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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Time Payment - -Author: Sylvia Jacobs - -Release Date: December 9, 2019 [EBook #60886] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME PAYMENT *** - - - - -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="356" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>TIME PAYMENT</h1> - -<p>By SYLVIA JACOBS</p> - -<p class="ph1"><i>The whereabouts of a<br /> -hideaway can be found—but<br /> -what about the whenabouts?</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 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>Slick Tennant had a hunch. The sixth sense that had made him king -of the local rackets, that had warned him in time when three of his -men fell to the machine guns of a rival gang, now told him that the -Feds were after him, that they had evidence to send him up for a long -stretch. But he was going where even the Feds couldn't extradite him.</p> - -<p>Slick Tennant was going to hide in the future.</p> - -<p>They didn't call him Slick for nothing. For months, a private dick in -his pay had shadowed Dr. Richard Porter, inventor of a device called by -reporters a time-travel machine, by comedians a crystal ball, and by -Dr. Porter's fellow-psychiatrists a Metachronoscope. Slick knew the -doctor was a widower, knew where he lived, knew pressure could be put -upon him through Dickie Porter, aged seven. In Slick's pocket was a -house-key Dr. Porter thought he had lost two weeks ago.</p> - -<p>But Slick hadn't disclosed his intentions to anyone. The chauffeur -of his bullet-proof car let him out several miles from the Porter -residence. Strolling along the street, Slick might have been any -citizen on his way home. A hat shadowed his features as he passed under -the street lights, and he carried a briefcase. He hailed a cruising cab -and proceeded to a spot two blocks from the Porter home, being careful -not to tip too much or too little to attract the driver's attention.</p> - -<p>Dr. Porter propped an elbow on his pillow, trying to orient himself in -the fuzziness that follows a midnight awakening. He stifled a gasp, and -sat up suddenly, as he saw that the man silhouetted against the living -room lamp had pajama-clad Dickie by the arm. The child was rubbing his -eyes, but there wasn't a whimper out of him.</p> - -<p>"I got a gun on the kid," the man said. "I like kids and I won't hurt -him if you do what I say."</p> - -<p>The doctor struggled to keep his voice soothing and professional. -"Of course you wouldn't," he said. "You don't want to go back to the -hospital."</p> - -<p>The man laughed. "I ain't one of your nuts, Doc. And I don't want your -money. I got plenty. All I want from you is a little trip in your time -machine."</p> - -<p>"Metachronoscope," corrected the doctor. "It's very misleading to call -it a time-travel machine."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Letting go of the boy, Slick dealt Dr. Porter a vicious slap. "That'll -learn you not to pull none of your high-brow stuff. Is it my fault I -had to quit school to keep the family from starvin' when my old man got -sent up? If Slick Tennant says it's a time-travel machine, that's what -you call it, see?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I see," Dr. Porter said faintly. The mention of gangland's most -dreaded name had more effect on him than the blow.</p> - -<p>"Now let's get something else straight. Once, on TV, they said a couple -of guys came back. Another time, the news program said they couldn't -come back and give tips on the ponies. Which is right? Can you bring me -back any time you want to?"</p> - -<p>"Absolutely not. The decision is irrevocable. The public's impression -that the future can be altered or predicted is incorrect."</p> - -<p>"Fine. I don't want to come back. And I don't need to change the -future, neither. Things may be different, but a smart cookie can always -get along. Now, according to the news, you only sent these guys ahead a -year. That ain't enough. What's the most you could send me ahead?"</p> - -<p>"Theoretically, we could send a subject ahead as much as twenty years, -if we could find anyone who would consent to that, and undoubtedly we -could learn a great deal more by so doing."</p> - -<p>"But you did find out that the boys come through okay?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. We sent these two men ahead in 1961. When they returned to -awareness, it was 1962. Physically and mentally they were as fit as -before."</p> - -<p>"Did they know what happened to them?"</p> - -<p>"Well, the year had no apparent duration for them, but they had -normal speed memories of the intervening year when they returned to -awareness. Evidently their fore-memories for the entire year must have -been condensed into the brief period they were in the field. From this -phenomenon, we derive the term 'sending the subjects ahead' which -has so often been misinterpreted. But it's important to note that -these condensed fore-memories were not available until twenty-four to -forty-eight hours after the events, which means the future cannot be -effectively predicted by present techniques."</p> - -<p>That sounded like plain English; it sounded as if it meant something, -but Slick wasn't quite sure what. He seized on the last remark, which -he understood.</p> - -<p>"What did you build this gadget for, if you can't tell fortunes with -it?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"The layman thinks in terms of immediate practical application. But our -primary objective was knowledge of the human mind. We confirmed the -existence of mental capacities that have been suspected for centuries. -We formulated the axiom that awareness is a function of subconscious -fore-memories becoming currently available. We experimentally -suspended awareness without inducing unconsciousness, by causing -the fore-memories to condense. I hope the process will develop into -a useful tool for my profession, that we learn how to superimpose -conditioning on the blank area to produce rational, socially acceptable -action, rather than the literal and irrational compulsion which is a -drawback to implanting post-hypnotic commands. But I can't tell you at -this point where our research will lead."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>This double-talk had Slick going around in circles. But he had a strong -hunch that taking a trip in the machine was the right thing to do, and -he wasn't going to let Porter divert him from that.</p> - -<p>"Let's get down to cases, Doc. Just exactly what's going to happen to -me when I get in this machine?"</p> - -<p>"It's difficult to explain the process in lay terms, particularly under -stress. But this may help you to understand it. Have you ever had the -experience of going back to sleep for a few moments after you awoke in -the morning, and dreaming a long, involved dream?"</p> - -<p>"Sure. I get some good hunches that way."</p> - -<p>"Then you know the dream may cover a period of hours, days, or even -years. People in the dream move and speak at a normal speed. Yet when -you awaken again and look at the clock, you see that only a few -minutes or even seconds have elapsed. A motion picture of the events -in the dream would be nothing but a gabble and a blur, if projected at -such terrific speed."