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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: Barnstormer - -Author: Tom W. Harris - -Release Date: May 15, 2021 [eBook #65348] - -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 BARNSTORMER *** - - - - - BARNSTORMER - - By Tom W. Harris - - Murph was a man to be admired, Pete knew, - for Murph had a silver rocket and a passport to - the stars. Now Murph had promised him a ride.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1957 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Careful to keep trees and bushes between himself and the cottage, the -boy legged it across the fields toward the glass rocket poised in -Johnson's pasture, glittering and slim like a dark, slender dancer. To -Pete it was all the promise in the world distilled into a pointed black -glass bottle. But to the women in the cottage.... - -He glanced back. Apparently they hadn't seen him. He had to hurry, -because he had something to ask Murph Vanderpool, the rocketman, and -sometime tomorrow the rocket would be gone. - -His grandmother and his mother would be glad when it was gone. To them -it was a monstrous and terrible symbol of something, and, like an evil -woman, most terrible because of its beauty. - -"Just can't get away from them," his grandmother had said at lunch, -gazing irefully out the window toward where it stood. She was a -stiffbacked old lady with a valentine face where something wintry mixed -with something mild. "I moved out here on the edge of a little town and -thought I'd got away from 'em--and the television's full of 'em--and -the magazines full of 'em--and now this barnstormer sets one down -practically in the backyard!" - -Pete curled his brows in a way that made the women remember his father. -"What's wrong with rockets, Grammy?" - -"No reason for them! No reason for men to want to go way off hundreds -of miles from earth, getting lost, getting killed! We had jets--we -should have been satisfied." - -She sighed, and her daughter-in-law echoed it. Looking out the window -their thoughts ran to space and rockets and their men, who had been -rocketmen and who would never come back. What was left of them was -still out there, moving eternally through lonesome space in straight -lines or circling some dead moon or planet. The gray-haired woman's -thoughts ran to the husband torn and destroyed when the early test ship -burst on the moon-run, and the other woman's mind reached grieving -toward her own husband, the gray-haired woman's son, whose ship had -turned in an instant to a molten glob when its white metal coating -suddenly peeled and it took the full, brutal hammer of the sun. - -The younger ran her fingers through Pete's spiky hair. "Petey, you're -not to see that barnstormer any more." - -"Aw--fooher! Fooner!" - -His grandmother raised her hands. "Where do they pick up that awful -slang?" - -Pete scowled out the window, thinking of the rocket, the knobs and -slings and dials within it, the feel of speed and space and war about -it, the slash-grinned young god who rode it. He had something to ask -Murph. - -"Aw fooner," he muttered. - -His mother swung him to her lap. "Shall we tell him about the surprise?" - -Pete thought he caught something odd--a nearly invisible craft or -knowingness--in the glance they traded. - -"You didn't get much for your birthday last week, Pete," his mother -beamed, "so we decided to give you a kind of late birthday party. -You're going to have that picnic on Indian Hill. It'll be an all-day -picnic, with all the youngsters you know, hunting for arrowheads and -relics. We're going in Mr. Fobey's copter." - -"Oh boy! Indian Hill! At last!" Then he sobered, thinking of paunchy, -bland-faced, nervous Mr. Fobey. - -"Will Fobey bring his air sluice?" - -"He says he will." - -"All right then. Indian Hill! Whoopee!" - -He kissed them, and went larking toward the door but his mother snagged -him. - -"I hope you aren't forgetting your chores, young man." - -"Yeah--weeding. I don't see why we don't have all ponics, like -everybody else. Gee whiz, can't I skip it just today. It's the next to -the last day for the Hester." - -"What's the Hester, for goodness sake?" - -"Why, the rocket! The glass rocket!" - -She held her son's head between her hands and held her eyes on his. -"Pete, we told you not to go near that rocket. I mean it. Stay ... -away ... from ... it! I know what I'm saying. Stay away from it!" - -He scuffled his feet. "Okay mom. Okay then. Okay." - - * * * * * - -Half an hour later he was legging