones knew._"
-
-"Don't worry," said Henry Chatham quickly. He grasped his son's hand, a
-hot limp hand that had slipped from under the coverlet. "We'll stop
-them. We'll drain the pond."
-
-"That's swell," whispered the boy, his energy fading again. "I ought to
-have told you before, Dad--but first I was afraid you'd laugh, and
-then--I was just ... afraid...."
-
-His voice drifted away. And his father, looking down at the flushed
-face, saw that he seemed asleep. Well, that was better than the sick
-delirium--saying such strange, wild things--
-
-Downstairs the doctor was saying harshly, "All right. All right. But
-let's have a look at the patient."
-
-Henry Chatham came quietly downstairs; he greeted the doctor briefly,
-and did not follow him to Harry's bedroom.
-
-When he was left alone in the room, he went to the window and stood
-looking down at the microscope. He could not rid his head of
-strangeness: A window between two worlds, our world and that of the
-infinitely small, a window that looks both ways.
-
-After a time, he went through the kitchen and let himself out the back
-door, into the noonday sunlight.
-
-He followed the garden path, between the weed-grown beds of vegetables,
-until he came to the edge of the little pond. It lay there quiet in the
-sunlight, green-scummed and walled with stiff rank grass, a lone
-dragonfly swooping and wheeling above it. The image of all the stagnant
-waters, the fertile breeding-places of strange life, with which it was
-joined in the end by the tortuous hidden channels, the oozing pores of
-the Earth.
-
-And it seemed to him then that he glimpsed something, a hitherto unseen
-miasma, rising above the pool and darkening the sunlight ever so little.
-A dream, a shadow--the shadow of the alien dream of things hidden in
-smallness, the dark dream of the rotifers.
-
-The dragonfly, having seized a bright-winged fly that was sporting over
-the pond, descended heavily through the sunlit air and came to rest on a
-broad lily pad. Henry Chatham was suddenly afraid. He turned and walked
-slowly, wearily, up the path toward the house.
-
-
-                                 *END*
-
-
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-Fiction March 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-          the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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-   | *Beneath the stagnant water shadowed by water lilies Harry found the fascinating world of the rotifers—but it was their world, and they resented intrusion.*

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-

-

-   *Illustrated by Virgil Finlay*

-

-

-

-Henry Chatham knelt by

-the brink of his garden pond,

-a glass fish bowl cupped in his thin,

-nervous hands. Carefully he dipped

-the bowl into the green-scummed

-water and, moving it gently, let

-trailing streamers of submerged

-water weeds drift into it. Then he

-picked up the old scissors he had

-laid on the bank, and clipped the

-stems of the floating plants, getting

-as much of them as he could in the

-container.

-

-When he righted the bowl and

-got stiffly to his feet, it contained, he

-thought hopefully, a fair cross-section

-of fresh-water plankton. He

-was pleased with himself for remembering

-that term from the book

-he had studied assiduously for the

-last few nights in order to be able

-to cope with Harry's inevitable

-questions.

-

-There was even a shiny black

-water beetle doing insane circles on

-the surface of the water in the fish

-bowl. At sight of the insect, the eyes

-of the twelve-year-old boy, who

-had been standing by in silent expectation,

-widened with interest.

-

-"What's that thing, Dad?" he

-asked excitedly. "What's that crazy

-bug?"

-

-"I don't know its scientific name,

-I'm afraid," said Henry Chatham.

-"But when I was a boy we used to

-call them whirligig beetles."

-

-"He doesn't seem to think he has

-enough room in the bowl," said

-Harry thoughtfully. "Maybe we

-better put him back in the pond,

-Dad."

-

-"I thought you might want to

-look at him through the microscope,"

-the father said in some surprise.

-

-"I think we ought to put him

-back," insisted Harry.

-Mr. Chatham held the dripping

-bowl obligingly. Harry's hand, a

-thin boy's hand with narrow sensitive

-fingers, hovered over the water,

-and when the beetle paused for a

-moment in its gyrations, made a

-dive for it.

-

-.. image:: images/im1.jpg

-   :align: center

-

-But the whirligig beetle saw the

-hand coming, and, quicker than a

-wink, plunged under the water and

-scooted rapidly to the very bottom

-of the bowl.

-

-Harry's young face was rueful;

-he wiped his wet hand on his trousers.

-"I guess he wants to stay," he

-supposed.

-

-The two went up the garden

-path together and into the house,

-Mr. Chatham bearing the fish bowl

-before him like a votive offering.

-Harry's mother met them at the

-door, brandishing an old towel.

-

-"Here," she said firmly, "you

-wipe that thing off before you bring

-it in the house. And don't drip any

-of that dirty pond water on my good

-carpet."

-

-"It's not dirty," said Henry Chatham.

-"It's just full of life, plants

-and animals too small for the eye

-to see. But Harry's going to see

-them with his microscope." He accepted

-the towel and wiped the

-water and slime from the outside of

-the bowl; then, in the living-room,

-he set it beside an open window,

-where the life-giving summer sun

-slanted in and fell on the green

-plants.

-

-----

-

-The brand-new microscope

-stood nearby, in a good light. It

-was an expensive microscope, no

-toy for a child, and it magnified

-four hundred diameters. Henry

-Chatham had bought it because he

-believed that his only son showed a

-desire to peer into the mysteries of

-smallness, and so far Harry had not

-disappointed him; he had been ecstatic

-over the instrument. Together

-they had compared hairs from their

-two heads, had seen the point of a

-fine sewing needle made to look

-like the tip of a crowbar by the

-lowest power of the microscope,

-had made grains of salt look like

-discarded chunks of glass brick, had

-captured a house-fly and marvelled

-at its clawed hairy feet, its great

-red faceted eyes, and the delicate

-veining and fringing of its wings.

-

-Harry was staring at the bowl of

-pond water in a sort of fascination.

-"Are there germs in the water,

-Dad? Mother says pond water is

-full of germs."

-

-"I suppose so," answered Mr.

-Chatham, somewhat embarrassed.

-The book on microscopic fresh-water

-fauna had been explicit about

-*Paramecium* and *Euglena*, diatomes

-and rhizopods, but it had

-failed to mention anything so vulgar

-as germs. But he supposed that

-which the book called Protozoa, the

-one-celled animalcules, were the

-same as germs.

-

-He said, "To look at things in

-water like this, you want to use a

-well-slide. It tells how to fix one in

-the instruction book."

-

-He let Harry find the glass slide

-with a cup ground into it, and another

-smooth slip of glass to cover

-it. Then he half-showed, half-told

-him how to scrape gently along the

-bottom sides of the drifting leaves,

-to capture the teeming life that

-dwelt there in the slime. When the

-boy understood, his young hands

-were quickly more skillful than his

-father's; they filled the well with a

-few drops of water that was promisingly

-green and murky.

-

-Already Harry knew how to adjust

-the lighting mirror under the

-stage of the microscope and turn

-the focusing screws. He did so, bent

-intently over the eyepiece, squinting

-down the polished barrel in the

-happy expectation of wonders.

-

-Henry Chatham's eyes wandered

-to the fish bowl, where the whirligig

-beetle had come to the top again

-and was describing intricate patterns

-among the water plants. He

-looked back to his son, and saw that

-Harry had ceased to turn the screws

-and instead was just looking—looking

-with a rapt, delicious fixity.

-His hands lay loosely clenched on

-the table top, and he hardly seemed

-to breathe. Only once or twice his

-lips moved as if to shape an exclamation

-that was snatched away

-by some new vision.

