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Lightner - -Release Date: December 4, 2019 [EBook #60846] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH *** - - - - -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="340" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>A GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH</h1> - -<h2>By A. M. LIGHTNER</h2> - -<p class="ph1"><i>Watchdogs have to be<br /> -watched or they keep everything<br /> -out—including our friends!</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1960.<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>Bridget Kelly stood at the foot of the rocket lift and watched the -loading operation. The freight had long since been inspected and -stowed, and now it was the passengers' turn. Bridget was glad that for -once she was not responsible. Let others worry and snoop. This time she -was a passenger herself, starward bound. Inspected, passed and okayed, -she could have the pleasure of watching others squirm.</p> - -<p>Like that beauty coming aboard with the furs and the orchid. She -wouldn't be allowed to keep the orchid, of course. Bridget grinned as -she saw the flower tossed into a trash can and imagined the words the -beauty was mouthing. The man beside her sported a boutonniere. Yes, -there it went into the can. He was still smiling, probably cracking -wise. Bridget had separated so many travelers from so many items that -she could tell what the passenger was going to say before he said it.</p> - -<p>Most people knew that strenuous efforts were being made to keep pests -and epidemics away from Earth. Ever since the beginnings of space -travel, the quarantine of incoming ships at the Moon had been rigidly -observed. But the fact that plagues could also spread <i>from</i> Earth -seldom registered on the public's mind.</p> - -<p>Bridget was all too well aware of it. For several years she had -labored to that end in the Quarantine Service. Now that her savings -had accumulated and her abilities as an entomologist were recognized, -she was about to board one of the shining ships herself. There were -raised eyebrows when her destination was known. An entomologist going -to New Eden—a planet where insects were at a minimum. But Bridget only -smiled. She knew what she wanted. She was bound for the frontier, where -men are men and women are scarce.</p> - -<p>The speaker blared. The countdown was beginning.</p> - -<p>"Fifteen minutes!" rasped the mechanical voice. "Fifteen minutes to -blast-off!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>She took a last look at the planet of her birth and squeezed into the -lift. The few remaining passengers pushed in with her. A man in a red -waistcoat was commiserating with the woman beside him.</p> - -<p>"Don't let the officials get you down," he said. "We'll have to put up -with them for the journey. But on New Eden, I hear, the conditions are -so good they hardly need any regulations at all."</p> - -<p>"It isn't that," sniffed his friend. "It's just that you gave it to me -and I was hoping to wear it tonight."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps I can buy you something in hydroponics. I had no idea they -were so touchy or I'd have had the orchid fumigated."</p> - -<p>Bridget felt the scorn of the official for the general public. "If -you're going to New Eden, you ought to know we want to keep it that -way."</p> - -<p>The red waistcoat looked down at her.</p> - -<p>"Oh, officialdom without stripes?" he said. "Or are you an old hand? -Perhaps you can explain the deal before we get there."</p> - -<p>So he <i>was</i> the type that cracked wise, and she had put her foot in it -right at the beginning.</p> - -<p>"I've never been off Earth before," she admitted. "I read up on it all -first."</p> - -<p>The lift was at the lock door, and she slipped through without looking -back. The speaker was croaking "Ten minutes to go" as she hurried to -her cabin and prepared for takeoff. She'd have to do better than this -or the trip would be a washout. Better just concentrate on enjoying -it ... the new experiences ... the fascination of travel.</p> - -<p>The jets roared and Bridget Kelly blacked out.</p> - -<p>Several hours later she had recovered enough to spruce up, take the -prescribed dose of covitron against space sickness, and make her way -to the lounge. She found the table setting with her name on it and had -hardly sat down before a familiar voice began at her ear.</p> - -<p>"Sure and if it isn't Bridget Kelly, and it's a long time I've been -waiting for herself."</p> - -<p>She looked up into the same laughing eyes, only this time they were -above an emerald-green waistcoat.</p> - -<p>"Still determined that New Eden shall not be polluted by snakes? Oh, -excuse me, that was St. Patrick. You're worried about bugs."</p> - -<p>She laughed in spite of herself and glanced at the place card next -hers. "Mr. Patch Maguire," it read.</p> - -<p>"I didn't mean to sound stuffy," she said. "It's just that most people -don't realize how important it is ... how much trouble just a few -insects ... well, I've worked at it and I ought to know."</p> - -<p>"Ah, an official entomologist. But in that case, why New Eden? Or -are you insurance against people like Carrie and me who might import -something?"</p> - -<p>"You never can tell. Something may turn up. It's hard to imagine a -planet without any insects at all."</p> - -<p>"Eden's remarkable that way," put in the young officer sitting across -from them. "No stinging bugs or parasites. Makes everything a lot more -comfortable. Still, it's pretty new. Only a small part developed so -far."</p> - -<p>"So we've insurance against the unknown in Bridget Kelly."</p> - -<p>"And what might <i>you</i> be insurance against, Mr. Maguire?" she countered.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The officer stared. "Don't you folks know each other? Mr. Maguire's a -grower of fancy plants. Sort of goes together ... plants and insects!" -He laughed. "Well, it looks like the rest of our table won't show up -for this meal."</p> - -<p>"What happened to the lady without the orchid? She was with you, wasn't -she?" Bridget asked.</p> - -<p>"Carrie," said Patch Maguire, "is one of those unfortunates on whom -covitron does not work. She won't be with anyone for the duration. I -was just hoping our whole table was not similarly afflicted."</p> - -<p>"It's a pity," mused the young officer. "So many people make the flight -across space only once. If they did it more often, they might get -accustomed."