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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: World Without Glamor - -Author: Milton Lesser - -Release Date: April 01, 2021 [eBook #64965] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD WITHOUT GLAMOR *** - - - - - World Without Glamor - - _By Milton Lesser_ - - Colonists on Talbor had little time for - anything but work, which was bad for morale. So - Earth sent a special ship--with a unique cargo. - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1953 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Marsden had filled a basin with well water and began to lather his -hands and face with soap when Marie entered their cabin. He looked -up and clucked his tongue in disapproval. "Lord," he said. "Look at -yourself." - -Marie scowled at him as she removed her bandanna and shook loose her -short-cropped hair. "How do you expect me to look?" Her plain but -pretty face was sweat-streaked. She wore a simple tunic which fell -halfway down her thighs and almost matched her sturdy, sun-darkened -legs in color, although sweat darkened the back of the garment and left -rings of white under the armpits where it had evaporated. - -"I know how I'd like you to look." - -"Harry Marsden, just what do you mean by that?" - -He had felt it for some time now, this smouldering resentment which -had wedged its way between them after only two years of marriage. He -couldn't talk to her without arguing, not after they had finished -working for the day under the broiling sun and returned, bone-weary -and stiff-muscled, to their cabin. The routine sickened him: he would -come in first, splash cold water on his face, maybe scrub up some. -Marie would follow after feeding their chickens (chickens here on -Talbor, three dozen long light years from Earth!), strip off her tunic -and try to scrub the grime from her body while he looked at her. And -if it were warm she'd prepare their simple dinner half-naked, with no -thought for modesty, until he knew every plane, every curve of her body -and realized it was a body strong for work and not soft for play, a -body good for bearing children, a body which could work all day in the -fields like a machine but which would never lose the grit from its -pores. - -"I didn't mean anything by it. Forget what I said, Marie." Marsden went -to the clothing rack and took down his one good suit. He looked again -at Marie, then closed his eyes and let a growing eagerness engulf him. - -The ship from Earth was coming. Not the ship with more farm machinery, -not the battered freighter which reached Talbor twice every year, but -a tourist ship--the first one in Marsden's memory. There would be -real Earth people on it, men and women. He thought deliciously of the -women, wasp-waisted, high-breasted, lithe-legged and delicate. Marie -would seem so plain against them, so tragically unfeminine--unless the -pictures lied. Born on Talbor, Marsden had never seen a real woman of -Earth. - - * * * * * - -Maybe Marsden would feel more inclined to watch the patterned years -drag by on Talbor if he just once saw the women of Earth. He never told -this to Marie, for she wouldn't understand. - -"We'd better hurry," she said, "or we won't get to town till after the -ship comes in." - -Marsden nodded. "Like to see it land. Everyone will be there, I'll bet." - -"I suppose so. It's a great deal of trouble, if you ask me." - -"Trouble? Don't you want to see the people of Earth?" There it was -again--Marsden felt an argument brewing. Marie spoke like an old woman, -but she was only twenty-five. You couldn't blame her, though, and every -time Marsden's thoughts took that tack he felt sorry for his wife. She -had known nothing but Talbor all her life. - -"They're people," said Marie. "Just folks." But she carefully removed -the frilly dress which had hung near Marsden's suit on the rack and -examined it critically. - -"You're going to wear that?" - -"What's wrong with it?" - -"Nothing. You haven't put it on since we got married, that's all." - -"We can't scare the Earth people off with a lot of tunics and -coveralls." - -"Better get dressed," said Marsden, chuckling with grim amusement as -Marie struggled with the unfamiliar garment. Marsden's own starched -collar threatened to choke him, but the women of Earth would expect it. - -"What's so funny, Harry?" - -"There must be an easier way to climb into that thing. You look so -funny." - -Marie's back was toward him. She took the dress off and threw it across -the bed. "All right, I won't wear it. I won't wear anything. I'm not -going." - -"Now, Marie." - -"Don't you 'now' me. I'll stay right here." - -"I was joking," said Marsden, squirming uncomfortably inside his collar. - -Marie flung the dress from bed to floor. "You can throw it out, for all -I care. Or give it away." - -"Thank you, I'll stay here." - -"For crying out loud!" Marsden said in exasperation. "This is the -biggest thing to hit Talbor in years. The Earth people are coming to -visit us and you want to stay home." - -"They probably will make fun of us." - -"If we act like bumpkins they will. If we act--well, sophisticated, -they won't." - -"I'm not sophisticated." Marie sat down on the bed where her dress had -been, drew her legs up, wrapped her arms around her knees. "Do I look -sophisticated?" - -"Put the dress on." - -"I've never been off Talbor, never. We have one town, two hundred -people on seventy or eighty farms. Is it my fault I wasn't born on -Earth? Do you think I would have married you if I had much choice?" - -"Oh," said Marsden. "I see." - -Marie stared at him and shrugged her bare shoulders. "I'm sorry. I -didn't mean that, Harry. But you don't see. Talbor is all right for you -because you're a man and you like to work like that. Don't you think -I'd rather be small and attractive, instead of--" - -"I think you're very attractive." - -"That's a lie. I know how you and Charlie Adcock get together and -look at those magazines with pictures of Earth women. Your tongues -practically hang out." - -"You've been spying on us." - -"Really, Harry. Is looking at a magazine so secret I'm not permitted to -watch? Why don't you treat me like an equal, anyway? But no, you think -of the women of Earth. Well, let me tell you this, Harry Marsden: I'm -stronger than them, I can work harder and I'll probably live longer and -have more kids. What do you say to that?" - -"I'm going into Talbor City. If you don't want to see them, I do." - -"Watch that collar doesn't strangle you along the