</p> - -<p>"Yeah, that's right. I had that happen plenty of times, and I always -thought it was kind of funny."</p> - -<p>"It demonstrates the capacity of the human mind to function -independently of the limitations of chronological time. And premonitory -experiences—what you call hunches—give us an inkling of the -fore-memory phenomenon. In our dreams, the past, future, literal and -symbolical material mingles. But by subjecting the physical brain -to a certain type of electro-magnetic field, we can isolate the -fore-memories, condensed as in the dream, while the subject acts as if -in a waking state."</p> - -<p>"Does it hurt when a guy's brain goes into this field?"</p> - -<p>"Not at all. Awareness and physical sensations are totally suspended. -The elapsing time has no apparent duration. That means you can't feel -anything at all, you don't know what has happened until later, and -twenty hours or even twenty years pass in a second, as far as your mind -is concerned."</p> - -<p>"Why in the hell didn't you give me that straight, instead of dragging -in all this dream business? That's just what I'm looking for, just what -I figured it would be from the news stories. Do you throw this here -field ahead or does the time machine travel along with the guy inside?"</p> - -<p>Dr. Porter sighed slightly. The man had a preconceived idea, and -nothing Porter had said had altered it in the slightest. "The machine -doesn't actually travel," he explained patiently. "That's why I -objected to calling it a time-travel machine. It exists here and now -and it will exist in the future, I suppose."</p> - -<p>"You mean it'll be there when I come out of the field?"</p> - -<p>"I said I suppose so. Why should that concern you, particularly?"</p> - -<p>"Well, I'll tell you. Slick Tennant pays off two ways. Maybe you only -heard about the times he paid off guys for crossing him, but he pays -off guys that help him, too. I'm paying for your help by giving you a -chance to save your skin. I got a hand grenade in this briefcase. When -I get through with that machine, I'm going to blow her to little, bitty -pieces. Maybe you can't bring me back, but I don't want you to have the -machine to send the cops after me, neither. By the time you get a new -machine built, my trail will be cold."</p> - -<p>Intellectually, Dr. Porter accepted the concept of the inevitability -of events. If Slick was going to blow up the machine, he was going to -blow it up. Still the old, old human habit of trying to control the -future kept obstinately insinuating itself.</p> - -<p>"But you don't need to destroy the machine," he protested. "Look, let -me try to explain—"</p> - -<p>"I thought you'd try to talk me out of it," Slick said ominously. "I -know that a lot of money and work went into that gadget, but I got to -blow her up. You should be glad you're not on my list or you'd get -blown up with her. And I got no time for any more talkin'. I found out -all I want to know. Now, get up and get dressed, and make it snappy. -You're going to drive me over to the University."</p> - -<p>Porter had been careful not to make any moves that might alarm his -unbidden guest; he swung his feet obediently over the side of the bed. -"Is Dickie going with us?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"You're damned right he is. I don't want you high-signing any cops on -the way, and the kid might even be sharp enough to phone the station -himself, if we left him here." He didn't add that he had an even better -reason for taking the boy.</p> - -<p>"Then let him get some clothes on, too. It's cold outside." To his son, -Dr. Porter added, "Don't be afraid, Dickie. Everything is going to be -all right."</p> - -<p>"Sure, Daddy," the boy said sturdily. "You just do like he says. He's -like the bad guys on TV."</p> - -<p>"You got a smart kid, Porter," Slick said, grinning. "Knows when to -keep his trap shut and what to say when he opens it. That's more than -some of the hoods in this town know."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Driving down the freeway toward the University campus, Slick and the -boy sat in the back seat of Dr. Porter's car. Slick tried the kid on -his lap for size; it was a nice fit. The papers said the time machine -was a two-passenger job, but if that wasn't the straight dope, Slick -could hold the kid on his lap, like this.</p> - -<p>The gangster squeezed Dickie's small hand. "You're all right, boy. -Plenty of guys a lot bigger than you would be bawlin' if Slick Tennant -invited them to take a little ride. If I ever have a kid of my own, I'd -want one just like you." He tucked a bill in the pocket of Dickie's -jacket. "This is to buy you a play gat or something."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, Mr. Slick," the boy said gravely.</p> - -<p>Though business compelled him to do things like rubbing out the -competition, Slick was really soft-hearted. Some of the proceeds of his -illicit activities were devoted each year to buying Christmas trees, -turkeys, and toys for poor children. He kind of hated to separate -Dickie Porter from his father, but it was the only way he could see to -insure a safe passage through time.</p> - -<p>And then, Slick reflected, he <i>would</i> have a kid of his own, or at -least one he was responsible for. Slick decided then and there that -he would send the boy to the fanciest high-class boarding school they -had in the future, the kind the millionaire kids went to. Dickie would -have a pony, a bike, a dog, plenty of fried chicken and strawberry -shortcake, all the things Slick had yearned for in his own slum -childhood. He would live in the country, where there were miles of -fresh green grass to play on, and he would wear a silver-studded cowboy -suit with real spurs. Unless the kids where they were going would be -wearing space-pilot suits instead. By gosh, that would be something. -Maybe Slick could take the kid on a luxury cruise to the Moon.</p> - -<p>To provide these things, Slick would have to follow the only trade he -knew, move in on the local mobs. But he wouldn't let Dickie mix with -hoods and racketeers. Dickie would study to be something respectable, -a mouthpiece or maybe a doctor like his old man. Dickie would have all -the advantages a kid could ask for—everything except a real father.</p> - -<p>He might even have that, come to think of it. Dr. Porter might easily -live another twenty years, now that Slick had warned him to get away -from the machine before it was blown up. First, Slick would get some -plastic surgery, so Porter and any other old ducks who were still -alive wouldn't recognize him. There ought to be a lot of improvements -in plastic surgery in twenty years. Probably a guy could even get his -fingerprints changed. Then he would hire a private dick to look up -Porter.</p> - -<p>Slick pictured the aged father being reunited with the son he'd lost -twenty years before, seeing the child just as he'd been at the moment -of parting, with Slick playing Santa Claus in the background, sending -the kid a roll of thousand-dollar bills with a pink ribbon around it -for a present. It was such a touching thought that tears came to the -gangster's eyes, as they did when he watched a sad movie.