</p> - -<p>"Don't you take covitron?" Bridget asked, beginning to wonder how soon -she should repeat the dose. Some people said it made you sleepy, and -she certainly didn't want that with things just getting started ... and -Patch Maguire ... Patch Maguire....</p> - -<p>Suddenly a window opened in her mind. She saw a letter with short -punching sentences. "You think you can get away with this high-handed, -overbearing, totally uncalled-for destruction of property? I'll take -it to the top! I'll see you idiots in hell ... or at least out of the -Service!" Patch Maguire protesting the destruction of his shipment of -seeds imported from Regulus V. No amount of explanation that the seeds -had been found to harbor a blight which, once let loose on Earth.... -Patch Maguire had a reputation as an authority on crossbreeding and -mutation of plants ... and also for throwing his weight around. It was -several years ago, but Bridget remembered the consternation in the -department.</p> - -<p>She realized that Maguire and the officer were talking. They were -agreeing that space sickness was only a matter of psychology, and that -if you just didn't think about it, no covitron was necessary. She -hastily swallowed another pill with her coffee and hoped the coffee -would keep her awake.</p> - -<p>They toured the ship together, she and Patch. They marveled at the -scene from the viewport and chatted with the captain in the control -room. The steward inquired about his taste in music and stereo, and he -even gave advice to the gardeners in hydroponics. All doors were open -to Patch, and there were murmurs about the "handsome couple" as they -moved through the lounge. By the end of the trip they were making plans -for New Eden. Patch insisted that Bridget was in the wrong profession -and she agreed that the science of agriculture might be more rewarding -than entomology under certain conditions.</p> - -<p>At the farewell dinner, Patch gave her a bouquet he'd had made up -especially by the gardeners. But she was more interested in the small -green leaf he wore in his lapel. He took it out and insisted on -fastening it in her hair.</p> - -<p>"Sure and it's a shamrock!" he cried, as he arranged it. "And have you -forgotten what day it is tomorrow?"</p> - -<p>"It's the day we land," Bridget replied. "But what day that is in our -time or ship's time ... it's too confusing!"</p> - -<p>"It's St. Patrick's Day, that's what it is!" he said. "A great day -for the Irish and a great day for us. And I wouldn't be without the -shamrock on St. Patrick's Day! They should call the planet New Ireland, -that they should. Wasn't Ireland the garden island, all green and -fruitful and with no snakes? And I hear this planet's the garden planet -and with no insects either to make life miserable. But let you and me -be living there a while and we'll make it New Ireland for sure!"</p> - -<p>And he planted a kiss on her mouth without a thought of who was looking -at them.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>As their tablemates drank their health, Bridget blushed and her eyes -shone, and after dinner Patch escorted her to the stereo where they sat -very close together in the dark. But as the pictures flashed across -the screen and as Patch's arm went across her shoulder and drew her -close, her mind was besieged by an army of little doubts. Shamrock ... -shamrock ... what had she read about the shamrock?</p> - -<p>"Patch," she whispered. "Where did you get it?"</p> - -<p>"Get what?" Patch murmured, bending over to kiss her.</p> - -<p>"The shamrock, Patch? I don't believe they have it in hydroponics."</p> - -<p>"Sure, they must have it." Patch's lips brushed hers and she found it -difficult to think clearly.</p> - -<p>"I never saw it there. Patch! Are you sure?"</p> - -<p>"Saw what? I don't see anything but you. That's enough for me."</p> - -<p>"About the shamrock, Patch!"</p> - -<p>"It looks beautiful on you. Sure and I wouldn't be without a shamrock -on St. Patrick's Day."</p> - -<p>Bridget gave up. She lay back in the sanctuary of his arm and basked in -the warm feeling of his lips on her hair. But the doubts kept crawling -about in her mind. What was the matter with her? Couldn't she be happy -when everything was perfect? Had she been a cut-and-dried inspector for -too many years? But she remembered the words of Professor Schwarzkopf, -the day she received her degree: "The inspectors are the watchdogs of -the planets. Without them, all that man has built can be destroyed."</p> - -<p>When Patch had kissed her good night outside her cabin and his -footsteps had died away along the corridor, she crept out into the -passage and made her way to hydroponics.</p> - -<p>"Why, no," said the chief gardener, "we never carry clover of any sort. -Why do you ask?"</p> - -<p>On her way to the control room, Bridget tried not to think. She found -the young officer from her table on duty with the captain, and the two -men listened in surprise as she outlined her fears.</p> - -<p>"I don't want to accuse Mr. Maguire of anything," she said. "I'm sure -he doesn't realize how serious—and of course there may be nothing -to it. It's just that I remember that shamrocks harbor the golden -nematode—that is, in the soil around the roots. And it seems likely -that if Mr. Maguire has live shamrocks—and I remember what a serious -plague they once brought over from Ireland to America...."</p> - -<p>The captain pulled his mustache. "It's clearly against regulations. I -can't imagine how he'd get it past inspection. But then, Maguire's a -very persistent man and he's got pull in odd places. I don't want to -rouse the ire of the Irish, but I see your point."</p> - -<p>"Couldn't you search his cabin—without his knowing I said to? Oh, I'm -sure he'd be very angry. But if I could only look at his plants, then -I'd be sure if they're safe. You must have ways of getting in—if there -should be a short circuit or something in his cabin."</p> - -<p>"Oh, we have ways," the captain said. "Don't we, Lieutenant?"</p> - -<p>"Perhaps at breakfast," suggested the young officer. "If Miss Kelly -could arrange to make it as leisurely as possible."</p> - -<p>"And right afterward you might go to the lieutenant's cabin—with your -instruments and without Mr. Maguire."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>She had no trouble in making her breakfast leisurely. She could hardly -choke it down. Under Patch's admiring gaze and flagrant approval she -was uncomfortably conscious of treachery. She left as soon as the -protracted meal was over, even though she knew it would give him the -opportunity to discover the rape of his plants.