-

-"Have you got it, Harry?" asked

-his father after two or three minutes

-during which the boy did not move.

-

-Harry took a last long look, then

-glanced up, blinking slightly.

-

-"You look, Dad!" he exclaimed

-warmly. "It's—it's like a garden in

-the water, full of funny little people!"

-

-Mr. Chatham, not reluctantly,

-bent to gaze into the eyepiece. This

-was new to him too, and instantly

-he saw the aptness of Harry's simile.

-There was a garden there, of weird,

-green, transparent stalks composed

-of plainly visible cells fastened end

-to end, with globules and bladders

-like fruits or seed-pods attached to

-them, floating among them; and in

-the garden the strange little people

-swam to and fro, or clung with odd

-appendages to the stalks and

-branches. Their bodies were transparent

-like the plants, and in them

-were pulsing hearts and other organs

-plainly visible. They looked a

-little like sea horses with pointed

-tails, but their heads were different,

-small and rounded, with big, dark,

-glistening eyes.

-

-All at once Mr. Chatham realized

-that Harry was speaking to

-him, still in high excitement.

-

-"What are they, Dad?" he

-begged to know.

-

-His father straightened up and

-shook his head puzzledly. "I don't

-know, Harry," he answered slowly,

-casting about in his memory. He

-seemed to remember a microphotograph

-of a creature like those in the

-book he had studied, but the name

-that had gone with it eluded him.

-He had worked as an accountant

-for so many years that his memory

-was all for figures now.

-

-He bent over once more to immerse

-his eyes and mind in the

-green water-garden on the slide.

-The little creatures swam to and

-fro as before, growing hazy and

-dwindling or swelling as they swam

-out of the narrow focus of the lens;

-he gazed at those who paused in

-sharp definition, and saw that, although

-he had at first seen no visible

-means of propulsion, each creature

-bore about its head a halo of

-thread-like, flickering cilia that

-lashed the water and drew it forward,

-for all the world like an airplane

-propeller or a rapidly turning

-wheel.

-

-"I know what they are!" exclaimed

-Henry Chatham, turning

-to his son with an almost boyish excitement.

-"They're rotifers! That

-means 'wheel-bearers', and they

-were called that because to the first

-scientists who saw them it looked

-like they swam with wheels."

-

-Harry had got down the book

-and was leafing through the pages.

-He looked up seriously. "Here they

-are," he said. "Here's a picture

-that looks almost like the ones in

-our pond water."

-

-"Let's see," said his father. They

-looked at the pictures and descriptions

-of the Rotifera; there was a

-good deal of concrete information

-on the habits and physiology of

-these odd and complex little animals

-who live their swarming lives

-in the shallow, stagnant waters of

-the Earth. It said that they were

-much more highly organized than

-Protozoa, having a discernible

-heart, brain, digestive system, and

-nervous system, and that their reproduction

-was by means of two

-sexes like that of the higher orders.

-Beyond that, they were a mystery;

-their relationship to other life-forms

-remained shrouded in doubt.

-

-"You've got something interesting

-there," said Henry Chatham

-with satisfaction. "Maybe you'll

-find out something about them that

-nobody knows yet."

-

-He was pleased when Harry

-spent all the rest of that Sunday

-afternoon peering into the microscope,

-watching the rotifers, and

-even more pleased when the boy

-found a pencil and paper and tried,

-in an amateurish way, to draw and

-describe what he saw in the green

-water-garden.

-

-Beyond a doubt, Henry thought,

-here was a hobby that had captured

-Harry as nothing else ever had.

-

-----

-

-Mrs. Chatham was not so

-pleased. When her husband

-laid down his evening paper and

-went into the kitchen for a drink of

-water, she cornered him and hissed

-at him: "I told you you had no

-business buying Harry a thing like

-that! If he keeps on at this rate,

-he'll wear his eyes out in no time."

-

-Henry Chatham set down his

-water glass and looked straight at

-his wife. "Sally, Harry's eyes are

-young and he's using them to learn

-with. You've never been much worried

-over me, using my eyes up

-eight hours a day, five days a week,

-over a blind-alley bookkeeping job."

-

-He left her angrily silent and

-went back to his paper. He would

-lower the paper every now and then

-to watch Harry, in his corner of the

-living-room, bowed obliviously over

-the microscope and the secret life

-of the rotifers.

-

-Once the boy glanced up from

-his periodic drawing and asked,

-with the air of one who proposes a

-pondered question: "Dad, if you

-look through a microscope the

-wrong way is it a telescope?"

-

-Mr. Chatham lowered his paper

-and bit his underlip. "I don't think

-so—no, I don't know. When you

-look through a microscope, it

-makes things seem closer—one way,

-that is; if you looked the other way,

-it would probably make them seem

-farther off. What did you want to

-know for?"

-

-"Oh—nothing," Harry turned

-back to his work. As if on after-thought,

-he explained, "I was wondering

-if the rotifers could see me

-when I'm looking at them."

-

-Mr. Chatham laughed, a little

-nervously, because the strange

-fancies which his son sometimes

-voiced upset his ordered mind. Remembering

-the dark glistening eyes

-of the rotifers he had seen, however,

-he could recognize whence

-this question had stemmed.

-

-At dusk, Harry insisted on setting

-up the substage lamp which

-had been bought with the microscope,

-and by whose light he could

-go on looking until his bedtime,

-when his father helped him arrange

-a wick to feed the little glass-covered

-well in the slide so it would

-not dry up before morning. It was

-unwillingly, and only after his

-mother's strenuous complaints, that

-the boy went to bed at ten o'clock.

-

-In the following days his interest

-became more and more intense. He

-spent long hours, almost without

-moving, watching the rotifers. For

-the little animals had become the

-sole object which he desired to

-study under the microscope, and

-even his father found it difficult to

-understand such an enthusiasm.

-

-During the long hours at the office

-to which he commuted, Henry

-Chatham often found the vision of

-his son, absorbed with the invisible

-world that the microscope had

-opened to him, coming between

-him and the columns in the ledgers.

-And sometimes, too, he envisioned

-the dim green water-garden where

-the little things swam to and fro,

-and a strangeness filled his thoughts.

-

-On Wednesday evening, he

-glanced at the fish bowl and noticed

-that the water beetle, the

-whirligig beetle, was missing. Casually,

-he asked his son about it.

-

-"I had to get rid of him," said

-the boy with a trace of uneasiness

-in his manner. "I took him out and

-squashed him."

-

-"Why did you have to do that?"

-

-"He was eating the rotifers and

-their eggs," said Harry, with what

-seemed to be a touch of remembered

-anger at the beetle. He

-glanced toward his work-table,

-where three or four well-slides with

-small green pools under their glass

-covers now rested in addition to the

-one that was under the microscope.

-

-"How did you find out he was

-eating them?" inquired Mr. Chatham,

-feeling a warmth of pride at

-the thought that Harry had discovered

-such a scientific fact for himself.

-

-The boy hesitated oddly. "I—I

-looked it up in the book," he answered.

-

-His father masked his faint disappointment.

-"That's fine," he

-said. "I guess you find out more

-about them all the time."

-

-"Uh-huh," admitted Harry, turning

-back to his table.

-

-There was undoubtedly something

-a little strange about Harry's

-manner; and now Mr. Chatham

-realized that it had been two days

-since Harry had asked him to

-"Quick, take a look!" at the newest

-wonder he had discovered. With

-this thought teasing at his mind,

-the father walked casually over to

-the table where his son sat hunched

-and, looking down at the litter of

-slides and papers—some of which

-were covered with figures and scribblings

-of which he could make nothing.