way." - -"I'll get used to it," said Marsden, running a thick finger between -stiff cloth and raw skin. - -"Your face is getting red." - -"That's all right." - -"Red as a beet." - -"Shut up." - -"I'll bet you find it hard to breathe." - -"Shut up!" - -"Try and make me." Marie got off the bed, and when Marsden made a -threatening gesture he thought she would run away. Instead, she leaped -at him, got her strong fingers under the collar and yanked. The stiff -collar burst open, the entire shirt-front ripped. Marie began to laugh. - -Marsden went for her with murder in his eyes, but at that moment there -came a roaring overhead like a dozen summer storms rolled into one, -booming and crashing in the sky over their cabin. Talbor's sullen -orange sun had almost set, but bright light flashed in through the -window, blinding them. - -"I ought to beat you," said Marsden. But he opened the door and went -outside into the strong, hot wind which had stirred over their rocky -farmland and flapped the torn ends of his shirt against his chest. - -The spaceship from Earth had arrived on Talbor. - - * * * * * - -Talbor City's one street, dry and dusty from the long day and hot sun, -was ablaze with light. Marsden had never seen so many electric lights -lit at once, not even on Saturday nights. Even as he entered the city -from the north, taking off his torn shirt and discarding it because no -shirt seemed better than a damaged one, he heard the singing. - -Charlie Adcock's deep, off-key voice rose stridently above the others, -singing a song which was popular among the men of Talbor, but which the -women hated. - - I want my arms around - A slim, small girl of Earth. - If she don't come to me - I think I'll have to die - For the slim, small girl of Earth. - -"Well, Harry! Thought you'd never get here." - -"I had some things to do," Marsden lied. - -"They already landed. They're here on Talbor. Here. They went to the -hotel right away, of course. First time the hotel's been used since the -last freighter crew decided to stay overnight. The mayor's declared a -holiday. Nobody's working tomorrow." - -"Me and Marie got to work," said Marsden, realizing he might be able to -make peace with his wife after a day in the field. - -"You ain't serious." - -Marsden said, "How many of them came?" - -"About twenty, half of them women, Harry. You should see the women, -Harry. They wear real frilly things, like you never even saw on -Talbor. They're beautiful, friend. You _know_ it. I mean beautiful all -over. Hair fixed like it would take weeks to unravel. Belly's so thin -you could get your fingers around them. Straight, slim legs, not a -muscle on them. Such white skin you'd swear it was made out of milk. -And the way they walked, Harry--so delicate they could have run across -a field of fresh eggs without breaking a shell." - -"I think I'll spend the night in town," said Marsden, forgetting all -about Marie. - -"Oh, didn't Marie come to town with you?" - -Marsden shook his head without talking. - -"Janie didn't come neither. Say now, that's all right, Harry. That sure -is all right. Leave the wife at home on a night like this. You know -what? I think I'll take a room right there in the hotel and maybe even -get to eat breakfast with the women of Earth. What do you say, Harry?" - -"Suits me." Marsden's mind formed a brief image of Marie trying -awkwardly to fit into the dress--to please me, he suddenly -realized--and then the image faded. With Charlie Adcock he pushed -through the crowd on the hotel steps. - - * * * * * - -Marsden felt breakfast, heavy mouthful by mouthful, forming an -uncomfortable lump inside his chest. It was a long table big enough for -thirty people, with the men and women of Earth chatting comfortably -on all sides of it, their gay clothing making the dining room appear -intolerably drab. Marsden had been on the verge of forgetting breakfast -entirely, for when he reached the dining room he found all the seats -at the table were taken except one between two delicate, wasp-waisted -women of Earth. But Charlie Adcock, who was already seated, had waved -him on toward the table with a broad grin, and it was either sit down -or forever be a coward in Charlie's eyes. - -"Hello," one of the women said while Marsden fidgeted and scooped -forkfuls of bacon and eggs into his dry mouth. - -Marsden blinked. She was talking to him. - -"Good morning, Miss." - -"So you're a native of Talbor. Tell me, how do you stand it?" - -"Born here, I guess." Marsden found it difficult to talk and eat at the -same time. His face grew uncomfortably warm, his tongue seemed to swell -until he wanted to spit it out. - -"I'm Alice Cooper, Mr.--" - -Mister. No one had ever called him Mister. "Better call me Harry, -Miss. Just Harry." - -"I want you to tell me all about your primitive planet, Harry. -Everything. I've got a camera and I'm going to take pictures and write -notes about them so when I get back to Earth I can tell everyone about -this quaint planet." - -Marsden wished he had a shirt, for it wasn't right for Alice Cooper -to have to see his sun-scorched, hair-matted chest while she ate. But -Marsden felt somewhat better when he let his eyes rove to the men of -Earth. They sat tall and straight in clothing fancier than it was -right for a man to wear, but they were thin, pale and--well, a little -washed-out looking. - -"Why don't you show me around?" Alice Cooper suddenly asked him. "You -can't see a place unless a native shows it to you, and we have to leave -tonight." - -"Tonight?" - -"Of course, Harry. We have lots of planets to visit and we can't spend -more than a day on an out-of-the-way mote like Talbor." - -"Well, now, there are plenty of interesting things on Talbor." - -"Oh, I know. I know. Rustic cabins, rocky fields, stolid farmers who -work the soil all day and fall into bed exhausted at night. It's all -very thrilling." - -"We have some mighty nice scenery," Marsden told her. "Madison falls -are two-hundred feet high, and we've got some mountains that--" - -"Certainly, Harry. But I can see that sort of thing just anyplace. I -want you to show me your farm, your fields. How you people of Talbor -can get by on this rocky, God-forsaken place I'll never know. Why your -parents came here I could never figure out." - -He stood up awkwardly. "I guess--well...." - -Alice Cooper rose to her feet in a liquid motion beautiful to behold. -The top of her head came up to his shoulders and she reached out with -one small, dainty hand and touched his upper arm. - -"My, but you have