</p> - -<p>He was sorry he couldn't let Porter and the boy in on his plans right -now, but he wasn't ready to tip his hand.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The machine was a two-passenger job, all right. Slick could tell that -the minute he saw it. There was no enclosure, just two reclining -barber chairs fixed on two circular plates sunk in a platform. After -the switch was set, Porter had explained, the additional weight of an -occupant of the chair would complete the contact and the field would -build up. Slick examined the control panel, particularly the dial, -which was calibrated into twenty sections, each for a ninety-second -exposure to the field.</p> - -<p>"You did say twenty years, didn't you?" Dr. Porter asked.</p> - -<p>"If that's the limit," Slick replied tersely, "like I heard."</p> - -<p>"How old are you?"</p> - -<p>"You mean can my ticker take it? Well, I'm forty-five. They tell me I -don't look it." Slick was vain of his black hair, without a thread of -gray in it.</p> - -<p>"No, you don't look it. But let me take your pulse and blood pressure."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He submitted, without letting go of either his gun or brief case.</p> - -<p>"You seem to be in good shape, as nearly as I can tell from a -superficial examination. But don't you want to reconsider this -twenty-year arrangement? I can't change the setting once you're in -the chair, you know. Are you sure you understand that the only thing -affected will be your own subjective experience, that time will go on -just as it always has, but that you won't be aware of anything between -now and twenty years from now?"</p> - -<p>"Sure. You told me that three-four times already. What are you trying -to do? Stall till help gets here?" Slick asked suspiciously.</p> - -<p>"I'm not stalling," the doctor said. "In fact, I'm only too glad to -find someone to whom the present means so little that he's willing to -go into a twenty-year blank. But ethics insist that I warn you."</p> - -<p>He turned the switch to the twenty-year mark.</p> - -<p>"I'm ready," he said.</p> - -<p>"Whaddya mean, warn me?" Slick snapped. "Is this thing booby trapped?"</p> - -<p>"Certainly not. I have merely tried to explain that it is not exactly -what you anticipated—"</p> - -<p>"You know what I'm drivin' at. Have you got the machine set to -electrocute me or explode the grenade? A lot of you respectable -citizens don't figure a guy like me is exactly human. You wouldn't call -it murder to rub me out. You'd think you was doin' the town a favor."</p> - -<p>"Some people would, perhaps, but I'm a doctor, not a judge. I've spent -my life trying to find out what makes men like you act as they do, not -in devising means of punishing them. But even if I wanted to do you -bodily harm, I couldn't. The machine has a built-in safety factor."</p> - -<p>This was where Slick sprang a little surprise.</p> - -<p>"You willing to bet your kid's life on that?" he asked, picking up the -boy.</p> - -<p>He took two steps toward the platform, watching Porter's reactions. If -the father made a lunge toward the panel, Slick would know the setting -was wrong. But Porter only stood stunned. The setting was safe, then, -but Slick had only Porter's word that it couldn't be changed after -contact. Maybe a change would be fatal to the passenger. So he would -make sure there would be no changes.</p> - -<p>"I always take out travel insurance. Doc," Slick said, and, stepping -onto the platform, he put the boy gently into one of the chairs and -reclined in the other himself.</p> - -<p>"Dickie!" Dr. Porter cried.</p> - -<p>It was the last thing Slick or the boy heard him say.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Slick came back to awareness of where he was and what he was doing. He -was in one of the radial corridors, but at what compass point, at which -level, and how many miles inside the outer walls of the city, he didn't -know. He ran his fingers in a puzzled manner through his hair. He had -never quite figured out the lettering system of the "circles" which -weren't actually circles, but multagons.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="338" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He didn't even know what time it was. In this perpetual mock daylight, -there was no change; there were no variations of seasons in this -sterilized, irradiated, humidified, filtered, deodorized, oxygenated, -constantly circulating seventy-five degrees. He remembered when -streets used to have names, when you needed a street guide instead of -a course in geometry to find your way around the city. He remembered -when a city was many buildings, not one immense pyramid, when you wore -dark glasses against the sun's glare on the pavements, when a Santa Ana -blew dust over everything or smog stung your eyes, when people drove -their cars into the downtown congestion instead of leaving them on the -outskirts, when they said to each other, "There hasn't been enough rain -this year," because there was no weather control and water for the -lawns came all the way from the Colorado instead of from the nearby -Pacific.</p> - -<p>That was the trouble—his mind slipped back to the old days, his -memories got out of sequence, and he wandered away from Recidivist -Gardens, the only place he felt comfortable and at home. Dr. Tyson said -it was because he had been in the field so long that time, twenty years -ago.</p> - -<p>A young man was staring at him, and Slick looked down at himself. No -wonder the young man was staring! To his shame, Slick saw that he -was wearing some kind of clothes, and worst of all, he was wearing -them inside the city! Where had he found them? The only possible -explanation was that he had drawn them out on his museum card. These -scrambled-sequence attacks were becoming more embarrassing each time!</p> - -<p>"Don't act so flustered, Pop," the young man said. "Nobody saw you but -me. Take 'em off and I'll put 'em in the lost-and-found chute for you. -Or are you on your way to a costume ball?"</p> - -<p>Slick looked over the railing of the balcony. There were several people -waiting for elevators and radial cars on the level below, all decently -naked, of course, but the young man was right. Nobody else had seen -Slick's shame. Hurriedly, he stepped out of the uncomfortable clothes -and rolled them into a bundle. The young man took it from him.</p> - -<p>"You're very kind—thank you so much," Slick said.</p> - -<p>"Think nothing of it," the young man said. "What address should I put -on this stuff?"</p> - -<p>"Just Recidivist Gardens. They'll take care of it in the office. I -hope you don't think all of us at the Gardens do peculiar things like -this. It's just that—well, it's a long story, but they didn't start my -conditioning until I'd been in the blank five years. I'm not capable of -anything really anti-social, you understand, but I get what they call -sequence scrambles. Sometimes I act as if I were living in the past. -I'm not crazy, though. The doctors at the Gardens assure me I'm not -crazy."</p> - -<p>"Of course you're not," the young man said soothingly. "But that's a -long blank—five years."</p> - -<p>"I went the limit, really. Twenty years."</p> - -<p>"Then you must be the man they call Slick!"