-He said diffidently, "How

-about a look?"

-

-Harry glanced up as if startled.

-He was silent a moment; then he

-slid reluctantly from his chair and

-said, "All right."

-

-Mr. Chatham sat down and bent

-over the microscope. Puzzled and

-a little hurt, he twirled the focusing

-vernier and peered into the eyepiece,

-looking down once more into

-the green water world of the rotifers.

-

-----

-

-There was a swarm of them

-under the lens, and they swam

-lazily to and fro, their cilia beating

-like miniature propellers. Their

-dark eyes stared, wet and glistening;

-they drifted in the motionless

-water, and clung with sucker-like

-pseudo-feet to the tangled plant

-stems.

-

-Then, as he almost looked away,

-one of them detached itself from

-the group and swam upward, toward

-him, growing larger and blurring

-as it rose out of the focus of the

-microscope. The last thing that remained

-defined, before it became a

-shapeless gray blob and vanished,

-was the dark blotches of the great

-cold eyes, seeming to stare full at

-him—cold, motionless, but alive.

-

-It was a curious experience.

-Henry Chatham drew suddenly

-back from the eyepiece, with an involuntary

-shudder that he could not

-explain to himself. He said haltingly,

-"They look interesting."

-

-"Sure, Dad," said Harry. He

-moved to occupy the chair again,

-and his dark young head bowed

-once more over the microscope. His

-father walked back across the room

-and sank gratefully into his arm-chair—after

-all, it had been a hard

-day at the office. He watched Harry

-work the focusing screws as if trying

-to find something, then take his

-pencil and begin to write quickly

-and impatiently.

-

-It was with a guilty feeling of

-prying that, after Harry had been

-sent reluctantly to bed, Henry Chatham

-took a tentative look at those

-papers which lay in apparent disorder

-on his son's work table. He

-frowned uncomprehendingly at the

-things that were written there; it

-was neither mathematics nor language,

-but many of the scribblings

-were jumbles of letters and figures.

-It looked like code, and he remembered

-that less than a year ago,

-Harry had been passionately interested

-in cryptography, and had

-shown what his father, at least, believed

-to be a considerable aptitude

-for such things.... But what did

-cryptography have to do with

-microscopy, or codes with—rotifers?

-

-Nowhere did there seem to be a

-key, but there were occasional

-words and phrases jotted into the

-margins of some of the sheets. Mr.

-Chatham read these, and learned

-nothing. "Can't dry up, but they

-can," said one. "Beds of germs,"

-said another. And in the corner of

-one sheet, "1—Yes. 2—No." The

-only thing that looked like a translation

-was the note: "rty34pr is the

-pond."

-

-Mr. Chatham shook his head bewilderedly,

-replacing the sheets

-carefully as they had been. Why

-should Harry want to keep notes on

-his scientific hobby in code? he

-wondered, rationalizing even as he

-wondered. He went to bed still

-puzzling, but it did not keep him

-from sleeping, for he was tired.

-

-Then, only the next evening, his

-wife maneuvered to get him alone

-with her and burst out passionately:

-

-"Henry, I told you that microscope

-was going to ruin Harry's

-eyesight! I was watching him today

-when he didn't know I was watching

-him, and I saw him winking

-and blinking right while he kept on

-looking into the thing. I was

-minded to stop him then and there,

-but I want you to assert *your* authority

-with him and tell him he

-can't go on."

-

-Henry Chatham passed one nervous

-hand over his own aching eyes.

-He asked mildly, "Are you sure it

-wasn't just your imagination, Sally?

-After all, a person blinks quite normally,

-you know."

-

-"It was not my imagination!"

-snapped Mrs. Chatham. "I know

-the symptoms of eyestrain when I

-see them, I guess. You'll have to

-stop Harry using that thing so

-much, or else be prepared to buy

-him glasses."

-

-"All right, Sally," said Mr. Chatham

-wearily. "I'll see if I can't persuade

-him to be a little more moderate."

-

-He went slowly into the living-room.

-At the moment, Harry was

-not using the microscope; instead,

-he seemed to be studying one of his

-cryptic pages of notes. As his father

-entered, he looked up sharply and

-swiftly laid the sheet down—face

-down.

-

-Perhaps it wasn't all Sally's imagination;

-the boy did look nervous,

-and there was a drawn, white look

-to his thin young face. His father

-said gently, "Harry, Mother tells

-me she saw you blinking, as if your

-eyes were tired, when you were

-looking into the microscope today.

-You know if you look too much, it

-can be a strain on your sight."

-

-Harry nodded quickly, too quickly,

-perhaps. "Yes, Dad," he said. "I

-read that in the book. It says there

-that if you close the eye you're looking

-with for a little while, it rests

-you and your eyes don't get tired.

-So I was practising that this afternoon.

-Mother must have been

-watching me then, and got the

-wrong idea."

-

-"Oh," said Henry Chatham.

-"Well, it's good that you're trying

-to be careful. But you've got your

-mother worried, and that's not so

-good. I wish, myself, that you

-wouldn't spend all your time with

-the microscope. Don't you ever

-play baseball with the fellows any

-more?"

-

-"I haven't got time," said the

-boy, with a curious stubborn twist

-to his mouth. "I can't right now,

-Dad." He glanced toward the

-microscope.

-

-"Your rotifers won't die if you

-leave them alone for a while. And

-if they do, there'll always be a new

-crop."

-

-"But I'd lose track of them," said

-Harry strangely. "Their lives are so

-short—they live so awfully fast. You

-don't know how fast they live."

-

-"I've seen them," answered his

-father. "I guess they're fast, all

-right." He did not know quite what

-to make of it all, so he settled himself

-in his chair with his paper.

-

-But that night, after Harry had

-gone later than usual to bed, he

-stirred himself to take down the

-book that dealt with life in pond-water.

-There was a memory pricking

-at his mind; the memory of the

-water beetle, which Harry had

-killed because, he said, he was eating

-the rotifers and their eggs. And

-the boy had said he had found that

-fact in the book.

-

-Mr. Chatham turned through the

-book; he read, with aching eyes, all

-that it said about rotifers. He

-searched for information on the

-beetle, and found there was a whole

-family of whirligig beetles. There

-was some material here on the characteristics

-and habits of the Gyrinidae,

-but nowhere did it mention the

-devouring of rotifers or their eggs

-among their customs.

-

-He tried the topical index, but

-there was no help there.

-

-Harry must have lied, thought his

-father with a whirling head. But

-why, why in God's name should he

-say he'd looked a thing up in the

-book when he must have found it

-out for himself, the hard way?

-There was no sense in it. He went

-back to the book, convinced that,

-sleepy as he was, he must have

-missed a point. The information

-simply wasn't there.

-

-He got to his feet and crossed the

-room to Harry's work table; he

-switched on the light over it and

-stood looking down at the pages of

-mystic notations. There were more

-pages now, quite a few. But none

-of them seemed to mean anything.

-The earlier pictures of rotifers

-which Harry had drawn had given

-way entirely to mysterious figures.

-

-Then the simple explanation occurred

-to him, and he switched off

-the light with a deep feeling of relief.

-Harry hadn't really *known*

-that the water beetle ate rotifers;

-he had just suspected it. And, with

-his boy's respect for fair play, he

-had hesitated to admit that he had

-executed the beetle merely on suspicion.

-

-That didn't take the lie away, but

-it removed the mystery at least.

