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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: Moment of Truth + +Author: Basil Eugene Wells + +Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28111] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOMENT OF TRUTH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><i><small>Basil Wells, who lives in Pennsylvania, has been doing research concerning +life in the area during the period prior to and following the +War of 1812. Here he turns to a different problem—the adjustment demanded +of a pioneer woman, not in those days but Tomorrow—on Mars.</small></i></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>moment<br /> +of<br /> +truth</b></h1> + +<h2><i><small>by BASIL WELLS</small></i></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><big><b>Beyond the false windows she could see the reddish +wasteland where dust clouds spun and shifted so slowly.</b></big></p></div> + +<p><span class="dcap">She had</span> been asleep. +Now she stretched luxuriously +beneath the crisp white +sheet that the vapid August +heat decreed. From memory +to memory her dream-fogged +mind drifted, and to the yet-to-be. +It was good to remember, +and to imagine, and to +see and feel and hear....</p> + +<p>She smiled. She was Ruth +Halsey, fourteen, brunette, +and pretty. Earl, and Harry, +and Buhl had told her she was +pretty. Especially Buhl. Buhl +was her favorite date now.</p> + +<p>The room closed around her +with its familiar colors and +furnishings. Sometimes she +would dream that she was +elsewhere, unfamiliar, ugly +places, but then she would +awaken to the four long windows +with their coarse beige +drapes of monk's cloth and +the fantasies were forever dispelled.</p> + +<p>Her eyes loved the two +paintings, the dark curls of +the pink-and-white doll sitting +prissily atop the dresser, +and the full-length mirror on +the open closet door.</p> + +<p>The pictured design of the +wallpaper, its background +merging with the pastel blue +of the slanted ceiling.... Almost +as they had blended together +that first day when she +was twelve. Yet not the same, +she corrected her thoughts, +frowning. Sometimes, as today, +the design seemed faded +and changed. The gay little +bridges and the flowered, impossibly +blue trees seemed to +change and threaten to vanish.</p> + +<p>She laughed over at the demurely +sitting doll. Essie had +been her favorite doll when +she was younger. Of course +now that she was fourteen +she did not play with dolls +any more. But it was permissible +that she keep her old +friend neatly dressed and ever +at hand as a confidant. She +smiled at the thought. Essie +never tattled.</p> + +<p>"It must be from that polio," +she told Essie, knowing +all the time that she was almost +well now and needed +plenty of rest and careful +doses of exercise. "It makes +my eyes—funny."</p> + +<p>Essie smiled back glassily +and Ruth laughed. It was +good to awaken and see the +thick black arms of the maple +tree outside the windows. It +was good to have the cool +green leaves waving at her, +and see the filtered dapplings +of sunshine cross and recross +them.</p> + +<p>She loved that old tree. She +had played among its long +horizontal branches from +childhood. Her brother, Alex, +who had been killed in the +Normandy Landing during +World War Three, had loved +the tree too. He had built the +railed, shingled-roofed little +nest high up in the tree's +crotched heart where Ruth +kept some of her extra-special +notes and jewelry and a book +of poems.</p> + +<p>One of the two paintings on +the bedroom walls was of the +old tree. The tree dominated +the old story-and-a-half white +house with the green shutters +that was the Halseys' home. +Her home. Alex had painted +that picture as well as the other +showing the graceful loop +of the river and the roofs of +the village of Thayer in the +distance. Ruth had been with +him as he painted that second +picture from the jutting rock +ledge five hundred feet above +the river.</p> + +<p>"I was just ten then, Essie," +she chirped gaily. "I remember +how afraid I was of +the height and how Alex +scolded."</p> + +<p>But Alex was dead now and +all she had to remember of +him was the paintings and the +photographs that Mother kept +in a battered brown leather +folder. For a moment the +bright sunlight in her beloved +maple tree's leaves seemed to +dim and the room wavered +about her. She wondered +about that. She must tell her +father or her mother.</p> + +<p>Perhaps the polio, light +touch of it or not, had hurt +her eyesight. Glasses! She +shuddered at the thought.