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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Security Plan - -Author: Joseph Farrell - -Release Date: March 28, 2016 [EBook #51588] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY PLAN *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="382" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>Security Plan</h1> - -<p>By JOSEPH FARRELL</p> - -<p>Illustrated by WOOD</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine April 1959.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>I had something better than investing for<br /> -the future ... the future investing in me!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"My mother warned me," Marilyn said again, "to think twice before I -married a child prodigy. Look for somebody good and solid, she said, -like Dad—somebody who will put something away for your old age."</p> - -<p>I tapped a transistor, put a screwdriver across a pair of wires and -watched the spark. Marilyn was just talking to pass the time. She -really loves me and doesn't mind too much that I spend my spare time -and money building a time machine. Sometimes she even believes that it -might work.</p> - -<p>She kept talking. "I've been thinking—we're past thirty now and -what do we have? A lease on a restaurant where nobody eats, and a -time machine that doesn't work." She sighed. "And a drawerful of -pawn tickets we'll never be able to redeem. My silver, my camera, my -typewriter...."</p> - -<p>I added a growl to her sigh. "My microscope, my other equipment...."</p> - -<p>"Uncle Johnson will have them for <i>his</i> old age," she said sadly. "And -we'll be lucky if we have <i>anything</i>."</p> - -<p>I felt a pang of resentment. Uncle Johnson! It seemed that every time I -acquired something, Uncle Johnson soon came into possession of it. We'd -been kids together, although he was quite a few years older, a hulking -lout in the sixth grade while I was in the first, and I graduated from -grammar school a term ahead of him. Of course I went on to high school -and had a college degree at fifteen, being a prodigy. Johnson went to -work in his uncle's pawn shop, sweeping the floor and so on, and that's -when we started calling him Uncle.</p> - -<p>This wasn't much of a job because Johnson's uncle got him to work for -almost nothing by promising he would leave him the pawn shop when he -died. And it didn't look as if much would come of this, because the -uncle was not very old and he was always telling people a man couldn't -afford to die these days, what with the prices undertakers were -charging.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Before I had even started to shave, I had a dozen papers published in -scientific journals, all having to do with the nature of time. Time -travel became my ambition and I was sure I saw a way to build a time -machine. But it took years to work out the details, and nobody seemed -interested in my work, so I had to do it all myself. Somehow I stopped -working long enough to get a wife, and we had to eat. So we ran this -little hash house and lived in the back room, and at least we got our -food wholesale.</p> - -<p>And Johnson's uncle fell down the cellar stairs and split his skull -open. So Johnson became the owner of a thriving business after giving -his uncle a simple funeral, because he knew his uncle wouldn't have -wanted him to waste any more money on that than he had to.</p> - -<p>"But we have a time machine," Marilyn said fondly. "That's something -Johnson would give us a lot on—if it worked."</p> - -<p>"We <i>almost</i> have a time machine," I said, looking around at my life's -work. Our kitchen was the time machine, with a great winding of wires -around it to create the field I had devised. The doors had been a -problem that I solved by making them into switches, so that when they -were closed the coils made the complete circuit of the room.</p> - -<p>"Almost," I repeated. "After twenty years of work, I am through except -for a few small items—"</p> - -<p>I looked at her pleadingly.</p> - -<p>"It will run about twenty dollars. Do you think—?"</p> - -<p>She didn't care much for the idea, but finally she slid off the wedding -ring.</p> - -<p>"You'll redeem this first thing, Ted? Before any of the rest of the -stuff?"</p> - -<p>I promised and took off at a dead run.</p> - -<p>Johnson didn't have to inspect the ring; he'd seen it before, and he -counted out twenty dollars. That was the only item he'd give me a -decent price on. He knew I'd be back for it.</p> - -<p>"How's the time machine coming along, Ted?" He had a little smirk, the -way some people do when they hear I'm building a time machine. "Get in -touch with Mars yet?"</p> - -<p>"I have no interest in Mars," I told him. "I plan to make contact with -the future—about thirty years from now. And for your information, the -time machine is practically finished. The first test will be tonight."</p> - -<p>He wasn't smirking now, because he never forgot the way I passed him -in school and he had a good respect for my brain. He looked a little -thoughtful—only a little, because that's all he was capable of.</p> - -<p>"You get to the future, Ted, suppose you bring me a newspaper. I'll -make it worth your while. I've always treated you fair and square, -Ted, now haven't I?"