-

-----

-

-Henry Chatham slept badly

-that night and dreamed distorted

-dreams. But when the alarm

-clock shrilled in the gray of morning,

-jarring him awake, the dream

-in which he had been immersed

-skittered away to the back of his

-mind, out of knowing, and sat there

-leering at him with strange, dark,

-glistening eyes.

-

-He dressed, washed the flat

-morning taste out of his mouth with

-coffee, and took his way to his train

-and the ten-minute ride into the

-city. On the way there, instead of

-snatching a look at the morning paper,

-he sat still in his seat, head

-bowed, trying to recapture the

-dream whose vanishing made him

-uneasy. He was superstitious about

-dreams in an up-to-date way, believing

-them not warnings from

-some Beyond outside himself, but

-from a subsconscious more knowing

-than the waking conscious mind.

-

-During the morning his work

-went slowly, for he kept pausing,

-sometimes in the midst of totalling

-a column of figures, to grasp at

-some mocking half-memory of that

-dream. At last, elbows on his desk,

-staring unseeingly at the clock on

-the wall, in the midst of the subdued

-murmur of the office, his mind

-went back to Harry, dark head

-bowed motionless over the barrel of

-his microscope, looking, always

-looking into the pale green water-gardens

-and the unseen lives of the

-beings that....

-

-All at once it came to him, the

-dream he had dreamed. *He* had

-been bending over the microscope,

-*he* had been looking into the unseen

-world, and the horror of what

-he had seen gripped him now and

-brought out the chill sweat on his

-body.

-

-For he had seen his son there in

-the clouded water, among the

-twisted glassy plants, his face turned

-upward and eyes wide in the agonized

-appeal of the drowning; and

-bubbles rising, fading. But around

-him had been a swarm of the weird

-creatures, and they had been dragging

-him down, down, blurring out

-of focus, and their great dark eyes

-glistening wetly, coldly....

-

-He was sitting rigid at his desk,

-his work forgotten; all at once he

-saw the clock and noticed with a

-start that it was already eleven a.m.

-A fear he could not define seized on

-him, and his hand reached spasmodically

-for the telephone on his

-desk.

-

-But before he touched it, it began

-ringing.

-

-After a moment's paralysis, he

-picked up the receiver. It was his

-wife's voice that came shrilly over

-the wires.

-

-"Henry!" she cried. "Is that

-you?"

-

-"Hello, Sally," he said with stiff

-lips. Her voice as she answered

-seemed to come nearer and go farther

-away, and he realized that his

-hand holding the instrument was

-shaking.

-

-"Henry, you've got to come home

-right now. Harry's sick. He's got a

-high fever, and he's been asking for

-you."

-

-He moistened his lips and said,

-"I'll be right home. I'll take a taxi."

-

-"Hurry!" she exclaimed. "He's

-been saying queer things. I think

-he's delirious." She paused, and

-added, "And it's all the fault of that

-microscope *you* bought him!"

-

-"I'll be right home," he repeated

-dully.

-

-----

-

-His wife was not at the door

-to meet him; she must be upstairs,

-in Harry's bedroom. He

-paused in the living room and

-glanced toward the table that bore

-the microscope; the black, gleaming

-thing still stood there, but he

-did not see any of the slides, and

-the papers were piled neatly together

-to one side. His eyes fell on

-the fish bowl; it was empty, clean

-and shining. He knew Harry hadn't

-done those things; that was Sally's

-neatness.

-

-Abruptly, instead of going

-straight up the stairs, he moved to

-the table and looked down at the

-pile of papers. The one on top was

-almost blank; on it was written several

-times: rty34pr ... rty34pr....

-His memory for figure combinations

-served him; he remembered what

-had been written on another page:

-"rty34pr is the pond."

-

-That made him think of the

-pond, lying quiescent under its

-green scum and trailing plants at

-the end of the garden. A step on the

-stair jerked him around.

-

-It was his wife, of course. She

-said in a voice sharp-edged with apprehension:

-"What are you doing

-down here? Harry wants you. The

-doctor hasn't come; I phoned him

-just before I called you, but he

-hasn't come."

-

-He did not answer. Instead he

-gestured at the pile of papers, the

-empty fish bowl, an imperative

-question in his face.

-

-"I threw that dirty water back in

-the pond. It's probably what he

-caught something from. And he

-was breaking himself down, humping

-over that thing. It's *your* fault,

-for getting it for him. Are you coming?"

-She glared coldly at him,

-turning back to the stairway.

-

-"I'm coming," he said heavily,

-and followed her upstairs.

-

-Harry lay back in his bed, a low

-mound under the covers. His head

-was propped against a single pillow,

-and his eyes were half-closed, the

-lids swollen-looking, his face hotly

-flushed. He was breathing slowly as

-if asleep.

-

-But as his father entered the

-room, he opened his eyes as if with

-an effort, fixed them on him, said,

-"Dad ... I've got to tell you."

-

-Mr. Chatham took the chair by

-the bedside, quietly, leaving his wife

-to stand. He asked, "About what,

-Harry?"

-

-"About—things." The boy's eyes

-shifted to his mother, at the foot of

-his bed. "I don't want to talk to

-her. *She* thinks it's just fever. But

-you'll understand."

-

-Henry Chatham lifted his gaze to

-meet his wife's. "Maybe you'd better

-go downstairs and wait for the

-doctor, Sally."

-

-She looked hard at him, then

-turned abruptly to go out. "All

-right," she said in a thin voice, and

-closed the door softly behind her.

-

-"Now what did you want to tell

-me, Harry?"

-

-"About *them* ... the rotifers,"

-the boy said. His eyes had drifted

-half-shut again but his voice was

-clear. "They did it to me ... on

-purpose."

-

-"Did *what*?"

-

-"I don't know.... They used one

-of their cultures. They've got all

-kinds: beds of germs, under the

-leaves in the water. They've been

-growing new kinds, that will be

-worse than anything that ever was

-before.... They live so fast, they

-work so fast."

-

-Henry Chatham was silent, leaning

-forward beside the bed.

-

-"It was only a little while, before

-I found out they knew about me. I

-could see them through my microscope,

-but they could see me too....

-And they kept signaling, swimming

-and turning.... I won't tell you how

-to talk to them, because nobody

-ought to talk to them ever again.

-Because they find out more than

-they tell.... They know about us,

-now, and they hate us. They never

-knew before—that there was anybody

-but them.... So they want to

-kill us all."

-

-"But why should they want to do

-that?" asked the father, as gently as

-he could. He kept telling himself,

-"He's delirious. It's like Sally says,

-he's been wearing himself out,

-thinking too much about—the rotifers.

-But the doctor will be here

-pretty soon, the doctor will know

-what to do."

-

-"They don't like knowing that

-they aren't the only ones on Earth

-that can think. I expect people

-would be the same way."

-

-"But they're such little things,

-Harry. They can't hurt us at all."

-

-The boy's eyes opened wide,

-shadowed with terror and fever. "I

-told you, Dad—They're growing

-germs, millions and billions of them,

-*new* ones.... And they kept telling

-me to take them back to the pond,

-so they could tell all the rest, and

-they could all start getting ready—for

-war."

-

-He remembered the shapes that

-swam and crept in the green water

-gardens, with whirling cilia and

-great, cold, glistening eyes. And he

-remembered the clean, empty fish

-bowl in the window downstairs.

-

-"Don't let them, Dad," said

-Harry convulsively. "You've got to

-kill them all. The ones here and the

-ones in the pond. You've got to kill

-them good—because they don't

-mind being killed, and they lay lots

-of eggs, and their eggs can stand almost

-anything, even drying up. *And

-the eggs remember what the old

-ones knew.*"

-

-"Don't worry," said Henry Chatham

-quickly. He grasped his son's

-hand, a hot limp hand that had

-slipped from under the coverlet.