big muscles." - -Marsden smiled. - -"You need them in this grim, dreary place, of course. You probably wish -you didn't. You probably would rather be thin and wear glasses maybe -and spend most of your time in an air-cooled office and do things like -that." - -"I don't know. A man would grow bored working in an office." - -"See?" Alice Cooper cried. "See? I just knew I'd love Talbor. You're so -primitive. Why, you're practically--Cro-Magnon. Come on outside, Harry. -I want to take your picture." - -She took his big hand and led him to the door. Marsden looked back -uncomfortably and saw Charlie Adcock off in a corner with two of the -women of Earth, talking avidly. Strangely, he thought Charlie was -scowling about something. - -Talbor's strong orange sunlight made him squint while Alice Cooper -said: "Tremendous place for a camera enthusiast. I hear it never rains -around here. Surprising this place isn't a desert, don't you think?" - -"It rains when it has to." - -"Here. Stand over here. Yes, facing the sun. Can you do something to -show you're almost--almost ancestral?" - -"I don't understand, Miss." - -"Goodness, I mean your muscles. Flex them. Use them to do something -like lifting a heavy object. Break something if you want to. I'm sure -those muscles are good for something besides weeding your fields or -pulling a plow." - -Marsden began to feel foolish but obliged her with a handstand. He lost -his balance, though, before she could take the picture and tumbled flat -on his back in the dusty street, landing so hard he saw stars. - - * * * * * - -A couple of men who had been watching from the hotel steps snickered. -"I didn't know Marsden was an acrobat." - -"His old lady claims she's going to sell him to the interstellar circus -when it comes around." - -"What do you say we give him a hand?" - -Marsden sat up, rubbed his head. One of the men came over and offered -his arm. Cat-quick, Marsden leaped to his feet and thrust the man away -from him so hard that he stumbled back, crashed against the bottom -steps and fell. Something clicked, and Alice Cooper squealed excitedly: - -"I got it! That was perfect, Harry. Thank you ever so much. I caught it -just after you started to shove him and now when my friends see this -they'll know Talbor is a primitive place. Are there many murders here?" - -"I've never heard of one," said Harry, dusting his trousers off. "We're -too busy for crime, I guess." - -"How terribly dull. Statistics show that more advanced societies are -prone to higher crime rates, particularly crimes of passion, since -everyone is high strung and capable of flying off the handle as the -expression goes. Did you ever think of committing a crime of passion, -Harry?" - -She stood there, small and frail in the sunlight, delicately, lushly -curved. She wet her lips and they were very red in the sunlight and -against her pale white face. - -"No," said Marsden thickly. "I'd better take you back inside to your -friends, maybe." - -"Why, don't be ridiculous. See, they're all outside anyway." - -Marsden's gaze took in Talbor City's one street. The crowds had thinned -considerably; people moved off toward the outskirts and the farmlands -in twos and threes, the Earth people scattered among them and going -to see Talbor with them. Marsden felt lost and alone and a little -frightened, for he knew he would go off into the country-side with -Alice Cooper in another moment, and he hardly trusted himself. - -"They're not my friends, Harry. We're traveling together, but we hardly -know each other. You don't just make friends with anyone, it isn't -civilized. People are always out to get you, to trick you, to make -fun of you and take advantage of you. Oh, you've got to be careful, I -always say. Shall we see Talbor now?" - -"I should go home and start plowing." - -"I'm leaving tonight, Harry." Her hand slipped under his arm and -nestled there. His bare arm tingled. - -"What would you like to see?" he asked uncomfortably. - - * * * * * - -"Everyone has a different crop to grow," Marsden explained later. "On -my farm it's barley." - -"Just barley? It must be rather dull, growing barley all year long." - -"We have some cattle and chickens, too. But I spend most of my time -tending the irrigation ditches. Summertime it's a sunrise to sunset -job." - -"You poor man. You--" Suddenly Alice Cooper's eyes grew big. She gasped -and clutched at Marsden's arm. "Harry, over there! Ooo, Harry!" - -Marsden turned, saw a small dog bounding across the field playfully, -turning and twisting and barking at its own shadow. - -"It's nothing to be afraid of." - -"An animal, nothing to be afraid of? Harry, it's coming this way." - -The dog had seen them. Yelping, its tail wagging, it came right up to -them, nuzzling against Marsden's leg while he crouched and petted it. - -"Better take me back to town, Harry." - -"There boy, there boy." Marsden scratched the dog's ear, cuffed it -gingerly with his big hand, turned it around, thumped its rear and -watched it leap away across the rocky meadow. "Don't worry, Miss. A -little dog like that never hurt anyone." - -"I feel faint, Harry. I expected wilderness and that's what I came to -see--but animals running around loose? That's too much." - -"Dogs and men get along fine on Talbor." - -"On Earth dogs are in the zoo where they belong." Alice Cooper patted -her brow daintily with a handkerchief. "I do wish we could get out of -this sun." - -A person not liking dogs. It wasn't right, Marsden thought. And hating -the sun and the soil out of which crops grew and.... Well, he couldn't -blame Alice Cooper. Everything was so strange and new to her and she -was just plain upset. - -"I could take you to my cabin," he told her. "It's nearby." - -Alice Cooper nodded, took one step forward, turned her ankle and -tripped. She fell heavily, catching one of her high heels against the -hem of her frilly dress. There was a ripping sound and a long tear -appeared in the bottom of the dress. - -"It's ruined," said Alice Cooper in despair. - -"My wife can fix it." - -"Your what?" - -"My wife." - -"Don't tell me you get married here on Talbor? I knew this was a -primitive society, really primitive--but not to that extent. You get -married and--and stay with one partner for life, for your whole life? -Really?" - -"That's right," said Marsden. "Don't you?" - -"Well--you wouldn't understand, Harry. You just wouldn't understand. -Here, help me up." - -He got her to her feet, but her twisted ankle wouldn't support her. -"You'd better carry me." - -Marsden