</p> - -<p>"You've heard of my case?"</p> - -<p>"I was with you the night you made my father put us in the field."</p> - -<p>"Dickie Porter! How you have grown! I've always told your father I -didn't want to meet you. He said if it was going to happen, it would, -whether he introduced us or not. But I hate to face you, after taking -such a large slice out of your life—"</p> - -<p>"But I'm still young. You're the one who's had the worst of it, -because when you come out of the blank, you won't have so many years -left. But you have the comfort of knowing you really did something -worth while. Your case and mine have been invaluable to the research, -particularly yours, because it was with you that my father developed -the conditioning techniques. If it hadn't been for you, it would have -been very difficult to find anyone willing to draw a twenty-year blank."</p> - -<p>"No. Not even a lifer would want that. But I don't take any credit for -it. I did it only because I was so bull-headed I wouldn't listen to -what Dr. Porter was trying to tell me."</p> - -<p>"I came out of it six months ago," the young man said. "Now I can -consciously hear, and feel, and smell, just like other people. I don't -have to wait till tomorrow to remember what I said to somebody today, -or what tonight's dinner tasted like."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"I'm so glad to hear that!" Slick said. "Dr. Tyson says I should be -coming out of it soon, too. Say, wait a minute—I heard what you said -just now—I'm hearing what I said myself—why, I've had full sensory -impressions for several minutes now, but it kind of sneaked up on me—"</p> - -<p>The young man seized Slick's hand and pumped it vigorously. -"Congratulations! You're out of it!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, this is wonderful, wonderful! It's like—like coming back to life. -I must go home and tell Dr. Tyson at once! Please go with me. It'll do -you good to get out of the city. We're the only two people who've drawn -such a long blank—we have so much in common. I'll fix you a chicken -dinner. I raise my own. Just think, to taste my own fried chicken!"</p> - -<p>"I wish I could go, but it'll have to be some other time. I have a date -for the opera. When you see it on the Tri-di-cast you'll know my girl -and I are in the studio audience."</p> - -<p>"Oh, a girl!" Slick said. "Of course there'd be a girl, now that -you're out of the blank. I won't keep you. But there's just one thing I -must ask you—do you ever remember ahead? Consciously, that is?"</p> - -<p>"A few times. But the conscious fore-memories are mixed with -post-memories and impossible to place according to dates. It's the same -objection that applies when people remember ahead in dreams—you don't -know which part of the dream is a fore-memory until it happens."</p> - -<p>"Maybe some day they'll learn to sort those conscious fore-memories -out. If I could do it, I would know whether you are ever coming to see -me."</p> - -<p>"I will come," the young man promised. "Believe me, I will."</p> - -<p>Absorbed in his newly found sensations, Slick took the elevator a -hundred and thirty-three floors to ground level, reminding himself not -to go too far and wind up in one of the sixty levels below ground. Then -he stopped the North-by-Northwest radial car and punched the button for -city limits, thus avoiding the necessity of dealing with the circle -lettering system.</p> - -<p>He sat in the speeding little car, watching the faces of the other -passengers, until each, in turn, got off at their respective stops. Got -off to go to luxurious apartments that were nothing more than cells, -with four-sided soundproofing separating neighbor from neighbor, -with air, newspapers, prepared meals and all other deliveries coming -by chute. How could they bury themselves in the ugly angularity of -masonry and steel? How could they, who had always had full senses, deny -themselves the sting of wind, the scent of soil and grass, the sound -and sight of ocean breakers? How the world had changed in his lifetime, -with people who had never committed anti-social acts imprisoning -themselves, while those who had needed conditioning enjoyed the therapy -of freedom.</p> - -<p>When the car reached city limits, the door opened automatically and -Slick, the only passenger left, passed through the shower that sprayed -his skin with a porous, temporary plastic coating against the chill -outside air. He walked across the thick ground-cover, exquisitely aware -of the sensation of softness under his feet, leaving the awesome bulk -of the city behind.</p> - -<p>Before him swept the expanse of Recidivist Gardens, on gently rolling -hills, bordering the sea. Clearly though he remembered it, this was the -first time he had seen it with full and immediate sensory impact. The -moon silvered the foliage, cast a path upon the water. Here and there, -lights were on in the cottages nestled among the foliage, the domed, -transparent cottages that combined the psychological effect of living -outdoors with the comfort of shelter. The sweet note of a bell buoy -clove the night.</p> - -<p>The beauty was almost unbearable, coming so sharply to long blanked-out -senses. The return of immediate awareness, and the knowledge that -Dickie Porter, the only human being with whom he had a kinship of -experience, did not hate him, was too much happiness for one day. Slick -breathed deeply of the salt air, and felt a catch in his heart. He -raised a thin hand to his chest.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The young man who had spoken to Slick in the radial corridor found -the obituary item in the newspaper he took from the chute with his -breakfast next morning.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Louis G. Tennant, 65, known to his friends as "Slick," a resident of -Recidivist Gardens, died of a heart attack about 2200 last night, -while returning to his home after a visit to central Ellay.</p> - -<p>Tennant was one of the first recidivists to benefit from the Porter -socio-legal conditioning techniques, and was noted for his valuable -contribution to science in volunteering in 1963 for a twenty-year -blank. He was one of two men who have gone this far ahead, the other -being Dr. Porter's son, Richard S. Porter, Jr., level 72, SSE, circle -NA, apt. 1722.</p> - -<p>The Tennant case did much to direct public attention to the Porter -techniques, helping to pave the way for a drastic revision of the -criminal statutes, and to establish the concept that punishment rather -than treatment for anti-social acts is as barbarous as punishment -rather than treatment for the insane.</p> - -<p>When informed of the death, and asked whether subconscious -fore-memories of these developments motivated Tennant to volunteer -as a research subject, Dr. Richard Porter, U.C.L.A., said that the -effect of subconscious fore-memories as a compulsion to action is -as yet imperfectly understood. He stated, however, that in certain -individuals, the fore-memory compulsive factor appears to operate -closer to the conscious level than in others. He said that, before -going into the blank, Tennant was noted for the strength and -reliability of his "hunches." He also recalled that Tennant and -Richard Porter, Jr., were the last two subjects treated in the -original Metachronoscope, which was destroyed shortly thereafter in -an explosion. Subsequent models have been modified and improved. -Tennant's estate was willed to the Recidivists' Christmas Fund for -Dependent Children. According to Dr. Claude Tyson of Recidivist -Hospital, Tennant was still in the blank when he died.