</p> - -<p>I looked over his shelves. Too many of those dust-covered items were -mine. And I didn't have to be a telepath to know what he was thinking.</p> - -<p>"Maybe you'd like a paper with the stock market quotations, Uncle? From -about thirty years from now, say?"</p> - -<p>The smirk was completely gone now. "You get something like that, Ted, -I'll pay you! Wouldn't help you out any, because you have nothing to -invest. Me now, I could buy something that will keep me in my old age. -I'd give you a—hundred bucks for something like that."</p> - -<p>I laughed at him. A hundred dollars! Uncle always had his nerve. He was -scowling when I left, still trying to figure how he could get in on -the gravy, because outside of Marilyn he was the only person who ever -thought I might succeed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Marilyn cooked dinner for us while I was putting the final touches on -the time machine.</p> - -<p>"Tonight we celebrate," she said. "Steak."</p> - -<p>It smelled wonderful, but the occasional whiff of ozone from my -equipment was more exciting. I'd told Marilyn we had about an hour -before I could make the test, but with my working faster than I had -expected and her getting behind with the meal, she was just putting -the steaks on the table when I was done with the machine.</p> - -<p>"Oh, but let's eat first, Ted!" she said.</p> - -<p>"I couldn't eat! After so much work—" I stared in fascination at the -master switch—the door. "This is it, Marilyn! What I've been working -toward all these years!"</p> - -<p>She saw the way I felt and maybe she was a little excited herself.</p> - -<p>"Go ahead, Ted," she told me.</p> - -<p>I closed the door.</p> - -<p>There was more ozone and a blurring in the middle of the room. We -stepped away from the thickest of the blurring, where something seemed -to be gathering substance.</p> - -<p>The something, we soon saw, was a man sitting in a chair surrounded by -strange apparatus, most of which I couldn't guess the purpose of. It -was a very young man, when I could see him better, probably nineteen, -wearing bright clothes in what I figured must be the style of 1989.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="341" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Man-o!" he said. "This time machine is low Fahrenheit, o-daddy! Right -to the bottom! It's the deepest!"</p> - -<p>I blinked. "Parlez vous Francais?"</p> - -<p>Marilyn said, "I think he means he likes it. But who is he and just -where did he come from?"</p> - -<p>The gaily dressed youth got out of the chair and smiled at us. Each of -his shoulders had padding the size of a football. His coat tapered from -four feet wide at the shoulders to a tightly bound waist, the lapels -from a foot at the top to zero. The trousers widened out to wide stiff -hoops that ended six inches above his shoes. And the shoes! But at -least they weren't really alive, as I had thought at first.</p> - -<p>"How is it," asked Marilyn, "that a cool cat from the future comes to -visit us in a time machine? I would expect a more scholarly type."</p> - -<p>"Not so, doll-o. The angleheads don't reach the real science. The -scientist pros believe that all knowledge is known. They delve not into -the sub-zero regions of thought. That is done by us amateurs."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He did a short bit of syncopated tap and introduced himself. "I am -Solid Chuck Richards, ambassador to the past, courtesy of the Friday -Night Bull Session and Experimentation Society."</p> - -<p>"Are they all like you?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"No, o-daddy-man. Some are deep, some are high on the scale, but all of -them reach together on one thing—they all feel that the pro-scientists -have grown angular and lost the sense of wonder. So we gather together -on Friday nights to work on the off-beat side of science. We read your -books—if you are Ted Langer—?"</p> - -<p>I admitted it.</p> - -<p>He danced a rhythmic circle around me, staring in what was evidently -adoration, and kept murmuring, "Reach that deep man! Ted Langer—the -father of time travel! O-man-o! Deep! Real deep!"</p> - -<p>"Now see here," I finally broke in. "Don't they talk English where you -come from? And just how do you come to be here anyway? I built a time -machine to travel into the future, and instead I get you telling me how -deep I am. Are you here or am I there?"</p> - -<p>"You are here, o-daddy-boy, and I also am here. But, to explain this, -I may have to use some angle talk, which is what you mean by English. -We read your books—which are collectors' items, by the way—and we -decided you were way under the zero mark, especially when we saw that -the angleheads wouldn't touch any of your ideas. So we got together -and made our time machine. But I am sad to report, doctor-o, that your -theory was a bit less than two-hundred-per-cent correct. There were a -few errors, which we found."</p> - -<p>It was something of a shock to hear this future rock-and-roller tell -me there were mistakes in my work, and I started to argue with him -about it. But his attention wasn't on the conversation. He was sniffing -thoughtfully, the thing he'd called sense of wonder shining in his -eyes. He was looking at the steaks Marilyn had set on the table.