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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: Earthmen Die Hard! - -Author: Richard O. Lewis - -Release Date: September 15, 2021 [eBook #66312] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EARTHMEN DIE HARD! *** - - - - - - A particularly virulent germ-life infested - the third planet of Sol. It was obvious the world - had to be decontaminated. But the aliens found-- - - Earthmen Die Hard! - - By Richard O. Lewis - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - June 1954 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -They climbed the hill together, arm in arm. At the crest, they stopped -and looked back into the moon-brightened valley where the thin needle -of metal pointed skyward. - -The night wind blew her dress tightly about her slim legs, and she -reached a hand to her head to keep the blonde curls from whipping about -her face. - -He put his arm about her waist, squeezed her gently. "Only a few more -hours to wait," he said, reassuringly. - - * * * * * - -The great ship from beyond the Galaxy drew alongside the tiny planet, -matched its orbit, cut its drive, and drifted slightly toward the lone -moon. The ship was nearly as large as the planet itself, but there was -no interchange of gravity between the two bodies, for the ship was of a -substance made beyond the stars. - -Inspector Ryt looked at his sky chart. Yes, it was Sol III. Then he -looked through the port hole at his left and adjusted the lens. Then he -swore by the Seven Sister Suns of Sagittarius. - -The lens showed him the moonlit side of the planet. There were lights -there, little rows of lights forming checkered patterns in various -areas. And there were other lights, greater lights which flickered -viciously among the patterns, leaving squat, circular clouds above them. - -Ryt's cheeks puffed out in uncontrollable wrath. "Contaminated!" he -bellowed. "And they are warring on each other!" - -He turned from the lens, his gross body glowing in red anger. -"Krembyl!" he screamed. "Krembyl!" - -The door at the far side of the room swung open, and the entity called -Krembyl fluttered in. "Yes?" he asked, his body trembling at the manner -in which his name had rung out. - -"Your records show Sol III as sterile. Decontaminated!" - -"Y-yes, sir," Krembyl stammered. "I--I took care of it myself. Just -a--a few days ago...." - -"Look!" shouted Inspector Ryt. "Look for yourself!" - -Krembyl went hesitantly to the lens and adjusted himself before it. He -saw the sparkling lights below, the flashes, the tiny clouds, and his -body went pale pink with the shame of defeat. - -"I--I am sorry, sir." He turned from the instrument, his pale pink -fading to an ashen gray. "I just don't understand it. I have renovated -the planet several times...." - -"_Several times?_" - -"Why, y-yes." Krembyl hurried to a shelf of documents along one wall, -scanned the titles briefly selected one, and returned to the desk. -"Here it is, sir. You will find my reports quite in order, sir." - -"Damn the reports!" snapped the inspector. "I want to know why this -planet hasn't been cared for properly!" He darkened his body with a -scowl. - - * * * * * - -Krembyl fumbled the document open, flipped a few pages. "Here it is, -sir. All written down, sir. All in correct order, sir. - -"_Cosmos 66, 9238_," he read. "_Malignant growth noted._ - -"_Cosmos 67, 9238 Decontamination process begun._ - -"_Method: Entire planet encircled with electrical impulses which caused -hydrogen and oxygen to unite into a heavy liquid. Process continued for -a full 40 of planet revolutions._ - -"_Result: Planet covered with the liquid to an average depth of 30 -fathoms. Contaminating element, being oxygen-breathing, could not -possibly exist under such conditions._" - -"Fool!" barked Ryt. "Some of them probably floated to the surface on -some of the buoyant vegetation. They may even have made rafts of the -vegetation. Or a boat!" - -"They are exceedingly persistent and adaptable, sir," Krembyl admitted. -"And there were other times...." He broke off to fumble through the -documented account. "Yes, here it is, all written down in correct -form...." - -"Damn the reports!" snapped the inspector. "Tell me what happened!" - -"Well, sir," said Krembyl, scanning the pages carefully, "it was back -in 9237. I noticed the malignancy and took proper measures. I took -the planet from its orbit and into an area remote from the Sol unit. -There, in the intense cold, the polar caps grew larger and larger until -they finally extended over the land portions. Even the middle belt -became frigid. Then I swung the planet back near Sol and let it soak in -tropical heat. I subjected the planet to this treatment three--or was -it four?