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MARKS + + ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK + + + _These gorgeous fanatics were + equally at home with men, + murder, or matrimony, and + they used all three with + amazing success._ + + +Dr. Hubert Long, 40, bachelor and assistant professor of political +science at Mentioch University, thrust his rugged, unlovely face +forward, sticking out his neck literally and figuratively. + +"The Humanist Party," he shouted at the 800 odd students in the lecture +hall, "is not a political party at all. It's an oligarchy, so firmly +established in Washington that our electoral form of government is an +empty ritual, a ridiculous myth. Our elections are rigged to perpetuate +a select group of feminists in absolute power." + +[Illustration: Saving Dr. Long came in the line of duty.] + +The mixed group of seniors stirred in their seats with wide eyes, and +many began taking notes. + +"This may cost me my position at the university," he said grimly, "but +the time has come for all responsible citizens to face the fact that the +Government of the United States of America has degenerated into little +better than an absolute dictatorship!" + +This time a rustle of whispering grew to restless buzzing. A young man +in a bowtie leaped to his feet breaking the no-questions rule in Long's +over-size classes. "May the _Mentioch Bugle_ quote you, Dr. Long?" + +"You may headline those views, and I hope you do," Long declared +belligerently, adding extra emphasis. + + * * * * * + +"Exactly what do you imply when you call the Humanist Party a group of +feminists?" the young man asked, encouraged. + +Long's gaze swept out, noting the mild amusement on the faces of the men +students, the growing annoyance in the women. He fixed the reporter for +the campus paper with a level stare. "I suppose you feel that because +only 30 percent of our legislatures are women, that men still dominate +Congress?" + +"I think that is the popular conception," the reporter said in a +patronizing tone. + +"Then think again, young man. Analyze the composition of the Senate and +House, and break down the key committee appointments by sexes. You will +find three-fourths of these posts held by women, and the balance are +held by men whose wives are members of the top-level Humanist Party +movement. I say to you that our whole nation is dominated by a handful +of female fanatics to whom intellectual integrity is unknown." + +"What are your indictments? Please enumerate--" + +"I will, I will," Long shouted, ignoring the microphone before him. +"Without consideration of our national prestige the Humanist Party has +emasculated our influence as a world power with its pacifistic actions. +On the domestic front, the Party has initiated a program of so-called +Internal Security, a cradle-to-the-grave pampering that amounts to the +most vicious State-Socialism the world has seen since the fall of Soviet +Russia. We are fast becoming slaves to the soft, gutless bureaucracy in +Washington that feeds us, wipes our noses, encourages excessive breeding +and enforces its fantastic policies by use of goon squads!" + +"Goon squads?" The young reporter lost his smile. "You had better +clarify that, Dr. Long. I wouldn't want to join you in a libel action." + +"Keep quoting me," Long snarled. "I said goon squads, and I meant just +that. Once I belonged to a scholarly fraternity of political scientists +who were critical of our government. Of some eighteen members, I am the +only one left in public life. The rest have all disappeared, and I have +no doubt that my previous silence on these matters is all that has saved +me. But the time for discretion is past. If we are to save our +independence and democratic freedoms the time for action is now! I say +to you--" + + * * * * * + +It made more than the headlines of the college campus at Mentioch. The +news-wire services picked it up, and Dr. Long's radical views made pages +two and three all over the nation. + +Emily Bogarth, head of Internal Security, raged at her assistant, +bald-headed Terman Donlup. "Must I read about these things in the papers +to keep up on subversive activity?" + +"But the man's record shows complete stability," Donlup defended. "He +simply blew up without any warning at all. The Dean of Women at +Mentioch tells me that Dr. Long has never had a word of criticism from +his department head. I suppose we had better remove him from his +position at once, eh?" + +Madame Secretary Bogarth shook her head. "That's not enough. This calls +for liquidation. I want a special squad on this one." She began writing +names on a sheet of paper, names of some of the most effective +unscrupulous yet faithful operators in the party's top echelon. + +She handed it to Donlup. "This man is dangerous. He could force us into +open control of the press and higher education. Get these people here +not later than tomorrow. We can't waste time." + +"Yes, Madame Secretary," Donlup saluted with a full bow and went to +work. + + * * * * * + +The following afternoon Emily Bogarth faced the squad with its +brilliant, green-eyed leader. She told them their mission and then +dismissed all but one. "I'm sorry to hand this one to you. I know what a +promising career you had before you. But this man is deadly to our +purpose. Believe me, I am not wasting your special aptitudes." + +"If it's for the good of the Party--" + +"Dr. Hubert Long is a lighted fuse," Emily Bogarth said, her cold eyes +hard on her operator, "that could blow the Humanist movement sky-high. I +want you to snuff out that fuse." She squeezed a forefinger against her +spatulate thumb. + +The operator nodded and the green eyes flashed with the same fanatic +spark that electrified American politics at the turn of the 21st century +and launched the Humanist Party into its 30-year tenure of power. + + * * * * * + +At first only a shocked, embarrassed silence greeted Dr. Long on the +campus of Mentioch University, but as the press notices of his +utterances grew in volume so did his prestige. + +He began to have a number of local visitors who evinced sharp interest +in his views. At the end of the first week he was holding forth each +evening to a sizable audience in his tiny bungalow on the edge of +faculty row. + +By nature a careful, practical man, Hubert Long now carried a small +pistol in his coat pocket, but being also a fearless, independent +individual, he admitted all callers and exposed himself daily to the +public. It wasn't entirely personal bravado, however. He knew from his +years of intense, discreet research that the goon squads rarely made +their attacks in the public eye. When they liquidated him he fervently +hoped they would make this mistake and prove his point concerning their +operations. + +Although he didn't seek martyrdom, Dr. Long was prepared for it, as he +explained to the informal seminar that had accumulated at his home this +Sunday afternoon. It was now late evening and the endless questions were +beginning to grow wearying. + +"How do you know," asked a skeptical businessman, "that I am not an +assassin who will ambush you on the way to the bathroom tonight?" + +There were several ladies present, and bachelor Long blushed with +annoyance. "You might very well be," he retorted. "But probably I have +some measure of temporary protection from the publicity I have received. +My death, if it occurs, will doubtless appear to be from natural causes, +or perhaps from a most ordinary but unfortunate accident." + +He arose. "It's rather late and I have an early class. Will you excuse +me? Thanks for coming, everyone of you." He nodded, trying to smile, but +the chill thought from the businessman's remark persisted. Very possible +it was that one or more members of a goon squad was among the +twenty-some people now beginning to pick themselves off his worn carpet, +footstool, coffee table and the meager furniture he could afford on his +salary. + +With a small start he realized that a youngish woman, in her early +thirties, he guessed, was stalling as though she intended to remain +behind. Sure enough, she closed the door behind the others and turned a +very lovely face to him. "I think you are magnificent, Dr. Long," she +said impulsively. "I hope you will spare me just a few minutes alone?" + +Long slipped his right hand into his coat pocket casually. On her feet +the woman displayed more than a beautiful face. Her figure was +alarmingly feminine and rather aggressively displayed, feet akimbo, +hips forward, shoulders back. Her hair was nearly platinum, but so +expensively dressed it was impossible to determine whether it was +artificially so. + +She caught his hesitation. "Perhaps you would feel better out on the +porch," she offered, smiling with such relaxed understanding that Long +felt a little boorish. + +"No. Sit down, please, I didn't catch your name earlier." + + * * * * * + +"Julie Stone," she introduced herself and held out a long, bare arm. Her +hand squeezed his fingers warmly, more like a man's grip. "My brother is +Senator Stone, and he asked me to stop by and meet you. Secretly he +agrees with much of what you have said, but of course he is reluctant to +expose himself until something of a formal movement is under way." + +Long relaxed a little. This was good news, about the first he had had to +date. Political figures were remaining eloquently silent in the press, +and this was the first overture he had enjoyed from anyone more +influential than the reporters. + +She went on, "Specifically, my brother would like to know which of the +other two political parties you favor, in the event you make an appeal +through such channels." + +"Either party," Long asserted with some emphasis. "In fact I would like +to see a coalition of the Democratic and Republican Parties to overthrow +this unholy Humanist gang." + +Her forehead wrinkled. "Precisely Tom's idea. He's not at all certain it +can be done, but he thinks that the press reaction you have had +indicates there is a possibility if it is played right." + +"Yes, the so-called free press," he said. "Some people have thrown that +up to me. If the Humanists were dictators, they say, we wouldn't have +this free press that has given my remarks currency. I read it +differently. The Humanists have sold the press a bill of goods, and so +they