</p> - -<p>The lieutenant was waiting for her in his cabin. He sat behind his desk -eyeing a motley collection of clover in an assortment of little jars -and boxes. Bridget brought out her pocket 'scope and without a word -pulled the first specimen up by the roots and began to examine it. The -lieutenant watched in fascination.</p> - -<p>"It's a good thing Mr. Maguire can't see you now," he said. "He'd take -an entirely different tone from the one I've been hearing lately."</p> - -<p>"I'm hoping he doesn't find out," she muttered. "What he doesn't -know.... Oh! Oh! Look here! A fine big cyst! Now if they're all like -this...."</p> - -<p>The lieutenant's face took on a look of respect. He came around -from behind his desk and peered over her shoulder. "Found something -already?" he asked.</p> - -<p>Bridget pushed the scope under his nose. "See that?" she said. "In the -right-hand corner."</p> - -<p>"You mean that lump? Doesn't look very dangerous."</p> - -<p>"No, it doesn't. But it's a nematode cyst, all right. That little brown -lump, if turned loose in the soil—give it a few years and you'll have -a real pest on your hands."</p> - -<p>"You don't say. We'd better get rid of it right away. Do you think -there's any more?"</p> - -<p>"That's just what I'm going to find out."</p> - -<p>But before she could move to the desk for the other containers there -was a sound of scuffling outside, the door was flung violently open, -and a rich, Irish voice proclaimed in righteous anger: "So here you -are, conspiring against me! Both the culprits red-handed! And my -shamrocks, my little plants, my babies! Thank heavens I got here in -time!"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="650" height="464" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The lieutenant moved to intercept him. "I beg your pardon, sir, but -these plants are in quarantine, and if you have any others we haven't -found—"</p> - -<p>"You're no true daughter of Ireland, Bridget Kelly. And I'm fortunate -to have found you out in time, false and faithless as you are!"</p> - -<p>"Now, now," cautioned the lieutenant, getting between Maguire and the -desk. "She was only doing her duty. You should see the things she's -been showing me in her microscope. A menace to the whole planet!"</p> - -<p>"Don't you believe a word of it!" thundered Maguire. "These inspectors -are full of fears and fancies. Puffed up with their own importance. -And I'll thank you to give me back my plants that you stole out of my -cabin."</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid I can't do that," the lieutenant said. "Not until Miss -Kelly has examined each one—and then only the ones that get a clean -bill of health." And he began to collect the little pots and remove -them as far as possible from Maguire's reach.</p> - -<p>"Well, come along then, Bridget—give them the bill of health," Maguire -ordered. "You'll do that for me, I'm sure. And I don't know what all -the fuss is about either, all over a few little plants, and shamrocks -at that."</p> - -<p>"The few little plants have a few little cysts all through their -roots," said Bridget, whose temper was wearing thin. "I've only looked -at one so far, but as nice an infestation of the golden nematode I've -seldom seen. It's got to go down the incinerator."</p> - -<p>"The incinerator!" screamed Maguire. "Woman! My shamrocks! All the way -from Ireland!"</p> - -<p>"If you hadn't spent your whole life circumventing regulations and -pulling wires, this wouldn't have happened. Why didn't you get them -treated and certified before coming aboard?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Because there wasn't time, that's why!" Patch shouted. "They only came -from Ireland as I was leaving for the ship. If it hadn't been for a -snooping, sniveling worry-wart—all about a worm that you can't even -see...."</p> - -<p>"You can see the results right enough!" Bridget's voice was rising to -match his. "Did you ever hear of the Long Island potato? The best on -the East Coast they were. The golden nematode ruined Long Island for -potatoes. That's what the shamrock did for America! That's a sneaking, -treacherous worm for you!"</p> - -<p>"And who would want to grow potatoes on Long Island, built up into a -city as it is?"</p> - -<p>"They're going to want to grow potatoes on New Eden, and I'm here to -see they can."</p> - -<p>"If that's all that's worrying you, I'll breed you a nematode-resistant -potato. And now I'll thank you to let me take my shamrocks and make an -end to this disgraceful scene."</p> - -<p>But when he looked around, he found the lieutenant had quietly removed -himself with the plants, and the door of the cabin was crowded with -interested passengers.</p> - -<p>"So you think you've put one over on me!" Patch shouted. "It's a good -thing I found out in time how I was being deceived by a pair of eyes -and a mouth that says one thing and means another!"</p> - -<p>"And I suppose you're the soul of honor! With no thought of -responsibility to your fellow man! You've had your way all your life, -and it's lucky I found <i>that</i> out, too—before—before...."</p> - -<p>But he was gone, elbowing his way through the crowd, and the onlookers -drifted away, embarrassed at the sight of the stormy girl who shouted -hysterically after him. Bridget slammed the door and collapsed into a -chair.</p> - -<p>"I'm sorry for the noise," she apologized when the officer returned. -"I'd better finish checking the plants before it's time to land."</p> - -<p>"Never mind the plants," the lieutenant told her. "I've put them where -he won't find them in a hurry. As a matter of fact, we aren't going -to land. We're in orbit now and they're to send a rocket shuttle. They -aren't worried about what we're bringing in this time. It's what we -might take out. There's a howling plague on New Eden after all. Several -of our passengers have changed their minds about landing."</p> - -<p>"A plague?" said Bridget stupidly. It was hard to concentrate on -anything more deadly than the golden nematode.</p> - -<p>"Oh, nothing you or I could catch. Something to do with agriculture -and the plants. Which reminds me, I've a batch of telegrams for you. -The authorities are delighted to learn we've a registered entomologist -aboard. Very few of them have come this way."</p> - -<p>By the time Bridget had read the sheaf of papers, she had made the -transition from the world of shipboard romance to her accustomed world -of science and order. There was work to be done. Her talents were -needed in a dozen places at once. She left orders for the confiscated -clovers to be destroyed and went to her cabin to pack. She was on the -first shuttle to leave the ship.