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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Circus + +Author: Alan Edward Nourse + +Release Date: October 3, 2007 [EBook #22875] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CIRCUS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<div class="trans1"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b><br /> +This etext was produced from <i>The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction +Stories by Alan E. Nourse</i> published in 1963. 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.</div> + + + +<h1>Circus</h1> + + + + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">"Just</span> suppose," said Morgan, "that I <i>did</i> believe you. Just +for argument." He glanced up at the man across the restaurant +table. "Where would we go from here?"</p> + +<p>The man shifted uneasily in his seat. He was silent, staring +down at his plate. Not a strange-looking man, Morgan thought. +Rather ordinary, in fact. A plain face, nose a little too long, +fingers a little too dainty, a suit that doesn't quite seem to fit, +but all in all, a perfectly ordinary looking man.</p> + +<p>Maybe <i>too</i> ordinary, Morgan thought.</p> + +<p>Finally the man looked up. His eyes were dark, with a +hunted look in their depths that chilled Morgan a little. "Where +do we go? I don't know. I've tried to think it out, and I get +nowhere. But you've <i>got</i> to believe me, Morgan. I'm lost, +I mean it. If I can't get help, I don't know where it's going to +end."</p> + +<p>"I'll tell you where it's going to end," said Morgan. "It's +going to end in a hospital. A mental hospital. They'll lock you +up and they'll lose the key somewhere." He poured himself +another cup of coffee and sipped it, scalding hot. "And that," +he added, "will be that."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The place was dark and almost empty. Overhead, a rotary +fan swished patiently. The man across from Morgan ran a hand +through his dark hair. "There must be some other way," he +said. "There has to be."</p> + +<p>"All right, let's start from the beginning again," Morgan +said. "Maybe we can pin something down a little better. You +say your name is Parks—right?"</p> + +<p>The man nodded. "Jefferson Haldeman Parks, if that helps +any. Haldeman was my mother's maiden name."</p> + +<p>"All right. And you got into town on Friday—right?"</p> + +<p>Parks nodded.</p> + +<p>"Fine. Now go through the whole story again. What happened +first?"</p> + +<p>The man thought for a minute. "As I said, first there was +a fall. About twenty feet. I didn't break any bones, but I was +shaken up and limping. The fall was near the highway going +to the George Washington Bridge. I got over to the highway +and tried to flag down a ride."</p> + +<p>"How did you feel? I mean, was there anything strange that +you noticed?"</p> + +<p>"<i>Strange!</i>" Parks' eyes widened. "I—I was speechless. At +first I hadn't noticed too much—I was concerned with the fall, +and whether I was hurt or not. I didn't really think about much +else until I hobbled up to that highway and saw those cars +coming. Then I could hardly believe my eyes. I thought I was +crazy. But a car stopped and asked me if I was going into the +city, and I knew I wasn't crazy."</p> + +<p>Morgan's mouth took a grim line. "You understood the +language?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, yes. I don't see how I could have, but I did. We talked +all the way into New York—nothing very important, but we +understood each other. His speech had an odd sound, but—"</p> + +<p>Morgan nodded. "I know, I noticed. What did you do when +you got to New York?"</p> + +<p>"Well, obviously, I needed money. I had gold coin. There +had been no way of knowing if it would be useful, but I'd +taken it on chance. I tried to use it at a newsstand first, and the +man wouldn't touch it. Asked me if I thought I was the U.S. +Treasury or something. When he saw that I was serious, he +sent me to a money lender, a hock shop, I think he called it. +So I found a place—"</p> + +<p>"Let me see the coins."</p> + +<p>Parks dropped two small gold discs on the table. They were +perfectly smooth and perfectly round, tapered by wear to a +thin blunt edge. There was no design on them, and no printing. +Morgan looked up at the man sharply. "What did you get for +these?"</p> + +<p>Parks shrugged. "Too little, I suspect. Two dollars for the +small one, five for the larger."</p> + +<p>"You should have gone to a bank."</p> + +<p>"I know that now. I didn't then. Naturally, I assumed that +with everything else so similar, principles of business would +also be similar."</p> + +<p>Morgan sighed and leaned back in his chair. "Well, then +what?"</p> + +<p>Parks poured some more coffee. His face was very pale, +Morgan thought, and his hands trembled as he raised the cup +to his lips. Fright? Maybe. Hard to tell. The man put down +the cup and rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand. +"First, I went to the mayor's office," he said. "I kept trying to +think what anyone at home would do in my place. That seemed +a good bet. I asked a policeman where it was, and then I went +there."