-"We'll stop them. We'll drain the

-pond."

-

-"That's swell," whispered the

-boy, his energy fading again. "I

-ought to have told you before, Dad—but

-first I was afraid you'd laugh,

-and then—I was just ... afraid...."

-

-His voice drifted away. And his

-father, looking down at the flushed

-face, saw that he seemed asleep.

-Well, that was better than the sick

-delirium—saying such strange, wild

-things—

-

-Downstairs the doctor was saying

-harshly, "All right. All right. But

-let's have a look at the patient."

-

-Henry Chatham came quietly

-downstairs; he greeted the doctor

-briefly, and did not follow him to

-Harry's bedroom.

-

-When he was left alone in the

-room, he went to the window and

-stood looking down at the microscope.

-He could not rid his head of

-strangeness: A window between

-two worlds, our world and that of

-the infinitely small, a window that

-looks both ways.

-

-After a time, he went through the

-kitchen and let himself out the back

-door, into the noonday sunlight.

-

-He followed the garden path, between

-the weed-grown beds of vegetables,

-until he came to the edge of

-the little pond. It lay there quiet in

-the sunlight, green-scummed and

-walled with stiff rank grass, a lone

-dragonfly swooping and wheeling

-above it. The image of all the stagnant

-waters, the fertile breeding-places

-of strange life, with which it

-was joined in the end by the tortuous

-hidden channels, the oozing

-pores of the Earth.

-

-And it seemed to him then that

-he glimpsed something, a hitherto

-unseen miasma, rising above the

-pool and darkening the sunlight

-ever so little. A dream, a shadow—the

-shadow of the alien dream of

-things hidden in smallness, the dark

-dream of the rotifers.

-

-The dragonfly, having seized a

-bright-winged fly that was sporting

-over the pond, descended heavily

-through the sunlit air and came to

-rest on a broad lily pad. Henry

-Chatham was suddenly afraid. He

-turned and walked slowly, wearily,

-up the path toward the house.