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The weeks that followed were filled with hard work with test tube -and microscope, at her desk and in the field. The majority of her -co-workers were men, but none had time to look for a laughing eye or -a smiling mouth. The beautiful garden planet of New Eden was being -reduced to a desert by a mysterious <i>something</i> that was swiftly -attacking all the cultivated areas. Starvation was looming and there -was talk of hasty evacuation. The situation was passing out of control.</p> - -<p>The villain could not be isolated. Was it an insect, a virus, a -chemical in the soil? Some of the few native insects were caught and -subjected to experiment. The soils were analyzed and tested. Those were -not the answer. The only thing certain was that the previously lush -brown loam was turning to a yellow, chalky sand, and everything that -grew in it withered and died.</p> - -<p>Bridget visited farm after farm and trudged from field to field. She -looked at worried faces and tried to think of words of encouragement. -Back at the laboratory she studied her specimens far into the night -and fell asleep at her desk. She was too tired to think about Patch -Maguire, who, she concluded, had never left the spaceship. What would a -grower of gardens, a breeder of plants do in a spreading desert? He had -gone on to some more flourishing planet.</p> - -<p>She was called to the office one day.</p> - -<p>"I hear there's a farm that claims they don't have the plague," said -the harassed young scientist behind the desk. "Better get over there -and see if it's any more than a rumor. Take the heli and bring back all -the usual samples. Here's the directions on getting there."</p> - -<p>He shoved a torn piece of paper at her and turned back to his cluttered -desk. Bridget picked up her collecting kit and climbed into the cab -of the machine. By this time she knew her way about the settlements. -Without doubt, she told herself, this farm was on the outskirts of -civilization, in some valley as yet untouched by the plague. But long -before she reached the limits of cultivated land, she could see her -destination. It stood out like an oasis in the desert, a little patch -of green between a dried-up cornfield and an expanse of stricken wheat.</p> - -<p>Bridget brought her heli down on a velvety lawn in front of a small -cottage and walked, unbelieving, to the door. A shout from within -welcomed her and she entered a clean and simple kitchen-parlor. The -owner of the one healthy farm in New Eden was busy in the attached -greenhouse.</p> - -<p>As she glimpsed the red waistcoat dangling from a hook, Bridget -screamed, and Patch Maguire came through the greenhouse door, a flower -pot in one hand, trowel in the other.</p> - -<p>"And if it isn't the worm-hunter herself!" he cried. "The czar of the -spaceways! The dandelion dictator! And I was wondering how long it -would take you to find me out."</p> - -<p>"But you—" she gasped. "You couldn't—you wouldn't—aren't supposed to -be here!"</p> - -<p>"And why not?" he countered. "I'm not like Carrie, she'd rather go on -too sick to eat in space than face starvation on this planet. And then -the bargain I was offered for this place—you wouldn't believe it! All -modern conveniences and they were practically giving it away. Besides, -what had I to fear with the best entomologist in five solar systems -working for the Department of Agriculture? Sure, you'll be having the -problem solved in no time!"</p> - -<p>"Don't be giving me that blarney!" Bridget said. "You need only look -out the window to know we've solved nothing at all. And you sitting -here crowing to yourself! You've been breeding plague-resistant plants, -that's what you've done, and keeping them all to yourself! It's a -disgrace!"</p> - -<p>Patch began to laugh, and the more he laughed, the angrier Bridget got.</p> - -<p>"You should be ashamed!" she shouted. "The whole planet dying and you -sitting here growing greener all the time!"</p> - -<p>"And that's the way it's been," he assured her. "This place was dying -on me, too. But only the last few days it's taken a new lease and I'm -at my wit's end to explain it."</p> - -<p>"You mean you don't <i>want</i> to explain it. You're hoarding the secret, -and it's a shameful thing!"</p> - -<p>"Woman, you're crazy!" he bellowed at her. "I'm no magician to breed a -plague-resistant plant overnight. It takes patience and many seasons, -and I've only just settled in. I put a few things in the garden and -stirred things up in the potting shed. Here, come along—you can see -for yourself."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He drew her through the cottage, pointing out the advantages of the -kitchen so near the greenhouse. She walked about the paths and felt of -the rich brown soil without a streak of yellow, and finally her eyes -fell upon some little low leaves by the back step.</p> - -<p>"Patch," she demanded, "what's that?"</p> - -<p>"You've the eagle eye, to be sure. What do you suppose it is?"</p> - -<p>"It's clover," she said. "Shamrock to you. Surely not the same -shamrock! I gave strict orders!"</p> - -<p>Before he could stop her, she had tugged a plant up by the roots and -pulled out her pocket microscope as she bent over it.</p> - -<p>"Sure, they were so busy worrying about the plague here, they forgot -all about the little plague from Earth. And all I wanted was a bit -of old Ireland to bring with me. A few little cysts couldn't be that -important. And you've got to admit that's what I've got—a green -island!"</p> - -<p>"The idiots!" screamed Bridget. "The irresponsible, shirking, -doublefaced—"</p> - -<p>Her hand went up and Patch dodged involuntarily, expecting her to throw -shamrock, dirt and all right at his head. But her hand stopped in -midair.</p> - -<p>"Patch!" Her voice fell to a whisper of incredulity. "I think I've got -the answer here in my hand. Don't say a word till I'm sure, but get -me soil samples from all over your place—there—and over there—and -<i>hurry</i>!"</p> - -<p>Patch ran back and forth with the soil samples and Bridget looked in -her microscope, and everywhere the golden nematode was teeming and -nowhere was there a sign of the sinister yellow streaks.</p> - -<p>"Don't you see?" Bridget said. "Whatever it is, the nematodes are -killing it."</p> - -<p>"It will take some experimenting to prove it, but Bridget, my girl, I -believe you're right."</p> - -<p>"And while they're proving it, Patch, you and I are going to breed -nematodes right here."