it across the fields, keeping trees -and shrubs between himself and the cottage, and three quarters of an -hour later he was handing a crescent wrench to Murph Vanderpool, who -had found a loose bolt in the rig of the doube-slung pilot's cradle. -Weeding was forgotten. His nostrils were full of hexadrine, his eyes -were full of dials and levers and words like "parsecs" and "off ram--on -ram," and his head was full of dreams. - -The Hester. Ever so slightly scored along her sides with the nailhead -meteorites she had brushed rushingly aside. An imperceptible waver in -her hull where a Panasia heat shell had nearly downed her. Glamorous -witch of space. Cleopatra's needle of outer gulfs. - -He knew about her. The Federation had won the war when they began -casting rockets of the new, light, tough glass, mass-producing swarms -to oust Panasia in the battles fought in the black deeps beyond the -bounds of earth with weapons that would have destroyed both sides if -used on the home planet. And after the war thousands of the rockets had -been sold, and many had gone to the young men like Murph whom the war -had made into spacemen before they had a chance at any other business -and who did not want now, ever, to be anything but spacemen, rocketmen. -They went about the country selling rocket rides. Tradition had given -them a name from another postwar epoch: barnstormers. - -Pete handed the wrench to the barnstormer. "Which are the dark-light -controls?" - -"Holy tubes," grinned Murph, pushing the black hair from his eyes, "If -you weren't such a handy kid you'd be a nuisance. Here." He pushed a -button, and the dark hull grew clear, letting in the sunlight. Murph -pushed deeper and the hull darkened. He twirled and a long, clear -porthole appeared along the rows of seats. - -"Polaroid can keep radion or light--sunlight can be enough to kill you. -Or you can clear a place to look through." - -"Can I work it, huh?" - -"Just once." - -Pete manipulated the button. Then he held his breath, glanced at Murph, -and slipped into the pilot's cradle. It was too wide and deep but he -imagined that he filled it. He imagined the switchboard alive and -winking and his body weighing a thousand tons, then weighing nothing at -all. The Hester had passed escape velocity, cast off gravity, and earth -lay already ten thousand miles behind her. The board showed she had -slewed a little because of the slight warp in the hull. He corrected -course. Then he cut power, and the ship went driving on with nothing to -stop it at thirty thousand miles an hour. - -Murph let him sit there a full minute. Then he lifted him down. - -"Let's go outside, see if there's any business." - -There wasn't, and they lounged on a piece of canvas in the blackened -blast area. - -The band-radio around Pete's shoulder pulsed gently. He dialed it up. - -"I know where you are, Peter. I want you back here right this instant. -Your mother and I both...." - -He dialed off. - -"Anything else I can do for you, Murph?" - -"Well--you might go to Rannel's store, after awhile, and get me a -couple packs of self-lights. I'm about out of smokes." - -"Be glad to." - -Pete basked in the shared male moments. "What was it you were telling -me about hyperspace yesterday?" - -Murph told him more about hyperspace, the untapped dimension which -had to exist, the magic hole in space into which a ship would slip -someday and emerge not in new systems but new galaxies. "When we find -hyperspace and get the photon drive--then we'll really be making it." - -"Think we ever will?" - -"Sure we will." - -That was it. Sure we will. He lay and gazed into the sky. How far did -it go? Someday he would be up there. - -The radio pulsed again, and he told himself he didn't feel it. He -rolled around and looked at Murph. He might as well ask his important -question. - -"Murph--are you gonna take me up?" - -"Shoot, kid, I can't burn juice just taking one guy for a joyride." - -"How about if you get a full load except one? Couldn't I sit in?" - -Murph thought about it. "Well, you've been a lot of help and company, -and you're a smart kid, too. I'll do it." - -Pete didn't do anything so childish as leaping into the air but he -allowed himself to walk over and stroke the alluring flanks of the -Hester. He felt wonderful. And around the hull of the rocket strode his -mother. - -"Why didn't you answer us?" - -"Gosh--did you call me? Maybe my radio isn't working." - -She dialed and spoke into it. His grandmother answered. "I've got him," -said his mother, and dialed down. - -She took him