</p> + +<p>The room shimmered and +blurred—and suddenly broke +apart to reform into something.... She +squinched her +eyes shut to the hideous vision. +And then opened them +the merest slit.</p> + +<p>Nothing had changed....</p> + +<p>"MOTHER!" she cried. +"Daddy!" she cried. "What +has happened?"</p> + +<p>She heard the door to—to +this hideous travesty of a +room opening. Her eyes darted +around the shrunken metal-walled +shell, even the ceiling +curved overhead, and she saw +two grotesque daubs taped to +the walls that parodied the +paintings of her dead brother +Alex. The coloring was ugly +and the proportions out of +line. And it was not canvas +but curling sheets of paper +taped and painted to resemble +frames!</p> + +<p>A big man, sandy-haired +and with vertical wrinkles +deep between piercing blue +eyes, came into the room. She +shrank into the bed, seeing +that the sheet she tugged taut +across her breast was ragged +and blue.</p> + +<p>"Ruth," he said, a slow +smile making his face almost +handsome, "you're better. +You haven't spoken in +weeks."</p> + +<p>Ruth wanted to giggle. As +though they could keep her +quiet. Daddy was always +shushing her.... But who was +this big man in his dusty +drab coveralls and dropped +dust mask dangling upon his +chest?</p> + +<p>"Don't you know me, Dear? +It's Buhl, your husband."</p> + +<p>Buhl was fifteen and only +a couple of inches taller than +Ruth. Of course he had sandy +hair like this man. But this +man was old enough to be +Buhl's father. This was crazy—like +one of the dreams that +always made her unhappy.</p> + +<p>So? So it was a dream. She +felt warmth and release. Why +not see what this dream had +to offer that might be amusing +to remember and tell +Buhl sometime soon. +Wouldn't he laugh when he +heard she had dreamed about +him? And been married to +him.</p> + +<p>She saw the strip of shiny +metal that masqueraded as her +mirror, and where her four +long windows, with their +thick, loose-woven drapes, +had been there were only four +taped strips of paper with +crude pictures of draped windows +daubed on them. There +were even green dabs of paint +and black splashes to stimulate +her beloved maple tree.</p> + +<p>"Ruth! Do you feel better +now? Please don't smile at me +like that. I know you loved +the baby, but this Martian atmosphere +is tough even for +men. It wasn't your fault."</p> + +<p>"Go ahead and talk," Ruth +laughed gaily. "This is just +another bad dream and I +know it. I'll wake up in a little +while and be back in my +cool old room."</p> + +<p>"Blast your room and your +dreams!"</p> + +<p>The man went across the +room in a swift rush and tore +down one of the false windows, +the painted strip of paper. +And beyond, through a +dusty oval glass window, +Ruth could see a reddish +brown wasteland, where dust +clouds spun and shifted slowly, +and a dusty huddle of +what looked like quonset +huts or storage sheds of metal.</p> + +<p>"That is reality, Ruth. You +must face it. This pretense, +this sleazy imitation of your +old room is wrong. You're +strong enough, and I love you—you +can accept truth."</p> + +<p>His face changed, all expression +sponged from it in +an instant as he looked into +her eyes, and then it seemed +to dissolve into something +ugly and yet childish. She +saw tears burst through and +furrow the dust on his +cheeks.</p> + +<p>"Dear Lord," he cried, almost +reverently, "must this go +on forever? Will she ever +come back to me?"</p> + +<p>His voice choked off and he +stumbled across the room and +out the door. She heard it shut +behind him, and she was hunting +for Essie, already having +forgotten the ill-mannered intruder.</p> + +<p>There was no Essie, only a +mannikin of cloth-stuffed +white nylon and lipstick, with +black nylon for hair.</p> + +<p>And then the room shimmered +and broke apart and reformed +and she was back in +her bed with the sun on the +slowly dancing green leaves +outside the four long windows. +Essie was smiling down +at her from the dresser, and +the paintings were as always, +soft colors and perfectly +drafted.</p> + +<p>Had she thought there were +four windows? How silly of +her. The second from the +right was a small oval of glass, +or rather, a glass-covered picture +of desert scene. Odd that +she had forgotten about that +picture. Oh well, what did it +matter.</p> + +<p>In a few days she would be +well enough again to climb +out on the giant limbs and +into the tree nest that her +brother, Alex, had built. And +the boys would come to see +her and take her to the drugstore +for sodas and sundaes.