</p> - -<p>And she had a vision of the golden horde, burrowing from Patch's -land in all directions, bringing back health and sanity to the land. -Whatever would Professor Schwarzkopf say? Dear Professor Schwarzkopf! -Sometimes the watchdogs are too faithful. They keep out everyone—even -our friends.</p> - -<p>And that was how New Eden was saved. And the nematodes prospered and -the Maguires prospered and the shamrocks grew everywhere. And so there -was nothing for it but to call the planet New Ireland.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's A Great Day for the Irish, by A. M. Lightner - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH *** - -***** This file should be named 60846-h.htm or 60846-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/8/4/60846/ - -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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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LIGHTNER - - _Watchdogs have to be - watched or they keep everything - out--including our friends!_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1960. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Bridget Kelly stood at the foot of the rocket lift and watched the -loading operation. The freight had long since been inspected and -stowed, and now it was the passengers' turn. Bridget was glad that for -once she was not responsible. Let others worry and snoop. This time she -was a passenger herself, starward bound. Inspected, passed and okayed, -she could have the pleasure of watching others squirm. - -Like that beauty coming aboard with the furs and the orchid. She -wouldn't be allowed to keep the orchid, of course. Bridget grinned as -she saw the flower tossed into a trash can and imagined the words the -beauty was mouthing. The man beside her sported a boutonniere. Yes, -there it went into the can. He was still smiling, probably cracking -wise. Bridget had separated so many travelers from so many items that -she could tell what the passenger was going to say before he said it. - -Most people knew that strenuous efforts were being made to keep pests -and epidemics away from Earth. Ever since the beginnings of space -travel, the quarantine of incoming ships at the Moon had been rigidly -observed. But the fact that plagues could also spread _from_ Earth -seldom registered on the public's mind. - -Bridget was all too well aware of it. For several years she had -labored to that end in the Quarantine Service. Now that her savings -had accumulated and her abilities as an entomologist were recognized, -she was about to board one of the shining ships herself. There were -raised eyebrows when her destination was known. An entomologist going -to New Eden--a planet where insects were at a minimum. But Bridget only -smiled. She knew what she wanted. She was bound for the frontier, where -men are men and women are scarce. - -The speaker blared. The countdown was beginning. - -"Fifteen minutes!" rasped the mechanical voice. "Fifteen minutes to -blast-off!" - - * * * * * - -She took a last look at the planet of her birth and squeezed into the -lift. The few remaining passengers pushed in with her. A man in a red -waistcoat was commiserating with the woman beside him. - -"Don't let the officials get you down," he said. "We'll have to put up -with them for the journey. But on New Eden, I hear, the conditions are -so good they hardly need any regulations at all." - -"It isn't that," sniffed his friend. "It's just that you gave it to me -and I was hoping to wear it tonight." - -"Perhaps I can buy you something in hydroponics. I had no idea they -were so touchy or I'd have had the orchid fumigated." - -Bridget felt the scorn of the official for the general public. "If -you're going to New Eden, you ought to know we want to keep it that -way." - -The red waistcoat looked down at her. - -"Oh, officialdom without stripes?" he said. "Or are you an old hand? -Perhaps you can explain the deal before we get there." - -So he _was_ the type that cracked wise, and she had put her foot in it -right at the beginning. - -"I've never been off Earth before," she admitted. "I read up on it all -first." - -The lift was at the lock door, and she slipped through without looking -back. The speaker was croaking "Ten minutes to go" as she hurried to -her cabin and prepared for takeoff. She'd have to do better than this -or the trip would be a washout. Better just concentrate on enjoying -it ... the new experiences ... the fascination of travel. - -The jets roared and Bridget Kelly blacked out. - -Several hours later she had recovered enough to spruce up, take the -prescribed dose of covitron against space sickness, and make her way -to the lounge. She found the table setting with her name on it and had -hardly sat down before a familiar voice began at her ear. - -"Sure and if it isn't Bridget Kelly, and it's a long time I've been -waiting for herself." - -She looked up into the same laughing eyes, only this time they were -above an emerald-green waistcoat. - -"Still determined that New Eden shall not be polluted by snakes? Oh, -excuse me, that was St. Patrick. You're worried about bugs." - -She laughed in spite of herself and glanced at the place card next -hers. "Mr. Patch Maguire," it read. - -"I didn't mean to sound stuffy," she said. "It's just that most people -don't realize how important it is ... how much trouble just a few -insects ... well, I've worked at it and I ought to know." - -"Ah, an official entomologist. But in that case, why New Eden? Or -are you insurance against people like Carrie and me who might import -something?" - -"You never can tell. Something may turn up. It's hard to imagine a -planet without any insects at all." - -"Eden's remarkable that way," put in the young officer sitting across -from them. "No stinging bugs or parasites. Makes everything a lot more -comfortable. Still, it's pretty new. Only a small part developed so -far." - -"So we've insurance against the unknown in Bridget Kelly." - -"And what might _you_ be insurance against, Mr. Maguire?" she countered. - - * * * * * - -The officer stared. "Don't you folks know each other? Mr. Maguire's a -grower of fancy plants. Sort of goes together ... plants and insects!" -He laughed. "Well, it looks like the rest of our table won't show up -for this meal." - -"What happened to the lady without the orchid? She was with you, wasn't -she?" Bridget asked. - -"Carrie," said Patch Maguire, "is one of those unfortunates on whom -covitron does not work. She won't be with anyone for the duration. I -was just