by the arm and shook him. "Come along!" - -"That's scranny! I've got to get Murph cigarettes! He's going to take -me up! Ain't that right, Murph?" - -Murph had scrambled up, red and apologetic. "I'm sorry, lady--I didn't -know you wanted him home. I'm really sorry." - -"You idiot!" was all she said, flouncing by him with Pete held by the -arm. - -She shook Pete more and more angrily as they half ran toward home. Then -suddenly he felt her trembling all over, and she broke into tears. - -She held him to her fiercely and suffocatingly. "They're _not_ going to -get you. You're going to promise!" - -Bewildered and a little frightened, he pushed his head against her like -a stubborn calf and was silent. - - * * * * * - -He felt a little chastened by the time they arrived home, but then -things blew up again. Grammy pulled the trigger. Smiling, she hugged -him and said, "Cheer up, Pete--tomorrow's the picnic on Indian Hill." - -They were using Indian Hill to cancel out his last day with the Hester! -He gritted his teeth with a scrawtch that raised goose pimples even on -himself. "I won't go! It doesn't have to be tomorrow!" - -Grammy's face began to winter and his mother's face grew harder as she -said, very firmly, "It's tomorrow, and you certainly _are_ coming." - -"I won't!" he exploded, and ran out to the barn. - -He lay in the hay in the tallest now, feeling like a miserable sick -solitary cat. After awhile he dialed his radio, 29 on the eight orb, -and Murph came right in. - -"How's it goin', Murph?" - -"Oh--it's you. You in trouble?" - -"Nah--but I can't see you today. I wondered if you could take me up -tomorrow? I mean, if there's room, that is?" - -"Your Ma want you to go up?" - -"It's okay--they just wanted me for chores today. How about it?" - -"Sure, if there's room." - -"Hooray! See you tomorrow." - -"Okay, kid. And look--if you don't make it, I'll blow you a kiss." - -"What's that?" - -"I thought you knew. You know how the jet flame is? Blue. Well, if -you change the fuel mix it goes orange. That's blowing a kiss. Every -rocketman knows about it." - -"Wow! I'll be there, though. You won't have to blow me one." - -"Okay, Pete." - -"Okay, Murph." - -They dialed out. - -He lay in the hay a long time, making his plans. In the morning the -women were delighted with him. He bubbled about relics and Indian bones -and pranced and paced and kept running to the window to look for Mr. -Fobey's copter. When it settled and the port opened he whooped aboard, -the first one on, and scrambled into the baggage hold. He slammed the -little door and slid a screwdriver between the knob and the door frame. - -Up forward, he heard the others boarding. I gotta work fast, he told -himself. - -Somebody began to pound on the little door. "Petey's in there!" piped -a voice. "He won't let anybody else in!" - -He could tell it was old blabbermouth Sally Doolittle, that all the -kids called a nosey little squirt. - -"I'm gonna watch through the glass deck!" he yelled. "It's my party, -and I'm gonna watch alone." - -Crouching in the small hold, he began to work at the catches of the -unloading hatch. He wasn't sure it opened from the inside--but it had -to. He had to drop through before the copter left the ground. - -The motors started. - -He heard his mother's voice. "That's not like you, Pete. What are you -doing in there? Open this door!" - -"I'm trying," he called. "The lock's busted." - -He got the last catch loose and strained up on the hatch. As it opened -the copter lifted. He stared downward. They were high and getting -higher. He'd better drop quick. Murph wouldn't have been scared he told -himself, and plummeted through the opening. - -He hit on his toes, let his legs buckle, and rolled into a hedge. His -feet felt as though bombs had gone off under them. He lay half stunned; -waiting for the copter to get well off, then tried to stand up. - -He was able to. He tried to walk, and was able to. He began to run -across the fields, skirting trees and bushes. If the baggage door held -shut and they didn't see him above, he had plenty of time to get to -Murph and into the Hester. - - * * * * * - -He was halfway there when the copter veered and came humming back. It -came dropping toward him and he knew he was spotted. He ran stumbling -into a stretch of trees and woods, altered course and dropped behind a -big rock at the edge of the trees. There were leaves drifted against it -and he burrowed under them. Panting, sweaty and itching, with aching -legs, he watched and listened as the copter landed. - -The port