nodded, got one hand under her arms from behind, the other in -back of her thighs. Cradling her thus, he began to walk. She weighed -almost nothing, she was incredibly feather-light, but pleasant to the -touch and smelling, this close, of some delightful perfume. - -"You're strong," she said. - -Gulping audibly, Marsden averted his face from hers, only inches away. - - * * * * * - -When he pushed the cabin door open with one foot, Marie started to -smile at him from inside. The smile faded. "Harry. Oh. Is she--hurt or -something?" - -"Aren't you the bright one," Alice Cooper said. "I'm too lazy to walk." - -"Be quiet, Marie," Marsden said. "What's the matter with you?" - -"Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry." - -"It's to be expected," Alice Cooper declared. - -"You were gone all night, Harry." - -"He can take care of himself, I'm sure," Alice Cooper said. - -Harry frowned. "I told you to keep quiet, Marie." - -"No, let her talk, Harry. Of course he was gone all night. What's the -matter, don't you think he can take care of himself?" - -"My Harry is quite a capable man, thank you." - -"Marie!" - -"Your Harry. That's right, you are fettered to one another all your -lives. It's fantastic. Will you be a good girl and bring me something -to eat?" - -Marie nodded and soon returned with two plates of stew. It was -Marsden's favorite food and Marie had probably prepared it as a peace -offering, but two plates meant one for him and one for Alice Cooper and -Marie would go hungry. - -"I'm not in the mood to eat," said Harry, while his stomach grumbled. - -"You? Not in the mood to eat Talborian stew? I'd like to see the day. -Go ahead, I'm not hungry." - -"You're both crazy," Alice Cooper said. "Pretending you're not hungry -so the other can eat. No wonder this is such a backward place. If -someone said that to me I'd gobble the food up quick before he could -change his mind. On Earth, naturally, no one would ever say it." - -"I'll get some cold cloths for your leg," Marsden said to break the -awkward silence which followed. - -"Cloths, nothing." Alice Cooper stood up. "Did you think I really hurt -myself? I only wanted you to carry me and take me here, but if this -hefty wife of yours is here, I guess you might as well take me back to -town." - -"If I wasn't a lady ..." began Marie. - -"You? That's very good, my dear. A lady wrestler, you mean. Well, -Harry, what are you waiting for? Take me back to Talbor City, please." - -Marsden looked at his wife's plain, unpainted but still pretty face, -at the way days under the bright sun had added glowing highlights to -her red-brown hair and Alice Cooper seemed like a wilted flower by -comparison. Marsden thought of the long walk with her back to Talbor -City and wished it were over already. - - * * * * * - -The spaceship blasted off with a terrible clamor. The people of Earth, -the men and women, were gone. They had been here on Talbor only a few -hours but to Marsden it seemed much longer. He was infinitely glad they -could only stay one day. - -He met Charlie Adcock near the steps of the hotel. Charlie carried his -shirt under one arm and was scowling. "You know," he said, "songs and -pictures are funny things. They sure can fool a guy sometimes." - -"Yeah," said Marsden. - -"I don't know, Harry. I'm still glad they came. We were busting to see -something different, either to have them come here or maybe to take off -and forget all about Talbor." - -"What do you mean, forget about Talbor? Talbor's a pretty nice place. -You work all day, sure, but it's good, clean work and you know your -friends are working too, and then Saturday night you can go into town -hooting and hollering and no one cares." - -"Yeah, Harry. Sure. That's what I mean. You know what? Those women of -Earth are kind of skinny." - -"It was an accident they came when they did," said Marsden. "A lucky -accident. I like Talbor now. I wouldn't change places with anyone." - -"It's still nice looking at pictures and singing songs, I guess, if we -can forget about the real women of Earth." - -"A lucky accident," said Marsden again. "Just when we got all -starry-eyed about things that didn't matter, they came and showed us -what we really had." - -"Well, see you." - -Later, after Marsden returned to his cabin, Marie said: - -"I'll wear that dress Saturday nights if you want." - -"Fine," said Marsden. "But only Saturday nights. It's silly the rest of -the time." - -He took Marie in his arms. - - * * * * * - -Alice Cooper removed the tight corset with a sigh of relief. "The first -thing I'm going to do when we get back home is go out to the beach -somewhere and get sunburned. Swim and ride horseback, too," she told -one of her companions. "I feel all--all scrunched up." - -"Little wonder, Alice. Women weren't made to wear these tight things -and get all constricted." - -"What a job," said Alice. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it. We -still have three more planets to visit on this trip." - -"It's worth it. Sociology Central figures it out just right. When the -folks on one of the out planets get a little disgruntled with what -they've got, we're sent. They've built up a mighty splendid picture of -Earth and Earth people." - -"I know it. So we come along and do everything we can to make Earth -look like the worst sink hole in the universe. By the time we leave, -the two ideas--their own glorified impression of Earth and our warped -play-acting--kind of merge. They realize they have a pretty good thing -on their own home planet." - -"That's the way it should be, but I _still_ like Earth." - -"Me too," Alice smiled. "One of these days, though, my husband is going -to make me give up my career and raise a whole crew of children. You -know something? 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So<br /> -Earth sent a special ship—with a unique cargo.</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -October 1953<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>Marsden had filled a basin with well water and began to lather his -hands and face with soap when Marie entered their cabin. He looked -up and clucked his tongue in disapproval. "Lord," he said. "Look at -yourself."</p> - -<p>Marie scowled at him as she removed her bandanna and shook loose her -short-cropped hair. "How do you expect me to look?" Her plain but -pretty face was sweat-streaked. She wore a simple tunic which fell -halfway down her thighs and almost matched her sturdy, sun-darkened -legs in color, although sweat darkened the back of the garment and left -rings of white under the armpits where it had evaporated.