-

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-
-    THE ROTIFERS
-
-    BY Robert Abernathy
-
-    _Beneath the stagnant water shadowed by water lilies Harry found
-    the fascinating world of the rotifers--but it was their world,
-    and they resented intrusion._
-
-    _Illustrated by Virgil Finlay_
-
-Henry Chatham knelt by the brink of his garden pond, a glass fish bowl
-cupped in his thin, nervous hands. Carefully he dipped the bowl into the
-green-scummed water and, moving it gently, let trailing streamers of
-submerged water weeds drift into it. Then he picked up the old scissors
-he had laid on the bank, and clipped the stems of the floating plants,
-getting as much of them as he could in the container.
-
-When he righted the bowl and got stiffly to his feet, it contained, he
-thought hopefully, a fair cross-section of fresh-water plankton. He was
-pleased with himself for remembering that term from the book he had
-studied assiduously for the last few nights in order to be able to cope
-with Harry's inevitable questions.
-
-There was even a shiny black water beetle doing insane circles on the
-surface of the water in the fish bowl. At sight of the insect, the eyes
-of the twelve-year-old boy, who had been standing by in silent
-expectation, widened with interest.
-
-"What's that thing, Dad?" he asked excitedly. "What's that crazy bug?"
-
-"I don't know its scientific name, I'm afraid," said Henry Chatham. "But
-when I was a boy we used to call them whirligig beetles."
-
-"He doesn't seem to think he has enough room in the bowl," said Harry
-thoughtfully. "Maybe we better put him back in the pond, Dad."
-
-"I thought you might want to look at him through the microscope," the
-father said in some surprise.
-
-"I think we ought to put him back," insisted Harry. Mr. Chatham held the
-dripping bowl obligingly. Harry's hand, a thin boy's hand with narrow
-sensitive fingers, hovered over the water, and when the beetle paused
-for a moment in its gyrations, made a dive for it.
-
-But the whirligig beetle saw the hand coming, and, quicker than a wink,
-plunged under the water and scooted rapidly to the very bottom of the
-bowl.
-
-Harry's young face was rueful; he wiped his wet hand on his trousers. "I
-guess he wants to stay," he supposed.
-
-The two went up the garden path together and into the house, Mr. Chatham
-bearing the fish bowl before him like a votive offering. Harry's mother
-met them at the door, brandishing an old towel.
-
-"Here," she said firmly, "you wipe that thing off before you bring it in
-the house. And don't drip any of that dirty pond water on my good
-carpet."
-
-"It's not dirty," said Henry Chatham. "It's just full of life, plants
-and animals too small for the eye to see. But Harry's going to see them
-with his microscope." He accepted the towel and wiped the water and
-slime from the outside of the bowl; then, in the living-room, he set it
-beside an open window, where the life-giving summer sun slanted in and
-fell on the green plants.
-
-                                  ----
-
-The brand-new microscope stood nearby, in a good light. It was an
-expensive microscope, no toy for a child, and it magnified four hundred
-diameters. Henry Chatham had bought it because he believed that his only
-son showed a desire to peer into the mysteries of smallness, and so far
-Harry had not disappointed him; he had been ecstatic over the
-instrument. Together they had compared hairs from their two heads, had
-seen the point of a fine sewing needle made to look like the tip of a
-crowbar by the lowest power of the microscope, had made grains of salt
-look like discarded chunks of glass brick, had captured a house-fly and
-marvelled at its clawed hairy feet, its great red faceted eyes, and the
-delicate veining and fringing of its wings.
-
-Harry was staring at the bowl of pond water in a sort of fascination.
-"Are there germs in the water, Dad? Mother says pond water is full of
-germs."
-
-"I suppose so," answered Mr. Chatham, somewhat embarrassed. The book on
-microscopic fresh-water fauna had been explicit about _Paramecium_ and
-_Euglena_, diatomes and rhizopods, but it had failed to mention anything
-so vulgar as germs. But he supposed that which the book called Protozoa,
-the one-celled animalcules, were the same as germs.
-
-He said, "To look at things in water like this, you want to use a
-well-slide. It tells how to fix one in the instruction book."
-
-He let Harry find the glass slide with a cup ground into it, and another
-smooth slip of glass to cover it. Then he half-showed, half-told him how
-to scrape gently along the bottom sides of the drifting leaves, to
-capture the teeming life that dwelt there in the slime. When the boy
-understood, his young hands were quickly more skillful than his
-father's; they filled the well with a few drops of water that was
-promisingly green and murky.
-
-Already Harry knew how to adjust the lighting mirror under the stage of
-the microscope and turn the focusing screws. He did so, bent intently
-over the eyepiece, squinting down the polished barrel in the happy
-expectation of wonders.
-
-Henry Chatham's eyes wandered to the fish bowl, where the whirligig
-beetle had come to the top again and was describing intricate patterns
-among the water plants. He looked back to his son, and saw that Harry
-had ceased to turn the screws and instead was just looking--looking with
-a rapt, delicious fixity. His hands lay loosely clenched on the table
-top, and he hardly seemed to breathe. Only once or twice his lips moved
-as if to shape an exclamation that was snatched away by some new vision.
-
-"Have you got it, Harry?" asked his father after two or three minutes
-during which the boy did not move.
-
-Harry took a last long look, then glanced up, blinking slightly.
-
-"You look, Dad!" he exclaimed warmly. "It's--it's like a garden in the
-water, full of funny little people!"
-
-Mr. Chatham, not reluctantly, bent to gaze into the eyepiece. This was
-new to him too, and instantly he saw the aptness of Harry's simile.
-There was a garden there, of weird, green, transparent stalks composed
-of plainly visible cells fastened end to end, with globules and bladders
-like fruits or seed-pods attached to them, floating among them; and in
-the garden the strange little people swam to and fro, or clung with odd
-appendages to the stalks and branches. Their bodies were transparent
-like the plants, and in them were pulsing hearts and other organs
-plainly visible. They looked a little like sea horses with pointed
-tails, but their heads were different, small and rounded, with big,
-dark, glistening eyes.
-
-All at once Mr. Chatham realized that Harry was speaking to him, still
-in high excitement.
-
-"What are they, Dad?" he begged to know.
-
-His father straightened up and shook his head puzzledly. "I don't know,
-Harry," he answered slowly, casting about in his memory. He seemed to
-remember a microphotograph of a creature like those in the book he had
-studied, but the name that had gone with it eluded him. He had worked as
-an accountant for so many years that his memory was all for figures now.
-
-He bent over once more to immerse his eyes and mind in the green
-water-garden on the slide. The little creatures swam to and fro as
-before, growing hazy and dwindling or swelling as they swam out of the
-narrow focus of the lens; he gazed at those who paused in sharp
-definition, and saw that, although he had at first seen no visible means
-of propulsion, each creature bore about its head a halo of thread-like,
-flickering cilia that lashed the water and drew it forward, for all the
-world like an airplane propeller or a rapidly turning wheel.
-
-"I know what they are!" exclaimed Henry Chatham, turning to his son with
-an almost boyish excitement. "They're rotifers! That means
-'wheel-bearers', and they were called that because to the first
-scientists who saw them it looked like they swam with wheels."
-
-Harry had got down the book and was leafing through the pages. He looked
-up seriously. "Here they are," he said. "Here's a picture that looks
-almost like the ones in our pond water."
-
-"Let's see," said his father. They looked at the pictures and
-descriptions of the Rotifera; there was a good deal of concrete
-information on the habits and physiology of these odd and complex little
-animals who live their swarming lives in the shallow, stagnant waters of
-the Earth. It said that they were much more highly organized than
-Protozoa, having a discernible heart, brain, digestive system, and
-nervous system, and that their reproduction was by means of two sexes
-like that of the higher orders. Beyond that, they were a mystery; their
-relationship to other life-forms remained shrouded in doubt.
-
-"You've got something interesting there," said Henry Chatham with
-satisfaction. "Maybe you'll find out something about them that nobody
-knows yet."
-
-He was pleased when Harry spent all the rest of that Sunday afternoon
-peering into the microscope, watching the rotifers, and even more
-pleased when the boy found a pencil and paper and tried, in an
-amateurish way, to draw and describe what he saw in the green
-water-garden.
-
-Beyond a doubt, Henry thought, here was a hobby that had captured Harry
-as nothing else ever had.
-
-                                  ----
-
-Mrs. Chatham was not so pleased. When her husband laid down his evening
-paper and went into the kitchen for a drink of water, she cornered him
-and hissed at him: "I told you you had no business buying Harry a thing
-like that! If he keeps on at this rate, he'll wear his eyes out in no
-time."
-
-Henry Chatham set down his water glass and looked straight at his wife.
-"Sally, Harry's eyes are young and he's using them to learn with. You've
-never been much worried over me, using my eyes up eight hours a day,
-five days a week, over a blind-alley bookkeeping job."
-
-He left her angrily silent and went back to his paper. He would lower
-the paper every now and then to watch Harry, in his corner of the
-living-room, bowed obliviously over the microscope and the secret life
-of the rotifers.
-
-Once the boy glanced up from his periodic drawing and asked, with the
-air of one who proposes a pondered question: "Dad, if you look through a
-microscope the wrong way is it a telescope?"
-
-Mr. Chatham lowered his paper and bit his underlip. "I don't think
-so--no, I don't know. When you look through a microscope, it makes