opened and they poured out. "He doesn't know what he's doing," -said his mother. "We're going to find him." - -Mr. Fobey drew back a little, his rubbery face pink-creased and -nervous. "In there--in all the brush and snakes and swamp?" - -She set her jaw and touched his arm. "I'm counting on you, Mr. Fobey." - -They entered the woods, the children ranging ahead like shrill, -bloodhungry little pups, poking and peeping and rustling. Pete tried to -lie like a stone beneath the leaves. - -The adults might not have found him, but the children hunted him -eagerly and fiercely, like some huge prize Easter egg, and the sudden -screech of little Sally Doolittle skirled his discovery. - -Mr. Fobey came up first. Pete stood up, leaf-cluttered, and screamed at -him. "You're a stupid fat crot!" he shrilled. "A crot! A godamn stupid -fat crot, and leave me alone, I'm not going with you!" - -But he did go with them. - -On Indian Hill, Fobey set up his air sluice, stripping off the soil as -dust and laying it back down as dirt. They turned up flint arrowheads -and pestels and they found a buried skeleton, an orange smear on the -breast bone where a talisman bag had lain. The children cheered and -laughed and quarrelled--all but Pete. Pete climbed a tall pine. - -All afternoon he watched the black glass rocket lift high on its fine -blue skirt and streak toward the cold black place of stars, and come -dropping back like a needle that is light as a feather, to take on more -joyriders and swoop back upward. It was like watching unfolding poems -in motion. - -_I'll be a spaceman_, he told himself. _I don't care what happens, I'm -going to be a spaceman!_ He stayed in the tree all day and watched -the Hester rise and return and on the last flight, when she lifted on -a voyage that would terminate in some other part of the country in -some other field, he saw the regal blue of the jet suddenly flush to a -deep rose orange, then back to blue, and he thought of Murph and was -suddenly happy. 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Now Murph had promised him a ride....</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -October 1957<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>Careful to keep trees and bushes between himself and the cottage, the -boy legged it across the fields toward the glass rocket poised in -Johnson's pasture, glittering and slim like a dark, slender dancer. To -Pete it was all the promise in the world distilled into a pointed black -glass bottle. But to the women in the cottage....</p> - -<p>He glanced back. Apparently they hadn't seen him. He had to hurry, -because he had something to ask Murph Vanderpool, the rocketman, and -sometime tomorrow the rocket would be gone.</p> - -<p>His grandmother and his mother would be glad when it was gone. To them -it was a monstrous and terrible symbol of something, and, like an evil -woman, most terrible because of its beauty.</p> - -<p>"Just can't get away from them," his grandmother had said at lunch, -gazing irefully out the window toward where it stood. She was a -stiffbacked old lady with a valentine face where something wintry mixed -with something mild. "I moved out here on the edge of a little town and -thought I'd got away from 'em—and the television's full of 'em—and -the magazines full of 'em—and now this barnstormer sets one down -practically in the backyard!"</p> - -<p>Pete curled his brows in a way that made the women remember his father. -"What's wrong with rockets, Grammy?"</p> - -<p>"No reason for them! No reason for men to want to go way off hundreds -of miles from earth, getting lost, getting killed! We had jets—we -should have been satisfied."</p> - -<p>She sighed, and her daughter-in-law echoed it. Looking out the window -their thoughts ran to space and rockets and their men, who had been -rocketmen and who would never come back. What was left of them was -still out there, moving eternally through lonesome space in straight -lines or circling some dead moon or planet. The gray-haired woman's -thoughts ran to the husband torn and destroyed when the early test ship -burst on the moon-run, and the other woman's mind reached grieving -toward her own husband, the gray-haired woman's son, whose ship had -turned in an instant to a molten glob when its white metal coating -suddenly peeled and it took the full, brutal hammer of the sun.</p> - -<p>The younger ran her fingers through Pete's spiky hair. "Petey, you're -not to see that barnstormer any more."</p> - -<p>"Aw—fooher! Fooner!"