</p> - -<p>"I know how I'd like you to look."</p> - -<p>"Harry Marsden, just what do you mean by that?"</p> - -<p>He had felt it for some time now, this smouldering resentment which -had wedged its way between them after only two years of marriage. He -couldn't talk to her without arguing, not after they had finished -working for the day under the broiling sun and returned, bone-weary -and stiff-muscled, to their cabin. The routine sickened him: he would -come in first, splash cold water on his face, maybe scrub up some. -Marie would follow after feeding their chickens (chickens here on -Talbor, three dozen long light years from Earth!), strip off her tunic -and try to scrub the grime from her body while he looked at her. And -if it were warm she'd prepare their simple dinner half-naked, with no -thought for modesty, until he knew every plane, every curve of her body -and realized it was a body strong for work and not soft for play, a -body good for bearing children, a body which could work all day in the -fields like a machine but which would never lose the grit from its -pores.</p> - -<p>"I didn't mean anything by it. Forget what I said, Marie." Marsden went -to the clothing rack and took down his one good suit. He looked again -at Marie, then closed his eyes and let a growing eagerness engulf him.</p> - -<p>The ship from Earth was coming. Not the ship with more farm machinery, -not the battered freighter which reached Talbor twice every year, but -a tourist ship—the first one in Marsden's memory. There would be -real Earth people on it, men and women. He thought deliciously of the -women, wasp-waisted, high-breasted, lithe-legged and delicate. Marie -would seem so plain against them, so tragically unfeminine—unless the -pictures lied. Born on Talbor, Marsden had never seen a real woman of -Earth.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Maybe Marsden would feel more inclined to watch the patterned years -drag by on Talbor if he just once saw the women of Earth. He never told -this to Marie, for she wouldn't understand.</p> - -<p>"We'd better hurry," she said, "or we won't get to town till after the -ship comes in."</p> - -<p>Marsden nodded. "Like to see it land. Everyone will be there, I'll bet."</p> - -<p>"I suppose so. It's a great deal of trouble, if you ask me."</p> - -<p>"Trouble? Don't you want to see the people of Earth?" There it was -again—Marsden felt an argument brewing. Marie spoke like an old woman, -but she was only twenty-five. You couldn't blame her, though, and every -time Marsden's thoughts took that tack he felt sorry for his wife. She -had known nothing but Talbor all her life.</p> - -<p>"They're people," said Marie. "Just folks." But she carefully removed -the frilly dress which had hung near Marsden's suit on the rack and -examined it critically.</p> - -<p>"You're going to wear that?"</p> - -<p>"What's wrong with it?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing. You haven't put it on since we got married, that's all."</p> - -<p>"We can't scare the Earth people off with a lot of tunics and -coveralls."</p> - -<p>"Better get dressed," said Marsden, chuckling with grim amusement as -Marie struggled with the unfamiliar garment. Marsden's own starched -collar threatened to choke him, but the women of Earth would expect it.</p> - -<p>"What's so funny, Harry?"</p> - -<p>"There must be an easier way to climb into that thing. You look so -funny."</p> - -<p>Marie's back was toward him. She took the dress off and threw it across -the bed. "All right, I won't wear it. I won't wear anything. I'm not -going."</p> - -<p>"Now, Marie."</p> - -<p>"Don't you 'now' me. I'll stay right here."</p> - -<p>"I was joking," said Marsden, squirming uncomfortably inside his collar.</p> - -<p>Marie flung the dress from bed to floor. "You can throw it out, for all -I care. Or give it away."</p> - -<p>"Thank you, I'll stay here."</p> - -<p>"For crying out loud!" Marsden said in exasperation. "This is the -biggest thing to hit Talbor in years. The Earth people are coming to -visit us and you want to stay home."</p> - -<p>"They probably will make fun of us."</p> - -<p>"If we act like bumpkins they will. If we act—well, sophisticated, -they won't."</p> - -<p>"I'm not sophisticated." Marie sat down on the bed where her dress had -been, drew her legs up, wrapped her arms around her knees. "Do I look -sophisticated?"</p> - -<p>"Put the dress on."</p> - -<p>"I've never been off Talbor, never. We have one town, two hundred -people on seventy or eighty farms. Is it my fault I wasn't born on -Earth? Do you think I would have married you if I had much choice?"</p> - -<p>"Oh," said Marsden. "I see."</p> - -<p>Marie stared at him and shrugged her bare shoulders. "I'm sorry. I -didn't mean that, Harry. But you don't see. Talbor is all right for you -because you're a man and you like to work like that. Don't you think -I'd rather be small and attractive, instead of—"</p> - -<p>"I think you're very attractive."</p> - -<p>"That's a lie. I know how you and Charlie Adcock get together and -look at those magazines with pictures of Earth women. Your tongues -practically hang out."</p> - -<p>"You've been spying on us."</p> - -<p>"Really, Harry. Is looking at a magazine so secret I'm not permitted to -watch? Why don't you treat me like an equal, anyway? But no, you think -of the women of Earth. Well, let me tell you this, Harry Marsden: I'm -stronger than them, I can work harder and I'll probably live longer and -have more kids. What do you say to that?"</p> - -<p>"I'm going into Talbor City. If you don't want to see them, I do."</p> - -<p>"Watch that collar doesn't strangle you along the way."</p> - -<p>"I'll get used to it," said Marsden, running a thick finger between -stiff cloth and raw skin.</p> - -<p>"Your face is getting red."</p> - -<p>"That's all right."</p> - -<p>"Red as a beet."</p> - -<p>"Shut up."</p> - -<p>"I'll bet you find it hard to breathe."</p> - -<p>"Shut up!"</p> - -<p>"Try and make me." Marie got off the bed, and when Marsden made a -threatening gesture he thought she would run away. Instead, she leaped -at him, got her strong fingers under the collar and yanked. The stiff -collar burst open, the entire shirt-front ripped. Marie began to laugh.</p> - -<p>Marsden went for her with murder in his eyes, but at that moment there -came a roaring overhead like a dozen summer storms rolled into one, -booming and crashing in the sky over their cabin. Talbor's sullen -orange sun had almost set, but bright light flashed in through the -window, blinding them.