-things seem closer--one way, that is; if you looked the other way, it
-would probably make them seem farther off. What did you want to know
-for?"
-
-"Oh--nothing," Harry turned back to his work. As if on after-thought, he
-explained, "I was wondering if the rotifers could see me when I'm
-looking at them."
-
-Mr. Chatham laughed, a little nervously, because the strange fancies
-which his son sometimes voiced upset his ordered mind. Remembering the
-dark glistening eyes of the rotifers he had seen, however, he could
-recognize whence this question had stemmed.
-
-At dusk, Harry insisted on setting up the substage lamp which had been
-bought with the microscope, and by whose light he could go on looking
-until his bedtime, when his father helped him arrange a wick to feed the
-little glass-covered well in the slide so it would not dry up before
-morning. It was unwillingly, and only after his mother's strenuous
-complaints, that the boy went to bed at ten o'clock.
-
-In the following days his interest became more and more intense. He
-spent long hours, almost without moving, watching the rotifers. For the
-little animals had become the sole object which he desired to study
-under the microscope, and even his father found it difficult to
-understand such an enthusiasm.
-
-During the long hours at the office to which he commuted, Henry Chatham
-often found the vision of his son, absorbed with the invisible world
-that the microscope had opened to him, coming between him and the
-columns in the ledgers. And sometimes, too, he envisioned the dim green
-water-garden where the little things swam to and fro, and a strangeness
-filled his thoughts.
-
-On Wednesday evening, he glanced at the fish bowl and noticed that the
-water beetle, the whirligig beetle, was missing. Casually, he asked his
-son about it.
-
-"I had to get rid of him," said the boy with a trace of uneasiness in
-his manner. "I took him out and squashed him."
-
-"Why did you have to do that?"
-
-"He was eating the rotifers and their eggs," said Harry, with what
-seemed to be a touch of remembered anger at the beetle. He glanced
-toward his work-table, where three or four well-slides with small green
-pools under their glass covers now rested in addition to the one that
-was under the microscope.
-
-"How did you find out he was eating them?" inquired Mr. Chatham, feeling
-a warmth of pride at the thought that Harry had discovered such a
-scientific fact for himself.
-
-The boy hesitated oddly. "I--I looked it up in the book," he answered.
-
-His father masked his faint disappointment. "That's fine," he said. "I
-guess you find out more about them all the time."
-
-"Uh-huh," admitted Harry, turning back to his table.
-
-There was undoubtedly something a little strange about Harry's manner;
-and now Mr. Chatham realized that it had been two days since Harry had
-asked him to "Quick, take a look!" at the newest wonder he had
-discovered. With this thought teasing at his mind, the father walked
-casually over to the table where his son sat hunched and, looking down
-at the litter of slides and papers--some of which were covered with
-figures and scribblings of which he could make nothing. He said
-diffidently, "How about a look?"
-
-Harry glanced up as if startled. He was silent a moment; then he slid
-reluctantly from his chair and said, "All right."
-
-Mr. Chatham sat down and bent over the microscope. Puzzled and a little
-hurt, he twirled the focusing vernier and peered into the eyepiece,
-looking down once more into the green water world of the rotifers.
-
-                                  ----
-
-There was a swarm of them under the lens, and they swam lazily to and
-fro, their cilia beating like miniature propellers. Their dark eyes
-stared, wet and glistening; they drifted in the motionless water, and
-clung with sucker-like pseudo-feet to the tangled plant stems.
-
-Then, as he almost looked away, one of them detached itself from the
-group and swam upward, toward him, growing larger and blurring as it
-rose out of the focus of the microscope. The last thing that remained
-defined, before it became a shapeless gray blob and vanished, was the
-dark blotches of the great cold eyes, seeming to stare full at
-him--cold, motionless, but alive.
-
-It was a curious experience. Henry Chatham drew suddenly back from the
-eyepiece, with an involuntary shudder that he could not explain to
-himself. He said haltingly, "They look interesting."
-
-"Sure, Dad," said Harry. He moved to occupy the chair again, and his
-dark young head bowed once more over the microscope. His father walked
-back across the room and sank gratefully into his arm-chair--after all,
-it had been a hard day at the office. He watched Harry work the focusing
-screws as if trying to find something, then take his pencil and begin to
-write quickly and impatiently.
-
-It was with a guilty feeling of prying that, after Harry had been sent
-reluctantly to bed, Henry Chatham took a tentative look at those papers
-which lay in apparent disorder on his son's work table. He frowned
-uncomprehendingly at the things that were written there; it was neither
-mathematics nor language, but many of the scribblings were jumbles of
-letters and figures. It looked like code, and he remembered that less
-than a year ago, Harry had been passionately interested in cryptography,
-and had shown what his father, at least, believed to be a considerable
-aptitude for such things.... But what did cryptography have to do with
-microscopy, or codes with--rotifers?
-
-Nowhere did there seem to be a key, but there were occasional words and
-phrases jotted into the margins of some of the sheets. Mr. Chatham read
-these, and learned nothing. "Can't dry up, but they can," said one.
-"Beds of germs," said another. And in the corner of one sheet, "1--Yes.
-2--No." The only thing that looked like a translation was the note:
-"rty34pr is the pond."
-
-Mr. Chatham shook his head bewilderedly, replacing the sheets carefully
-as they had been. Why should Harry want to keep notes on his scientific
-hobby in code? he wondered, rationalizing even as he wondered. He went
-to bed still puzzling, but it did not keep him from sleeping, for he was
-tired.
-
-Then, only the next evening, his wife maneuvered to get him alone with
-her and burst out passionately:
-
-"Henry, I told you that microscope was going to ruin Harry's eyesight! I
-was watching him today when he didn't know I was watching him, and I saw
-him winking and blinking right while he kept on looking into the thing.
-I was minded to stop him then and there, but I want you to assert _your_
-authority with him and tell him he can't go on."
-
-Henry Chatham passed one nervous hand over his own aching eyes. He asked
-mildly, "Are you sure it wasn't just your imagination, Sally? After all,
-a person blinks quite normally, you know."
-
-"It was not my imagination!" snapped Mrs. Chatham. "I know the symptoms
-of eyestrain when I see them, I guess. You'll have to stop Harry using
-that thing so much, or else be prepared to buy him glasses."
-
-"All right, Sally," said Mr. Chatham wearily. "I'll see if I can't
-persuade him to be a little more moderate."
-
-He went slowly into the living-room. At the moment, Harry was not using
-the microscope; instead, he seemed to be studying one of his cryptic
-pages of notes. As his father entered, he looked up sharply and swiftly
-laid the sheet down--face down.
-
-Perhaps it wasn't all Sally's imagination; the boy did look nervous, and
-there was a drawn, white look to his thin young face. His father said
-gently, "Harry, Mother tells me she saw you blinking, as if your eyes
-were tired, when you were looking into the microscope today. You know if
-you look too much, it can be a strain on your sight."
-
-Harry nodded quickly, too quickly, perhaps. "Yes, Dad," he said. "I read
-that in the book. It says there that if you close the eye you're looking
-with for a little while, it rests you and your eyes don't get tired. So
-I was practising that this afternoon. Mother must have been watching me
-then, and got the wrong idea."
-
-"Oh," said Henry Chatham. "Well, it's good that you're trying to be
-careful. But you've got your mother worried, and that's not so good. I
-wish, myself, that you wouldn't spend all your time with the microscope.
-Don't you ever play baseball with the fellows any more?"
-
-"I haven't got time," said the boy, with a curious stubborn twist to his
-mouth. "I can't right now, Dad." He glanced toward the microscope.
-
-"Your rotifers won't die if you leave them alone for a while. And if
-they do, there'll always be a new crop."
-
-"But I'd lose track of them," said Harry strangely. "Their lives are so
-short--they live so awfully fast. You don't know how fast they live."
-
-"I've seen them," answered his father. "I guess they're fast, all
-right." He did not know quite what to make of it all, so he settled
-himself in his chair with his paper.
-
-But that night, after Harry had gone later than usual to bed, he stirred
-himself to take down the book that dealt with life in pond-water. There
-was a memory pricking at his mind; the memory of the water beetle, which
-Harry had killed because, he said, he was eating the rotifers and their
-eggs. And the boy had said he had found that fact in the book.
-
-Mr. Chatham turned through the book; he read, with aching eyes, all that
-it said about rotifers. He searched for information on the beetle, and
-found there was a whole family of whirligig beetles. There was some
-material here on the characteristics and habits of the Gyrinidae, but
-nowhere did it mention the devouring of rotifers or their eggs among
-their customs.
-
-He tried the topical index, but there was no help there.
-
-Harry must have lied, thought his father with a whirling head. But why,
-why in God's name should he say he'd looked a thing up in the book when
-he must have found it out for himself, the hard way? There was no sense
-in it. He went back to the book, convinced that, sleepy as he was, he
-must have missed a point. The information simply wasn't there.
-
-He got to his feet and crossed the room to Harry's work table; he
-switched on the light over it and stood looking down at the pages of
-mystic notations. There were more pages now, quite a few. But none of
-them seemed to mean anything. The earlier pictures of rotifers which
-Harry had drawn had given way entirely to mysterious figures.
