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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: All Day September + +Author: Roger Kuykendall + +Release Date: January 4, 2008 [EBook #24161] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL DAY SEPTEMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + + + +<h1>ALL DAY SEPTEMBER</h1> + +<h2>By ROGER KUYKENDALL</h2> + +<h3>Illustrated by van Dongen</h3> + +<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science +Fiction June 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that +the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"> +<a href="images/illus1.jpg"><img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/></a> +</div> + +<div class="figright"> + +<a href="images/illus2.jpg"><img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/></a> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Some men just haven't got good sense. They just can't seem to +learn the most fundamental things. Like when there's no use +trying—when it's time to give up because it's hopeless....</i></p></div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>The meteor, a pebble, a little larger than a match head, traveled +through space and time since it came into being. The light from the star +that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first +lungfish ventured from the sea.</p> + +<p>In its last instant, the meteor fell on the Moon. It was impeded by +Evans' tractor.</p> + +<p>It drilled a small, neat hole through the casing of the steam turbine, +and volitized upon striking the blades. Portions of the turbine also +volitized; idling at eight thousand RPM, it became unstable. The shaft +tried to tie itself into a knot, and the blades, damaged and undamaged +were spit through the casing. The turbine again reached a stable state, +that is, stopped. Permanently stopped.</p> + +<p>It was two days to sunrise, where Evans stood.</p> + +<p>It was just before sunset on a spring evening in September in Sydney. +The shadow line between day and night could be seen from the Moon to be +drifting across Australia.</p> + +<p>Evans, who had no watch, thought of the time as a quarter after +Australia.</p> + +<p>Evans was a prospector, and like all prospectors, a sort of jackknife +geologist, selenologist, rather. His tractor and equipment cost two +hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand was paid for. The +rest was promissory notes and grubstake shares. When he was broke, which +was usually, he used his tractor to haul uranium ore and metallic sodium +from the mines at Potter's dike to Williamson Town, where the rockets +landed.</p> + +<p>When he was flush, he would prospect for a couple of weeks. Once he +followed a stampede to Yellow Crater, where he thought for a while that +he had a fortune in chromium. The chromite petered out in a month and a +half, and he was lucky to break even.</p> + +<p>Evans was about three hundred miles east of Williamson Town, the site of +the first landing on the Moon.</p> + +<p>Evans was due back at Williamson Town at about sunset, that is, in about +sixteen days. When he saw the wrecked turbine, he knew that he wouldn't +make it. By careful rationing, he could probably stretch his food out to +more than a month. His drinking water—kept separate from the water in +the reactor—might conceivably last just as long. But his oxygen was too +carefully measured; there was a four-day reserve. By diligent +conservation, he might make it last an extra day. Four days +reserve—plus one is five—plus sixteen days normal supply equals +twenty-one days to live.</p> + +<p>In seventeen days he might be missed, but in seventeen days it would be +dark again, and the search for him, if it ever began, could not begin +for thirteen more days. At the earliest it would be eight days too late.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"Well, man, 'tis a fine spot you're in now," he told himself.</p> + +<p>"Let's find out how bad it is indeed," he answered. He reached for the +light switch and tried to turn it on. The switch was already in the "on" +position.</p> + +<p>"Batteries must be dead," he told himself.</p> + +<p>"What batteries?" he asked. "There're no batteries in here, the power +comes from the generator."</p> + +<p>"Why isn't the generator working, man?" he asked.</p> + +<p>He thought this one out carefully. The generator was not turned by the +main turbine, but by a small reciprocating engine. The steam, however, +came from the same boiler. And the boiler, of course, had emptied itself +through the hole in the turbine. And the condenser, of course—</p> + +<p>"The condenser!" he shouted.</p> + +<p>He fumbled for a while, until he found a small flashlight. By the light +of this, he reinspected the steam system, and found about three gallons +of water frozen in the condenser. The condenser, like all condensers, +was a device to convert steam into water, so that it could be reused in +the boiler. This one had a tank and coils of tubing in the center of a +curved reflector that was positioned to radiate the heat of the steam +into the cold darkness of space. When the meteor pierced the turbine, +the water in the condenser began to boil. This boiling lowered the +temperature, and the condenser demonstrated its efficiency by quickly +freezing the water in the tank.</p> + +<p>Evans sealed the turbine from the rest of the steam system by closing +the shut-off valves. If there was any water in the boiler, it would +operate the engine that drove the generator. The water would condense in +the condenser, and with a little luck, melt the ice in there. Then, if +the pump wasn't blocked by ice, it would return the water to the boiler.</p> + +<p>But there was no water in the boiler. Carefully he poured a cup of his +drinking water into a pipe that led to the boiler, and resealed the +pipe. He pulled on a knob marked "Nuclear Start/Safety Bypass." The +water that he had poured into the boiler quickly turned into steam, and +the steam turned the generator briefly.</p> + +<p>Evans watched the lights flicker and go out, and he guessed what the +trouble was.</p> + +<p>"The water, man," he said, "there is not enough to melt the ice in the +condenser."</p> + +<p>He opened the pipe again and poured nearly a half-gallon of water into +the boiler. It was three days' supply of water, if it had been carefully +used. It was one day's supply if used wastefully. It was ostentatious +luxury for a man with a month's supply of water and twenty-one days to +live.</p> + +<p>The generator started again, and the lights came on. They flickered as +the boiler pressure began to fail, but the steam had melted some of the +ice in the condenser, and the water pump began to function.</p> + +<p>"Well, man," he breathed, "there's a light to die by."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The sun rose on Williamson Town at about the same time it rose on Evans. +It was an incredibly brilliant disk in a black sky. The stars next to +the sun shone as brightly as though there were no sun. They might have +appeared to waver slightly, if they were behind outflung corona flares. +If they did, no one noticed. No one looked toward the sun without dark +filters.</p> + +<p>When Director McIlroy came into his office, he found it lighted by the +rising sun. The light was a hot, brilliant white that seemed to pierce +the darkest shadows of the room. He moved to the round window, screening +his eyes from the light, and adjusted the polaroid shade to maximum +density. The sun became an angry red brown, and the room was dark again. +McIlroy decreased the density again until the room was comfortably +lighted. The room felt stuffy, so he decided to leave the door to the +inner office open.</p> + +<p>He felt a little guilty about this, because he had ordered that all +doors in the survey building should remain closed except when someone +was passing through them. This was to allow the air-conditioning system +to function properly, and to prevent air loss in case of the highly +improbable meteor damage. McIlroy thought that on the whole, he was +disobeying his own orders no more flagrantly than anyone else in the +survey.</p> + +<p>McIlroy had no illusions about his ability to lead men. Or rather, he +did have one illusion; he thought that he was completely unfit as a +leader. It was true that his strictest orders were disobeyed with +cheerful contempt, but it was also true his mildest requests were +complied with eagerly and smoothly.