</p></div> - -<p>The closing sentence of the item was wrong, Dick Porter thought. In his -last hours, Slick had known how it felt to be alive again, after twenty -years.</p> - -<p>Dick Porter was the only human being who fully appreciated what that -meant.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Time Payment, by Sylvia Jacobs - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME PAYMENT *** - -***** This file should be named 60886-h.htm or 60886-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/8/8/60886/ - -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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The sixth sense that had made him king -of the local rackets, that had warned him in time when three of his -men fell to the machine guns of a rival gang, now told him that the -Feds were after him, that they had evidence to send him up for a long -stretch. But he was going where even the Feds couldn't extradite him. - -Slick Tennant was going to hide in the future. - -They didn't call him Slick for nothing. For months, a private dick in -his pay had shadowed Dr. Richard Porter, inventor of a device called by -reporters a time-travel machine, by comedians a crystal ball, and by -Dr. Porter's fellow-psychiatrists a Metachronoscope. Slick knew the -doctor was a widower, knew where he lived, knew pressure could be put -upon him through Dickie Porter, aged seven. In Slick's pocket was a -house-key Dr. Porter thought he had lost two weeks ago. - -But Slick hadn't disclosed his intentions to anyone. The chauffeur -of his bullet-proof car let him out several miles from the Porter -residence. Strolling along the street, Slick might have been any -citizen on his way home. A hat shadowed his features as he passed under -the street lights, and he carried a briefcase. He hailed a cruising cab -and proceeded to a spot two blocks from the Porter home, being careful -not to tip too much or too little to attract the driver's attention. - -Dr. Porter propped an elbow on his pillow, trying to orient himself in -the fuzziness that follows a midnight awakening. He stifled a gasp, and -sat up suddenly, as he saw that the man silhouetted against the living -room lamp had pajama-clad Dickie by the arm. The child was rubbing his -eyes, but there wasn't a whimper out of him. - -"I got a gun on the kid," the man said. "I like kids and I won't hurt -him if you do what I say." - -The doctor struggled to keep his voice soothing and professional. -"Of course you wouldn't," he said. "You don't want to go back to the -hospital." - -The man laughed. "I ain't one of your nuts, Doc. And I don't want your -money. I got plenty. All I want from you is a little trip in your time -machine." - -"Metachronoscope," corrected the doctor. "It's very misleading to call -it a time-travel machine." - - * * * * * - -Letting go of the boy, Slick dealt Dr. Porter a vicious slap. "That'll -learn you not to pull none of your high-brow stuff. Is it my fault I -had to quit school to keep the family from starvin' when my old man got -sent up? If Slick Tennant says it's a time-travel machine, that's what -you call it, see?" - -"Yes, I see," Dr. Porter said faintly. The mention of gangland's most -dreaded name had more effect on him than the blow. - -"Now let's get something else straight. Once, on TV, they said a couple -of guys came back. Another time, the news program said they couldn't -come back and give tips on the ponies. Which is right? Can you bring me -back any time you want to?" - -"Absolutely not. The decision is irrevocable. The public's impression -that the future can be altered or predicted is incorrect." - -"Fine. I don't want to come back. And I don't need to change the -future, neither. Things may be different, but a smart cookie can always -get along. Now, according to the news, you only sent these guys ahead a -year. That ain't enough. What's the most you could send me ahead?" - -"Theoretically, we could send a subject ahead as much as twenty years, -if we could find anyone who would consent to that, and undoubtedly we -could learn a great deal more by so doing." - -"But you did find out that the boys come through okay?" - -"Yes. We sent these two men ahead in 1961. When they returned to -awareness, it was 1962. Physically and mentally they were as fit as -before." - -"Did they know what happened to them?" - -"Well, the year had no apparent duration for them, but they had -normal speed memories of the intervening year when they returned to -awareness. Evidently their fore-memories for the entire year must have -been condensed into the brief period they were in the field. From this -phenomenon, we derive the term 'sending the subjects ahead' which -has so often been misinterpreted. But it's important to note that -these condensed fore-memories were not available until twenty-four to -forty-eight hours after the events, which means the future cannot be -effectively predicted by present techniques." - -That sounded like plain English; it sounded as if it meant something, -but Slick wasn't quite sure what. He seized on the last remark, which -he understood. - -"What did you build this gadget for, if you can't tell fortunes with -it?" he asked. - -"The layman thinks in terms of immediate practical application. But our -primary objective was knowledge of the human mind. We confirmed the -existence of mental capacities that have been suspected for centuries. -We formulated the axiom that awareness is a function of subconscious -fore-memories becoming currently available. We experimentally -suspended awareness without inducing unconsciousness, by causing -the fore-memories to condense. I hope the process will develop into -a useful tool for my profession, that we learn how to superimpose -conditioning on the blank area to produce rational, socially acceptable -action, rather than the literal and irrational compulsion which is a -drawback to implanting post-hypnotic commands. But I can't tell you at -this point where our research will lead." - - * * * * * - -This double-talk had Slick going around in circles. But he had a strong -hunch that taking a trip in the machine was the right thing to do, and -he wasn't going to let Porter divert him from that. - -"Let's get down to cases, Doc. Just exactly what's going to happen to -me when I get in this machine?" - -"It's difficult to explain the process in lay terms, particularly under -stress. But this may help you to understand it. Have you ever had the -experience of going back to sleep for a few moments after you awoke in -the morning, and dreaming a long, involved dream?" - -"Sure. I get some good hunches that way." - -"Then you know the dream may cover a period of hours, days, or even -years. People in the dream move and speak at a normal speed. Yet when -you awaken again and look at the clock, you see that only a few -minutes or even seconds have elapsed. A motion picture of the events -in the dream would be nothing