hoping our whole table was not similarly afflicted." - -"It's a pity," mused the young officer. "So many people make the flight -across space only once. If they did it more often, they might get -accustomed." - -"Don't you take covitron?" Bridget asked, beginning to wonder how soon -she should repeat the dose. Some people said it made you sleepy, and -she certainly didn't want that with things just getting started ... and -Patch Maguire ... Patch Maguire.... - -Suddenly a window opened in her mind. She saw a letter with short -punching sentences. "You think you can get away with this high-handed, -overbearing, totally uncalled-for destruction of property? I'll take -it to the top! I'll see you idiots in hell ... or at least out of the -Service!" Patch Maguire protesting the destruction of his shipment of -seeds imported from Regulus V. No amount of explanation that the seeds -had been found to harbor a blight which, once let loose on Earth.... -Patch Maguire had a reputation as an authority on crossbreeding and -mutation of plants ... and also for throwing his weight around. It was -several years ago, but Bridget remembered the consternation in the -department. - -She realized that Maguire and the officer were talking. They were -agreeing that space sickness was only a matter of psychology, and that -if you just didn't think about it, no covitron was necessary. She -hastily swallowed another pill with her coffee and hoped the coffee -would keep her awake. - -They toured the ship together, she and Patch. They marveled at the -scene from the viewport and chatted with the captain in the control -room. The steward inquired about his taste in music and stereo, and he -even gave advice to the gardeners in hydroponics. All doors were open -to Patch, and there were murmurs about the "handsome couple" as they -moved through the lounge. By the end of the trip they were making plans -for New Eden. Patch insisted that Bridget was in the wrong profession -and she agreed that the science of agriculture might be more rewarding -than entomology under certain conditions. - -At the farewell dinner, Patch gave her a bouquet he'd had made up -especially by the gardeners. But she was more interested in the small -green leaf he wore in his lapel. He took it out and insisted on -fastening it in her hair. - -"Sure and it's a shamrock!" he cried, as he arranged it. "And have you -forgotten what day it is tomorrow?" - -"It's the day we land," Bridget replied. "But what day that is in our -time or ship's time ... it's too confusing!" - -"It's St. Patrick's Day, that's what it is!" he said. "A great day -for the Irish and a great day for us. And I wouldn't be without the -shamrock on St. Patrick's Day! They should call the planet New Ireland, -that they should. Wasn't Ireland the garden island, all green and -fruitful and with no snakes? And I hear this planet's the garden planet -and with no insects either to make life miserable. But let you and me -be living there a while and we'll make it New Ireland for sure!" - -And he planted a kiss on her mouth without a thought of who was looking -at them. - - * * * * * - -As their tablemates drank their health, Bridget blushed and her eyes -shone, and after dinner Patch escorted her to the stereo where they sat -very close together in the dark. But as the pictures flashed across -the screen and as Patch's arm went across her shoulder and drew her -close, her mind was besieged by an army of little doubts. Shamrock ... -shamrock ... what had she read about the shamrock? - -"Patch," she whispered. "Where did you get it?" - -"Get what?" Patch murmured, bending over to kiss her. - -"The shamrock, Patch? I don't believe they have it in hydroponics." - -"Sure, they must have it." Patch's lips brushed hers and she found it -difficult to think clearly. - -"I never saw it there. Patch! Are you sure?" - -"Saw what? I don't see anything but you. That's enough for me." - -"About the shamrock, Patch!" - -"It looks beautiful on you. Sure and I wouldn't be without a shamrock -on St. Patrick's Day." - -Bridget gave up. She lay back in the sanctuary of his arm and basked in -the warm feeling of his lips on her hair. But the doubts kept crawling -about in her mind. What was the matter with her? Couldn't she be happy -when everything was perfect? Had she been a cut-and-dried inspector for -too many years? But she remembered the words of Professor Schwarzkopf, -the day she received her degree: "The inspectors are the watchdogs of -the planets. Without them, all that man has built can be destroyed." - -When Patch had kissed her good night outside her cabin and his -footsteps had died away along the corridor, she crept out into the -passage and made her way to hydroponics. - -"Why, no," said the chief gardener, "we never carry clover of any sort. -Why do you ask?" - -On her way to the control room, Bridget tried not to think. She found -the young officer from her table on duty with the captain, and the two -men listened in surprise as she outlined her fears. - -"I don't want to accuse Mr. Maguire of anything," she said. "I'm sure -he doesn't realize how serious--and of course there may be nothing -to it. It's just that I remember that shamrocks harbor the golden -nematode--that is, in the soil around the roots. And it seems likely -that if Mr. Maguire has live shamrocks--and I remember what a serious -plague they once brought over from Ireland to America...." - -The captain pulled his mustache. "It's clearly against regulations. I -can't imagine how he'd get it past inspection. But then, Maguire's a -very persistent man and he's got pull in odd places. I don't want to -rouse the ire of the Irish, but I see your point." - -"Couldn't you search his cabin--without his knowing I said to? Oh, I'm -sure he'd be very angry. But if I could only look at his plants, then -I'd be sure if they're safe. You must have ways of getting in--if there -should be a short circuit or something in his cabin." - -"Oh, we have ways," the captain said. "Don't we, Lieutenant?" - -"Perhaps at breakfast," suggested the young officer. "If Miss Kelly -could arrange to make it as leisurely as possible." - -"And right afterward you might go to the lieutenant's cabin--with your -instruments and without Mr. Maguire." - - * * * * * - -She had no trouble in making her breakfast leisurely. She could hardly -choke it down. Under Patch's admiring gaze and flagrant approval she -was uncomfortably conscious of treachery. She left as soon as the -protracted meal was over, even though she knew it would give him the -opportunity to discover the rape of his plants. - -The