control the papers in the most effective way of all. You'll notice +that they have printed my speeches strictly as news, you might say as +oddities in the news. Editorial comment has been extremely +noncommittal." + +"I hope you are right," Long said. He made a pot of coffee, and they +discussed the matter at some length. He liked this woman's direct, open +approach, but she startled him as she was leaving. + +"I have much to tell my brother," she said. "For my own curiosity, +though, are you certain that some personal distrust or dislike for women +hasn't influenced your attack against the government?" + +It jarred him like an uppercut. Her detached manner had almost made him +forget she was a woman herself. Now this. + +"Why--why do you ask?" + +She shrugged. "It was a natural thought. There aren't many confirmed +bachelors these days." + +"Oh, that!" He smiled. "You're quite right, there aren't many unattached +men over twenty-one any more, what with the barrage of government +propaganda and their special tax deduction incentives. I assure you that +it's nothing personal, however. My tastes are simply too rich." + +"Your tastes?" It was her turn to arch an eyebrow. + +"That's right. A lovely woman is a work of art, but like any other +masterpiece, she is a luxury I can't afford. Anyway, this mug of mine +rather put me out of the running in the only leagues I've wanted to play +in. Incidentally, you introduced yourself as _Miss_ Julie Stone, didn't +you?" + +"No, but it happens to be correct." + +"What's your excuse?" + +"For being single? I'm a career girl. I have my own modeling agency. Too +busy for one thing. And I guess a woman gets bored looking at beautiful +men in my business. Not a brain in a barnful. Just beautiful brawn and +wavy hair. Ugh! Animals! Everyone of them." + +"Young woman, that's sedition. Don't you believe the government +propaganda?" + +"If I did do you think I'd be here? No. Dr. Long, I find your arguments +quite valid. America is in the hands of the feminists, all right, and +it's the fault of several generations of mama's boys. I just can't +get--" + + * * * * * + +She broke off as a heavy truck rolled by out front, back-firing heavily. +They were both silhouetted in the open door. She glanced out, and +suddenly she threw herself upon him, pulling him to the floor. He caught +her in his arms as they cascaded into a tangle of limbs and nylon. + +The racket faded off down the street, but Dr. Long's mind was not on the +noise. The touch of this beautiful woman's flesh under his hands +dominated his whole being. How different, how soft, incredibly soft! + +Now she was clinging to him, trembling slightly and breathing deeply. +Even at this range her pale hair looked natural. "Are you all right?" +she asked at last. + +"Of course," he said sitting up reluctantly. "It was only a truck +back-firing." + +"Look!" She pointed behind him at the wall opposite the door. A wavery +line of small, deep holes cut across about heart-high. "I saw the +gun-barrel stick out as the truck came up," she explained, untangling +herself. "It appears your temporary immunity is over. They're getting +active." + +Long stared half-unbelieving at the mean, business-like little holes. +With the reactions of a trained semanticist he relaxed instead of +tensing up with fear. He had made his decision days ago, and he knew +full well the risks he incurred. + +"Thanks for nothing!" he said coldly. + +Julie Stone looked up from straightening her dress and studied his lined +face. "So you really were expecting an attack?" She shook her head in +disgust. "I finally meet a man with some semblance of guts, and the only +way he can think of to win his point is to let a goon squad spill them +in the headlines!" + +She threw herself into an armchair and crossed her knees. Long stood in +the middle of the floor staring down at the woman he had held in his +arms minutes ago, and his temples began throbbing. "What--what else is +there to do?" he asked hoarsely. "This was my best chance to draw +attention to the reality of our police state. I have much more to die +for than to live for. This has been my life's work--gathering the facts +and contriving to present them dramatically enough to attract national +attention. My only fear was that they wouldn't come after me, and I +might be written off as a crackpot." + +"I regret," she intoned, "that I have but one life to give to my +country!" Then her lip curled. "Very well, brainy, if that's the best +you can think up. Let's make it better yet. How about this for a +headline: _Dr. Long and Lovely Model Murdered by Federal Hoods!