</p> + +<p>Yes, she was sure now. She +<i>did</i> like Buhl Austin best....</p> + +<div class="figc"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="400" height="213" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> December 1957. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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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: Moment of Truth + +Author: Basil Eugene Wells + +Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28111] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOMENT OF TRUTH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + _Basil Wells, who lives in Pennsylvania, has been doing research + concerning life in the area during the period prior to and following + the War of 1812. Here he turns to a different problem--the + adjustment demanded of a pioneer woman, not in those days but + Tomorrow--on Mars._ + + + moment + of + truth + + _by BASIL WELLS_ + + + Beyond the false windows she could see the reddish + wasteland where dust clouds spun and shifted so slowly. + + +She had been asleep. Now she stretched luxuriously beneath the crisp +white sheet that the vapid August heat decreed. From memory to memory +her dream-fogged mind drifted, and to the yet-to-be. It was good to +remember, and to imagine, and to see and feel and hear.... + +She smiled. She was Ruth Halsey, fourteen, brunette, and pretty. Earl, +and Harry, and Buhl had told her she was pretty. Especially Buhl. Buhl +was her favorite date now. + +The room closed around her with its familiar colors and furnishings. +Sometimes she would dream that she was elsewhere, unfamiliar, ugly +places, but then she would awaken to the four long windows with their +coarse beige drapes of monk's cloth and the fantasies were forever +dispelled. + +Her eyes loved the two paintings, the dark curls of the pink-and-white +doll sitting prissily atop the dresser, and the full-length mirror on +the open closet door. + +The pictured design of the wallpaper, its background merging with the +pastel blue of the slanted ceiling.... Almost as they had blended +together that first day when she was twelve. Yet not the same, she +corrected her thoughts, frowning. Sometimes, as today, the design seemed +faded and changed. The gay little bridges and the flowered, impossibly +blue trees seemed to change and threaten to vanish. + +She laughed over at the demurely sitting doll. Essie had been her +favorite doll when she was younger. Of course now that she was fourteen +she did not play with dolls any more. But it was permissible that she +keep her old friend neatly dressed and ever at hand as a confidant. She +smiled at the thought. Essie never tattled. + +"It must be from that polio," she told Essie, knowing all the time that +she was almost well now and needed plenty of rest and careful doses of +exercise. "It makes my eyes--funny." + +Essie smiled back glassily and Ruth laughed. It was good to awaken and +see the thick black arms of the maple tree outside the windows. It was +good to have the cool green leaves waving at her, and see the filtered +dapplings of sunshine cross and recross them. + +She loved that old tree. She had played among its long horizontal +branches from childhood. Her brother, Alex, who had been killed in the +Normandy Landing during World War Three, had loved the tree too. He had +built the railed, shingled-roofed little nest high up in the tree's +crotched heart where Ruth kept some of her extra-special notes and +jewelry and a book of poems. + +One of the two paintings on the bedroom walls was of the old tree. The +tree dominated the old story-and-a-half white house with the green +shutters that was the Halseys' home. Her home. Alex had painted that +picture as well as the other showing the graceful loop of the river and +the roofs of the village of Thayer in the distance. Ruth had been with +him as he painted that second picture from the jutting rock ledge five +hundred feet above the river. + +"I was just ten then, Essie," she chirped gaily. "I remember how afraid +I was of the height and how Alex scolded." + +But Alex was dead now and all she had to remember of him was the +paintings and the photographs that Mother kept in a battered brown +leather folder. For a moment the bright sunlight in her beloved maple +tree's leaves seemed to dim and the room wavered about her. She wondered +about that. She must tell her father or her mother. + +Perhaps the polio, light touch of it or not, had hurt her eyesight. +Glasses! She shuddered at the