</p> + +<p>"But you didn't get to see him."</p> + +<p>"No. I saw a secretary. She said the mayor was in conference, +and that I would have to have an appointment. She let +me speak to another man, one of the mayor's assistants."</p> + +<p>"And you told him?"</p> + +<p>"No. I wanted to see the mayor himself. I thought that was +the best thing to do. I waited for a couple of hours, until +another assistant came along and told me flatly that the mayor +wouldn't see me unless I stated my business first." He drew in +a deep breath. "So I stated it. And then I was gently but firmly +ushered back into the street again."</p> + +<p>"They didn't believe you," said Morgan.</p> + +<p>"Not for a minute. They laughed in my face."</p> + +<p>Morgan nodded. "I'm beginning to get the pattern. So what +did you do next?"</p> + +<p>"Next I tried the police. I got the same treatment there, +only they weren't so gentle. They wouldn't listen either. They +muttered something about cranks and their crazy notions, and +when they asked me where I lived, they thought I was—what +did they call it?—a wise guy! Told me to get out and not come +back with any more wild stories."</p> + +<p>"I see," said Morgan.</p> + +<p>Jefferson Parks finished his last bite of pie and pushed the +plate away. "By then I didn't know quite what to do. I'd been +prepared for almost anything excepting this. It was frightening. +I tried to rationalize it, and then I quit trying. It wasn't +that I attracted attention, or anything like that, quite the contrary. +Nobody even looked at me, unless I said something to +them. I began to look for things that were <i>different</i>, things that +I could show them, and say, see, this proves that I'm telling +the truth, look at it—" He looked up helplessly.</p> + +<p>"And what did you find?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing. Oh, little things, insignificant little things. Your +calendars, for instance. Naturally, I couldn't understand your +frame of reference. And the coinage, you stamp your coins; we +don't. And cigarettes. We don't have any such thing as tobacco." +The man gave a short laugh. "And your house dogs! +We have little animals that look more like rabbits than poodles. +But there was nothing any more significant than that. Absolutely +nothing."</p> + +<p>"Except yourself," Morgan said.</p> + +<p>"Ah, yes. I thought that over carefully. I looked for differences, +obvious ones. I couldn't find any. You can see that, just +looking at me. So I searched for more subtle things. Skin texture, +fingerprints, bone structure, body proportion. I still +couldn't find anything. Then I went to a doctor."</p> + +<p>Morgan's eyebrows lifted. "Good," he said.</p> + +<p>Parks shrugged tiredly. "Not really. He examined me. He +practically took me apart. I carefully refrained from saying +anything about who I was or where I came from; just said +I wanted a complete physical examination, and let him go +to it. He was thorough, and when he finished he patted me +on the back and said, 'Parks, you've got nothing to worry +about. You're as fine, strapping a specimen of a healthy human +being as I've ever seen.' And that was that." Parks laughed +bitterly. "I guess I was supposed to be happy with the verdict, +and instead I was ready to knock him down. It was idiotic, it +defied reason, it was infuriating."</p> + +<p>Morgan nodded sourly. "Because you're not a human +being," he said.</p> + +<p>"That's right. I'm not a human being at all."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"How did you happen to pick this planet, or this sun?" +Morgan asked curiously. "There must have been a million +others to choose from."</p> + +<p>Parks unbuttoned his collar and rubbed his stubbled chin +unhappily. "I didn't make the choice. Neither did anyone else. +Travel by warp is a little different from travel by the rocket +you fiction writers make so much of. With a rocket vehicle you +pick your destination, make your calculations, and off you go. +The warp is blind flying, strictly blind. We send an unmanned +scanner ahead. It probes around more or less hit-or-miss until +it locates something, somewhere, that looks habitable. When +it spots a likely looking place, we keep a tight beam on it +and send through a manned scout." He grinned sourly. "Like +me. If it looks good to the scout, he signals back, and they +leave the warp anchored for a sort of permanent gateway until +we can get a transport beam built. But we can't control the +directional and dimensional scope of the warp. There are an +infinity of ways it can go, until we have a guide beam transmitting +from the other side. Then we can just scan a segment of +space with the warp, and the scanner picks up the beam."</p> + +<p>He shook his head wearily. "We're new at it, Morgan. We've +only tried a few dozen runs. We're not too far ahead of you in +technology. We've been using rocket vehicles just like yours for +over a century. That's fine for a solar system, but it's not much +good for the stars. When the warp principle was discovered, it +looked like the answer. But something went wrong, the scanner +picked up this planet, and I was coming through, and then +something blew. Next thing I knew I was falling. When I tried +to make contact again, the scanner was gone!"