</p> - -<p>His grandmother raised her hands. "Where do they pick up that awful -slang?"</p> - -<p>Pete scowled out the window, thinking of the rocket, the knobs and -slings and dials within it, the feel of speed and space and war about -it, the slash-grinned young god who rode it. He had something to ask -Murph.</p> - -<p>"Aw fooner," he muttered.</p> - -<p>His mother swung him to her lap. "Shall we tell him about the surprise?"</p> - -<p>Pete thought he caught something odd—a nearly invisible craft or -knowingness—in the glance they traded.</p> - -<p>"You didn't get much for your birthday last week, Pete," his mother -beamed, "so we decided to give you a kind of late birthday party. -You're going to have that picnic on Indian Hill. It'll be an all-day -picnic, with all the youngsters you know, hunting for arrowheads and -relics. We're going in Mr. Fobey's copter."</p> - -<p>"Oh boy! Indian Hill! At last!" Then he sobered, thinking of paunchy, -bland-faced, nervous Mr. Fobey.</p> - -<p>"Will Fobey bring his air sluice?"</p> - -<p>"He says he will."</p> - -<p>"All right then. Indian Hill! Whoopee!"</p> - -<p>He kissed them, and went larking toward the door but his mother snagged -him.</p> - -<p>"I hope you aren't forgetting your chores, young man."</p> - -<p>"Yeah—weeding. I don't see why we don't have all ponics, like -everybody else. Gee whiz, can't I skip it just today. It's the next to -the last day for the Hester."</p> - -<p>"What's the Hester, for goodness sake?"</p> - -<p>"Why, the rocket! The glass rocket!"</p> - -<p>She held her son's head between her hands and held her eyes on his. -"Pete, we told you not to go near that rocket. I mean it. Stay ... -away ... from ... it! I know what I'm saying. Stay away from it!"</p> - -<p>He scuffled his feet. "Okay mom. Okay then. Okay."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Half an hour later he was legging it across the fields, keeping trees -and shrubs between himself and the cottage, and three quarters of an -hour later he was handing a crescent wrench to Murph Vanderpool, who -had found a loose bolt in the rig of the doube-slung pilot's cradle. -Weeding was forgotten. His nostrils were full of hexadrine, his eyes -were full of dials and levers and words like "parsecs" and "off ram—on -ram," and his head was full of dreams.</p> - -<p>The Hester. Ever so slightly scored along her sides with the nailhead -meteorites she had brushed rushingly aside. An imperceptible waver in -her hull where a Panasia heat shell had nearly downed her. Glamorous -witch of space. Cleopatra's needle of outer gulfs.</p> - -<p>He knew about her. The Federation had won the war when they began -casting rockets of the new, light, tough glass, mass-producing swarms -to oust Panasia in the battles fought in the black deeps beyond the -bounds of earth with weapons that would have destroyed both sides if -used on the home planet. And after the war thousands of the rockets had -been sold, and many had gone to the young men like Murph whom the war -had made into spacemen before they had a chance at any other business -and who did not want now, ever, to be anything but spacemen, rocketmen. -They went about the country selling rocket rides. Tradition had given -them a name from another postwar epoch: barnstormers.</p> - -<p>Pete handed the wrench to the barnstormer. "Which are the dark-light -controls?"</p> - -<p>"Holy tubes," grinned Murph, pushing the black hair from his eyes, "If -you weren't such a handy kid you'd be a nuisance. Here." He pushed a -button, and the dark hull grew clear, letting in the sunlight. Murph -pushed deeper and the hull darkened. He twirled and a long, clear -porthole appeared along the rows of seats.</p> - -<p>"Polaroid can keep radion or light—sunlight can be enough to kill you. -Or you can clear a place to look through."</p> - -<p>"Can I work it, huh?"</p> - -<p>"Just once."</p> - -<p>Pete manipulated the button. Then he held his breath, glanced at Murph, -and slipped into the pilot's cradle. It was too wide and deep but he -imagined that he filled it. He imagined the switchboard alive and -winking and his body weighing a thousand tons, then weighing nothing at -all. The Hester had passed escape velocity, cast off gravity, and earth -lay already ten thousand miles behind her. The board showed she had -slewed a little because of the slight warp in the hull. He corrected -course. Then he cut power, and the ship went driving on with nothing to -stop it at thirty thousand miles an hour.</p> - -<p>Murph let him sit there a full minute. Then he lifted him down.