</p> - -<p>"I ought to beat you," said Marsden. But he opened the door and went -outside into the strong, hot wind which had stirred over their rocky -farmland and flapped the torn ends of his shirt against his chest.</p> - -<p>The spaceship from Earth had arrived on Talbor.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Talbor City's one street, dry and dusty from the long day and hot sun, -was ablaze with light. Marsden had never seen so many electric lights -lit at once, not even on Saturday nights. Even as he entered the city -from the north, taking off his torn shirt and discarding it because no -shirt seemed better than a damaged one, he heard the singing.</p> - -<p>Charlie Adcock's deep, off-key voice rose stridently above the others, -singing a song which was popular among the men of Talbor, but which the -women hated.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse"><i>I want my arms around</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>A slim, small girl of Earth.</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>If she don't come to me</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>I think I'll have to die</i></div> - <div class="verse"><i>For the slim, small girl of Earth.</i></div> -</div></div> - -<p>"Well, Harry! Thought you'd never get here."</p> - -<p>"I had some things to do," Marsden lied.</p> - -<p>"They already landed. They're here on Talbor. Here. They went to the -hotel right away, of course. First time the hotel's been used since the -last freighter crew decided to stay overnight. The mayor's declared a -holiday. Nobody's working tomorrow."</p> - -<p>"Me and Marie got to work," said Marsden, realizing he might be able to -make peace with his wife after a day in the field.</p> - -<p>"You ain't serious."</p> - -<p>Marsden said, "How many of them came?"</p> - -<p>"About twenty, half of them women, Harry. You should see the women, -Harry. They wear real frilly things, like you never even saw on -Talbor. They're beautiful, friend. You <i>know</i> it. I mean beautiful all -over. Hair fixed like it would take weeks to unravel. Belly's so thin -you could get your fingers around them. Straight, slim legs, not a -muscle on them. Such white skin you'd swear it was made out of milk. -And the way they walked, Harry—so delicate they could have run across -a field of fresh eggs without breaking a shell."</p> - -<p>"I think I'll spend the night in town," said Marsden, forgetting all -about Marie.</p> - -<p>"Oh, didn't Marie come to town with you?"</p> - -<p>Marsden shook his head without talking.</p> - -<p>"Janie didn't come neither. Say now, that's all right, Harry. That sure -is all right. Leave the wife at home on a night like this. You know -what? I think I'll take a room right there in the hotel and maybe even -get to eat breakfast with the women of Earth. What do you say, Harry?"</p> - -<p>"Suits me." Marsden's mind formed a brief image of Marie trying -awkwardly to fit into the dress—to please me, he suddenly -realized—and then the image faded. With Charlie Adcock he pushed -through the crowd on the hotel steps.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Marsden felt breakfast, heavy mouthful by mouthful, forming an -uncomfortable lump inside his chest. It was a long table big enough for -thirty people, with the men and women of Earth chatting comfortably -on all sides of it, their gay clothing making the dining room appear -intolerably drab. Marsden had been on the verge of forgetting breakfast -entirely, for when he reached the dining room he found all the seats -at the table were taken except one between two delicate, wasp-waisted -women of Earth. But Charlie Adcock, who was already seated, had waved -him on toward the table with a broad grin, and it was either sit down -or forever be a coward in Charlie's eyes.</p> - -<p>"Hello," one of the women said while Marsden fidgeted and scooped -forkfuls of bacon and eggs into his dry mouth.</p> - -<p>Marsden blinked. She was talking to him.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Miss."</p> - -<p>"So you're a native of Talbor. Tell me, how do you stand it?"</p> - -<p>"Born here, I guess." Marsden found it difficult to talk and eat at the -same time. His face grew uncomfortably warm, his tongue seemed to swell -until he wanted to spit it out.</p> - -<p>"I'm Alice Cooper, Mr.—"</p> - -<p>Mister. No one had ever called him Mister. "Better call me Harry, -Miss. Just Harry."</p> - -<p>"I want you to tell me all about your primitive planet, Harry. -Everything. I've got a camera and I'm going to take pictures and write -notes about them so when I get back to Earth I can tell everyone about -this quaint planet."</p> - -<p>Marsden wished he had a shirt, for it wasn't right for Alice Cooper -to have to see his sun-scorched, hair-matted chest while she ate. But -Marsden felt somewhat better when he let his eyes rove to the men of -Earth. They sat tall and straight in clothing fancier than it was -right for a man to wear, but they were thin, pale and—well, a little -washed-out looking.</p> - -<p>"Why don't you show me around?" Alice Cooper suddenly asked him. "You -can't see a place unless a native shows it to you, and we have to leave -tonight."</p> - -<p>"Tonight?"</p> - -<p>"Of course, Harry. We have lots of planets to visit and we can't spend -more than a day on an out-of-the-way mote like Talbor."</p> - -<p>"Well, now, there are plenty of interesting things on Talbor."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know. I know. Rustic cabins, rocky fields, stolid farmers who -work the soil all day and fall into bed exhausted at night. It's all -very thrilling."</p> - -<p>"We have some mighty nice scenery," Marsden told her. "Madison falls -are two-hundred feet high, and we've got some mountains that—"</p> - -<p>"Certainly, Harry. But I can see that sort of thing just anyplace. I -want you to show me your farm, your fields. How you people of Talbor -can get by on this rocky, God-forsaken place I'll never know. Why your -parents came here I could never figure out."</p> - -<p>He stood up awkwardly. "I guess—well...."</p> - -<p>Alice Cooper rose to her feet in a liquid motion beautiful to behold. -The top of her head came up to his shoulders and she reached out with -one small, dainty hand and touched his upper arm.</p> - -<p>"My, but you have big muscles."</p> - -<p>Marsden smiled.