thought. + +The room shimmered and blurred--and suddenly broke apart to reform into +something.... She squinched her eyes shut to the hideous vision. And +then opened them the merest slit. + +Nothing had changed.... + +"MOTHER!" she cried. "Daddy!" she cried. "What has happened?" + +She heard the door to--to this hideous travesty of a room opening. Her +eyes darted around the shrunken metal-walled shell, even the ceiling +curved overhead, and she saw two grotesque daubs taped to the walls that +parodied the paintings of her dead brother Alex. The coloring was ugly +and the proportions out of line. And it was not canvas but curling +sheets of paper taped and painted to resemble frames! + +A big man, sandy-haired and with vertical wrinkles deep between piercing +blue eyes, came into the room. She shrank into the bed, seeing that the +sheet she tugged taut across her breast was ragged and blue. + +"Ruth," he said, a slow smile making his face almost handsome, "you're +better. You haven't spoken in weeks." + +Ruth wanted to giggle. As though they could keep her quiet. Daddy was +always shushing her.... But who was this big man in his dusty drab +coveralls and dropped dust mask dangling upon his chest? + +"Don't you know me, Dear? It's Buhl, your husband." + +Buhl was fifteen and only a couple of inches taller than Ruth. Of course +he had sandy hair like this man. But this man was old enough to be +Buhl's father. This was crazy--like one of the dreams that always made +her unhappy. + +So? So it was a dream. She felt warmth and release. Why not see what +this dream had to offer that might be amusing to remember and tell Buhl +sometime soon. Wouldn't he laugh when he heard she had dreamed about +him? And been married to him. + +She saw the strip of shiny metal that masqueraded as her mirror, and +where her four long windows, with their thick, loose-woven drapes, had +been there were only four taped strips of paper with crude pictures of +draped windows daubed on them. There were even green dabs of paint and +black splashes to stimulate her beloved maple tree. + +"Ruth! Do you feel better now? Please don't smile at me like that. I +know you loved the baby, but this Martian atmosphere is tough even for +men. It wasn't your fault." + +"Go ahead and talk," Ruth laughed gaily. "This is just another bad dream +and I know it. I'll wake up in a little while and be back in my cool old +room." + +"Blast your room and your dreams!" + +The man went across the room in a swift rush and tore down one of the +false windows, the painted strip of paper. And beyond, through a dusty +oval glass window, Ruth could see a reddish brown wasteland, where dust +clouds spun and shifted slowly, and a dusty huddle of what looked like +quonset huts or storage sheds of metal. + +"That is reality, Ruth. You must face it. This pretense, this sleazy +imitation of your old room is wrong. You're strong enough, and I love +you--you can accept truth." + +His face changed, all expression sponged from it in an instant as he +looked into her eyes, and then it seemed to dissolve into something ugly +and yet childish. She saw tears burst through and furrow the dust on his +cheeks. + +"Dear Lord," he cried, almost reverently, "must this go on forever? Will +she ever come back to me?" + +His voice choked off and he stumbled across the room and out the door. +She heard it shut behind him, and she was hunting for Essie, already +having forgotten the ill-mannered intruder. + +There was no Essie, only a mannikin of cloth-stuffed white nylon and +lipstick, with black nylon for hair. + +And then the room shimmered and broke apart and reformed and she was +back in her bed with the sun on the slowly dancing green leaves outside +the four long windows. Essie was smiling down at her from the dresser, +and the paintings were as always, soft colors and perfectly drafted. + +Had she thought there were four windows? How silly of her. The second +from the right was a small oval of glass, or rather, a glass-covered +picture of desert scene. Odd that she had forgotten about that picture. +Oh well, what did it matter. + +In a few days she would be well enough again to climb out on the giant +limbs and into the tree nest that her brother, Alex, had built. And the +boys would come to see her and take her to the drugstore for sodas and +sundaes. + +Yes, she was sure now. She _did_ like Buhl Austin best.... + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Fantastic Universe_ December 1957. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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