</p> + +<p>"And you found things here the same as back home," said +Morgan.</p> + +<p>"The same! Your planet and mine are practically twins. +Similar cities, similar technology, everything. The people are +the same, with precisely the same anatomy and physiology, the +same sort of laws, the same institutions, even compatible languages. +Can't you see the importance of it? This planet is on +the other side of the universe from mine, with the first intelligent +life we've yet encountered anywhere. But when I try to +tell your people that I'm a native of another star system, <i>they +won't believe me</i>!"</p> + +<p>"Why should they?" asked Morgan. "You look like a human +being. You talk like one. You eat like one. You act like one. +What you're asking them to believe is utterly incredible."</p> + +<p>"<i>But it's true.</i>"</p> + +<p>Morgan shrugged. "So it's true. I won't argue with you. But +as I asked before, even if I <i>did</i> believe you, what do you +expect <i>me</i> to do about it? Why pick <i>me</i>, of all the people you've +seen?"</p> + +<p>There was a desperate light in Parks' eyes. "I was tired, tired +of being laughed at, tired of having people looking at me as +though I'd lost my wits when I tried to tell them the truth. +You were here, you were alone, so I started talking. And then +I found out you wrote stories." He looked up eagerly. "I've +got to get back, Morgan, somehow. My life is there, my family. +And think what it would mean to both of our worlds—contact +with another intelligent race! Combine our knowledges, +our technologies, and we could explore the galaxy!"</p> + +<p>He leaned forward, his thin face intense. "I need money and +I need help. I know some of the mathematics of the warp principle, +know some of the design, some of the power and wiring +principles. You have engineers here, technologists, physicists. +They could fill in what I don't know and build a guide beam. +But they won't do it if they don't believe me. Your government +won't listen to me, they won't appropriate any money."</p> + +<p>"Of course they won't. They've got a war or two on their +hands, they have public welfare, and atomic bombs, and +rockets to the moon to sink their money into." Morgan stared +at the man. "But what can <i>I</i> do?"</p> + +<p>"You can <i>write</i>! That's what you can do. You can tell the +world about me, you can tell exactly what has happened. I +know how public interest can be aroused in my world. It must +be the same in yours."</p> + +<p>Morgan didn't move. He just stared. "How many people +have you talked to?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"A dozen, a hundred, maybe a thousand."</p> + +<p>"And how many believed you?"</p> + +<p>"None."</p> + +<p>"You mean <i>nobody</i> would believe you?"</p> + +<p>"<i>Not one soul.</i> Until I talked to you."</p> + +<p>And then Morgan was laughing, laughing bitterly, tears +rolling down his cheeks. "And I'm the one man who couldn't +help you if my life depended on it," he gasped.</p> + +<p>"You believe me?"</p> + +<p>Morgan nodded sadly. "I believe you. Yes. I think your +warp brought you through to a parallel universe of your own +planet, not to another star, but I think you're telling the truth."</p> + +<p>"Then you <i>can</i> help me."</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid not."</p> + +<p>"Why not?"</p> + +<p>"Because I'd be worse than no help at all."</p> + +<p>Jefferson Parks gripped the table, his knuckles white. +"Why?" he cried hoarsely. "If you believe me, why can't you +help me?"</p> + +<p>Morgan pointed to the magazine lying on the table. "I write, +yes," he said sadly. "Ever read stories like this before?"</p> + +<p>Parks picked up the magazine, glanced at the bright cover. +"I barely looked at it."</p> + +<p>"You should look more closely. I have a story in this issue. +The readers thought it was very interesting," Morgan grinned. +"Go ahead, look at it."</p> + +<p>The stranger from the stars leafed through the magazine, +stopped at a page that carried Roger Morgan's name. His eyes +caught the first paragraph and he turned white. He set the +magazine down with a trembling hand. "I see," he said, and +the life was gone out of his voice. He spread the pages viciously, +read the lines again.</p> + +<p>The paragraph said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Just suppose," said Martin, "that I <i>did</i> believe you. Just +for argument." He glanced up at the man across the table. +"Where do we go from here?"</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Circus, by Alan Edward Nourse + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CIRCUS *** + +***** This file should be named 22875-h.htm or 22875-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/7/22875/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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