--times before placing it back permanently in its orbit." - -"Dolt!" said Ryt. "They probably hid away in deep crevices. Probably -remained alive through the treatment by eating each other!" He looked -at the unhappy Krembyl for a devastating minute. "You should have used -fire. _Burned them out!_" - -"But I _did_, sir!" Krembyl said, hurriedly. "I _did_!" He fumbled -rapidly through the pages. "Here it is, right here! All written out! - -"_Nebula 42, 9235. Persistence of malignant contamination noted...._" - -He broke off abruptly as the inspector's body turned to brittle -obsidion. - -"H-m-mm.... A-hh.... Well, sir, finding them confined in an area of -particularly lush vegetation, I burned them out, chased them with fire -into arid regions, and swept the garden of plant growth completely away -where they could not find it again." - -"But it is obvious that you failed! Even if two of them succeeded in -escaping...." - -"And before that, sir," Krembyl hurried on. "Before that, I shook the -land masses violently, rent great fissures that permitted the gasses -and flames to leap out from the central core and spread destruction. I -submerged huge infected areas into the depths of the seas, and brought -up new land masses, fresh and clean, into the light of Sol. I even...." - -"Enough! Enough!" Ryt hit the desk before him a ponderous blow. -"Silence, fool, while I think!" - - * * * * * - -Krembyl turned a sickly shade of green and let the document close in -weary hands. - -Sol III had been a particularly painful lancet in his side, even more -so than had yet been guessed. He hoped the inspector would probe no -deeper. But even as his hopes kindled, they became but ashes. - -"There are a few more things I do not understand about this," Inspector -Ryt was saying. "When this planet was formed from the elements of -space, there was no contamination. It was virgin. And, yet, it is now -contaminated. Why?" - -Krembyl felt his inners churning fearfully. His whole body was so -filled with trembling that he could not bring himself to fashion words. - -Ryt's body grew blacker in the silence. "_Why?_" The word was lightning -from the Stygian depths. "WHY?" - -Krembyl's body rent asunder, and the effort of reknitting himself so -weakened him that his voice was scarcely a whisper. "They--they came -from Sol V, sir." - -The thunderous blow upon the desk top mingled with Ryt's bellow of -fury. Together, the sounds shook the room and nearly disintegrated -Krembyl's hastily reassembled body. - -"Dolt! Ass!" screamed Ryt, his body assuming the blackness of the dust -cloud of Orion. "You failed to stop them on Sol V! You not only let -them blow the planet into tiny bits, but you also let them escape to -Sol III! And here all your efforts of extermination have failed again -and again!" - -He wheeled to look through the lens again. Three brilliant flashes, -greater than the others, sparkled almost simultaneously upon the -planet's troubled surface, sent up mushrooms of dust and shattered -atoms. "And is this what happened on Sol V?" - -"Y-yes," stammered Krembyl. "The same thing. Just before ... just -before...." - -He could not bring himself to complete the statement. - -Ryt leaped from the seat at the desk, his body black and bloated. -"Then there is not a moment to lose! Exterminate before this planet is -destroyed! And let none escape!" - -"But, sir," pleaded Krembyl, "I have tried everything--fire, floods, -ice...." - -"Then try something else!" Ryt roared. - -Krembyl drifted slowly towards the door. - -"Wait!" - -Krembyl stopped obediently. - -"What about Sol IV?" - -"Oh, Sol IV is all right, sir." Krembyl brightened a shade as he -turned. "There is not the slightest trace of contamination. That planet -must have been on the far side of Sol when--when they escaped Sol V. -I am certain, sir, you