but a gabble and a blur, if projected at -such terrific speed." - -"Yeah, that's right. I had that happen plenty of times, and I always -thought it was kind of funny." - -"It demonstrates the capacity of the human mind to function -independently of the limitations of chronological time. And premonitory -experiences--what you call hunches--give us an inkling of the -fore-memory phenomenon. In our dreams, the past, future, literal and -symbolical material mingles. But by subjecting the physical brain -to a certain type of electro-magnetic field, we can isolate the -fore-memories, condensed as in the dream, while the subject acts as if -in a waking state." - -"Does it hurt when a guy's brain goes into this field?" - -"Not at all. Awareness and physical sensations are totally suspended. -The elapsing time has no apparent duration. That means you can't feel -anything at all, you don't know what has happened until later, and -twenty hours or even twenty years pass in a second, as far as your mind -is concerned." - -"Why in the hell didn't you give me that straight, instead of dragging -in all this dream business? That's just what I'm looking for, just what -I figured it would be from the news stories. Do you throw this here -field ahead or does the time machine travel along with the guy inside?" - -Dr. Porter sighed slightly. The man had a preconceived idea, and -nothing Porter had said had altered it in the slightest. "The machine -doesn't actually travel," he explained patiently. "That's why I -objected to calling it a time-travel machine. It exists here and now -and it will exist in the future, I suppose." - -"You mean it'll be there when I come out of the field?" - -"I said I suppose so. Why should that concern you, particularly?" - -"Well, I'll tell you. Slick Tennant pays off two ways. Maybe you only -heard about the times he paid off guys for crossing him, but he pays -off guys that help him, too. I'm paying for your help by giving you a -chance to save your skin. I got a hand grenade in this briefcase. When -I get through with that machine, I'm going to blow her to little, bitty -pieces. Maybe you can't bring me back, but I don't want you to have the -machine to send the cops after me, neither. By the time you get a new -machine built, my trail will be cold." - -Intellectually, Dr. Porter accepted the concept of the inevitability -of events. If Slick was going to blow up the machine, he was going to -blow it up. Still the old, old human habit of trying to control the -future kept obstinately insinuating itself. - -"But you don't need to destroy the machine," he protested. "Look, let -me try to explain--" - -"I thought you'd try to talk me out of it," Slick said ominously. "I -know that a lot of money and work went into that gadget, but I got to -blow her up. You should be glad you're not on my list or you'd get -blown up with her. And I got no time for any more talkin'. I found out -all I want to know. Now, get up and get dressed, and make it snappy. -You're going to drive me over to the University." - -Porter had been careful not to make any moves that might alarm his -unbidden guest; he swung his feet obediently over the side of the bed. -"Is Dickie going with us?" he asked. - -"You're damned right he is. I don't want you high-signing any cops on -the way, and the kid might even be sharp enough to phone the station -himself, if we left him here." He didn't add that he had an even better -reason for taking the boy. - -"Then let him get some clothes on, too. It's cold outside." To his son, -Dr. Porter added, "Don't be afraid, Dickie. Everything is going to be -all right." - -"Sure, Daddy," the boy said sturdily. "You just do like he says. He's -like the bad guys on TV." - -"You got a smart kid, Porter," Slick said, grinning. "Knows when to -keep his trap shut and what to say when he opens it. That's more than -some of the hoods in this town know." - - * * * * * - -Driving down the freeway toward the University campus, Slick and the -boy sat in the back seat of Dr. Porter's car. Slick tried the kid on -his lap for size; it was a nice fit. The papers said the time machine -was a two-passenger job, but if that wasn't the straight dope, Slick -could hold the kid on his lap, like this. - -The gangster squeezed Dickie's small hand. "You're all right, boy. -Plenty of guys a lot bigger than you would be bawlin' if Slick Tennant -invited them to take a little ride. If I ever have a kid of my own, I'd -want one just like you." He tucked a bill in the pocket of Dickie's -jacket. "This is to buy you a play gat or something." - -"Thank you, Mr. Slick," the boy said gravely. - -Though business compelled him to do things like rubbing out the -competition, Slick was really soft-hearted. Some of the proceeds of his -illicit activities were devoted each year to buying Christmas trees, -turkeys, and toys for poor children. He kind of hated to separate -Dickie Porter from his father, but it was the only way he could see to -insure a safe passage through time. - -And then, Slick reflected, he _would_ have a kid of his own, or at -least one he was responsible for. Slick decided then and there that -he would send the boy to the fanciest high-class boarding school they -had in the future, the kind the millionaire kids went to. Dickie would -have a pony, a bike, a dog, plenty of fried chicken and strawberry -shortcake, all the things Slick had yearned for in his own slum -childhood. He would live in the country, where there were miles of -fresh green grass to play on, and he would wear a silver-studded cowboy -suit with real spurs. Unless the kids where they were going would be -wearing space-pilot suits instead. By gosh, that would be something. -Maybe Slick could take the kid on a luxury cruise to the Moon. - -To provide these things, Slick would have to follow the only trade he -knew, move in on the local mobs. But he wouldn't let Dickie mix with -hoods and racketeers. Dickie would study to be something respectable, -a mouthpiece or maybe a doctor like his old man. Dickie would have all -the advantages a kid could ask for--everything except a real father. - -He might even have that, come to think of it. Dr. Porter might easily -live another twenty years, now that Slick had warned him to get away -from the machine before it was blown up. First, Slick would get some -plastic surgery, so Porter and any other old ducks who were still -alive wouldn't recognize him. There ought to be a lot of improvements -in plastic surgery in twenty years. Probably a guy could even get his -fingerprints changed. Then he would hire a private dick to look up -Porter. - -Slick pictured the aged father being reunited with the son he'd lost -twenty years before, seeing the child just as he'd been at the moment -of parting, with Slick playing Santa Claus in the background, sending -the kid a roll of thousand-dollar bills with a pink ribbon around it -for a present. It was such a touching thought that tears came to the -gangster's eyes, as they did when he watched a sad movie. - -He was sorry he couldn't let Porter and the boy in on his plans right -now, but he wasn't ready to tip his hand. - - * * * * * - -The machine was a two-passenger job, all right. Slick could tell that -the minute he saw it. There was no enclosure, just two reclining -barber chairs fixed on two circular plates sunk in a platform. After -the switch was set, Porter had explained, the additional weight of an -occupant of the chair would complete the contact and the field would -build up. Slick examined the control panel, particularly the dial, -which was calibrated into twenty sections, each for a ninety-second -exposure to the field. - -"You did say twenty years, didn't you?" Dr. Porter asked. - -"If that's the limit," Slick replied tersely, "like I heard." - -"How old are you?" - -"You mean can my ticker take it? Well, I'm forty-five. They tell me I -don't look it." Slick was vain of his black hair, without a thread of -gray in it. - -"No, you don't look it. But let me take your pulse and blood pressure." - - * * * * * - -He submitted, without letting go of either his gun or brief case. - -"You seem to be in good shape, as nearly as I can tell from a -superficial examination. But don't you want to reconsider this -twenty-year arrangement? I can't change the setting once you're in -the chair, you know. Are you sure you understand that the only thing -affected will be your own subjective experience, that time will go on -just as it always has, but that you won't be aware of anything between -now and twenty years from now?" - -"Sure. You told me that three-four times already. What are you trying -to do? Stall till help gets here?" Slick asked suspiciously. - -"I'm not stalling," the doctor said. "In fact, I'm only too glad to -find someone to whom the present means so little that he's willing to -go into a twenty-year blank. But ethics insist that I warn you." - -He turned the switch to the twenty-year mark. - -"I'm ready," he said. - -"Whaddya mean, warn me?" Slick snapped. "Is this thing booby trapped?" - -"Certainly not. I have merely tried to explain that it is not exactly -what you anticipated--" - -"You know what I'm drivin' at. Have you got the machine set to -electrocute me or explode the grenade? A lot of you respectable -citizens don't figure a guy like me is exactly human. You wouldn't call -it murder to rub me out. You'd think you was doin' the town a favor." - -"Some people would, perhaps, but I'm a doctor, not a judge. I've spent -my life trying to find out what makes men like you act as they do, not -in devising means of punishing them. But even if I wanted to do you -bodily harm, I couldn't. The machine has a built-in safety factor." - -This was where Slick sprang a little surprise. - -"You willing to bet your kid's life on that?" he asked, picking up the -boy. - -He took two steps toward the platform, watching Porter's reactions. If -the father made a lunge toward the panel, Slick would know the setting -was wrong. But Porter only stood stunned. The setting was safe, then, -but Slick had only Porter's word that it couldn't be changed after -contact. Maybe a change would be fatal to the passenger. So he would -make sure there would be no changes. - -"I always take out travel insurance. Doc," Slick said, and, stepping -onto the platform, he put the boy gently into one of the chairs and -reclined in the other himself. - -"Dickie!" Dr. Porter cried. - -It was the last thing Slick or the boy heard him say. - - * * * * * - -Slick came back to awareness of where he was and what he was doing. He -was in one of the radial corridors, but at what compass point, at which -level, and how many miles inside the outer walls of the city, he didn't -know. He ran his fingers in a puzzled manner through his hair. He had -never quite figured out the lettering system of the "circles" which -weren't actually circles, but multagons. - -He didn't even know what time it was. In this perpetual mock daylight, -there was no change; there were no variations of seasons in this -sterilized, irradiated, humidified, filtered, deodorized, oxygenated, -constantly circulating seventy-five degrees. He remembered when -streets used to have names, when you needed a street guide instead of -a course in geometry to find your way around the city. He remembered -when a city was many buildings, not one immense pyramid, when you wore -dark glasses against the sun's glare on the pavements, when a Santa Ana -blew dust over everything or smog stung your eyes, when people drove -their cars into the downtown congestion instead of leaving them on the -outskirts, when they said to each other, "There hasn't been enough rain -this year," because there was no weather control and water for the -lawns came all the way from the Colorado instead of from the nearby -Pacific. - -That was the trouble--his mind slipped back to the old days, his -memories got out of sequence, and he wandered away from Recidivist -Gardens, the only place he felt comfortable and at home. Dr. Tyson said -it was because he had been in the field so long that time, twenty years -ago. - -A young man was staring at him, and Slick looked down at himself. No -wonder the young man was staring! To his shame, Slick saw that he -was wearing some kind of clothes, and worst of all, he was wearing -them inside the city! Where had he found them? The only possible -explanation was that he had drawn them out on his museum card. These -scrambled-sequence attacks were becoming more embarrassing each time! - -"Don't act so flustered, Pop," the young man said. "Nobody saw you but -me. Take 'em off and I'll put 'em in the lost-and-found chute for you. -Or are you on your way to a costume ball?" - -Slick looked over the railing of the balcony. There were several people -waiting for elevators and radial cars on the level below, all decently -naked, of course, but the young man was right. Nobody else had seen -Slick's shame. Hurriedly, he stepped out of the uncomfortable clothes -and rolled them into a bundle. The young man took it from him. - -"You're very kind--thank you so much," Slick said. - -"Think nothing of it," the young man said. "What address should I put -on this stuff?" - -"Just Recidivist Gardens. They'll take care of it in the office. I -hope you don't think all of us at the Gardens do peculiar things like -this. It's just that--well, it's a long story, but they didn't start my -conditioning until I'd been in the blank five years. I'm not capable of -anything really anti-social, you understand, but I get what they call -sequence scrambles. Sometimes I act as if I were living in the past. -I'm not crazy, though. The doctors at the Gardens assure me I'm not -crazy." - -"Of course you're not," the young man said soothingly. "But that's a -long blank--five years." - -"I went the limit, really. Twenty years." - -"Then you must be the man they call Slick!" - -"You've heard of my case?" - -"I was with you the night you made my father put us in the field." - -"Dickie Porter! How you have grown! I've always told your father I -didn't want to meet you. He said if it was going to happen, it would, -whether he introduced us or not. But I hate to face you, after taking -such a large slice out of your life--" - -"But I'm still young. You're the one who's had the worst of it, -because when you come out of the blank, you won't have so many years -left. But you have the comfort of knowing you really did something -worth while. Your case and mine have been invaluable to the research, -particularly yours, because it was with you that my father developed -the