</p> + +<p>Everyone in the survey except McIlroy realized this, and even he +accepted this without thinking about it. He had fallen into the habit of +suggesting mildly anything that he wanted done, and writing orders he +didn't particularly care to have obeyed.</p> + +<p>For example, because of an order of his stating that there would be no +alcoholic beverages within the survey building, the entire survey was +assured of a constant supply of home-made, but passably good liquor. +Even McIlroy enjoyed the surreptitious drinking.</p> + +<p>"Good morning, Mr. McIlroy," said Mrs. Garth, his secretary. Morning to +Mrs. Garth was simply the first four hours after waking.</p> + +<p>"Good morning indeed," answered McIlroy. Morning to him had no meaning +at all, but he thought in the strictest sense that it would be morning +on the Moon for another week.</p> + +<p>"Has the power crew set up the solar furnace?" he asked. The solar +furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on +anything that it was desirable to heat. It was used mostly, from sun-up +to sun-down, to supplement the nuclear power plant.</p> + +<p>"They went out about an hour ago," she answered, "I suppose that's what +they were going to do."</p> + +<p>"Very good, what's first on the schedule?"</p> + +<p>"A Mr. Phelps to see you," she said.</p> + +<p>"How do you do, Mr. Phelps," McIlroy greeted him.</p> + +<p>"Good afternoon," Mr. Phelps replied. "I'm here representing the +Merchants' Bank Association."</p> + +<p>"Fine," McIlroy said, "I suppose you're here to set up a bank."</p> + +<p>"That's right, I just got in from Muroc last night, and I've been going +over the assets of the Survey Credit Association all morning."</p> + +<p>"I'll certainly be glad to get them off my hands," McIlroy said. "I hope +they're in good order."</p> + +<p>"There doesn't seem to be any profit," Mr. Phelps said.</p> + +<p>"That's par for a nonprofit organization," said McIlroy. "But we're +amateurs, and we're turning this operation over to professionals. I'm +sure it will be to everyone's satisfaction."</p> + +<p>"I know this seems like a silly question. What day is this?"</p> + +<p>"Well," said McIlroy, "that's not so silly. I don't know either."</p> + +<p>"Mrs. Garth," he called, "what day is this?"</p> + +<p>"Why, September, I think," she answered.</p> + +<p>"I mean what <i>day</i>."</p> + +<p>"I don't know, I'll call the observatory."</p> + +<p>There was a pause.</p> + +<p>"They say what day where?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"Greenwich, I guess, our official time is supposed to be Greenwich Mean +Time."</p> + +<p>There was another pause.</p> + +<p>"They say it's September fourth, one thirty <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>"</p> + +<p>"Well, there you are," laughed McIlroy, "it isn't that time doesn't mean +anything here, it just doesn't mean the same thing."</p> + +<p>Mr. Phelps joined the laughter. "Bankers' hours don't mean much, at any +rate," he said.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The power crew was having trouble with the solar furnace. Three of the +nine banks of mirrors would not respond to the electric controls, and +one bank moved so jerkily that it could not be focused, and it +threatened to tear several of the mirrors loose.</p> + +<p>"What happened here?" Spotty Cade, one of the electrical technicians +asked his foreman, Cowalczk, over the intercommunications radio. "I've +got about a hundred pinholes in the cables out here. It's no wonder they +don't work."</p> + +<p>"Meteor shower," Cowalczk answered, "and that's not half of it. Walker +says he's got a half dozen mirrors cracked or pitted, and Hoffman on +bank three wants you to replace a servo motor. He says the bearing was +hit."</p> + +<p>"When did it happen?" Cade wanted to know.</p> + +<p>"Must have been last night, at least two or three days ago. All of 'em +too small for Radar to pick up, and not enough for Seismo to get a +rumble."</p> + +<p>"Sounds pretty bad."</p> + +<p>"Could have been worse," said Cowalczk.</p> + +<p>"How's that?"</p> + +<p>"Wasn't anybody out in it."</p> + +<p>"Hey, Chuck," another technician, Lehman, broke in, "you could maybe get +hurt that way."</p> + +<p>"I doubt it," Cowalczk answered, "most of these were pinhead size, and +they wouldn't go through a suit."</p> + +<p>"It would take a pretty big one to damage a servo bearing," Cade +commented.</p> + +<p>"That could hurt," Cowalczk admitted, "but there was only one of them."</p> + +<p>"You mean only one hit our gear," Lehman said. "How many missed?"</p> + +<p>Nobody answered. They could all see the Moon under their feet. Small +craters overlapped and touched each other. There was—except in the +places that men had obscured them with footprints—not a square foot +that didn't contain a crater at least ten inches across, there was not a +square inch without its half-inch crater. Nearly all of these had been +made millions of years ago, but here and there, the rim of a crater +covered part of a footprint, clear evidence that it was a recent one.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>After the sun rose, Evans returned to the lava cave that he had been +exploring when the meteor hit. Inside, he lifted his filter visor, and +found that the light reflected from the small ray that peered into the +cave door lighted the cave adequately. He tapped loose some white +crystals on the cave wall with his geologist's hammer, and put them into +a collector's bag.</p> + +<p>"A few mineral specimens would give us something to think about, man. +These crystals," he said, "look a little like zeolites, but that can't +be, zeolites need water to form, and there's no water on the Moon."</p> + +<p>He chipped a number of other crystals loose and put them in bags. One of +them he found in a dark crevice had a hexagonal shape that puzzled him.</p> + +<p>One at a time, back in the tractor, he took the crystals out of the bags +and analyzed them as well as he could without using a flame which would +waste oxygen. The ones that looked like zeolites were zeolites, all +right, or something very much like it. One of the crystals that he +thought was quartz turned out to be calcite, and one of the ones that he +was sure could be nothing but calcite was actually potassium nitrate.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/illus3.jpg"><img src="images/illus3.jpg" alt=""/></a> +</div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>"Well, now," he said, "it's probably the largest natural crystal of +potassium nitrate that anyone has ever seen. Man, it's a full inch +across."</p> + +<p>All of these needed water to form, and their existence on the Moon +puzzled him for a while. Then he opened the bag that had contained the +unusual hexagonal crystals, and the puzzle resolved itself. There was +nothing in the bag but a few drops of water. What he had taken to be a +type of rock was ice, frozen in a niche that had never been warmed by +the sun.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The sun rose to the meridian slowly. It was a week after sunrise. The +stars shone coldly, and wheeled in their slow course with the sun. Only +Earth remained in the same spot in the black sky. The shadow line crept +around until Earth was nearly dark, and then the rim of light appeared +on the opposite side. For a while Earth was a dark disk in a thin halo, +and then the light came to be a crescent, and the line of dawn began to +move around Earth. The continents drifted across the dark disk and into +the crescent. The people on Earth saw the full moon set about the same +time that the sun rose.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Nickel Jones was the captain of a supply rocket. He made trips from and +to the Moon about once a month, carrying supplies in and metal and ores +out. At this time he was visiting with his old friend McIlroy.</p> + +<p>"I swear, Mac," said Jones, "another season like this, and I'm going +back to mining."</p> + +<p>"I thought you were doing pretty well," said McIlroy, as he poured two +drinks from a bottle of Scotch that Jones had brought him.</p> + +<p>"Oh, the money I like, but I will say that I'd have more if I didn't +have to fight the union and the Lunar Trade Commission."</p> + +<p>McIlroy had heard all of this before. "How's that?" he asked politely.