</p> - -<p>"Let's go outside, see if there's any business."</p> - -<p>There wasn't, and they lounged on a piece of canvas in the blackened -blast area.</p> - -<p>The band-radio around Pete's shoulder pulsed gently. He dialed it up.</p> - -<p>"I know where you are, Peter. I want you back here right this instant. -Your mother and I both...."</p> - -<p>He dialed off.</p> - -<p>"Anything else I can do for you, Murph?"</p> - -<p>"Well—you might go to Rannel's store, after awhile, and get me a -couple packs of self-lights. I'm about out of smokes."</p> - -<p>"Be glad to."</p> - -<p>Pete basked in the shared male moments. "What was it you were telling -me about hyperspace yesterday?"</p> - -<p>Murph told him more about hyperspace, the untapped dimension which -had to exist, the magic hole in space into which a ship would slip -someday and emerge not in new systems but new galaxies. "When we find -hyperspace and get the photon drive—then we'll really be making it."</p> - -<p>"Think we ever will?"</p> - -<p>"Sure we will."</p> - -<p>That was it. Sure we will. He lay and gazed into the sky. How far did -it go? Someday he would be up there.</p> - -<p>The radio pulsed again, and he told himself he didn't feel it. He -rolled around and looked at Murph. He might as well ask his important -question.</p> - -<p>"Murph—are you gonna take me up?"</p> - -<p>"Shoot, kid, I can't burn juice just taking one guy for a joyride."</p> - -<p>"How about if you get a full load except one? Couldn't I sit in?"</p> - -<p>Murph thought about it. "Well, you've been a lot of help and company, -and you're a smart kid, too. I'll do it."</p> - -<p>Pete didn't do anything so childish as leaping into the air but he -allowed himself to walk over and stroke the alluring flanks of the -Hester. He felt wonderful. And around the hull of the rocket strode his -mother.</p> - -<p>"Why didn't you answer us?"</p> - -<p>"Gosh—did you call me? Maybe my radio isn't working."</p> - -<p>She dialed and spoke into it. His grandmother answered. "I've got him," -said his mother, and dialed down.</p> - -<p>She took him by the arm and shook him. "Come along!"</p> - -<p>"That's scranny! I've got to get Murph cigarettes! He's going to take -me up! Ain't that right, Murph?"</p> - -<p>Murph had scrambled up, red and apologetic. "I'm sorry, lady—I didn't -know you wanted him home. I'm really sorry."</p> - -<p>"You idiot!" was all she said, flouncing by him with Pete held by the -arm.</p> - -<p>She shook Pete more and more angrily as they half ran toward home. Then -suddenly he felt her trembling all over, and she broke into tears.</p> - -<p>She held him to her fiercely and suffocatingly. "They're <i>not</i> going to -get you. You're going to promise!"</p> - -<p>Bewildered and a little frightened, he pushed his head against her like -a stubborn calf and was silent.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He felt a little chastened by the time they arrived home, but then -things blew up again. Grammy pulled the trigger. Smiling, she hugged -him and said, "Cheer up, Pete—tomorrow's the picnic on Indian Hill."</p> - -<p>They were using Indian Hill to cancel out his last day with the Hester! -He gritted his teeth with a scrawtch that raised goose pimples even on -himself. "I won't go! It doesn't have to be tomorrow!"</p> - -<p>Grammy's face began to winter and his mother's face grew harder as she -said, very firmly, "It's tomorrow, and you certainly <i>are</i> coming."</p> - -<p>"I won't!" he exploded, and ran out to the barn.</p> - -<p>He lay in the hay in the tallest now, feeling like a miserable sick -solitary cat. After awhile he dialed his radio, 29 on the eight orb, -and Murph came right in.</p> - -<p>"How's it goin', Murph?"</p> - -<p>"Oh—it's you. You in trouble?"</p> - -<p>"Nah—but I can't see you today. I wondered if you could take me up -tomorrow? I mean, if there's room, that is?"</p> - -<p>"Your Ma want you to go up?"</p> - -<p>"It's okay—they just wanted me for chores today. How about it?"</p> - -<p>"Sure, if there's room."</p> - -<p>"Hooray! See you tomorrow."</p> - -<p>"Okay, kid. And look—if you don't make it, I'll blow you a kiss."</p> - -<p>"What's that?"</p> - -<p>"I thought you knew. You know how the jet flame is? Blue. Well, if -you change the fuel mix it goes orange. That's blowing a kiss. Every -rocketman knows about it."</p> - -<p>"Wow! I'll be there, though. You won't have to blow me one."</p> - -<p>"Okay, Pete."</p> - -<p>"Okay, Murph."</p> - -<p>They dialed out.