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VANDENBURG + + + _You've heard, I'm sure, about the two Martians who went into + a bar, saw a jukebox flashing and glittering, and said to it, + "What's a nice girl like you doing in a joint like this?" + Well, here's one about two Capellans and a slot-machine...._ + + +Toryl pointed the small crypterpreter toward the wooden, +horseshoe-shaped sign. The sign's legend was carved in bright yellow +letters. Sartan, Toryl's companion, watched up and down the open highway +for signs of life. In seconds the small cylindrical mechanism completed +the translation. + +The sign said: + + JUBILATION, U.S.A.!! + + The doggondest, cheeriest + little town in America! + +The two aliens smiled at each other. Unaccustomed to oral conversation, +they exchanged thoughts. + +"_The crypterpreter worked incredibly fast. The language is quite +simple. It would seem safe to proceed. The sign indicates +friendliness_," thought Toryl, the older of the two Capellans. + +"_Very well, Brother_," replied Sartan, "_though I still worry for the +safety of the ship_." + +"_Sartan, our instruments tell us that anyone who discovers the ship_," +Toryl explained, a trifle impatient, "_will show a remarkable degree of +curiosity before they display any hostility_." + +Sartan agreed to dismiss his worries and the two aliens began to walk +along the barren highway. Before them, at a great distance, they could +see a cluster of small frame buildings. When they had walked a hundred +feet or more they encountered another sign. + + JUBILATION, U.S.A.!! + + WELCOME, STRANGER! See America + first and begin with + JUBILATION! + +And several hundred feet further two more signs. + + THE ROTARY CLUB of Jubilation + welcomes and extends the warm + hand of friendship to you!!!! + You are now entering Paradise, + brother! + + HOWDY, STRANGER! COME RIGHT + ON IN, STAY AWHILE AND MAKE + YOURSELF TO HOME! + + --Jubilation Chamber of + Commerce-- + +As members of a peaceful race, Toryl and Sartan naturally found the +signs encouraging. They walked at a sprightly pace. + +A whirring noise behind them brought the two to a halt. They turned to +discover a pre-war Chevy choking its way along the road. The aliens +edged their way to a gulley along the side of the road. They were +confident of a friendly reception but, in the event their calculations +had been wrong, they poised themselves to make a break in the direction +of their ship. + +The ancient Chevy sputtered by. The driver was almost as ancient as the +car, a bearded fellow with a stogy stuck between his teeth and a crushed +hat on his head. + +The driver slowed down when he saw the aliens. "Howdy, strangers!" he +yelled cheerily. "Say, ain't you fellers a mite warm in them coveralls?" +He cackled merrily, put his foot to the floor and sped on by. + +Sartan looked at his companion. "_I am sorry, I should not have doubted +you, Brother. You were right. These people will welcome our visit. They +seem very cordial._" + +"_Good, Sartan. Let us continue._" + +One hundred yards further they were confronted by still another brace of +signs. They stopped once more. + + CITY LIMITS + (Gambling allowed) + + JUBILATION! WHERE TROUBLES + never come due, 'cause the + Good Lord takes a likin' to YOU! + + Where gloom and doom are outlawed + and there's never any sadness. + + Where a smile lights up the midnight + sky and gives off only gladness! + + (Gambling allowed) + +The second sign was another in the shape of a horseshoe. + + BEYOND THIS POINT YOU HAVE 4372 + FRIENDS YOU NEVER HAD BEFORE!!! + + (Gambling allowed) + +Suddenly Toryl stopped and played with several switches and dials on the +crypterpreter. + +"_What is wrong, Brother?_" asked the puzzled Sartan. + +"_I receive no direct translation for the term 'gambling'._" + +"_What is the closest term the machine gives?