</p> + +<p>"You may think it's myself running the ship," Jones started on his +tirade, "but it's not. The union it is that says who I can hire. The +union it is that says how much I must pay, and how large a crew I need. +And then the Commission ..." The word seemed to give Jones an unpleasant +taste in his mouth, which he hurriedly rinsed with a sip of Scotch.</p> + +<p>"The Commission," he continued, making the word sound like an obscenity, +"it is that tells me how much I can charge for freight."</p> + +<p>McIlroy noticed that his friend's glass was empty, and he quietly filled +it again.</p> + +<p>"And then," continued Jones, "if I buy a cargo up here, the Commission +it is that says what I'll sell it for. If I had my way, I'd charge only +fifty cents a pound for freight instead of the dollar forty that the +Commission insists on. That's from here to Earth, of course. There's no +profit I could make by cutting rates the other way."</p> + +<p>"Why not?" asked McIlroy. He knew the answer, but he liked to listen to +the slightly Welsh voice of Jones.</p> + +<p>"Near cost it is now at a dollar forty. But what sense is there in +charging the same rate to go either way when it takes about a seventh of +the fuel to get from here to Earth as it does to get from there to +here?"</p> + +<p>"What good would it do to charge fifty cents a pound?" asked McIlroy.</p> + +<p>"The nickel, man, the tons of nickel worth a dollar and a half on Earth, +and not worth mining here; the low-grade ores of uranium and vanadium, +they need these things on Earth, but they can't get them as long as it +isn't worth the carrying of them. And then, of course, there's the water +we haven't got. We could afford to bring more water for more people, and +set up more distilling plants if we had the money from the nickel.</p> + +<p>"Even though I say it who shouldn't, two-eighty a quart is too much to +pay for water."</p> + +<p>Both men fell silent for a while. Then Jones spoke again:</p> + +<p>"Have you seen our friend Evans lately? The price of chromium has gone +up, and I think he could ship some of his ore from Yellow Crater at a +profit."</p> + +<p>"He's out prospecting again. I don't expect to see him until sun-down."</p> + +<p>"I'll likely see him then. I won't be loaded for another week and a +half. Can't you get in touch with him by radio?"</p> + +<p>"He isn't carrying one. Most of the prospectors don't. They claim that a +radio that won't carry beyond the horizon isn't any good, and one that +will bounce messages from Earth takes up too much room."</p> + +<p>"Well, if I don't see him, you let him know about the chromium."</p> + +<p>"Anything to help another Welshman, is that the idea?"</p> + +<p>"Well, protection it is that a poor Welshman needs from all the English +and Scots. Speaking of which—"</p> + +<p>"Oh, of course," McIlroy grinned as he refilled the glasses.</p> + +<p>"<i>Slainte, McIlroy, bach.</i>" [Health, McIlroy, man.]</p> + +<p>"<i>Slainte mhor, bach.</i>" [Great Health, man.]</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The sun was halfway to the horizon, and Earth was a crescent in the sky +when Evans had quarried all the ice that was available in the cave. The +thought grew on him as he worked that this couldn't be the only such +cave in the area. There must be several more bubbles in the lava flow.</p> + +<p>Part of his reasoning proved correct. That is, he found that by +chipping, he could locate small bubbles up to an inch in diameter, each +one with its droplet of water. The average was about one per cent of the +volume of each bubble filled with ice.</p> + +<p>A quarter of a mile from the tractor, Evans found a promising looking +mound of lava. It was rounded on top, and it could easily be the dome of +a bubble. Suddenly, Evans noticed that the gauge on the oxygen tank of +his suit was reading dangerously near empty. He turned back to his +tractor, moving as slowly as he felt safe in doing. Running would use up +oxygen too fast. He was halfway there when the pressure warning light +went on, and the signal sounded inside his helmet. He turned on his +ten-minute reserve supply, and made it to the tractor with about five +minutes left. The air purifying apparatus in the suit was not as +efficient as the one in the tractor; it wasted oxygen. By using the suit +so much, Evans had already shortened his life by several days. He +resolved not to leave the tractor again, and reluctantly abandoned his +plan to search for a large bubble.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The sun stood at half its diameter above the horizon. The shadows of the +mountains stretched out to touch the shadows of the other mountains. The +dawning line of light covered half of Earth, and Earth turned beneath +it.</p> + +<p>Cowalczk itched under his suit, and the sweat on his face prickled +maddeningly because he couldn't reach it through his helmet. He pushed +his forehead against the faceplate of his helmet and rubbed off some of +the sweat. It didn't help much, and it left a blurred spot in his +vision. That annoyed him.</p> + +<p>"Is everyone clear of the outlet?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"All clear," he heard Cade report through the intercom.</p> + +<p>"How come we have to blow the boilers now?" asked Lehman.</p> + +<p>"Because I say so," Cowalczk shouted, surprised at his outburst and +ashamed of it. "Boiler scale," he continued, much calmer. "We've got to +clean out the boilers once a year to make sure the tubes in the reactor +don't clog up." He squinted through his dark visor at the reactor +building, a gray concrete structure a quarter of a mile distant. "It +would be pretty bad if they clogged up some night."</p> + +<p>"Pressure's ten and a half pounds," said Cade.</p> + +<p>"Right, let her go," said Cowalczk.</p> + +<p>Cade threw a switch. In the reactor building, a relay closed. A motor +started turning, and the worm gear on the motor opened a valve on the +boiler. A stream of muddy water gushed into a closed vat. When the vat +was about half full, the water began to run nearly clear. An electric +eye noted that fact and a light in front of Cade turned on. Cade threw +the switch back the other way, and the relay in the reactor building +opened. The motor turned and the gears started to close the valve. But a +fragment of boiler scale held the valve open.</p> + +<p>"Valve's stuck," said Cade.</p> + +<p>"Open it and close it again," said Cowalczk. The sweat on his forehead +started to run into his eyes. He banged his hand on his faceplate in an +unconscious attempt to wipe it off. He cursed silently, and wiped it off +on the inside of his helmet again. This time, two drops ran down the +inside of his faceplate.</p> + +<p>"Still don't work," said Cade.</p> + +<p>"Keep trying," Cowalczk ordered. "Lehman, get a Geiger counter and come +with me, we've got to fix this thing."</p> + +<p>Lehman and Cowalczk, who were already suited up started across to the +reactor building. Cade, who was in the pressurized control room without +a suit on, kept working the switch back and forth. There was light that +indicated when the valve was open. It was on, and it stayed on, no +matter what Cade did.</p> + +<p>"The vat pressure's too high," Cade said.</p> + +<p>"Let me know when it reaches six pounds," Cowalczk requested. "Because +it'll probably blow at seven."</p> + +<p>The vat was a light plastic container used only to decant sludge out of +the water. It neither needed nor had much strength.</p> + +<p>"Six now," said Cade.</p> + +<p>Cowalczk and Lehman stopped halfway to the reactor. The vat bulged and +ruptured. A stream of mud gushed out and boiled dry on the face of the +Moon. Cowalczk and Lehman rushed forward again.</p> + +<p>They could see the trickle of water from the discharge pipe. The motor +turned the valve back and forth in response to Cade's signals.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"What's going on out there?" demanded McIlroy on the intercom.</p> + +<p>"Scale stuck in the valve," Cowalczk answered.</p> + +<p>"Are the reactors off?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. Vat blew. Shut up! Let me work, Mac!"</p> + +<p>"Sorry," McIlroy said, realizing that this was no time for officials. +"Let me know when it's fixed."</p> + +<p>"Geiger's off scale," Lehman said.</p> + +<p>"We're probably O.K. in these suits for an hour," Cowalczk answered. "Is +there a manual shut-off?"</p> + +<p>"Not that I know of," Lehman answered. "What about it, Cade?"