</p> - -<p>"You need them in this grim, dreary place, of course. You probably wish -you didn't. You probably would rather be thin and wear glasses maybe -and spend most of your time in an air-cooled office and do things like -that."</p> - -<p>"I don't know. A man would grow bored working in an office."</p> - -<p>"See?" Alice Cooper cried. "See? I just knew I'd love Talbor. You're so -primitive. Why, you're practically—Cro-Magnon. Come on outside, Harry. -I want to take your picture."</p> - -<p>She took his big hand and led him to the door. Marsden looked back -uncomfortably and saw Charlie Adcock off in a corner with two of the -women of Earth, talking avidly. Strangely, he thought Charlie was -scowling about something.</p> - -<p>Talbor's strong orange sunlight made him squint while Alice Cooper -said: "Tremendous place for a camera enthusiast. I hear it never rains -around here. Surprising this place isn't a desert, don't you think?"</p> - -<p>"It rains when it has to."</p> - -<p>"Here. Stand over here. Yes, facing the sun. Can you do something to -show you're almost—almost ancestral?"</p> - -<p>"I don't understand, Miss."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Goodness, I mean your muscles. Flex them. Use them to do something -like lifting a heavy object. Break something if you want to. I'm sure -those muscles are good for something besides weeding your fields or -pulling a plow."</p> - -<p>Marsden began to feel foolish but obliged her with a handstand. He lost -his balance, though, before she could take the picture and tumbled flat -on his back in the dusty street, landing so hard he saw stars.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A couple of men who had been watching from the hotel steps snickered. -"I didn't know Marsden was an acrobat."</p> - -<p>"His old lady claims she's going to sell him to the interstellar circus -when it comes around."</p> - -<p>"What do you say we give him a hand?"</p> - -<p>Marsden sat up, rubbed his head. One of the men came over and offered -his arm. Cat-quick, Marsden leaped to his feet and thrust the man away -from him so hard that he stumbled back, crashed against the bottom -steps and fell. Something clicked, and Alice Cooper squealed excitedly:</p> - -<p>"I got it! That was perfect, Harry. Thank you ever so much. I caught it -just after you started to shove him and now when my friends see this -they'll know Talbor is a primitive place. Are there many murders here?"</p> - -<p>"I've never heard of one," said Harry, dusting his trousers off. "We're -too busy for crime, I guess."</p> - -<p>"How terribly dull. Statistics show that more advanced societies are -prone to higher crime rates, particularly crimes of passion, since -everyone is high strung and capable of flying off the handle as the -expression goes. Did you ever think of committing a crime of passion, -Harry?"</p> - -<p>She stood there, small and frail in the sunlight, delicately, lushly -curved. She wet her lips and they were very red in the sunlight and -against her pale white face.</p> - -<p>"No," said Marsden thickly. "I'd better take you back inside to your -friends, maybe."</p> - -<p>"Why, don't be ridiculous. See, they're all outside anyway."</p> - -<p>Marsden's gaze took in Talbor City's one street. The crowds had thinned -considerably; people moved off toward the outskirts and the farmlands -in twos and threes, the Earth people scattered among them and going -to see Talbor with them. Marsden felt lost and alone and a little -frightened, for he knew he would go off into the country-side with -Alice Cooper in another moment, and he hardly trusted himself.</p> - -<p>"They're not my friends, Harry. We're traveling together, but we hardly -know each other. You don't just make friends with anyone, it isn't -civilized. People are always out to get you, to trick you, to make -fun of you and take advantage of you. Oh, you've got to be careful, I -always say. Shall we see Talbor now?"</p> - -<p>"I should go home and start plowing."</p> - -<p>"I'm leaving tonight, Harry." Her hand slipped under his arm and -nestled there. His bare arm tingled.</p> - -<p>"What would you like to see?" he asked uncomfortably.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Everyone has a different crop to grow," Marsden explained later. "On -my farm it's barley."</p> - -<p>"Just barley? It must be rather dull, growing barley all year long."</p> - -<p>"We have some cattle and chickens, too. But I spend most of my time -tending the irrigation ditches. Summertime it's a sunrise to sunset -job."</p> - -<p>"You poor man. You—" Suddenly Alice Cooper's eyes grew big. She gasped -and clutched at Marsden's arm. "Harry, over there! Ooo, Harry!"</p> - -<p>Marsden turned, saw a small dog bounding across the field playfully, -turning and twisting and barking at its own shadow.</p> - -<p>"It's nothing to be afraid of."</p> - -<p>"An animal, nothing to be afraid of? Harry, it's coming this way."</p> - -<p>The dog had seen them. Yelping, its tail wagging, it came right up to -them, nuzzling against Marsden's leg while he crouched and petted it.</p> - -<p>"Better take me back to town, Harry."</p> - -<p>"There boy, there boy." Marsden scratched the dog's ear, cuffed it -gingerly with his big hand, turned it around, thumped its rear and -watched it leap away across the rocky meadow. "Don't worry, Miss. A -little dog like that never hurt anyone."</p> - -<p>"I feel faint, Harry. I expected wilderness and that's what I came to -see—but animals running around loose? That's too much."</p> - -<p>"Dogs and men get along fine on Talbor."</p> - -<p>"On Earth dogs are in the zoo where they belong." Alice Cooper patted -her brow daintily with a handkerchief. "I do wish we could get out of -this sun."</p> - -<p>A person not liking dogs. It wasn't right, Marsden thought. And hating -the sun and the soil out of which crops grew and.... Well, he couldn't -blame Alice Cooper. Everything was so strange and new to her and she -was just plain upset.</p> - -<p>"I could take you to my cabin," he told her. "It's nearby."</p> - -<p>Alice Cooper nodded, took one step forward, turned her ankle and -tripped. She fell heavily, catching one of her high heels against the -hem of her frilly dress. There was a ripping sound and a long tear -appeared in the bottom of the dress.</p> - -<p>"It's ruined," said Alice Cooper in despair.</p> - -<p>"My wife can fix it."</p> - -<p>"Your what?"</p> - -<p>"My wife."</p> - -<p>"Don't tell me you get married here on Talbor? I knew this was a -primitive society, really primitive—but not to that extent. You get -married and—and stay with one partner for life, for your whole life? -Really?"