lieutenant was waiting for her in his cabin. He sat behind his desk -eyeing a motley collection of clover in an assortment of little jars -and boxes. Bridget brought out her pocket 'scope and without a word -pulled the first specimen up by the roots and began to examine it. The -lieutenant watched in fascination. - -"It's a good thing Mr. Maguire can't see you now," he said. "He'd take -an entirely different tone from the one I've been hearing lately." - -"I'm hoping he doesn't find out," she muttered. "What he doesn't -know.... Oh! Oh! Look here! A fine big cyst! Now if they're all like -this...." - -The lieutenant's face took on a look of respect. He came around -from behind his desk and peered over her shoulder. "Found something -already?" he asked. - -Bridget pushed the scope under his nose. "See that?" she said. "In the -right-hand corner." - -"You mean that lump? Doesn't look very dangerous." - -"No, it doesn't. But it's a nematode cyst, all right. That little brown -lump, if turned loose in the soil--give it a few years and you'll have -a real pest on your hands." - -"You don't say. We'd better get rid of it right away. Do you think -there's any more?" - -"That's just what I'm going to find out." - -But before she could move to the desk for the other containers there -was a sound of scuffling outside, the door was flung violently open, -and a rich, Irish voice proclaimed in righteous anger: "So here you -are, conspiring against me! Both the culprits red-handed! And my -shamrocks, my little plants, my babies! Thank heavens I got here in -time!" - -The lieutenant moved to intercept him. "I beg your pardon, sir, but -these plants are in quarantine, and if you have any others we haven't -found--" - -"You're no true daughter of Ireland, Bridget Kelly. And I'm fortunate -to have found you out in time, false and faithless as you are!" - -"Now, now," cautioned the lieutenant, getting between Maguire and the -desk. "She was only doing her duty. You should see the things she's -been showing me in her microscope. A menace to the whole planet!" - -"Don't you believe a word of it!" thundered Maguire. "These inspectors -are full of fears and fancies. Puffed up with their own importance. -And I'll thank you to give me back my plants that you stole out of my -cabin." - -"I'm afraid I can't do that," the lieutenant said. "Not until Miss -Kelly has examined each one--and then only the ones that get a clean -bill of health." And he began to collect the little pots and remove -them as far as possible from Maguire's reach. - -"Well, come along then, Bridget--give them the bill of health," Maguire -ordered. "You'll do that for me, I'm sure. And I don't know what all -the fuss is about either, all over a few little plants, and shamrocks -at that." - -"The few little plants have a few little cysts all through their -roots," said Bridget, whose temper was wearing thin. "I've only looked -at one so far, but as nice an infestation of the golden nematode I've -seldom seen. It's got to go down the incinerator." - -"The incinerator!" screamed Maguire. "Woman! My shamrocks! All the way -from Ireland!" - -"If you hadn't spent your whole life circumventing regulations and -pulling wires, this wouldn't have happened. Why didn't you get them -treated and certified before coming aboard?" - - * * * * * - -"Because there wasn't time, that's why!" Patch shouted. "They only came -from Ireland as I was leaving for the ship. If it hadn't been for a -snooping, sniveling worry-wart--all about a worm that you can't even -see...." - -"You can see the results right enough!" Bridget's voice was rising to -match his. "Did you ever hear of the Long Island potato? The best on -the East Coast they were. The golden nematode ruined Long Island for -potatoes. That's what the shamrock did for America! That's a sneaking, -treacherous worm for you!" - -"And who would want to grow potatoes on Long Island, built up into a -city as it is?" - -"They're going to want to grow potatoes on New Eden, and I'm here to -see they can." - -"If that's all that's worrying you, I'll breed you a nematode-resistant -potato. And now I'll thank you to let me take my shamrocks and make an -end to this disgraceful scene." - -But when he looked around, he found the lieutenant had quietly removed -himself with the plants, and the door of the cabin was crowded with -interested passengers. - -"So you think you've put one over on me!" Patch shouted. "It's a good -thing I found out in time how I was being deceived by a pair of eyes -and a mouth that says one thing and means another!" - -"And I suppose you're the soul of honor! With no thought of -responsibility to your fellow man! You've had your way all your life, -and it's lucky I found _that_ out, too--before--before...." - -But he was gone, elbowing his way through the crowd, and the onlookers -drifted away, embarrassed at the sight of the stormy girl who shouted -hysterically after him. Bridget slammed the door and collapsed into a -chair. - -"I'm sorry for the noise," she apologized when the officer returned. -"I'd better finish checking the plants before it's time to land." - -"Never mind the plants," the lieutenant told her. "I've put them where -he won't find them in a hurry. As a matter of fact, we aren't going -to land. We're in orbit now and they're to send a rocket shuttle. They -aren't worried about what we're bringing in this time. It's what we -might take out. There's a howling plague on New Eden after all. Several -of our passengers have changed their minds about landing." - -"A plague?" said Bridget stupidly. It was hard to concentrate on -anything more deadly than the golden nematode. - -"Oh, nothing you or I could catch. Something to do with agriculture -and the plants. Which reminds me, I've a batch of telegrams for you. -The authorities are delighted to learn we've a registered entomologist -aboard. Very few of them have come this way." - -By the time Bridget had read the sheaf of papers, she had made the -transition from the world of shipboard romance to her accustomed world -of science and order. There was work to be done. Her talents were -needed in a dozen places at once. She left orders for the confiscated -clovers to be destroyed and went to her cabin to pack. She was on the -first shuttle to leave the ship. - - * * * * * - -The weeks that followed were filled with hard work with test tube -and microscope, at her desk and in the field. The majority of her -co-workers were men, but none had time to look for a laughing eye or -a smiling mouth. The beautiful garden planet of New Eden was being -reduced to a