</p> + +<p>"I don't think so," Cade said. "I'll get on the blower and rouse out an +engineer."</p> + +<p>"O.K., but keep working that switch."</p> + +<p>"I checked the line as far as it's safe," said Lehman. "No valve."</p> + +<p>"O.K.," Cowalczk said. "Listen, Cade, are the injectors still on?"</p> + +<p>"Yeah. There's still enough heat in these reactors to do some damage. +I'll cut 'em in about fifteen minutes."</p> + +<p>"I've found the trouble," Lehman said. "The worm gear's loose on its +shaft. It's slipping every time the valve closes. There's not enough +power in it to crush the scale."</p> + +<p>"Right," Cowalczk said. "Cade, open the valve wide. Lehman, hand me that +pipe wrench!"</p> + +<p>Cowalczk hit the shaft with the back of the pipe wrench, and it broke at +the motor bearing.</p> + +<p>Cowalczk and Lehman fitted the pipe wrench to the gear on the valve, and +turned it.</p> + +<p>"Is the light off?" Cowalczk asked.</p> + +<p>"No," Cade answered.</p> + +<p>"Water's stopped. Give us some pressure, we'll see if it holds."</p> + +<p>"Twenty pounds," Cade answered after a couple of minutes.</p> + +<p>"Take her up to ... no, wait, it's still leaking," Cowalczk said. "Hold +it there, we'll open the valve again."</p> + +<p>"O.K.," said Cade. "An engineer here says there's no manual cutoff."</p> + +<p>"Like Hell," said Lehman.</p> + +<p>Cowalczk and Lehman opened the valve again. Water spurted out, and +dwindled as they closed the valve.</p> + +<p>"What did you do?" asked Cade. "The light went out and came on again."</p> + +<p>"Check that circuit and see if it works," Cowalczk instructed.</p> + +<p>There was a pause.</p> + +<p>"It's O.K.," Cade said.</p> + +<p>Cowalczk and Lehman opened and closed the valve again.</p> + +<p>"Light is off now," Cade said.</p> + +<p>"Good," said Cowalczk, "take the pressure up all the way, and we'll see +what happens."</p> + +<p>"Eight hundred pounds," Cade said, after a short wait.</p> + +<p>"Good enough," Cowalczk said. "Tell that engineer to hold up a while, he +can fix this thing as soon as he gets parts. Come on, Lehman, let's get +out of here."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm glad that's over," said Cade. "You guys had me worried for a +while."</p> + +<p>"Think we weren't worried?" Lehman asked. "And it's not over."</p> + +<p>"What?" Cade asked. "Oh, you mean the valve servo you two bashed up?"</p> + +<p>"No," said Lehman, "I mean the two thousand gallons of water that we +lost."</p> + +<p>"Two thousand?" Cade asked. "We only had seven hundred gallons reserve. +How come we can operate now?"</p> + +<p>"We picked up twelve hundred from the town sewage plant. What with using +the solar furnace as a radiator, we can make do."</p> + +<p>"Oh, God, I suppose this means water rationing again."</p> + +<p>"You're probably right, at least until the next rocket lands in a couple +of weeks."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>PROSPECTOR FEARED LOST ON MOON</p> + +<p>IPP Williamson Town, Moon, Sept. 21st. Scientific survey director +McIlroy released a statement today that Howard Evans, a prospector +is missing and presumed lost. Evans, who was apparently exploring +the Moon in search of minerals was due two days ago, but it was +presumed that he was merely temporarily delayed.</p> + +<p>Evans began his exploration on August 25th, and was known to be +carrying several days reserve of oxygen and supplies. Director +McIlroy has expressed a hope that Evans will be found before his +oxygen runs out.</p> + +<p>Search parties have started from Williamson Town, but telescopic +search from Palomar and the new satellite observatory are hindered +by the fact that Evans is lost on the part of the Moon which is now +dark. Little hope is held for radio contact with the missing man as +it is believed he was carrying only short-range, +intercommunications equipment. Nevertheless, receivers are ...</p></div> + +<p>Captain Nickel Jones was also expressing a hope: "Anyway, Mac," he was +saying to McIlroy, "a Welshman knows when his luck's run out. And never +a word did he say."</p> + +<p>"Like as not, you're right," McIlroy replied, "but if I know Evans, he'd +never say a word about any forebodings."</p> + +<p>"Well, happen I might have a bit of Welsh second sight about me, and it +tells me that Evans will be found."</p> + +<p>McIlroy chuckled for the first time in several days. "So that's the +reason you didn't take off when you were scheduled," he said.</p> + +<p>"Well, yes," Jones answered. "I thought that it might happen that a +rocket would be needed in the search."</p> + +<p>The light from Earth lighted the Moon as the Moon had never lighted +Earth. The great blue globe of Earth, the only thing larger than the +stars, wheeled silently in the sky. As it turned, the shadow of sunset +crept across the face that could be seen from the Moon. From full Earth, +as you might say, it moved toward last quarter.</p> + +<p>The rising sun shone into Director McIlroy's office. The hot light +formed a circle on the wall opposite the window, and the light became +more intense as the sun slowly pulled over the horizon. Mrs. Garth +walked into the director's office, and saw the director sleeping with +his head cradled in his arms on the desk. She walked softly to the +window and adjusted the shade to darken the office. She stood looking at +McIlroy for a moment, and when he moved slightly in his sleep, she +walked softly out of the office.</p> + +<p>A few minutes later she was back with a cup of coffee. She placed it in +front of the director, and shook his shoulder gently.</p> + +<p>"Wake up, Mr. McIlroy," she said, "you told me to wake you at sunrise, +and there it is, and here's Mr. Phelps."</p> + +<p>McIlroy woke up slowly. He leaned back in his chair and stretched. His +neck was stiff from sleeping in such an awkward position.</p> + +<p>"'Morning, Mr. Phelps," he said.</p> + +<p>"Good morning," Phelps answered, dropping tiredly into a chair.</p> + +<p>"Have some coffee, Mr. Phelps," said Mrs. Garth, handing him a cup.</p> + +<p>"Any news?" asked McIlroy.</p> + +<p>"About Evans?" Phelps shook his head slowly. "Palomar called in a few +minutes back. Nothing to report and the sun was rising there. Australia +will be in position pretty soon. Several observatories there. Then +Capetown. There are lots of observatories in Europe, but most of them +are clouded over. Anyway the satellite observatory will be in position +by the time Europe is."</p> + +<p>McIlroy was fully awake. He glanced at Phelps and wondered how long it +had been since he had slept last. More than that, McIlroy wondered why +this banker, who had never met Evans, was losing so much sleep about +finding him. It began to dawn on McIlroy that nearly the whole +population of Williamson Town was involved, one way or another, in the +search.</p> + +<p>The director turned to ask Phelps about this fact, but the banker was +slumped in his chair, fast asleep with his coffee untouched.</p> + +<p>It was three hours later that McIlroy woke Phelps.</p> + +<p>"They've found the tractor," McIlroy said.</p> + +<p>"Good," Phelps mumbled, and then as comprehension came; "That's fine! +That's just line! Is Evans—?"</p> + +<p>"Can't tell yet. They spotted the tractor from the satellite +observatory. Captain Jones took off a few minutes ago, and he'll report +back as soon as he lands. Hadn't you better get some sleep?"</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Evans was carrying a block of ice into the tractor when he saw the +rocket coming in for a landing. He dropped the block and stood waiting. +When the dust settled from around the tail of the rocket, he started to +run forward. The air lock opened, and Evans recognized the vacuum suited +figure of Nickel Jones.</p> + +<p>"Evans, man!" said Jones' voice in the intercom. "Alive you are!"</p> + +<p>"A Welshman takes a lot of killing," Evans answered.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Later, in Evans' tractor, he was telling his story:</p> + +<p>"... And I don't know how long I sat there after I found the water." He +looked at the Goldburgian device he had made out of wire and tubing. +"Finally I built this thing. These caves were made of lava. They must +have been formed by steam some time, because there's a floor of ice in +all of 'em.</p> + +<p>"The idea didn't come all at once, it took a long time for me to +remember that water is made out of oxygen and hydrogen. When I +remembered that, of course, I remembered that it can be separated with +electricity. So I built this thing.