</p> - -<p>"That's right," said Marsden. "Don't you?"</p> - -<p>"Well—you wouldn't understand, Harry. You just wouldn't understand. -Here, help me up."</p> - -<p>He got her to her feet, but her twisted ankle wouldn't support her. -"You'd better carry me."</p> - -<p>Marsden nodded, got one hand under her arms from behind, the other in -back of her thighs. Cradling her thus, he began to walk. She weighed -almost nothing, she was incredibly feather-light, but pleasant to the -touch and smelling, this close, of some delightful perfume.</p> - -<p>"You're strong," she said.</p> - -<p>Gulping audibly, Marsden averted his face from hers, only inches away.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When he pushed the cabin door open with one foot, Marie started to -smile at him from inside. The smile faded. "Harry. Oh. Is she—hurt or -something?"</p> - -<p>"Aren't you the bright one," Alice Cooper said. "I'm too lazy to walk."</p> - -<p>"Be quiet, Marie," Marsden said. "What's the matter with you?"</p> - -<p>"Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry."</p> - -<p>"It's to be expected," Alice Cooper declared.</p> - -<p>"You were gone all night, Harry."</p> - -<p>"He can take care of himself, I'm sure," Alice Cooper said.</p> - -<p>Harry frowned. "I told you to keep quiet, Marie."</p> - -<p>"No, let her talk, Harry. Of course he was gone all night. What's the -matter, don't you think he can take care of himself?"</p> - -<p>"My Harry is quite a capable man, thank you."</p> - -<p>"Marie!"</p> - -<p>"Your Harry. That's right, you are fettered to one another all your -lives. It's fantastic. Will you be a good girl and bring me something -to eat?"</p> - -<p>Marie nodded and soon returned with two plates of stew. It was -Marsden's favorite food and Marie had probably prepared it as a peace -offering, but two plates meant one for him and one for Alice Cooper and -Marie would go hungry.</p> - -<p>"I'm not in the mood to eat," said Harry, while his stomach grumbled.</p> - -<p>"You? Not in the mood to eat Talborian stew? I'd like to see the day. -Go ahead, I'm not hungry."</p> - -<p>"You're both crazy," Alice Cooper said. "Pretending you're not hungry -so the other can eat. No wonder this is such a backward place. If -someone said that to me I'd gobble the food up quick before he could -change his mind. On Earth, naturally, no one would ever say it."</p> - -<p>"I'll get some cold cloths for your leg," Marsden said to break the -awkward silence which followed.</p> - -<p>"Cloths, nothing." Alice Cooper stood up. "Did you think I really hurt -myself? I only wanted you to carry me and take me here, but if this -hefty wife of yours is here, I guess you might as well take me back to -town."</p> - -<p>"If I wasn't a lady ..." began Marie.</p> - -<p>"You? That's very good, my dear. A lady wrestler, you mean. Well, -Harry, what are you waiting for? Take me back to Talbor City, please."</p> - -<p>Marsden looked at his wife's plain, unpainted but still pretty face, -at the way days under the bright sun had added glowing highlights to -her red-brown hair and Alice Cooper seemed like a wilted flower by -comparison. Marsden thought of the long walk with her back to Talbor -City and wished it were over already.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The spaceship blasted off with a terrible clamor. The people of Earth, -the men and women, were gone. They had been here on Talbor only a few -hours but to Marsden it seemed much longer. He was infinitely glad they -could only stay one day.</p> - -<p>He met Charlie Adcock near the steps of the hotel. Charlie carried his -shirt under one arm and was scowling. "You know," he said, "songs and -pictures are funny things. They sure can fool a guy sometimes."</p> - -<p>"Yeah," said Marsden.</p> - -<p>"I don't know, Harry. I'm still glad they came. We were busting to see -something different, either to have them come here or maybe to take off -and forget all about Talbor."</p> - -<p>"What do you mean, forget about Talbor? Talbor's a pretty nice place. -You work all day, sure, but it's good, clean work and you know your -friends are working too, and then Saturday night you can go into town -hooting and hollering and no one cares."</p> - -<p>"Yeah, Harry. Sure. That's what I mean. You know what? Those women of -Earth are kind of skinny."</p> - -<p>"It was an accident they came when they did," said Marsden. "A lucky -accident. I like Talbor now. I wouldn't change places with anyone."</p> - -<p>"It's still nice looking at pictures and singing songs, I guess, if we -can forget about the real women of Earth."</p> - -<p>"A lucky accident," said Marsden again. "Just when we got all -starry-eyed about things that didn't matter, they came and showed us -what we really had."</p> - -<p>"Well, see you."</p> - -<p>Later, after Marsden returned to his cabin, Marie said:</p> - -<p>"I'll wear that dress Saturday nights if you want."</p> - -<p>"Fine," said Marsden. "But only Saturday nights. It's silly the rest of -the time."</p> - -<p>He took Marie in his arms.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Alice Cooper removed the tight corset with a sigh of relief. "The first -thing I'm going to do when we get back home is go out to the beach -somewhere and get sunburned. Swim and ride horseback, too," she told -one of her companions. "I feel all—all scrunched up."</p> - -<p>"Little wonder, Alice. Women weren't made to wear these tight things -and get all constricted."</p> - -<p>"What a job," said Alice. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it. We -still have three more planets to visit on this trip."</p> - -<p>"It's worth it. Sociology Central figures it out just right. When the -folks on one of the out planets get a little disgruntled with what -they've got, we're sent. They've built up a mighty splendid picture of -Earth and Earth people."</p> - -<p>"I know it. So we come along and do everything we can to make Earth -look like the worst sink hole in the universe. By the time we leave, -the two ideas—their own glorified impression of Earth and our warped -play-acting—kind of merge. They realize they have a pretty good thing -on their own home planet."</p> - -<p>"That's the way it should be, but I <i>still</i> like Earth."</p> - -<p>"Me too," Alice smiled. "One of these days, though, my husband is going -to make me give up my career and raise a whole crew of children. You -know something? 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