_" + +"Are you insane?" + +She shook her head. "I'm dead serious. I'm sticking right in the line of +fire until you figure out a way to stay alive at a profit." + +He argued, pleaded and even lost his temper, pulling her to her feet and +trying to force her out the door. He didn't make it. Somehow his arms +slipped too far around her, and she clamped herself to him in a defiant +embrace. The soft warmth of her body, her sweet breath in his nostrils, +the faint essence of her perfume enveloped him in a befuddling weakness. + +Live at a profit? How could a man want to die with Julie Stone in his +arms? + +He knew it was supremely idiotic, but the thought of her fabulous form +crumpled and riddled with bullets slashed at the tendons of his resolve, +and he clutched her lips to his with the hunger of the condemned man he +was. + +"Julie, Julie! Why did you have to--" + +"One bullet, a single bullet will do it now." Her lips peeled back from +her white teeth. "Let's stay this way, darling. That's the way you want +it." + +Her low, black sedan nibbled at the 100-mile-per-hour limit on the +Freeway as they crossed the state line. In the back seat, reclining out +of sight, his head pillowed on his brief case full of his documented +case against the Humanist Party, was a very thoughtful Dr. Hubert Long, +recently of Mentioch University. + +He had driven until dawn while Julie Stone slept, and now, after a brief +nap, he was waking to some of the realities of the morning. + +This flight was utterly absurd. When the federal people discovered he +was not dead they would come after him again and again. All he had done +was involve this lovely woman. Long since he had controlled fear for his +own life, but now he knew the exquisite torment of fearing for the woman +he loved. + +The emotion was genuine and no less raging for its swift eruption in the +space of a single evening. Dr. Hubert Long was hopelessly and deeply in +love with Julie Stone. + +"Quit worrying," she called back to him. "They couldn't have spotted my +car. I parked it a block from your house, remember?" + +"I hope you have a plan," Long muttered. "I certainly don't. Where are +we heading?" + +"Florida. To my brother's winter place. You know, I just had a thought. +Tom and I are both on the board of regents of Toppinhout College down +there, and there'll be an opening next quarter in the faculty. A +professorship, in fact." + +Long grunted. "No dice. They'll have every political scientist in the +country under scrutiny for years." + +"This is the chair of anthropology," she said. "We can change your name, +and after this first excitement of your disappearance dies down--" + +"But I don't want it to die down!" he objected. + +"I thought we settled that. You've got to stay alive to talk to +important people. Tom and I will round them up secretly, and you can +present your case to them. My brother is the senior Senator, you know, +and he's been itching to bolt the Humanist Party for the last two +terms." + +"What can I accomplish in secret conferences? The people are the ones +who must be aroused." + +"I know, I know, from a soapbox in Times Square, I suppose. Darling, you +can't accomplish this alone. They've proved they are willing to take the +chance of killing you, so they must be stronger than you think. Your +facts must come to the attention of the right people. Over a period of +time we can organize a truly effective underground." + +"Toppinhout is a girls' college." + +"So?" + +"I've never taught anthropology before." + +"You've never been married before, either," she pointed out, "but I +predict you'll be a success at both." + +"Married?" Long popped his head up. + + * * * * * + +She smiled at him in the rear-view mirror. "Get your head down before +you get it blown off. Yes, I said married. I'm not trusting that +pug-ugly, beautiful mug of yours out of my sight from now on. And I'm +afraid Tom will shoot you himself if you don't make it conventional. +Tom's old-fashioned." + +"But--I couldn't support you on--" + +"A full professor's salary? Don't be foolish. Besides, I'm retiring from +my agency. Selling out. That'll set us up housekeeping." + +That such a prosaic term as "set us up housekeeping" should send molten +lava racing through his veins, did not seem strange to Dr. Hubert Long. +How could a man successfully keep his mind on dying when at last a work +of art like Julie seemed within his reach? He knew that his plans were +irrevocably changed. + + * * * * * + +Emily Bogarth turned to the phone speaker as her assistant made the +circuit and signalled to her. + +"On the Hubert Long mission--" the speaker said. "Mission accomplished +from this end. I trust you have a likely story for the press?" + +"Never mind that. Did it come off as planned?" + +"Precisely. Your marksmen were quite effective." + +Emily Bogarth sighed. "Sorry to sacrifice you, honey, but the other way +is just too messy." + +"Don't mention it. This chap has a very interesting mind. He's a +challenge--in more ways than one. By the way, get word to Senator Stone, +will you? Have him fly down to his winter home at once. He'll be needed. +Some Party members, too." + +"Of course. That's all set up. Good luck!" + +"Thanks, but you can put your mind at rest. Dr. Hubert Long is +positively liquidated." + + * * * * * + +Julie stepped from the phone booth and paid the service attendant for +the gasoline. He looked at her as he dropped the change into her hand +and wondered who the lucky chap in the back seat might be. A man would +sell his soul for the right kind of a look from those green eyes. + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Amazing Science Fiction Stories_ + October 1958. 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