</p> - -<p>"Reach that!" he said, awed. "Gen-you-wine solid flesh! Man-o! I -haven't seen a steak like that in all my off-beat life!"</p> - -<p>So naturally we invited him to sit down at the table and he didn't have -to be asked more than once. It seemed that food was pretty expensive in -1991, which is the year he came from, and what there was of it mostly -came from factories where they shoveled soy beans and yeast into a -machine and it came out meat at the other end, if you didn't make too -much fuss about what you called meat. But with so much of the good farm -land ruined by atomic dust, and so much more turned into building lots -on account of the growing population, it was the best they could do.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When we heard this, we pushed the second steak in front of him and he -showed he was a growing boy by finishing every scrap, along with a -double order of French frieds and half a dozen ears of corn on the cob. -But he had to give up after two pieces of pie.</p> - -<p>He sat back in the chair, patted his stomach and looked as if he had -just won the Irish sweepstakes. He looked at the big refrigerator. When -Marilyn opened it to put things away, his eyes almost popped out at the -sight of the meat stored there.</p> - -<p>"Man-o!" he said. "You must be rich!"</p> - -<p>Marilyn laughed. "No, not rich—far from it. We operate a restaurant -and that's our stock you see."</p> - -<p>"Oh, doll-o! I should not have eaten so much. What do you charge for a -meal like that?"</p> - -<p>"We would get three and a half for each order," I said, diplomatically -not mentioning all his side orders, "although we don't get much -carriage trade here. But don't let it worry you. Nothing's too good for -a guest from the future."</p> - -<p>"Three and a half?" He looked amazed. "Why, such a feed would bring -twenty-five or thirty where I come from—if you could find it! Let me -pay, o-daddy-friend, at least your price."</p> - -<p>And he pulled out some bills. I started to push them back, for of -course I wasn't going to spoil this great moment in my life by asking a -traveler from the future to pay for a meal.</p> - -<p>But then I saw what he was trying to give me.</p> - -<p>I picked up the bills and stared. Marilyn's head was over my shoulder -and she was staring just as hard. She took one out of my hand.</p> - -<p>"It's not real," she said. "There's not that much money in the world."</p> - -<p>She had the five. I had the ones. The five-thousand and the -one-thousand-dollar bills, that is. I looked up at Solid Chuck Richards.</p> - -<p>"When you said that meal would cost twenty-five or thirty, did you mean -twenty-five or thirty <i>thousand</i>?"</p> - -<p>"You reach me, man. Inflation, you know. It's terrible. I remember when -a gee would keep the beat rocking in a juke palace for an hour. Now you -pay half a gee a number. It's terrible."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After we explained to him that the inflation was even worse than that, -he decided it was something more than terrible. It seems he hadn't paid -much attention to money in his younger days, though he did recall now -that when he was very small he'd been able to get a good nickel candy -bar for twenty dollars, but he hadn't seen anything smaller than a -hundred in some time now.</p> - -<p>"There should be a law against this sort of thing," he said -indignantly. "It's enough to turn a man into an anglehead, the way they -keep pushing up the price of fumes. And what they charge for Bulgy -Sanders records—"</p> - -<p>He picked up the bills and looked at them.</p> - -<p>"But I think maybe we can find a way to profit on this, daddy-boy! I -have a deep thought—we members of the Friday Night Bull Session and -Experimentation Society will come to your restaurant and pay you five -gees for a steak dinner, which is a fine price for you but very little -for us. In that way, we will eat good food and you will gather a good -bundle of the stuff of life."</p> - -<p>There was a thudding noise at the window. I looked over quick. Somebody -was hanging on outside, off balance, as if he had been standing on a -ladder outside and had fallen against the window.</p> - -<p>I ran for the door, forgetting it was a switch. But Solid Chuck -Richards realized it. He dived back into his chair and called, "Reach -you later, o-daddy!" He disappeared as I pulled the door open.</p> - -<p>The sudden flash as the time machine stopped operating reminded me -about those switches on the door, but it was too late now. I ran out -and around the side just in time to see a figure disappearing up the -alley. Sure enough, there was a ladder against the window.</p> - -<p>I didn't bother chasing the man very far, because, after a fast look at -him, I had a pretty good idea who it was. I'd speak to him later.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Marilyn and I sat around looking at the big bills. They were the size -of present-day currency, and were beautifully made, and would have -passed easily except for a few things. Such as that "Series 1988" -inscribed alongside the signature of Irving P. Walcourt, Secretary of -the Treasury. And the Treasurer of the United States in 1988 would be -Kuru Hamonoto. From the State of Hawaii, I wondered, or—?