</p> + +<p>"It runs an electric current through water, lets the oxygen loose in the +room, and pipes the hydrogen outside. It doesn't work automatically, of +course, so I run it about an hour a day. My oxygen level gauge shows how +long."</p> + +<p>"You're a genius, man!" Jones exclaimed.</p> + +<p>"No," Evans answered, "a Welshman, nothing more."</p> + +<p>"Well, then," said Jones, "are you ready to start back?"</p> + +<p>"Back?"</p> + +<p>"Well, it was to rescue you that I came."</p> + +<p>"I don't need rescuing, man," Evans said.</p> + +<p>Jones stared at him blankly.</p> + +<p>"You might let me have some food," Evans continued. "I'm getting short +of that. And you might have someone send out a mechanic with parts to +fix my tractor. Then maybe you'll let me use your radio to file my +claim."</p> + +<p>"Claim?"</p> + +<p>"Sure, man, I've thousands of tons of water here. It's the richest mine +on the Moon!"</p> + + +<p>THE END</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of All Day September, by Roger Kuykendall + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL DAY SEPTEMBER *** + +***** This file should be named 24161-h.htm or 24161-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/1/6/24161/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://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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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: All Day September + +Author: Roger Kuykendall + +Release Date: January 4, 2008 [EBook #24161] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL DAY SEPTEMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + ALL DAY SEPTEMBER + + By ROGER KUYKENDALL + + Illustrated by van Dongen + +[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science +Fiction June 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that +the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + + + + _Some men just haven't got good sense. They just can't seem to + learn the most fundamental things. Like when there's no use + trying--when it's time to give up because it's hopeless...._ + + +The meteor, a pebble, a little larger than a match head, traveled +through space and time since it came into being. The light from the star +that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first +lungfish ventured from the sea. + +In its last instant, the meteor fell on the Moon. It was impeded by +Evans' tractor. + +It drilled a small, neat hole through the casing of the steam turbine, +and volitized upon striking the blades. Portions of the turbine also +volitized; idling at eight thousand RPM, it became unstable. The shaft +tried to tie itself into a knot, and the blades, damaged and undamaged +were spit through the casing. The turbine again reached a stable state, +that is, stopped. Permanently stopped. + +It was two days to sunrise, where Evans stood. + +It was just before sunset on a spring evening in September in Sydney. +The shadow line between day and night could be seen from the Moon to be +drifting across Australia. + +Evans, who had no watch, thought of the time as a quarter after +Australia. + +Evans was a prospector, and like all prospectors, a sort of jackknife +geologist, selenologist, rather. His tractor and equipment cost two +hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand was paid for. The +rest was promissory notes and grubstake shares. When he was broke, which +was usually, he used his tractor to haul uranium ore and metallic sodium +from the mines at Potter's dike to Williamson Town, where the rockets +landed. + +When he was flush, he would prospect for a couple of weeks. Once he +followed a stampede to Yellow Crater, where he thought for a while that +he had a fortune in chromium. The chromite petered out in a month and a +half, and he was lucky to break even. + +Evans was about three hundred miles east of Williamson Town, the site of +the first landing on the Moon. + +Evans was due back at Williamson Town at about sunset, that is, in about +sixteen days. When he saw the wrecked turbine, he knew that he wouldn't +make it. By careful rationing, he could probably stretch his food out to +more than a month. His drinking water--kept separate from the water in +the reactor--might conceivably last just as long. But his oxygen was too +carefully measured; there was a four-day reserve. By diligent +conservation, he might make it last an extra day. Four days +reserve--plus one is five--plus sixteen days normal supply equals +twenty-one days to live. + +In seventeen days he might be missed, but in seventeen days it would be +dark again, and the search for him, if it ever began, could not begin +for thirteen more days. At the earliest it would be eight days too late. + + * * * * * + +"Well, man, 'tis a fine spot you're in now," he told himself. + +"Let's find out how bad it is indeed," he answered. He reached for the +light switch and tried to turn it on. The switch was already in the "on" +position. + +"Batteries must be dead," he told himself. + +"What batteries?" he asked. "There're no batteries in here, the power +comes from the generator." + +"Why isn't the generator working, man?" he asked. + +He thought this one out carefully. The generator was not turned by the +main turbine, but by a small reciprocating engine. The steam, however, +came from the same boiler. And the boiler, of course, had emptied itself +through the hole in the turbine. And the condenser, of course-- + +"The condenser!" he shouted. + +He fumbled for a while, until he found a small flashlight. By the light +of this, he reinspected the steam system, and found about three gallons +of water frozen in the condenser. The condenser, like all condensers, +was a device to convert steam into water, so that it could be reused in +the boiler. This one had a tank and coils of tubing in the center of a +curved reflector that was positioned to radiate the heat of the steam +into the cold darkness of space. When the meteor pierced the turbine, +the water in the condenser began to boil. This boiling lowered the +temperature, and the condenser demonstrated its efficiency by quickly +freezing the water in the tank. + +Evans sealed the turbine from the rest of the steam system by closing +the shut-off valves. If there was any water in the boiler, it would +operate the engine that drove the generator. The water would condense in +the condenser, and with a little luck, melt the ice in there. Then, if +the pump wasn't blocked by ice, it would return the water to the boiler. + +But there was no water in the boiler. Carefully he poured a cup of his +drinking water into a pipe that led to the boiler, and resealed the +pipe. He pulled on a knob marked "Nuclear Start/Safety Bypass." The +water that he had poured into the boiler quickly turned into steam, and +the steam turned the generator briefly. + +Evans watched the lights flicker and go out, and he guessed what the +trouble was. + +"The water, man," he said, "there is not enough to melt the ice in the +condenser." + +He opened the pipe again and poured nearly a half-gallon of water into +the boiler. It was three days' supply of water, if it had been carefully +used. It was one day's supply if used wastefully. It was ostentatious +luxury for a man with a month's supply of water and twenty-one days to +live. + +The generator started again, and the lights came on. They flickered as +the boiler pressure began to fail, but the steam had melted some of the +ice in the condenser, and the water pump began to function. + +"Well, man," he breathed, "there's a light to die by." + + * * * * * + +The sun rose on Williamson Town at about the same time it rose on Evans. +It was an incredibly brilliant disk in a black sky. The stars next to +the sun shone as brightly as though there were no sun. They might have +appeared to waver slightly, if they were behind outflung corona flares. +If they did, no one noticed. No one looked toward the sun without dark +filters. + +When Director McIlroy came into his office, he found it lighted by the +rising sun. The light was a hot, brilliant white that seemed to pierce +the darkest shadows of the room. He moved to the round window, screening +his eyes from the light, and adjusted the polaroid shade to maximum +density. The sun became an angry red brown, and the room was dark again. +McIlroy