</p> - -<p>He lay in the hay a long time, making his plans. In the morning the -women were delighted with him. He bubbled about relics and Indian bones -and pranced and paced and kept running to the window to look for Mr. -Fobey's copter. When it settled and the port opened he whooped aboard, -the first one on, and scrambled into the baggage hold. He slammed the -little door and slid a screwdriver between the knob and the door frame.</p> - -<p>Up forward, he heard the others boarding. I gotta work fast, he told -himself.</p> - -<p>Somebody began to pound on the little door. "Petey's in there!" piped -a voice. "He won't let anybody else in!"</p> - -<p>He could tell it was old blabbermouth Sally Doolittle, that all the -kids called a nosey little squirt.</p> - -<p>"I'm gonna watch through the glass deck!" he yelled. "It's my party, -and I'm gonna watch alone."</p> - -<p>Crouching in the small hold, he began to work at the catches of the -unloading hatch. He wasn't sure it opened from the inside—but it had -to. He had to drop through before the copter left the ground.</p> - -<p>The motors started.</p> - -<p>He heard his mother's voice. "That's not like you, Pete. What are you -doing in there? Open this door!"</p> - -<p>"I'm trying," he called. "The lock's busted."</p> - -<p>He got the last catch loose and strained up on the hatch. As it opened -the copter lifted. He stared downward. They were high and getting -higher. He'd better drop quick. Murph wouldn't have been scared he told -himself, and plummeted through the opening.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He hit on his toes, let his legs buckle, and rolled into a hedge. His -feet felt as though bombs had gone off under them. He lay half stunned; -waiting for the copter to get well off, then tried to stand up.</p> - -<p>He was able to. He tried to walk, and was able to. He began to run -across the fields, skirting trees and bushes. If the baggage door held -shut and they didn't see him above, he had plenty of time to get to -Murph and into the Hester.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He was halfway there when the copter veered and came humming back. It -came dropping toward him and he knew he was spotted. He ran stumbling -into a stretch of trees and woods, altered course and dropped behind a -big rock at the edge of the trees. There were leaves drifted against it -and he burrowed under them. Panting, sweaty and itching, with aching -legs, he watched and listened as the copter landed.</p> - -<p>The port opened and they poured out. "He doesn't know what he's doing," -said his mother. "We're going to find him."</p> - -<p>Mr. Fobey drew back a little, his rubbery face pink-creased and -nervous. "In there—in all the brush and snakes and swamp?"</p> - -<p>She set her jaw and touched his arm. "I'm counting on you, Mr. Fobey."</p> - -<p>They entered the woods, the children ranging ahead like shrill, -bloodhungry little pups, poking and peeping and rustling. Pete tried to -lie like a stone beneath the leaves.</p> - -<p>The adults might not have found him, but the children hunted him -eagerly and fiercely, like some huge prize Easter egg, and the sudden -screech of little Sally Doolittle skirled his discovery.</p> - -<p>Mr. Fobey came up first. Pete stood up, leaf-cluttered, and screamed at -him. "You're a stupid fat crot!" he shrilled. "A crot! A godamn stupid -fat crot, and leave me alone, I'm not going with you!"</p> - -<p>But he did go with them.</p> - -<p>On Indian Hill, Fobey set up his air sluice, stripping off the soil as -dust and laying it back down as dirt. They turned up flint arrowheads -and pestels and they found a buried skeleton, an orange smear on the -breast bone where a talisman bag had lain. The children cheered and -laughed and quarrelled—all but Pete. Pete climbed a tall pine.</p> - -<p>All afternoon he watched the black glass rocket lift high on its fine -blue skirt and streak toward the cold black place of stars, and come -dropping back like a needle that is light as a feather, to take on more -joyriders and swoop back upward. It was like watching unfolding poems -in motion.</p> - -<p><i>I'll be a spaceman</i>, he told himself. <i>I don't care what happens, I'm -going to be a spaceman!</i> He stayed in the tree all day and watched -the Hester rise and return and on the last flight, when she lifted on -a voyage that would terminate in some other part of the country in -some other field, he saw the regal blue of the jet suddenly flush to a -deep rose orange, then back to blue, and he thought of Murph and was -suddenly happy. 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