_" + +"_Fraternizing._" + +Sartan laughed. "_Now it is you who fret, Toryl. According to the +signpost legends 'fraternizing' would seem to be accurate._" + + * * * * * + +A steady rolling sound of passionless one-armed bandits drowned out all +other noise in Okie's Oasis Bar. As a result, Toryl and Sartan drew +little attention when they entered. Except for their blue-metallic space +suits they looked like and _were_ ordinary humans. + +They proceeded rather timidly toward the bar. Okie, the proprietor, was +on duty readying the place for the night shift. Toryl held up his hand. +The crypterpreter had already informed him that oral conversation was +the manner of communication on the strange planet. Such conversation had +long ago been abandoned on the planet Capella, but learned men such as +Toryl and Sartan were familiar with how it was done, though when they +spoke they sometimes had to halt between syllables. + +"How-dy!" Toryl flashed a wide grin at the barkeep. + +"Just hold your horses there, mister!" was Okie's sharp reply. "You +ain't the only snake in this desert. There's four customers ahead of +you!" + +Sartan transmitted an admonishing thought to his companion. "_Toryl, you +should have noticed that the man was busy. He has only two hands._" + +"_Forgive me, Brother, I was blinded by my own excitement._" + +The two Capellans waited and were soon attracted by the silver-handled +machines that seemed to have most of the customers fascinated. + +Sartan wandered over to where a small crowd of men was gathered around a +single machine. A huge man, raw-boned and crimson-faced, wearing surplus +army suntans, was operating the machine. + +The big man dropped a large coin into a slot. He gave the silver handle +a vicious snap. It made a discordant, bone-crushing sound. Three little +wheels, visible under glass, spun dizzily. Anxious, screwed-up faces +looked on as the first little wheel stopped. _Bell Fruit._ + +A collective gasp came from the small crowd. The second little wheel +stopped. _Bell Fruit._ + +Another gasp. + +Sartan touched the arm of the man operating the gambling device. "I beg +your pardon, but could you please tell me--" + +The big man wheeled around like a bear aroused from hibernation. "Hands +off, mister! You trying to jinx me?" + +The third little wheel stopped. _Lemon._ + +The crowd groaned. The big man turned on Sartan again, a wild and +furious look in his eye. "You jinxed me! Damn you, I oughta' bust you +one right in the snout!!" + +"My humble apol-o-gies, sir," the bewildered Sartan began. + +"I'll give you your humble apologies right back with my fist," roared +the gambler. + +Toryl quickly made his way through the small crowd which by now was +itching to witness a fight. "Ex-cuse me, sir, but my friend did not +real-ize--" + +"The hell he didn't!" The gambler fumed. "He was trying to jinx me, by +God! And I'm gonna teach him to keep his paws--" + +"Okay, okay, you guys, break it up!!" It was Okie, massive and mean +looking, using his barrel belly to push his way through to the two +aliens and the unlucky gambler. "What's goin' on here, Smokey?" he +inquired of the gambler. + +"Okie, I had a jackpot workin' when this dumb jerk here ups and grabs my +arm--" + +Toryl interrupted with, "My friend is sorry for what he did, sir." + +Okie stabbed a cigar into his mouth. "Who _are_ you guys anyhow? Where'd +you dig up them crazy coveralls?" + +"Sure a queer way to dress in this heat," spoke a voice from the crowd. + +This was the moment of pride that Toryl and Sartan had looked forward +to. They both grinned confident grins. "We have come to you from +Capella," he said with some exultation. + +Okie's face went blank. "Capella! Where the hell is that?" + +"Sounds like one of them damn hick towns in California," said Smokey, +the gambler. + +Toryl, somewhat deflated, but by no means defeated, hastened to +elucidate. "Capella is lo-cat-ed in the con-stell-a-tion which you call +Auriga." + +"Anybody know what the hell he's talking about?" asked the annoyed +saloonkeeper. + +Toryl and Sartan exchanged troubled glances. Sartan took up the cudgel. +"Auriga is a constellation, a star cluster, sir. It is forty-two million +light years away." + +"What in tarnation is a light year?" asked an old-timer in the group. + +Another replied, "They must be from Alaska. They got light years up +there, sometimes stays light the whole confounded year 'round." + +"That must be it," agreed Okie, "and that's why they're wearin' them +crazy suits." The saloonkeeper unloosed a grim laugh. "You can take them +arctic pajamas off now, boys. Weather's kinda warm in these parts!" + +"Hey, fellas!" a voice shot out, "didya bring any Eskimo babes down with +you?" + + * * * * * + +The crowd roared approval at the witticism. + +Toryl