</p> - -<p>"They're no use to us at all," said Marilyn. "Unless we hold them until -1988. I was talking about security for our old age. Do you suppose—?"</p> - -<p>"You forget," I said, "that steak will run you twenty-five or thirty -thousand in 1988. This is going to be a great disappointment to the -members of the Friday Night Bull Session and Experimentation Society, -but I fear we must explain to Solid Chuck Richards that we just cannot -afford to do much business of this type."</p> - -<p>I pushed aside the money and began thinking about some of the things -the youth from 1991 had told me. There were holes in my theories—a -lot of holes. True, I had succeeded in building a time machine, but I -could never go anyplace in it. Because time travel was possible only -by traveling from one time machine to another. The amateurs of 1991, -knowing from my books (I must remember to write them) that I had built -a time machine in 1959, were able to make contact. Solid Chuck Richards -was selected by lot from several volunteers to try the machine. I met -the other members of the Society later and learned that and a number of -other things from them.</p> - -<p>The reason Solid Chuck came back instead of my going forward made solid -sense. I could see it now. My time machine had never existed in 1991. -His had existed in 1959, or at least its parts had. I could overcome -that problem—if I had the full power of the Sun for several minutes to -work with, and a way to handle it. Then I could change things so that -my time machine would have existed in the future....</p> - -<p>Even the verb tenses were going wrong on me.</p> - -<p>These amateur experimenters, it seemed, were considered a bit on the -crackpot side, taking such pseudo-science as mine seriously. Not -knowing enough science to realize that the ideas I wrote about were -impossible, as any professional scientist would have, they followed -them through. They tried to get in touch with me in their time, but I -wasn't available, which saved me another paradox. Suppose I had joined -the Society and come back as a volunteer?</p> - -<p>But it was encouraging to know the reason I was going to be -unavailable in 1991. Marilyn and I had gone on a second honeymoon—on -the first commercial passenger liner to Mars.</p> - -<p>"And so," I told her, "you don't have to worry about security in your -old age. Tickets to Mars must cost a few trillion dollars. We won't be -poor."</p> - -<p>Marilyn was still looking at the currency of the future.</p> - -<p>"We will be," she said, "if we keep selling steak for the price of -soy-bean hamburger. By the way, Ted, I wonder who that was at the -window?"</p> - -<p>The answer came to me then. I put the bills into my pocket and kissed -her.</p> - -<p>"We will not have to eat soy-bean hamburger, o-doll. And I will take -you to Mars for your second honeymoon—as soon as they start passenger -service. I am going out to make a down payment on the tickets right -now."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Uncle Johnson took the glass from his eye. He looked very tense, like a -fisherman with a prize catch on a very thin line.</p> - -<p>"It's good," he said, and his voice trembled a little. "I—suppose your -time machine worked?"</p> - -<p>"Surprised, are you, Uncle?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, yes. But I see your situation, Ted. You, of course, can't afford -to hold these for thirty years. Now—ah—I can. And I'll be glad to -help you out by taking them off your hands. Naturally I have to hold -them a long time, so—let's say twenty dollars a thousand?"</p> - -<p>"Let's not say that." I took the bill from his hand. "I figure fifty -is a fair price. There'll be lots more, Uncle. And, as you say, I am -always broke and cannot afford to put them away for my old age. But -running the time machine is expensive and I can't afford to take less -than fifty."</p> - -<p>He looked as if he were going to snatch the bill right out of my hand, -he was so eager.</p> - -<p>"All right, Ted, I realize there are expenses. Thirty-five."</p> - -<p>We compromised on forty.</p> - -<p>"But I want a promise," he said emphatically. "I'm to be the only one -you sell these bills to!"</p> - -<p>"You reach me, o-uncle." I handed him the bills. "You're deep, man. -Real deep!"</p> - -<p>Real deep in the hole, that is—he mortgaged his house and his regular -inventory to buy up all the money I began taking in. Once we redeemed -the wedding ring and all the other articles, I got to feeling mellow -and even a bit grateful. He'd started me in business, so to speak. I -couldn't stick him with all those millions that would just about buy -him a helicab ride to the poorhouse in 1988.</p> - -<p>So when Marilyn and I got just as deep in the black, because the -Society members gave us some books on stock-market statistics, I -started giving Uncle tips every now and then. Not free, of course—I -asked for half and we settled on seventy-thirty. With that plus the -ones I bought, both for now and the long pull, I guess we're the only -people living today who can be sure of having a second honeymoon -on Mars, although Solid Chuck Richards tells me he hears Mars is -overrated, there not being a juke on the whole planet, and even if -there were you couldn't jump to any decent kind of beat in that low -gravity.