will find the rest of the system quite in -order...." - -"Enough! Begin the extermination! And this time employ drastic -measures. Take the planet to the rim of Sol itself and bake it to a -crisp before they infest the entire galaxy." - -"Yes, sir. Immediately, sir." Krembyl turned again to the door, -thankful his fate had not been worse. - -"And don't fail this time!" warned Ryt. "If you lose Sol III as you -lost Sol V, I'll see to it that you put them both back together again, -piece by piece, if it takes you six eons beyond your retirement age!" - - * * * * * - -The moon, with its strange accompanying cloud, had nearly set. The blue -of the eastern sky was fading into apple-green. There was a roaring -swish of sound, a shattering blast of energy, a whistling sigh, then -a remote whisper. The needle-like structure from the valley became a -flickering pin point in the sky. - -The girl leaned her blonde head against the shoulder of the man beside -her. "We--we are free?" Her voice was but a whisper. - -He adjusted the ra-vis to get a clearer view of Earth and its -surrounding space. The view was but slightly distorted by the hot gases -of the stern tubes. "Yes," he said, struggling to keep his nervousness -from playing havoc with his vocal cords. "Free. Free from a mad world!" -He squeezed her hand reassuringly, his eyes intent upon the screen. - -Something had gone wrong. The earth had slid to one edge of the screen. -He readjusted the ra-vis. The space-cloud of black that had hovered -near the moon that night had also shifted its position. It was now -between the earth and the sun, and the earth seemed to be following -it.... The furrow between his dark brows deepened, but he said nothing. - -"Just think of it!" she said, her voice a song. "Mars! And a brave new -world!" - -He put an arm about her shoulders and took his eyes from the screen. -It was absurd to think the earth was moving sunward. It was probably -merely due to some space aberration.... - -"Yes," he said, picking up her enthusiasm. 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Lewis</h2> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -June 1954<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They climbed the hill together, arm in arm. At the crest, they stopped -and looked back into the moon-brightened valley where the thin needle -of metal pointed skyward.</p> - -<p>The night wind blew her dress tightly about her slim legs, and she -reached a hand to her head to keep the blonde curls from whipping about -her face.</p> - -<p>He put his arm about her waist, squeezed her gently. "Only a few more -hours to wait," he said, reassuringly.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The great ship from beyond the Galaxy drew alongside the tiny planet, -matched its orbit, cut its drive, and drifted slightly toward the lone -moon. The ship was nearly as large as the planet itself, but there was -no interchange of gravity between the two bodies, for the ship was of a -substance made beyond the stars.</p> - -<p>Inspector Ryt looked at his sky chart. Yes, it was Sol III. Then he -looked through the port hole at his left and adjusted the lens. Then he -swore by the Seven Sister Suns of Sagittarius.</p> - -<p>The lens showed him the moonlit side of the planet. There were lights -there, little rows of lights forming checkered patterns in various -areas. And there were other lights, greater lights which flickered -viciously among the patterns, leaving squat, circular clouds above them.</p> - -<p>Ryt's cheeks puffed out in uncontrollable wrath. "Contaminated!" he -bellowed. "And they are warring on each other!"</p> - -<p>He turned from the lens, his gross body glowing in red anger. -"Krembyl!" he screamed. "Krembyl!"</p> - -<p>The door at the far side of the room swung open, and the entity called -Krembyl fluttered in. "Yes?" he asked, his body trembling at the manner -in which his name had rung out.</p> - -<p>"Your records show Sol III as sterile. Decontaminated!"</p> - -<p>"Y-yes, sir," Krembyl stammered. "I—I took care of it myself. Just -a—a few days ago...."</p> - -<p>"Look!" shouted Inspector Ryt. "Look for yourself!"</p> - -<p>Krembyl went hesitantly to the lens and adjusted himself before it. He -saw the sparkling lights below, the flashes, the tiny clouds, and his -body went pale pink with the shame of defeat.