decreased the density again until the room was comfortably +lighted. The room felt stuffy, so he decided to leave the door to the +inner office open. + +He felt a little guilty about this, because he had ordered that all +doors in the survey building should remain closed except when someone +was passing through them. This was to allow the air-conditioning system +to function properly, and to prevent air loss in case of the highly +improbable meteor damage. McIlroy thought that on the whole, he was +disobeying his own orders no more flagrantly than anyone else in the +survey. + +McIlroy had no illusions about his ability to lead men. Or rather, he +did have one illusion; he thought that he was completely unfit as a +leader. It was true that his strictest orders were disobeyed with +cheerful contempt, but it was also true his mildest requests were +complied with eagerly and smoothly. + +Everyone in the survey except McIlroy realized this, and even he +accepted this without thinking about it. He had fallen into the habit of +suggesting mildly anything that he wanted done, and writing orders he +didn't particularly care to have obeyed. + +For example, because of an order of his stating that there would be no +alcoholic beverages within the survey building, the entire survey was +assured of a constant supply of home-made, but passably good liquor. +Even McIlroy enjoyed the surreptitious drinking. + +"Good morning, Mr. McIlroy," said Mrs. Garth, his secretary. Morning to +Mrs. Garth was simply the first four hours after waking. + +"Good morning indeed," answered McIlroy. Morning to him had no meaning +at all, but he thought in the strictest sense that it would be morning +on the Moon for another week. + +"Has the power crew set up the solar furnace?" he asked. The solar +furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on +anything that it was desirable to heat. It was used mostly, from sun-up +to sun-down, to supplement the nuclear power plant. + +"They went out about an hour ago," she answered, "I suppose that's what +they were going to do." + +"Very good, what's first on the schedule?" + +"A Mr. Phelps to see you," she said. + +"How do you do, Mr. Phelps," McIlroy greeted him. + +"Good afternoon," Mr. Phelps replied. "I'm here representing the +Merchants' Bank Association." + +"Fine," McIlroy said, "I suppose you're here to set up a bank." + +"That's right, I just got in from Muroc last night, and I've been going +over the assets of the Survey Credit Association all morning." + +"I'll certainly be glad to get them off my hands," McIlroy said. "I hope +they're in good order." + +"There doesn't seem to be any profit," Mr. Phelps said. + +"That's par for a nonprofit organization," said McIlroy. "But we're +amateurs, and we're turning this operation over to professionals. I'm +sure it will be to everyone's satisfaction." + +"I know this seems like a silly question. What day is this?" + +"Well," said McIlroy, "that's not so silly. I don't know either." + +"Mrs. Garth," he called, "what day is this?" + +"Why, September, I think," she answered. + +"I mean what _day_." + +"I don't know, I'll call the observatory." + +There was a pause. + +"They say what day where?" she asked. + +"Greenwich, I guess, our official time is supposed to be Greenwich Mean +Time." + +There was another pause. + +"They say it's September fourth, one thirty A.M." + +"Well, there you are," laughed McIlroy, "it isn't that time doesn't mean +anything here, it just doesn't mean the same thing." + +Mr. Phelps joined the laughter. "Bankers' hours don't mean much, at any +rate," he said. + + * * * * * + +The power crew was having trouble with the solar furnace. Three of the +nine banks of mirrors would not respond to the electric controls, and +one bank moved so jerkily that it could not be focused, and it +threatened to tear several of the mirrors loose. + +"What happened here?" Spotty Cade, one of the electrical technicians +asked his foreman, Cowalczk, over the intercommunications radio. "I've +got about a hundred pinholes in the cables out here. It's no wonder they +don't work." + +"Meteor shower," Cowalczk answered, "and that's not half of it. Walker +says he's got a half dozen mirrors cracked or pitted, and Hoffman on +bank three wants you to replace a servo motor. He says the bearing was +hit." + +"When did it happen?" Cade wanted to know. + +"Must have been last night, at least two or three days ago. All of 'em +too small for Radar to pick up, and not enough for Seismo to get a +rumble." + +"Sounds pretty bad." + +"Could have been worse," said Cowalczk. + +"How's that?" + +"Wasn't anybody out in it." + +"Hey, Chuck," another technician, Lehman, broke in, "you could maybe get +hurt that way." + +"I doubt it," Cowalczk answered, "most of these were pinhead size, and +they wouldn't go through a suit." + +"It would take a pretty big one to damage a servo bearing," Cade +commented. + +"That could hurt," Cowalczk admitted, "but there was only one of them." + +"You mean only one hit our gear," Lehman said. "How many missed?" + +Nobody answered. They could all see the Moon under their feet. Small +craters overlapped and touched each other. There was--except in the +places that men had obscured them with footprints--not a square foot +that didn't contain a crater at least ten inches across, there was not a +square inch without its half-inch crater. Nearly all of these had been +made millions of years ago, but here and there, the rim of a crater +covered part of a footprint, clear evidence that it was a recent one. + +After the sun rose, Evans returned to the lava cave that he had been +exploring when the meteor hit. Inside, he lifted his filter visor, and +found that the light reflected from the small ray that peered into the +cave door lighted the cave adequately. He tapped loose some white +crystals on the cave wall with his geologist's hammer, and put them into +a collector's bag. + +"A few mineral specimens would give us something to think about, man. +These crystals," he said, "look a little like zeolites, but that can't +be, zeolites need water to form, and there's no water on the Moon." + +He chipped a number of other crystals loose and put them in bags. One of +them he found in a dark crevice had a hexagonal shape that puzzled him. + +One at a time, back in the tractor, he took the crystals out of the bags +and analyzed them as well as he could without using a flame which would +waste oxygen. The ones that looked like zeolites were zeolites, all +right, or something very much like it. One of the crystals that he +thought was quartz turned out to be calcite, and one of the ones that he +was sure could be nothing but calcite was actually potassium nitrate. + +"Well, now," he said, "it's probably the largest natural crystal of +potassium nitrate that anyone has ever seen. Man, it's a full inch +across." + +All of these needed water to form, and their existence on the Moon +puzzled him for a while. Then he opened the bag that had contained the +unusual hexagonal crystals, and the puzzle resolved itself. There was +nothing in the bag but a few drops of water. What he had taken to be a +type of rock was ice, frozen in a niche that had never been warmed by +the sun. + + * * * * * + +The sun rose to the meridian slowly. It was a week after sunrise. The +stars shone coldly, and wheeled in their slow course with the sun. Only +Earth remained in the same spot in the black sky. The shadow line crept +around until Earth was nearly dark, and then the rim of light appeared +on the opposite side. For a while Earth was a dark disk in a thin halo, +and then the light came to be a crescent, and the line of dawn began to +move around Earth. The continents drifted across the dark disk and into +the crescent. The people on Earth saw the full moon set about the same +time that the sun rose. + + * * * * * + +Nickel Jones was the captain of a supply rocket. He made trips from and +to the Moon about once a month, carrying supplies in and metal and ores +out. At this time he was visiting with his old friend McIlroy. + +"I swear, Mac," said Jones, "another season like this, and I'm going +back to mining." + +"I thought you were doing pretty well," said McIlroy, as he poured two +drinks from a bottle of Scotch that Jones had brought him. + +"Oh, the money I like, but I will say that I'd have more if I didn't +have to fight the union and the Lunar Trade Commission." + +McIlroy had heard all of this