</p> - -<p>I wouldn't say so to Solid Chuck Richards, but that sounds like -absolute zero to me.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Security Plan, by Joseph Farrell - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY PLAN *** - -***** This file should be named 51588-h.htm or 51588-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/8/51588/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Security Plan - -Author: Joseph Farrell - -Release Date: March 28, 2016 [EBook #51588] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY PLAN *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Security Plan - - By JOSEPH FARRELL - - Illustrated by WOOD - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine April 1959. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - I had something better than investing for - the future ... the future investing in me! - - -"My mother warned me," Marilyn said again, "to think twice before I -married a child prodigy. Look for somebody good and solid, she said, -like Dad--somebody who will put something away for your old age." - -I tapped a transistor, put a screwdriver across a pair of wires and -watched the spark. Marilyn was just talking to pass the time. She -really loves me and doesn't mind too much that I spend my spare time -and money building a time machine. Sometimes she even believes that it -might work. - -She kept talking. "I've been thinking--we're past thirty now and -what do we have? A lease on a restaurant where nobody eats, and a -time machine that doesn't work." She sighed. "And a drawerful of -pawn tickets we'll never be able to redeem. My silver, my camera, my -typewriter...." - -I added a growl to her sigh. "My microscope, my other equipment...." - -"Uncle Johnson will have them for _his_ old age," she said sadly. "And -we'll be lucky if we have _anything_." - -I felt a pang of resentment. Uncle Johnson! It seemed that every time I -acquired something, Uncle Johnson soon came into possession of it. We'd -been kids together, although he was quite a few years older, a hulking -lout in the sixth grade while I was in the first, and I graduated from -grammar school a term ahead of him. Of course I went on to high school -and had a college degree at fifteen, being a prodigy. Johnson went to -work in his uncle's pawn shop, sweeping the floor and so on, and that's -when we started calling him Uncle. - -This wasn't much of a job because Johnson's uncle got him to work for -almost nothing by promising he would leave him the pawn shop when he -died. And it didn't look as if much would come of this, because the -uncle was not very old and he was always telling people a man couldn't -afford to die these days, what with the prices undertakers were -charging. - - * * * * * - -Before I had even started to shave, I had a dozen papers published in -scientific journals, all having to do with the nature of time. Time -travel became my ambition and I was sure I saw a way to build a time -machine. But it took years to work out the details, and nobody seemed -interested in my work, so I had to do it all myself. Somehow I stopped -working long enough to get a wife, and we had to eat. So we ran this -little hash house and lived in the back room, and at least we got our -food wholesale. - -And Johnson's uncle fell down the cellar stairs and split his skull -open. So Johnson became the owner of a thriving business after giving -his uncle a simple funeral, because he knew his uncle wouldn't have -wanted him to waste any more money on that than he had to. - -"But we have a time machine," Marilyn said fondly. "That's something -Johnson would give us a lot on--if it worked." - -"We _almost_ have a time machine," I said, looking around at my life's -work. Our kitchen was the time machine, with a great winding of wires -around it to create the field I had devised. The doors had been a -problem that I solved by making them into switches, so that when they -were closed the coils made the complete circuit of the room. - -"Almost," I repeated. "After twenty years of work, I am through except -for a few small items--" - -I looked at her pleadingly. - -"It will run about twenty dollars. Do you think--?" - -She didn't care much for the idea, but finally she slid off the wedding -ring. - -"You'll redeem this first thing, Ted? Before any of the rest of the -stuff?" - -I promised and took off at a dead run. - -Johnson didn't have to inspect the ring; he'd seen it before, and he -counted out twenty dollars. That was the only item he'd give me a -decent price on. He knew I'd be back for it. - -"How's the time machine coming along, Ted?" He had a little smirk, the -way some people do when they hear I'm building a time machine. "Get in -touch with Mars yet?" - -"I have no interest in Mars," I told him. "I plan to make contact with -the future--about thirty years from now. And for your information, the -time machine is practically finished. The first test will be tonight." - -He wasn't smirking now, because he never forgot the way I passed him -in school and he had a good respect