transmitted a depressing thought to his companion. "_I fear they +do not believe us, Sartan._" + +Sartan did not get the opportunity to answer immediately. + +"Listen, you guys," Okie pounded his fat finger into Sartan's chest. "I +want you to behave yourselves, understand? Now that means lay off the +customers while they're at the games. You wanna gamble there is plenty +of machines available. I got a respectable place, I wanna keep it that +way!" He turned and addressed the other men. "All right, boys, fun's +over! No fight today! Drink up and gamble your money away. Let's get +back to the games." + + * * * * * + +It was necessary for Toryl to use the crypterpreter to translate the +various signs along the bar. Okie saw the small cylindrical machine +sitting on the bar. His curiosity bested him. He gave it a more thorough +examination than a dog gives a fireplug. + +Some of the signs read: "DOUBLE BOURBON--$2.10" "COOL GIN RICKEY--$1.25" +"IN GOD WE TRUST, BUT NOBODY ELSE!" "RUM COLLINS--$1" "A FRIEND IN NEED +IS A FRIEND INDEED" "NO INDIANS SERVED HERE" and "SCOTCH--IMPORTED, +$1.50--DOMESTIC, $1.30." + +"Cool gin rick-ey," said Toryl. + +"Comin' right up," Okie mumbled, his attention still wrapped around the +crypterpreter. "Say, what is this gadget anyway?" + +"It is a cryp-terp-reter," Toryl beamed with pride. "It en-ables us to +un-der-stand and speak your lan-guage." + +"Aw, go on!" Okie managed a fainthearted grin, uncertain of whether his +leg was being pulled. "Come on now, tell me what it is." + +"But I have just told you, sir." + +The barkeep cursed under his breath. "Two gin rickeys, did you say?" + +"Yes." + +Okie brought the drinks. + +Sartan smiled broadly. "Thank you ex-ceed-ing-ly." + +"That'll be two-fifty." + +Toryl raised his glass as though making a toast. "Two-fif-ty!" he +repeated. + +Okie caught his arm and brought the glass down. + +"Two-fifty!" the barkeep said with grim insistence. + +Sartan pursed his lips comprehendingly. He removed a large pentagonal +piece of metal from his pocket and gave it to Okie. + +Okie took the piece between his fingers, examined it and frowned. "I +give up. What is it?" + +Sartan had to glance at Toryl for an answer. Toryl threw a switch on the +crypterpreter. + +"_Money_," Toryl silently advised him. + +"Money," said Sartan to Okie. + +"You guys hold on and don't drink up yet," growled the barkeep. He then +yelled in the direction of the blackjack table. "Hey, Nugget! Get on +over here, I need you!!" + +A wiry little man with a full, unkempt beard, hustled over to the bar. +"Nugget McDermott at yer service, Okie! What's yer pleasure?" he asked +with a sunny smile. + +"Take a look at this." Okie handed him the piece of metal. + +The old prospector turned it over in his hands, bit it and then held it +in his palm as though to judge its weight. His expert opinion was, "It's +gold, Okie," and was uttered without a shred of modesty. + +"Are you sure?" + +The old-timer was highly insulted. "Am I sure!! Why you lop-eared, +sun-stroked jackass, of course I'm sure!!! Nugget McDermott is drawed to +gold like nails to a magnet! Why when this here town was nothin' but a +patch of cactus--" + +"All right, all right," Okie waved him off, "don't get your gander up! +Go on back to the blackjack table and tell Sam to give you a drink on +the house." + +"Much obliged, Okie, much obliged," said Nugget, doffing his hat and +trotting back to the blackjack table. + +The barkeep's face was pure sunshine when he turned to the aliens again. +"Gentlemen, with this kind of a substitute you don't need money in my +place. Drink up!" + +"Thank you ex-ceed-ing-ly," said Sartan. + +Okie arbitrarily judged the gold piece to be worth ten dollars. "The +management invites you to try your luck, gentlemen. Go on give it a +whirl." + +Toryl and Sartan wore blank expressions as Okie slapped seven dollars +and fifty cents change on the bar--four silver dollars, four +half-dollars and six quarters. + +"Don't be bashful, gentlemen. Okie's machines are friendly to one and +all," said the barkeep. + + * * * * * + +Toryl removed the change and gave his companion two silver dollars, two +half-dollars and three quarters. + +"_What is the purpose of the machines?