before. "How's that?" he asked politely. + +"You may think it's myself running the ship," Jones started on his +tirade, "but it's not. The union it is that says who I can hire. The +union it is that says how much I must pay, and how large a crew I need. +And then the Commission ..." The word seemed to give Jones an unpleasant +taste in his mouth, which he hurriedly rinsed with a sip of Scotch. + +"The Commission," he continued, making the word sound like an obscenity, +"it is that tells me how much I can charge for freight." + +McIlroy noticed that his friend's glass was empty, and he quietly filled +it again. + +"And then," continued Jones, "if I buy a cargo up here, the Commission +it is that says what I'll sell it for. If I had my way, I'd charge only +fifty cents a pound for freight instead of the dollar forty that the +Commission insists on. That's from here to Earth, of course. There's no +profit I could make by cutting rates the other way." + +"Why not?" asked McIlroy. He knew the answer, but he liked to listen to +the slightly Welsh voice of Jones. + +"Near cost it is now at a dollar forty. But what sense is there in +charging the same rate to go either way when it takes about a seventh of +the fuel to get from here to Earth as it does to get from there to +here?" + +"What good would it do to charge fifty cents a pound?" asked McIlroy. + +"The nickel, man, the tons of nickel worth a dollar and a half on Earth, +and not worth mining here; the low-grade ores of uranium and vanadium, +they need these things on Earth, but they can't get them as long as it +isn't worth the carrying of them. And then, of course, there's the water +we haven't got. We could afford to bring more water for more people, and +set up more distilling plants if we had the money from the nickel. + +"Even though I say it who shouldn't, two-eighty a quart is too much to +pay for water." + +Both men fell silent for a while. Then Jones spoke again: + +"Have you seen our friend Evans lately? The price of chromium has gone +up, and I think he could ship some of his ore from Yellow Crater at a +profit." + +"He's out prospecting again. I don't expect to see him until sun-down." + +"I'll likely see him then. I won't be loaded for another week and a +half. Can't you get in touch with him by radio?" + +"He isn't carrying one. Most of the prospectors don't. They claim that a +radio that won't carry beyond the horizon isn't any good, and one that +will bounce messages from Earth takes up too much room." + +"Well, if I don't see him, you let him know about the chromium." + +"Anything to help another Welshman, is that the idea?" + +"Well, protection it is that a poor Welshman needs from all the English +and Scots. Speaking of which--" + +"Oh, of course," McIlroy grinned as he refilled the glasses. + +"_Slainte, McIlroy, bach._" [Health, McIlroy, man.] + +"_Slainte mhor, bach._" [Great Health, man.] + + * * * * * + +The sun was halfway to the horizon, and Earth was a crescent in the sky +when Evans had quarried all the ice that was available in the cave. The +thought grew on him as he worked that this couldn't be the only such +cave in the area. There must be several more bubbles in the lava flow. + +Part of his reasoning proved correct. That is, he found that by +chipping, he could locate small bubbles up to an inch in diameter, each +one with its droplet of water. The average was about one per cent of the +volume of each bubble filled with ice. + +A quarter of a mile from the tractor, Evans found a promising looking +mound of lava. It was rounded on top, and it could easily be the dome of +a bubble. Suddenly, Evans noticed that the gauge on the oxygen tank of +his suit was reading dangerously near empty. He turned back to his +tractor, moving as slowly as he felt safe in doing. Running would use up +oxygen too fast. He was halfway there when the pressure warning light +went on, and the signal sounded inside his helmet. He turned on his +ten-minute reserve supply, and made it to the tractor with about five +minutes left. The air purifying apparatus in the suit was not as +efficient as the one in the tractor; it wasted oxygen. By using the suit +so much, Evans had already shortened his life by several days. He +resolved not to leave the tractor again, and reluctantly abandoned his +plan to search for a large bubble. + + * * * * * + +The sun stood at half its diameter above the horizon. The shadows of the +mountains stretched out to touch the shadows of the other mountains. The +dawning line of light covered half of Earth, and Earth turned beneath +it. + +Cowalczk itched under his suit, and the sweat on his face prickled +maddeningly because he couldn't reach it through his helmet. He pushed +his forehead against the faceplate of his helmet and rubbed off some of +the sweat. It didn't help much, and it left a blurred spot in his +vision. That annoyed him. + +"Is everyone clear of the outlet?" he asked. + +"All clear," he heard Cade report through the intercom. + +"How come we have to blow the boilers now?" asked Lehman. + +"Because I say so," Cowalczk shouted, surprised at his outburst and +ashamed of it. "Boiler scale," he continued, much calmer. "We've got to +clean out the boilers once a year to make sure the tubes in the reactor +don't clog up." He squinted through his dark visor at the reactor +building, a gray concrete structure a quarter of a mile distant. "It +would be pretty bad if they clogged up some night." + +"Pressure's ten and a half pounds," said Cade. + +"Right, let her go," said Cowalczk. + +Cade threw a switch. In the reactor building, a relay closed. A motor +started turning, and the worm gear on the motor opened a valve on the +boiler. A stream of muddy water gushed into a closed vat. When the vat +was about half full, the water began to run nearly clear. An electric +eye noted that fact and a light in front of Cade turned on. Cade threw +the switch back the other way, and the relay in the reactor building +opened. The motor turned and the gears started to close the valve. But a +fragment of boiler scale held the valve open. + +"Valve's stuck," said Cade. + +"Open it and close it again," said Cowalczk. The sweat on his forehead +started to run into his eyes. He banged his hand on his faceplate in an +unconscious attempt to wipe it off. He cursed silently, and wiped it off +on the inside of his helmet again. This time, two drops ran down the +inside of his faceplate. + +"Still don't work," said Cade. + +"Keep trying," Cowalczk ordered. "Lehman, get a Geiger counter and come +with me, we've got to fix this thing." + +Lehman and Cowalczk, who were already suited up started across to the +reactor building. Cade, who was in the pressurized control room without +a suit on, kept working the switch back and forth. There was light that +indicated when the valve was open. It was on, and it stayed on, no +matter what Cade did. + +"The vat pressure's too high," Cade said. + +"Let me know when it reaches six pounds," Cowalczk requested. "Because +it'll probably blow at seven." + +The vat was a light plastic container used only to decant sludge out of +the water. It neither needed nor had much strength. + +"Six now," said Cade. + +Cowalczk and Lehman stopped halfway to the reactor. The vat bulged and +ruptured. A stream of mud gushed out and boiled dry on the face of the +Moon. Cowalczk and Lehman rushed forward again. + +They could see the trickle of water from the discharge pipe. The motor +turned the valve back and forth in response to Cade's signals. + + * * * * * + +"What's going on out there?" demanded McIlroy on the intercom. + +"Scale stuck in the valve," Cowalczk answered. + +"Are the reactors off?" + +"Yes. Vat blew. Shut up! Let me work, Mac!" + +"Sorry," McIlroy said, realizing that this was no time for officials. +"Let me know when it's fixed." + + +"Geiger's off scale," Lehman said. + +"We're probably O.K. in these suits for an hour," Cowalczk answered. "Is +there a manual shut-off?" + +"Not that I know of," Lehman answered. "What about it, Cade?" + +"I don't think so," Cade said. "I'll get on the blower and rouse out an +engineer." + +"O.K., but keep working that switch." + +"I checked the line as far as it's safe," said Lehman. "No valve." + + * * * * * + +"O.K.," Cowalczk said. "Listen, Cade, are the injectors still on?" + +"Yeah. There's still enough heat in these reactors to do some damage. +I'll cut 'em in about fifteen minutes." + +"I've found the