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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Moment of Truth, by Basil Eugene Wells
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+Title: Moment of Truth
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+Author: Basil Eugene Wells
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+Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28111]
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+Language: English
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+    _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. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
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