_" thought Sartan as they +approached the one-armed bandits. + +"_I suppose that is what the one called Okie wishes us to learn._" + +"_Perhaps it is some type of registration machine._" + +"_It is doubtful. The gentleman you disturbed has been at the same +machine since we arrived._" + +Sartan gripped the handle of a vacant machine. "_Do you think it might +be a kind of intelligence test?_" + +In lieu of an answer Toryl focused his attention on a small card, above +the machine, which gave the winning combinations. + +"_There is that term again._" + +"_What term?_" + +"_Gambling._" Toryl pointed to a line on the card warning minors not to +gamble. A look of perplexity fell upon his face. "_I am no longer sure +the term has anything to do with fraternizing_," he observed mentally. + +"_Let us find out._" + +Sartan placed a quarter in the coin slot. The three little wheels went +spinning. Cherry. Lemon. Lemon. + +Nothing. + +Toryl and Sartan looked at each other, their faces blanker than ever. + +"_Try it again._" + +Sartan disposed of another quarter. They waited. Lemon. Plum. Plum. + +Nothing. + +Toryl inspected the machine from every angle, like a man on the outside +trying to figure a way in. "_Let me try it._" + +He put a quarter in the slot. + +Three lemons. + +"_It isn't very interesting, is it?_" thought Sartan. + +"_Why don't we try the larger pieces?_" + +"_A splendid idea, Brother._" + +The larger coins did not fit. Toryl proceeded to report this sad state +of affairs to Okie and was amazed when, for the eight large coins, Okie +rewarded him with twenty-four smaller ones. He went back to his +companion at the one-armed bandit. + +They then dropped twenty consecutive quarters into the appropriately +named machine without getting so much as a single quarter in return. + +"_It is puzzling, is it not, Brother?_" + +"_Yes, Sartan. From all indications it would seem to be a machine +totally without purpose._" + +"_It does consume money._" + +"_But why would one build a machine whose sole purpose is to consume +money?_" + +Sartan gave it some hard thought. "_I don't know!_" + +"_Remarkable!_" Toryl concluded. "_But nothing is done without a +purpose._" + +"_Obviously we've found something that is._" + +"_No, I do not believe that. Let me have the electro-analyzer._" + + * * * * * + +The aliens were so engrossed in their problem as to be unaware that Okie +and two men at the bar were casting suspicious eyes on them. + +Sartan fished around in his pocket and produced a small object in the +shape of an irregular triangle. Toryl took the electro-analyzer from +him, removed the cover and moved his finger around inside. He replaced +the cover and slapped the electro-analyzer against the side of the +one-armed bandit. When he took his hand away the small object stuck to +the machine like a leech. + +Okie scratched his head and addressed one of the two men at the bar. +"What the hell you suppose they're doin', Sam? What's that gadget for?" + +"Search me," replied Sam, a well dressed, stoop-shouldered gent, "but if +you want my opinion it doesn't look legal." + +"Hey, Nugget!" yelled the barkeep. + +Again the little old prospector hustled himself over to the bar. + +"Nugget McDermott at your service! What'll it be, Okie?" + +"Go on over and get the sheriff. Tell him there's two queer characters +here trying to jimmy one of my machines in broad daylight." + +The old man's feet kicked up sawdust as he scampered out the door. Okie +kept his attention riveted to the two aliens. + +Toryl was busy adjusting the electro-analyzer to the best possible +position. + +"_What if it does not respond to this machine?_" Sartan wanted to know. + +"_I do not think the machine contains any type of metal with which we +are unfamiliar. We will have a reading in one minute._" + +The aliens took a step backward and waited. + +A sudden noise, like that of a television tube exploding, jolted +everyone in the room, including Toryl and Sartan. The blackjack table +emptied. Gamblers left their machines. A semi-circle of the curious +formed around the two aliens. Okie lit out from behind the bar and +elbowed his way through the crowd. + +The aliens' concentration was unbroken by the attention they had +aroused. With all the single mindedness of religious fanatics they +continued to observe the strange mechanical device. + +Okie was dumbfounded to find the machine still in one piece and doubly +dumbfounded