for my brain. He looked a little -thoughtful--only a little, because that's all he was capable of. - -"You get to the future, Ted, suppose you bring me a newspaper. I'll -make it worth your while. I've always treated you fair and square, -Ted, now haven't I?" - -I looked over his shelves. Too many of those dust-covered items were -mine. And I didn't have to be a telepath to know what he was thinking. - -"Maybe you'd like a paper with the stock market quotations, Uncle? From -about thirty years from now, say?" - -The smirk was completely gone now. "You get something like that, Ted, -I'll pay you! Wouldn't help you out any, because you have nothing to -invest. Me now, I could buy something that will keep me in my old age. -I'd give you a--hundred bucks for something like that." - -I laughed at him. A hundred dollars! Uncle always had his nerve. He was -scowling when I left, still trying to figure how he could get in on -the gravy, because outside of Marilyn he was the only person who ever -thought I might succeed. - - * * * * * - -Marilyn cooked dinner for us while I was putting the final touches on -the time machine. - -"Tonight we celebrate," she said. "Steak." - -It smelled wonderful, but the occasional whiff of ozone from my -equipment was more exciting. I'd told Marilyn we had about an hour -before I could make the test, but with my working faster than I had -expected and her getting behind with the meal, she was just putting -the steaks on the table when I was done with the machine. - -"Oh, but let's eat first, Ted!" she said. - -"I couldn't eat! After so much work--" I stared in fascination at the -master switch--the door. "This is it, Marilyn! What I've been working -toward all these years!" - -She saw the way I felt and maybe she was a little excited herself. - -"Go ahead, Ted," she told me. - -I closed the door. - -There was more ozone and a blurring in the middle of the room. We -stepped away from the thickest of the blurring, where something seemed -to be gathering substance. - -The something, we soon saw, was a man sitting in a chair surrounded by -strange apparatus, most of which I couldn't guess the purpose of. It -was a very young man, when I could see him better, probably nineteen, -wearing bright clothes in what I figured must be the style of 1989. - -"Man-o!" he said. "This time machine is low Fahrenheit, o-daddy! Right -to the bottom! It's the deepest!" - -I blinked. "Parlez vous Francais?" - -Marilyn said, "I think he means he likes it. But who is he and just -where did he come from?" - -The gaily dressed youth got out of the chair and smiled at us. Each of -his shoulders had padding the size of a football. His coat tapered from -four feet wide at the shoulders to a tightly bound waist, the lapels -from a foot at the top to zero. The trousers widened out to wide stiff -hoops that ended six inches above his shoes. And the shoes! But at -least they weren't really alive, as I had thought at first. - -"How is it," asked Marilyn, "that a cool cat from the future comes to -visit us in a time machine? I would expect a more scholarly type." - -"Not so, doll-o. The angleheads don't reach the real science. The -scientist pros believe that all knowledge is known. They delve not into -the sub-zero regions of thought. That is done by us amateurs." - - * * * * * - -He did a short bit of syncopated tap and introduced himself. "I am -Solid Chuck Richards, ambassador to the past, courtesy of the Friday -Night Bull Session and Experimentation Society." - -"Are they all like you?" I asked. - -"No, o-daddy-man. Some are deep, some are high on the scale, but all of -them reach together on one thing--they all feel that the pro-scientists -have grown angular and lost the sense of wonder. So we gather together -on Friday nights to work on the off-beat side of science. We read your -books--if you are Ted Langer--?" - -I admitted it. - -He danced a rhythmic circle around me, staring in what was evidently -adoration, and kept murmuring, "Reach that deep man! Ted Langer--the -father of time travel! O-man-o! Deep! Real deep!" - -"Now see here," I finally broke in. "Don't they talk English where you -come from? And just how do you come to be here anyway? I built a time -machine to travel into the future, and instead I get you telling me how -deep I am. Are you here or am I there?" - -"You are here, o-daddy-boy, and I also am here. But, to explain this, -I may have to use some angle talk, which is what you mean by English. -We read your books--which are collectors' items, by the way--and we -decided you were way under the zero mark, especially when we saw that -the angleheads wouldn't touch any of your ideas. So we got together -and made our time machine. But I am sad to report, doctor-o, that your -theory was a bit less than two-hundred-per-cent correct. There were a -few errors, which we found." - -It was something of a shock to hear this future rock-and-roller tell -me there were mistakes in my work, and I started to argue with him -about it. But his attention wasn't on the conversation. He was sniffing -thoughtfully, the thing he'd called sense of wonder shining in his -eyes. He was looking at the steaks Marilyn had set on the table. - -"Reach that!" he said, awed. "Gen-you-wine solid flesh! Man-o! I -haven't seen a steak like that in all my off-beat life!" - -So naturally we invited him to sit down at the table and he didn't have -to be asked more than once. It seemed that food was pretty expensive in -1991, which is the year he came from, and what there was of it mostly -came from factories where they shoveled soy beans and yeast into a -machine and it came out meat at the other end, if you didn't make too -much fuss about what you called meat. But with so much of the good farm -land ruined by atomic dust, and so much more turned into building lots -on account of the growing population, it was the best they could do. - - * * * * * - -When we heard this, we pushed the second steak in front of him and he -showed he was a growing boy by finishing every scrap, along with a -double order of French frieds and half a dozen ears of corn on the cob. -But he had to give up after two pieces of pie. - -He sat back in the chair, patted his stomach and looked as if he had -just won the Irish sweepstakes. He looked at the big refrigerator. When -Marilyn opened it to put things away, his eyes almost popped out at the -sight of the meat stored there. - -"Man-o!" he said. "You must be rich!" - -Marilyn laughed. "No, not rich--far from it. We operate a restaurant -and that's our stock you see." - -"Oh, doll-o! I should not have eaten so much. What do you charge for a -meal like that?" - -"We would get three and a half for each order," I said, diplomatically -not mentioning all his side orders, "although we don't get much -carriage trade here. But don't let it worry you. Nothing's too good for -a guest from the future." - -"Three and a half?" He looked amazed. "Why, such a feed would bring -twenty-five or thirty where I come from--if you could find it! Let me -pay, o-daddy-friend, at least your price." - -And he pulled out some bills. I started to push them back, for of -course I wasn't going to spoil this great moment in my life by asking a -traveler from the future to pay for a meal. - -But then I saw what he was trying to give me. - -I picked up the bills and stared. Marilyn's head was over my shoulder -and she was staring just as hard. She took one out of my hand. - -"It's not real," she said. "There's not that much money in the world." - -She had the five. I had the ones. The five-thousand and the -one-thousand-dollar bills, that is. I looked up at Solid Chuck Richards. - -"When you said that meal would cost twenty-five or thirty, did you mean -twenty-five or thirty _thousand_?" - -"You reach me, man. Inflation, you know. It's terrible. I remember when -a gee would keep the beat rocking in a juke palace for an hour. Now you -pay half a gee a number. It's terrible." - - * * * * * - -After we explained to him that the inflation was even worse than that, -he decided it was something more than terrible. It seems he hadn't paid -much attention to money in his younger days, though he did recall now -that when he was very small he'd been able to get a good nickel candy -bar for twenty dollars, but he hadn't seen anything smaller than a -hundred in some time now. - -"There should be a law against this sort of thing," he said -indignantly. "It's enough to turn a man into an anglehead, the way they -keep pushing up the price of fumes. And what they charge for Bulgy -Sanders records--" - -He picked up the bills and looked at them. - -"But I think maybe we can find a way to profit on this, daddy-boy! I -have a deep thought--we members of the Friday Night Bull Session and -Experimentation Society will come to your restaurant and pay you five -gees for a steak dinner, which is a fine price for you but very little -for us. In that way, we will eat good food and you will gather a good -bundle of the stuff of life." - -There was a thudding noise at the window. I looked over quick. Somebody -was hanging on outside, off balance, as if he had been standing on a -ladder outside and had fallen against the window. - -I ran for the door, forgetting it was a switch. But Solid Chuck -Richards realized it. He dived back into his chair and called, "Reach -you later, o-daddy!" He disappeared as I pulled the door open. - -The sudden flash as the time machine stopped operating reminded me -about those switches on the door, but it was too late now. I ran out -and around the side just in time to see a figure disappearing up the -alley. Sure enough, there was a ladder against the window. - -I didn't bother chasing the man very far, because, after a fast look at -him, I had a pretty good idea who it was. I'd speak to him later. - - * * * * * - -Marilyn and I sat around looking at the big bills. They were the size -of present-day currency, and were beautifully made, and would have -passed easily except for a few things. Such as that "Series 1988" -inscribed alongside the signature of Irving P. Walcourt, Secretary of -the Treasury. And the Treasurer of the United States in 1988 would be -Kuru Hamonoto. From the State of Hawaii, I wondered, or--? - -"They're no use to us at all," said Marilyn. "Unless we hold them until -1988. I was talking about security for our old age. Do you suppose--?" - -"You forget," I said, "that steak will run you twenty-five or thirty -thousand in 1988. This is going to be a great disappointment to the -members of