</p> - -<p>"I—I am sorry, sir." He turned from the instrument, his pale pink -fading to an ashen gray. "I just don't understand it. I have renovated -the planet several times...."</p> - -<p>"<i>Several times?</i>"</p> - -<p>"Why, y-yes." Krembyl hurried to a shelf of documents along one wall, -scanned the titles briefly selected one, and returned to the desk. -"Here it is, sir. You will find my reports quite in order, sir."</p> - -<p>"Damn the reports!" snapped the inspector. "I want to know why this -planet hasn't been cared for properly!" He darkened his body with a -scowl.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Krembyl fumbled the document open, flipped a few pages. "Here it is, -sir. All written down, sir. All in correct order, sir.</p> - -<p>"<i>Cosmos 66, 9238</i>," he read. "<i>Malignant growth noted.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>Cosmos 67, 9238 Decontamination process begun.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>Method: Entire planet encircled with electrical impulses which caused -hydrogen and oxygen to unite into a heavy liquid. Process continued for -a full 40 of planet revolutions.</i></p> - -<p>"<i>Result: Planet covered with the liquid to an average depth of 30 -fathoms. Contaminating element, being oxygen-breathing, could not -possibly exist under such conditions.</i>"</p> - -<p>"Fool!" barked Ryt. "Some of them probably floated to the surface on -some of the buoyant vegetation. They may even have made rafts of the -vegetation. Or a boat!"</p> - -<p>"They are exceedingly persistent and adaptable, sir," Krembyl admitted. -"And there were other times...." He broke off to fumble through the -documented account. "Yes, here it is, all written down in correct -form...."</p> - -<p>"Damn the reports!" snapped the inspector. "Tell me what happened!"</p> - -<p>"Well, sir," said Krembyl, scanning the pages carefully, "it was back -in 9237. I noticed the malignancy and took proper measures. I took -the planet from its orbit and into an area remote from the Sol unit. -There, in the intense cold, the polar caps grew larger and larger until -they finally extended over the land portions. Even the middle belt -became frigid. Then I swung the planet back near Sol and let it soak in -tropical heat. I subjected the planet to this treatment three—or was -it four?—times before placing it back permanently in its orbit."</p> - -<p>"Dolt!" said Ryt. "They probably hid away in deep crevices. Probably -remained alive through the treatment by eating each other!" He looked -at the unhappy Krembyl for a devastating minute. "You should have used -fire. <i>Burned them out!</i>"</p> - -<p>"But I <i>did</i>, sir!" Krembyl said, hurriedly. "I <i>did</i>!" He fumbled -rapidly through the pages. "Here it is, right here! All written out!</p> - -<p>"<i>Nebula 42, 9235. Persistence of malignant contamination noted....</i>"</p> - -<p>He broke off abruptly as the inspector's body turned to brittle -obsidion.</p> - -<p>"H-m-mm.... A-hh.... Well, sir, finding them confined in an area of -particularly lush vegetation, I burned them out, chased them with fire -into arid regions, and swept the garden of plant growth completely away -where they could not find it again."</p> - -<p>"But it is obvious that you failed! Even if two of them succeeded in -escaping...."</p> - -<p>"And before that, sir," Krembyl hurried on. "Before that, I shook the -land masses violently, rent great fissures that permitted the gasses -and flames to leap out from the central core and spread destruction. I -submerged huge infected areas into the depths of the seas, and brought -up new land masses, fresh and clean, into the light of Sol. I even...."</p> - -<p>"Enough! Enough!" Ryt hit the desk before him a ponderous blow. -"Silence, fool, while I think!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Krembyl turned a sickly shade of green and let the document close in -weary hands.</p> - -<p>Sol III had been a particularly painful lancet in his side, even more -so than had yet been guessed. He hoped the inspector would probe no -deeper. But even as his hopes kindled, they became but ashes.