to discover it was behaving in a most unconventional manner. +It was emitting a low steady gurgling sound and an occasional sputter or +burp. The legs of the machine seemed unsteady. Its body shifted back and +forth in herky-jerky motions like an old-fashioned washing machine. The +three little Bell Fruit wheels were spinning at the speed of an airplane +propellor. Okie thought they might never stop again. + +"What the hell are you crazy galoots doing to my machine!" he bellowed. + +Before the aliens could answer there was another explosive sound, +causing the crowd to jump back several steps. Quarters fell from the +mouth of the machine, slowly at first, then at an alarming rate. The +coins fell, bounced and rolled all over the floor. The crowd gulped with +fascination. + +"Holy catfish!" said one of the men, "how long since that blasted +thing's paid off?" + +"Looks like this is the first time," said one of the others. + +"You guys keep quiet!" yelled Okie. + +The coins continued to fall for what seemed like a record time. The +crowd was spellbound. Okie watched in silent fury. + +And the aliens were more confused than they had been when the machine +_wasn't_ paying off. + + * * * * * + +The one-armed bandit finally coughed out its last quarter. The three +Bell Fruit wheels came to an abrupt halt, as though an inner spring had +snapped. The machine broke down. Certain observers later reported that +the poor thing actually _looked_ exhausted. + +The sheriff burst in the door with Nugget McDermott close behind. + +"Sheriff, I want you to arrest these two tinhorns!" cried Okie. + +"Tinhorns??" Sartan's face was creased with bewilderment. + +"What's wrong, Okie?" asked the sheriff. + +"Take a look for yourself! These two bugged my machine and then broke it +down! Look at that money all over the floor!" + +Toryl smiled. "We meant no harm, sir--" + +"The hell you didn't mean no harm! You were out to rob me!" + +"We were only ex-per-i-ment-ing--" + +"There's their crooked experimenting right there!" said Okie, pointing a +finger at the deactivated one-armed bandit. "I want them locked up until +that machine's paid for!" + +"All right," said the sheriff, "you two better come with me." + +"But, sir," Sartan protested, "we merely wanted to know how the machine +functioned. You see, we are from Capella and--" + +"Capella!" exclaimed the sheriff. "Where is that? I never heard of the +place." + +"Well, it is not a part of your Earth." + +"Oh, well why didn't you say so before!" The sheriff winked at the +crowd. "You mean you boys are from out of this world?" + +"That is correct," Sartan grinned proudly. + +"Well, well! That makes a big difference!" The sheriff turned to the +crowd. "All right, boys, grab them and hustle them over to the jail +house!" + + * * * * * + +A group of men slowly closed in on the two aliens. + +Toryl and Sartan backed away toward the wall. + +"_I believe they are angry, Brother_," thought Sartan. + +"_But why?_" inquired Toryl. + +"_I do not know. Do you suppose the machine represented some form of +religious deity?_" + +"_Exceed-ing-ly possible_," Toryl answered. + +As the men came closer Okie yelled, "Just get them two crackpots! I'll +plug the first man that touches that money!" + +The men were diverted by Okie's warning. They didn't notice, until it +was almost too late, that the two strangers were halfway out the door. + +"Get after them!!" the sheriff bellowed. + +The aliens ran as though their lives were at stake, which was true, +following the same route they had taken into town. + + * * * * * + +The crowd followed them as far as the edge of town. From there they +hurled rocks. + +Toryl and Sartan continued to run at breakneck speed, praying they would +reach the safety of the ship. Once they looked behind them and saw that +the crowd of angry men had given up the chase. + +Halfway back to their ship they passed a sign, though they didn't bother +to stop and read it. + + YOU ARE NOW LEAVING + JUBILATION, U.S.A.!! + + The doggondest, cheeriest little + town in America! Come back soon!! + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note + +This etext was produced from _Amazing Science Fiction Stories_ March +1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Jubilation, U.S.A., by G. L. 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