-
-Then the simple explanation occurred to him, and he switched off the
-light with a deep feeling of relief. Harry hadn't really _known_ that
-the water beetle ate rotifers; he had just suspected it. And, with his
-boy's respect for fair play, he had hesitated to admit that he had
-executed the beetle merely on suspicion.
-
-That didn't take the lie away, but it removed the mystery at least.
-
-                                  ----
-
-Henry Chatham slept badly that night and dreamed distorted dreams. But
-when the alarm clock shrilled in the gray of morning, jarring him awake,
-the dream in which he had been immersed skittered away to the back of
-his mind, out of knowing, and sat there leering at him with strange,
-dark, glistening eyes.
-
-He dressed, washed the flat morning taste out of his mouth with coffee,
-and took his way to his train and the ten-minute ride into the city. On
-the way there, instead of snatching a look at the morning paper, he sat
-still in his seat, head bowed, trying to recapture the dream whose
-vanishing made him uneasy. He was superstitious about dreams in an
-up-to-date way, believing them not warnings from some Beyond outside
-himself, but from a subsconscious more knowing than the waking conscious
-mind.
-
-During the morning his work went slowly, for he kept pausing, sometimes
-in the midst of totalling a column of figures, to grasp at some mocking
-half-memory of that dream. At last, elbows on his desk, staring
-unseeingly at the clock on the wall, in the midst of the subdued murmur
-of the office, his mind went back to Harry, dark head bowed motionless
-over the barrel of his microscope, looking, always looking into the pale
-green water-gardens and the unseen lives of the beings that....
-
-All at once it came to him, the dream he had dreamed. _He_ had been
-bending over the microscope, _he_ had been looking into the unseen
-world, and the horror of what he had seen gripped him now and brought
-out the chill sweat on his body.
-
-For he had seen his son there in the clouded water, among the twisted
-glassy plants, his face turned upward and eyes wide in the agonized
-appeal of the drowning; and bubbles rising, fading. But around him had
-been a swarm of the weird creatures, and they had been dragging him
-down, down, blurring out of focus, and their great dark eyes glistening
-wetly, coldly....
-
-He was sitting rigid at his desk, his work forgotten; all at once he saw
-the clock and noticed with a start that it was already eleven a.m. A
-fear he could not define seized on him, and his hand reached
-spasmodically for the telephone on his desk.
-
-But before he touched it, it began ringing.
-
-After a moment's paralysis, he picked up the receiver. It was his wife's
-voice that came shrilly over the wires.
-
-"Henry!" she cried. "Is that you?"
-
-"Hello, Sally," he said with stiff lips. Her voice as she answered
-seemed to come nearer and go farther away, and he realized that his hand
-holding the instrument was shaking.
-
-"Henry, you've got to come home right now. Harry's sick. He's got a high
-fever, and he's been asking for you."
-
-He moistened his lips and said, "I'll be right home. I'll take a taxi."
-
-"Hurry!" she exclaimed. "He's been saying queer things. I think he's
-delirious." She paused, and added, "And it's all the fault of that
-microscope _you_ bought him!"
-
-"I'll be right home," he repeated dully.
-
-                                  ----
-
-His wife was not at the door to meet him; she must be upstairs, in
-Harry's bedroom. He paused in the living room and glanced toward the
-table that bore the microscope; the black, gleaming thing still stood
-there, but he did not see any of the slides, and the papers were piled
-neatly together to one side. His eyes fell on the fish bowl; it was
-empty, clean and shining. He knew Harry hadn't done those things; that
-was Sally's neatness.
-
-Abruptly, instead of going straight up the stairs, he moved to the table
-and looked down at the pile of papers. The one on top was almost blank;
-on it was written several times: rty34pr ... rty34pr.... His memory for
-figure combinations served him; he remembered what had been written on
-another page: "rty34pr is the pond."
-
-That made him think of the pond, lying quiescent under its green scum
-and trailing plants at the end of the garden. A step on the stair jerked
-him around.
-
-It was his wife, of course. She said in a voice sharp-edged with
-apprehension: "What are you doing down here? Harry wants you. The doctor
-hasn't come; I phoned him just before I called you, but he hasn't come."
-
-He did not answer. Instead he gestured at the pile of papers, the empty
-fish bowl, an imperative question in his face.
-
-"I threw that dirty water back in the pond. It's probably what he caught
-something from. And he was breaking himself down, humping over that
-thing. It's _your_ fault, for getting it for him. Are you coming?" She
-glared coldly at him, turning back to the stairway.
-
-"I'm coming," he said heavily, and followed her upstairs.
-
-Harry lay back in his bed, a low mound under the covers. His head was
-propped against a single pillow, and his eyes were half-closed, the lids
-swollen-looking, his face hotly flushed. He was breathing slowly as if
-asleep.
-
-But as his father entered the room, he opened his eyes as if with an
-effort, fixed them on him, said, "Dad ... I've got to tell you."
-
-Mr. Chatham took the chair by the bedside, quietly, leaving his wife to
-stand. He asked, "About what, Harry?"
-
-"About--things." The boy's eyes shifted to his mother, at the foot of
-his bed. "I don't want to talk to her. _She_ thinks it's just fever. But
-you'll understand."
-
-Henry Chatham lifted his gaze to meet his wife's. "Maybe you'd better go
-downstairs and wait for the doctor, Sally."
-
-She looked hard at him, then turned abruptly to go out. "All right," she
-said in a thin voice, and closed the door softly behind her.
-
-"Now what did you want to tell me, Harry?"
-
-"About _them_ ... the rotifers," the boy said. His eyes had drifted
-half-shut again but his voice was clear. "They did it to me ... on
-purpose."
-
-"Did _what_?"
-
-"I don't know.... They used one of their cultures. They've got all
-kinds: beds of germs, under the leaves in the water. They've been
-growing new kinds, that will be worse than anything that ever was
-before.... They live so fast, they work so fast."
-
-Henry Chatham was silent, leaning forward beside the bed.
-
-"It was only a little while, before I found out they knew about me. I
-could see them through my microscope, but they could see me too.... And
-they kept signaling, swimming and turning.... I won't tell you how to
-talk to them, because nobody ought to talk to them ever again. Because
-they find out more than they tell.... They know about us, now, and they
-hate us. They never knew before--that there was anybody but them.... So
-they want to kill us all."
-
-"But why should they want to do that?" asked the father, as gently as he
-could. He kept telling himself, "He's delirious. It's like Sally says,
-he's been wearing himself out, thinking too much about--the rotifers.
-But the doctor will be here pretty soon, the doctor will know what to
-do."
-
-"They don't like knowing that they aren't the only ones on Earth that
-can think. I expect people would be the same way."
-
-"But they're such little things, Harry. They can't hurt us at all."
-
-The boy's eyes opened wide, shadowed with terror and fever. "I told you,
-Dad--They're growing germs, millions and billions of them, _new_
-ones.... And they kept telling me to take them back to the pond, so they
-could tell all the rest, and they could all start getting ready--for
-war."
-
-He remembered the shapes that swam and crept in the green water gardens,
-with whirling cilia and great, cold, glistening eyes. And he remembered
-the clean, empty fish bowl in the window downstairs.
-
-"Don't let them, Dad," said Harry convulsively. "You've got to kill them
-all. The ones here and the ones in the pond. You've got to kill them
-good--because they don't mind being killed, and they lay lots of eggs,
-and their eggs can stand almost anything, even drying up. _And the eggs
-remember what the old ones knew._"
-
-"Don't worry," said Henry Chatham quickly. He grasped his son's hand, a
-hot limp hand that had slipped from under the coverlet. "We'll stop
-them. We'll drain the pond."
-
-"That's swell," whispered the boy, his energy fading again. "I ought to
-have told you before, Dad--but first I was afraid you'd laugh, and
-then--I was just ... afraid...."
-
-His voice drifted away. And his father, looking down at the flushed
-face, saw that he seemed asleep. Well, that was better than the sick
-delirium--saying such strange, wild things--
-
-Downstairs the doctor was saying harshly, "All right. All right. But
-let's have a look at the patient."
-
-Henry Chatham came quietly downstairs; he greeted the doctor briefly,
-and did not follow him to Harry's bedroom.
-
-When he was left alone in the room, he went to the window and stood
-looking down at the microscope. He could not rid his head of
-strangeness: A window between two worlds, our world and that of the
-infinitely small, a window that looks both ways.
-
-After a time, he went through the kitchen and let himself out the back
-door, into the noonday sunlight.
-
-He followed the garden path, between the weed-grown beds of vegetables,
-until he came to the edge of the little pond. It lay there quiet in the
-sunlight, green-scummed and walled with stiff rank grass, a lone
-dragonfly swooping and wheeling above it. The image of all the stagnant
-waters, the fertile breeding-places of strange life, with which it was
-joined in the end by the tortuous hidden channels, the oozing pores of
-the Earth.
-
-And it seemed to him then that he glimpsed something, a hitherto unseen
-miasma, rising above the pool and darkening the sunlight ever so little.
-A dream, a shadow--the shadow of the alien dream of things hidden in
-smallness, the dark dream of the rotifers.
-
-The dragonfly, having seized a bright-winged fly that was sporting over
-the pond, descended heavily through the sunlit air and came to rest on a
-broad lily pad. Henry Chatham was suddenly afraid. He turned and walked
-slowly, wearily, up the path toward the house.
-
-
-                                 *END*
-
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