desert by a mysterious _something_ that was swiftly -attacking all the cultivated areas. Starvation was looming and there -was talk of hasty evacuation. The situation was passing out of control. - -The villain could not be isolated. Was it an insect, a virus, a -chemical in the soil? Some of the few native insects were caught and -subjected to experiment. The soils were analyzed and tested. Those were -not the answer. The only thing certain was that the previously lush -brown loam was turning to a yellow, chalky sand, and everything that -grew in it withered and died. - -Bridget visited farm after farm and trudged from field to field. She -looked at worried faces and tried to think of words of encouragement. -Back at the laboratory she studied her specimens far into the night -and fell asleep at her desk. She was too tired to think about Patch -Maguire, who, she concluded, had never left the spaceship. What would a -grower of gardens, a breeder of plants do in a spreading desert? He had -gone on to some more flourishing planet. - -She was called to the office one day. - -"I hear there's a farm that claims they don't have the plague," said -the harassed young scientist behind the desk. "Better get over there -and see if it's any more than a rumor. Take the heli and bring back all -the usual samples. Here's the directions on getting there." - -He shoved a torn piece of paper at her and turned back to his cluttered -desk. Bridget picked up her collecting kit and climbed into the cab -of the machine. By this time she knew her way about the settlements. -Without doubt, she told herself, this farm was on the outskirts of -civilization, in some valley as yet untouched by the plague. But long -before she reached the limits of cultivated land, she could see her -destination. It stood out like an oasis in the desert, a little patch -of green between a dried-up cornfield and an expanse of stricken wheat. - -Bridget brought her heli down on a velvety lawn in front of a small -cottage and walked, unbelieving, to the door. A shout from within -welcomed her and she entered a clean and simple kitchen-parlor. The -owner of the one healthy farm in New Eden was busy in the attached -greenhouse. - -As she glimpsed the red waistcoat dangling from a hook, Bridget -screamed, and Patch Maguire came through the greenhouse door, a flower -pot in one hand, trowel in the other. - -"And if it isn't the worm-hunter herself!" he cried. "The czar of the -spaceways! The dandelion dictator! And I was wondering how long it -would take you to find me out." - -"But you--" she gasped. "You couldn't--you wouldn't--aren't supposed to -be here!" - -"And why not?" he countered. "I'm not like Carrie, she'd rather go on -too sick to eat in space than face starvation on this planet. And then -the bargain I was offered for this place--you wouldn't believe it! All -modern conveniences and they were practically giving it away. Besides, -what had I to fear with the best entomologist in five solar systems -working for the Department of Agriculture? Sure, you'll be having the -problem solved in no time!" - -"Don't be giving me that blarney!" Bridget said. "You need only look -out the window to know we've solved nothing at all. And you sitting -here crowing to yourself! You've been breeding plague-resistant plants, -that's what you've done, and keeping them all to yourself! It's a -disgrace!" - -Patch began to laugh, and the more he laughed, the angrier Bridget got. - -"You should be ashamed!" she shouted. "The whole planet dying and you -sitting here growing greener all the time!" - -"And that's the way it's been," he assured her. "This place was dying -on me, too. But only the last few days it's taken a new lease and I'm -at my wit's end to explain it." - -"You mean you don't _want_ to explain it. You're hoarding the secret, -and it's a shameful thing!" - -"Woman, you're crazy!" he bellowed at her. "I'm no magician to breed a -plague-resistant plant overnight. It takes patience and many seasons, -and I've only just settled in. I put a few things in the garden and -stirred things up in the potting shed. Here, come along--you can see -for yourself." - - * * * * * - -He drew her through the cottage, pointing out the advantages of the -kitchen so near the greenhouse. She walked about the paths and felt of -the rich brown soil without a streak of yellow, and finally her eyes -fell upon some little low leaves by the back step. - -"Patch," she demanded, "what's that?" - -"You've the eagle eye, to be sure. What do you suppose it is?" - -"It's clover," she said. "Shamrock to you. Surely not the same -shamrock! I gave strict orders!" - -Before he could stop her, she had tugged a plant up by the roots and -pulled out her pocket microscope as she bent over it. - -"Sure, they were so busy worrying about the plague here, they forgot -all about the little plague from Earth. And all I wanted was a bit -of old Ireland to bring with me. A few little cysts couldn't be that -important. And you've got to admit that's what I've got--a green -island!" - -"The idiots!" screamed Bridget. "The irresponsible, shirking, -doublefaced--" - -Her hand went up and Patch dodged involuntarily, expecting her to throw -shamrock, dirt and all right at his head. But her hand stopped in -midair. - -"Patch!" Her voice fell to a whisper of incredulity. "I think I've got -the answer here in my hand. Don't say a word till I'm sure, but get -me soil samples from all over your place--there--and over there--and -_hurry_!" - -Patch ran back and forth with the soil samples and Bridget looked in -her microscope, and everywhere the golden nematode was teeming and -nowhere was there a sign of the sinister yellow streaks. - -"Don't you see?" Bridget said. "Whatever it is, the nematodes are -killing it." - -"It will take some experimenting to prove it, but Bridget, my girl, I -believe you're right." - -"And while they're proving it, Patch, you and I are going to breed -nematodes right here." - -And she had a vision of the golden horde, burrowing from Patch's -land in all directions, bringing back health and sanity to the land. -Whatever would Professor Schwarzkopf say? Dear Professor Schwarzkopf! -Sometimes the watchdogs are too faithful. They keep out everyone--even -our friends. - -And that was how New Eden was saved. And the nematodes prospered and -the Maguires prospered and the shamrocks grew everywhere. And so there -was nothing for it but to call the planet New Ireland. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's A Great Day for the Irish, by A. M. 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