</p> - -<p>"There are a few more things I do not understand about this," Inspector -Ryt was saying. "When this planet was formed from the elements of -space, there was no contamination. It was virgin. And, yet, it is now -contaminated. Why?"</p> - -<p>Krembyl felt his inners churning fearfully. His whole body was so -filled with trembling that he could not bring himself to fashion words.</p> - -<p>Ryt's body grew blacker in the silence. "<i>Why?</i>" The word was lightning -from the Stygian depths. "WHY?"</p> - -<p>Krembyl's body rent asunder, and the effort of reknitting himself so -weakened him that his voice was scarcely a whisper. "They—they came -from Sol V, sir."</p> - -<p>The thunderous blow upon the desk top mingled with Ryt's bellow of -fury. Together, the sounds shook the room and nearly disintegrated -Krembyl's hastily reassembled body.</p> - -<p>"Dolt! Ass!" screamed Ryt, his body assuming the blackness of the dust -cloud of Orion. "You failed to stop them on Sol V! You not only let -them blow the planet into tiny bits, but you also let them escape to -Sol III! And here all your efforts of extermination have failed again -and again!"</p> - -<p>He wheeled to look through the lens again. Three brilliant flashes, -greater than the others, sparkled almost simultaneously upon the -planet's troubled surface, sent up mushrooms of dust and shattered -atoms. "And is this what happened on Sol V?"</p> - -<p>"Y-yes," stammered Krembyl. "The same thing. Just before ... just -before...."</p> - -<p>He could not bring himself to complete the statement.</p> - -<p>Ryt leaped from the seat at the desk, his body black and bloated. -"Then there is not a moment to lose! Exterminate before this planet is -destroyed! And let none escape!"</p> - -<p>"But, sir," pleaded Krembyl, "I have tried everything—fire, floods, -ice...."</p> - -<p>"Then try something else!" Ryt roared.</p> - -<p>Krembyl drifted slowly towards the door.</p> - -<p>"Wait!"</p> - -<p>Krembyl stopped obediently.</p> - -<p>"What about Sol IV?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, Sol IV is all right, sir." Krembyl brightened a shade as he -turned. "There is not the slightest trace of contamination. That planet -must have been on the far side of Sol when—when they escaped Sol V. -I am certain, sir, you will find the rest of the system quite in -order...."</p> - -<p>"Enough! Begin the extermination! And this time employ drastic -measures. Take the planet to the rim of Sol itself and bake it to a -crisp before they infest the entire galaxy."</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir. Immediately, sir." Krembyl turned again to the door, -thankful his fate had not been worse.</p> - -<p>"And don't fail this time!" warned Ryt. "If you lose Sol III as you -lost Sol V, I'll see to it that you put them both back together again, -piece by piece, if it takes you six eons beyond your retirement age!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The moon, with its strange accompanying cloud, had nearly set. The blue -of the eastern sky was fading into apple-green. There was a roaring -swish of sound, a shattering blast of energy, a whistling sigh, then -a remote whisper. The needle-like structure from the valley became a -flickering pin point in the sky.</p> - -<p>The girl leaned her blonde head against the shoulder of the man beside -her. "We—we are free?" Her voice was but a whisper.</p> - -<p>He adjusted the ra-vis to get a clearer view of Earth and its -surrounding space. The view was but slightly distorted by the hot gases -of the stern tubes. "Yes," he said, struggling to keep his nervousness -from playing havoc with his vocal cords. "Free. Free from a mad world!" -He squeezed her hand reassuringly, his eyes intent upon the screen.</p> - -<p>Something had gone wrong. The earth had slid to one edge of the screen. -He readjusted the ra-vis. The space-cloud of black that had hovered -near the moon that night had also shifted its position. It was now -between the earth and the sun, and the earth seemed to be following -it.... The furrow between his dark brows deepened, but he said nothing.</p> - -<p>"Just think of it!" she said, her voice a song. "Mars! And a brave new -world!"</p> - -<p>He put an arm about her shoulders and took his eyes from the screen. -It was absurd to think the earth was moving sunward. 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