trouble," Lehman said. "The worm gear's loose on its +shaft. It's slipping every time the valve closes. There's not enough +power in it to crush the scale." + +"Right," Cowalczk said. "Cade, open the valve wide. Lehman, hand me that +pipe wrench!" + +Cowalczk hit the shaft with the back of the pipe wrench, and it broke at +the motor bearing. + +Cowalczk and Lehman fitted the pipe wrench to the gear on the valve, and +turned it. + +"Is the light off?" Cowalczk asked. + +"No," Cade answered. + +"Water's stopped. Give us some pressure, we'll see if it holds." + +"Twenty pounds," Cade answered after a couple of minutes. + +"Take her up to ... no, wait, it's still leaking," Cowalczk said. "Hold +it there, we'll open the valve again." + +"O.K.," said Cade. "An engineer here says there's no manual cutoff." + +"Like Hell," said Lehman. + +Cowalczk and Lehman opened the valve again. Water spurted out, and +dwindled as they closed the valve. + +"What did you do?" asked Cade. "The light went out and came on again." + +"Check that circuit and see if it works," Cowalczk instructed. + +There was a pause. + +"It's O.K.," Cade said. + +Cowalczk and Lehman opened and closed the valve again. + +"Light is off now," Cade said. + +"Good," said Cowalczk, "take the pressure up all the way, and we'll see +what happens." + +"Eight hundred pounds," Cade said, after a short wait. + +"Good enough," Cowalczk said. "Tell that engineer to hold up a while, he +can fix this thing as soon as he gets parts. Come on, Lehman, let's get +out of here." + +"Well, I'm glad that's over," said Cade. "You guys had me worried for a +while." + +"Think we weren't worried?" Lehman asked. "And it's not over." + +"What?" Cade asked. "Oh, you mean the valve servo you two bashed up?" + +"No," said Lehman, "I mean the two thousand gallons of water that we +lost." + +"Two thousand?" Cade asked. "We only had seven hundred gallons reserve. +How come we can operate now?" + +"We picked up twelve hundred from the town sewage plant. What with using +the solar furnace as a radiator, we can make do." + +"Oh, God, I suppose this means water rationing again." + +"You're probably right, at least until the next rocket lands in a couple +of weeks." + + * * * * * + + + PROSPECTOR FEARED LOST ON MOON + + IPP Williamson Town, Moon, Sept. 21st. Scientific survey director + McIlroy released a statement today that Howard Evans, a prospector + is missing and presumed lost. Evans, who was apparently exploring + the Moon in search of minerals was due two days ago, but it was + presumed that he was merely temporarily delayed. + + Evans began his exploration on August 25th, and was known to be + carrying several days reserve of oxygen and supplies. Director + McIlroy has expressed a hope that Evans will be found before his + oxygen runs out. + + Search parties have started from Williamson Town, but telescopic + search from Palomar and the new satellite observatory are hindered + by the fact that Evans is lost on the part of the Moon which is now + dark. Little hope is held for radio contact with the missing man as + it is believed he was carrying only short-range, + intercommunications equipment. Nevertheless, receivers are ... + + +Captain Nickel Jones was also expressing a hope: "Anyway, Mac," he was +saying to McIlroy, "a Welshman knows when his luck's run out. And never +a word did he say." + +"Like as not, you're right," McIlroy replied, "but if I know Evans, he'd +never say a word about any forebodings." + +"Well, happen I might have a bit of Welsh second sight about me, and it +tells me that Evans will be found." + +McIlroy chuckled for the first time in several days. "So that's the +reason you didn't take off when you were scheduled," he said. + +"Well, yes," Jones answered. "I thought that it might happen that a +rocket would be needed in the search." + +The light from Earth lighted the Moon as the Moon had never lighted +Earth. The great blue globe of Earth, the only thing larger than the +stars, wheeled silently in the sky. As it turned, the shadow of sunset +crept across the face that could be seen from the Moon. From full Earth, +as you might say, it moved toward last quarter. + +The rising sun shone into Director McIlroy's office. The hot light +formed a circle on the wall opposite the window, and the light became +more intense as the sun slowly pulled over the horizon. Mrs. Garth +walked into the director's office, and saw the director sleeping with +his head cradled in his arms on the desk. She walked softly to the +window and adjusted the shade to darken the office. She stood looking at +McIlroy for a moment, and when he moved slightly in his sleep, she +walked softly out of the office. + +A few minutes later she was back with a cup of coffee. She placed it in +front of the director, and shook his shoulder gently. + +"Wake up, Mr. McIlroy," she said, "you told me to wake you at sunrise, +and there it is, and here's Mr. Phelps." + +McIlroy woke up slowly. He leaned back in his chair and stretched. His +neck was stiff from sleeping in such an awkward position. + +"'Morning, Mr. Phelps," he said. + +"Good morning," Phelps answered, dropping tiredly into a chair. + +"Have some coffee, Mr. Phelps," said Mrs. Garth, handing him a cup. + +"Any news?" asked McIlroy. + +"About Evans?" Phelps shook his head slowly. "Palomar called in a few +minutes back. Nothing to report and the sun was rising there. Australia +will be in position pretty soon. Several observatories there. Then +Capetown. There are lots of observatories in Europe, but most of them +are clouded over. Anyway the satellite observatory will be in position +by the time Europe is." + +McIlroy was fully awake. He glanced at Phelps and wondered how long it +had been since he had slept last. More than that, McIlroy wondered why +this banker, who had never met Evans, was losing so much sleep about +finding him. It began to dawn on McIlroy that nearly the whole +population of Williamson Town was involved, one way or another, in the +search. + +The director turned to ask Phelps about this fact, but the banker was +slumped in his chair, fast asleep with his coffee untouched. + +It was three hours later that McIlroy woke Phelps. + +"They've found the tractor," McIlroy said. + +"Good," Phelps mumbled, and then as comprehension came; "That's fine! +That's just line! Is Evans--?" + +"Can't tell yet. They spotted the tractor from the satellite +observatory. Captain Jones took off a few minutes ago, and he'll report +back as soon as he lands. Hadn't you better get some sleep?" + + * * * * * + +Evans was carrying a block of ice into the tractor when he saw the +rocket coming in for a landing. He dropped the block and stood waiting. +When the dust settled from around the tail of the rocket, he started to +run forward. The air lock opened, and Evans recognized the vacuum suited +figure of Nickel Jones. + +"Evans, man!" said Jones' voice in the intercom. "Alive you are!" + +"A Welshman takes a lot of killing," Evans answered. + + * * * * * + +Later, in Evans' tractor, he was telling his story: + +"... And I don't know how long I sat there after I found the water." He +looked at the Goldburgian device he had made out of wire and tubing. +"Finally I built this thing. These caves were made of lava. They must +have been formed by steam some time, because there's a floor of ice in +all of 'em. + +"The idea didn't come all at once, it took a long time for me to +remember that water is made out of oxygen and hydrogen. When I +remembered that, of course, I remembered that it can be separated with +electricity. So I built this thing. + +"It runs an electric current through water, lets the oxygen loose in the +room, and pipes the hydrogen outside. It doesn't work automatically, of +course, so I run it about an hour a day. My oxygen level gauge shows how +long." + +"You're a genius, man!" Jones exclaimed. + +"No," Evans answered, "a Welshman, nothing more." + +"Well, then," said Jones, "are you ready to start back?" + +"Back?" + +"Well, it was to rescue you that I came." + +"I don't need rescuing, man," Evans said. + +Jones stared at him blankly. + +"You might let me have some food," Evans continued. "I'm getting short +of that. And you might have someone send out a mechanic with parts to +fix my tractor. Then maybe you'll let me use your radio to file my +claim." + +"Claim?" + +"Sure, man, I've thousands of tons of water here. 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