the Friday Night Bull Session and Experimentation Society, -but I fear we must explain to Solid Chuck Richards that we just cannot -afford to do much business of this type." - -I pushed aside the money and began thinking about some of the things -the youth from 1991 had told me. There were holes in my theories--a -lot of holes. True, I had succeeded in building a time machine, but I -could never go anyplace in it. Because time travel was possible only -by traveling from one time machine to another. The amateurs of 1991, -knowing from my books (I must remember to write them) that I had built -a time machine in 1959, were able to make contact. Solid Chuck Richards -was selected by lot from several volunteers to try the machine. I met -the other members of the Society later and learned that and a number of -other things from them. - -The reason Solid Chuck came back instead of my going forward made solid -sense. I could see it now. My time machine had never existed in 1991. -His had existed in 1959, or at least its parts had. I could overcome -that problem--if I had the full power of the Sun for several minutes to -work with, and a way to handle it. Then I could change things so that -my time machine would have existed in the future.... - -Even the verb tenses were going wrong on me. - -These amateur experimenters, it seemed, were considered a bit on the -crackpot side, taking such pseudo-science as mine seriously. Not -knowing enough science to realize that the ideas I wrote about were -impossible, as any professional scientist would have, they followed -them through. They tried to get in touch with me in their time, but I -wasn't available, which saved me another paradox. Suppose I had joined -the Society and come back as a volunteer? - -But it was encouraging to know the reason I was going to be -unavailable in 1991. Marilyn and I had gone on a second honeymoon--on -the first commercial passenger liner to Mars. - -"And so," I told her, "you don't have to worry about security in your -old age. Tickets to Mars must cost a few trillion dollars. We won't be -poor." - -Marilyn was still looking at the currency of the future. - -"We will be," she said, "if we keep selling steak for the price of -soy-bean hamburger. By the way, Ted, I wonder who that was at the -window?" - -The answer came to me then. I put the bills into my pocket and kissed -her. - -"We will not have to eat soy-bean hamburger, o-doll. And I will take -you to Mars for your second honeymoon--as soon as they start passenger -service. I am going out to make a down payment on the tickets right -now." - - * * * * * - -Uncle Johnson took the glass from his eye. He looked very tense, like a -fisherman with a prize catch on a very thin line. - -"It's good," he said, and his voice trembled a little. "I--suppose your -time machine worked?" - -"Surprised, are you, Uncle?" - -"Yes, yes. But I see your situation, Ted. You, of course, can't afford -to hold these for thirty years. Now--ah--I can. And I'll be glad to -help you out by taking them off your hands. Naturally I have to hold -them a long time, so--let's say twenty dollars a thousand?" - -"Let's not say that." I took the bill from his hand. "I figure fifty -is a fair price. There'll be lots more, Uncle. And, as you say, I am -always broke and cannot afford to put them away for my old age. But -running the time machine is expensive and I can't afford to take less -than fifty." - -He looked as if he were going to snatch the bill right out of my hand, -he was so eager. - -"All right, Ted, I realize there are expenses. Thirty-five." - -We compromised on forty. - -"But I want a promise," he said emphatically. "I'm to be the only one -you sell these bills to!" - -"You reach me, o-uncle." I handed him the bills. "You're deep, man. -Real deep!" - -Real deep in the hole, that is--he mortgaged his house and his regular -inventory to buy up all the money I began taking in. Once we redeemed -the wedding ring and all the other articles, I got to feeling mellow -and even a bit grateful. He'd started me in business, so to speak. I -couldn't stick him with all those millions that would just about buy -him a helicab ride to the poorhouse in 1988. - -So when Marilyn and I got just as deep in the black, because the -Society members gave us some books on stock-market statistics, I -started giving Uncle tips every now and then. Not free, of course--I -asked for half and we settled on seventy-thirty. With that plus the -ones I bought, both for now and the long pull, I guess we're the only -people living today who can be sure of having a second honeymoon -on Mars, although Solid Chuck Richards tells me he hears Mars is -overrated, there not being a juke on the whole planet, and even if -there were you couldn't jump to any decent kind of beat in that low -gravity. - -I wouldn't say so to Solid Chuck Richards, but that sounds like -absolute zero to me. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Security Plan, by Joseph Farrell - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY PLAN *** - -***** This file should be named 51588.txt or 51588.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/8/51588/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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