conditioning techniques. If it hadn't been for you, it would have -been very difficult to find anyone willing to draw a twenty-year blank." - -"No. Not even a lifer would want that. But I don't take any credit for -it. I did it only because I was so bull-headed I wouldn't listen to -what Dr. Porter was trying to tell me." - -"I came out of it six months ago," the young man said. "Now I can -consciously hear, and feel, and smell, just like other people. I don't -have to wait till tomorrow to remember what I said to somebody today, -or what tonight's dinner tasted like." - - * * * * * - -"I'm so glad to hear that!" Slick said. "Dr. Tyson says I should be -coming out of it soon, too. Say, wait a minute--I heard what you said -just now--I'm hearing what I said myself--why, I've had full sensory -impressions for several minutes now, but it kind of sneaked up on me--" - -The young man seized Slick's hand and pumped it vigorously. -"Congratulations! You're out of it!" - -"Oh, this is wonderful, wonderful! It's like--like coming back to life. -I must go home and tell Dr. Tyson at once! Please go with me. It'll do -you good to get out of the city. We're the only two people who've drawn -such a long blank--we have so much in common. I'll fix you a chicken -dinner. I raise my own. Just think, to taste my own fried chicken!" - -"I wish I could go, but it'll have to be some other time. I have a date -for the opera. When you see it on the Tri-di-cast you'll know my girl -and I are in the studio audience." - -"Oh, a girl!" Slick said. "Of course there'd be a girl, now that -you're out of the blank. I won't keep you. But there's just one thing I -must ask you--do you ever remember ahead? Consciously, that is?" - -"A few times. But the conscious fore-memories are mixed with -post-memories and impossible to place according to dates. It's the same -objection that applies when people remember ahead in dreams--you don't -know which part of the dream is a fore-memory until it happens." - -"Maybe some day they'll learn to sort those conscious fore-memories -out. If I could do it, I would know whether you are ever coming to see -me." - -"I will come," the young man promised. "Believe me, I will." - -Absorbed in his newly found sensations, Slick took the elevator a -hundred and thirty-three floors to ground level, reminding himself not -to go too far and wind up in one of the sixty levels below ground. Then -he stopped the North-by-Northwest radial car and punched the button for -city limits, thus avoiding the necessity of dealing with the circle -lettering system. - -He sat in the speeding little car, watching the faces of the other -passengers, until each, in turn, got off at their respective stops. Got -off to go to luxurious apartments that were nothing more than cells, -with four-sided soundproofing separating neighbor from neighbor, -with air, newspapers, prepared meals and all other deliveries coming -by chute. How could they bury themselves in the ugly angularity of -masonry and steel? How could they, who had always had full senses, deny -themselves the sting of wind, the scent of soil and grass, the sound -and sight of ocean breakers? How the world had changed in his lifetime, -with people who had never committed anti-social acts imprisoning -themselves, while those who had needed conditioning enjoyed the therapy -of freedom. - -When the car reached city limits, the door opened automatically and -Slick, the only passenger left, passed through the shower that sprayed -his skin with a porous, temporary plastic coating against the chill -outside air. He walked across the thick ground-cover, exquisitely aware -of the sensation of softness under his feet, leaving the awesome bulk -of the city behind. - -Before him swept the expanse of Recidivist Gardens, on gently rolling -hills, bordering the sea. Clearly though he remembered it, this was the -first time he had seen it with full and immediate sensory impact. The -moon silvered the foliage, cast a path upon the water. Here and there, -lights were on in the cottages nestled among the foliage, the domed, -transparent cottages that combined the psychological effect of living -outdoors with the comfort of shelter. The sweet note of a bell buoy -clove the night. - -The beauty was almost unbearable, coming so sharply to long blanked-out -senses. The return of immediate awareness, and the knowledge that -Dickie Porter, the only human being with whom he had a kinship of -experience, did not hate him, was too much happiness for one day. Slick -breathed deeply of the salt air, and felt a catch in his heart. He -raised a thin hand to his chest. - - * * * * * - -The young man who had spoken to Slick in the radial corridor found -the obituary item in the newspaper he took from the chute with his -breakfast next morning. - - Louis G. Tennant, 65, known to his friends as "Slick," a resident - of Recidivist Gardens, died of a heart attack about 2200 last - night, while returning to his home after a visit to central Ellay. - - Tennant was one of the first recidivists to benefit from the Porter - socio-legal conditioning techniques, and was noted for his valuable - contribution to science in volunteering in 1963 for a twenty-year - blank. He was one of two men who have gone this far ahead, the - other being Dr. Porter's son, Richard S. Porter, Jr., level 72, - SSE, circle NA, apt. 1722. - - The Tennant case did much to direct public attention to the Porter - techniques, helping to pave the way for a drastic revision of the - criminal statutes, and to establish the concept that punishment - rather than treatment for anti-social acts is as barbarous as - punishment rather than treatment for the insane. - - When informed of the death, and asked whether subconscious - fore-memories of these developments motivated Tennant to volunteer - as a research subject, Dr. Richard Porter, U.C.L.A., said that the - effect of subconscious fore-memories as a compulsion to action is - as yet imperfectly understood. He stated, however, that in certain - individuals, the fore-memory compulsive factor appears to operate - closer to the conscious level than in others. He said that, before - going into the blank, Tennant was noted for the strength and - reliability of his "hunches." He also recalled that Tennant and - Richard Porter, Jr., were the last two subjects treated in the - original Metachronoscope, which was destroyed shortly thereafter in - an explosion. Subsequent models have been modified and improved. - Tennant's estate was willed to the Recidivists' Christmas Fund for - Dependent Children. According to Dr. Claude Tyson of Recidivist - Hospital, Tennant was still in the blank when he died. - -The closing sentence of the item was wrong, Dick Porter thought. In his -last hours, Slick had known how it felt to be alive again, after twenty -years. - -Dick Porter was the only human being who fully appreciated what that -meant. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Time Payment, by Sylvia Jacobs - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME PAYMENT *** - -***** This file should be named 60886.txt or 60886.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/8/8/60886/ - -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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