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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: The Doorway + +Author: Evelyn E. Smith + +Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29138] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOORWAY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><small><i>A discerning critic once pointed out that Edgar Allen Poe possessed not so +much a distinctive style as a distinctive </i>manner<i>. So startlingly original +was his approach to the dark castles and haunted woodlands of his own +somber creation that he transcended the literary by the sheer magic of +his prose. Something of that same magic gleams in the darkly-tapestried +little fantasy presented here, beneath Evelyn Smith's eerily enchanted wand.</i></small></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>the<br /> +doorway</b></h1> + +<h2><small><i>by ... Evelyn E. Smith</i></small></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><big><b>A man may wish he'd married his first love and not really mean +it. But an insincere wish may turn ugly in dimensions unknown.</b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">"It is</span> my theory," Professor Falabella +said, helping himself to a +cookie, "that no one ever really +makes a decision. What really happens +is that whenever alternative +courses of action are called for, the +individuality splits up and continues +on two or more divergent +planes, very much like the parthenogenesis +of a unicellular animal ... +Delicious cookies these, Mrs. +Hughes."</p> + +<p>"Thank you, Professor," Gloria +simpered. "I made them myself."</p> + +<p>"You must give us the recipe," +said one of the ladies—and the +others murmured agreement, glad +to get their individualities on a +plane they could understand.</p> + +<p>"Since most decisions are hardly +as momentous as the individual +imagines," Professor Falabella continued, +"and since the imagination +of the average individual is very +limited, many of these different +planes—or, as they are colloquially +known, space-time continuums—may +exist in close, even tangential +relationship."</p> + +<p>Gloria rose unobtrusively and +took the teapot to the kitchen for a +refill. Her husband stood by the sink +moodily drinking whiskey out of +the bottle so as to avoid having to +wash a glass afterward.</p> + +<p>"Bill, you're not being polite to +our guests. Why don't you go out +and listen to Professor Falabella?"</p> + +<p>"I can hear him perfectly well +from here," Bill muttered—and indeed +the professor's mellifluous +tones pervaded every nook and +cranny of the thin-walled house. +"Long-winded cultist! What is he +a professor of, I'd like to know."</p> + +<p>"Professor Falabella is <i>not</i> a +cultist!" affirmed Gloria angrily. +"He's a great philosopher."</p> + +<p>Bill Hughes said something unprintable. +"If I'd married Lucy +Allison," he continued unkindly, +"she'd never have filled the house +with long-haired cultists on my so-called +day of rest."</p> + +<p>Gloria's soft chin trembled, and +her blue eyes filled with tears. She +was beginning to put on weight, +he noticed. "I've been hearing nothing +but Lucy Allison, Lucy Allison, +Lucy Allison for the past year. +Y-you said yourself she looked like +a horse."</p> + +<p>"Horses," he observed, "have +sense."</p> + +<p>He was being brutal, but he +couldn't help it and didn't want to. +Professor Falabella was only the +most long-winded of a long series +of mystics Gloria was forever dragging +into the house. <i>The trouble +with the half-educated</i>, he thought +bitterly, <i>is that they seek culture in +the most peculiar places</i>.</p> + +<p>"I'll bet she would have let me +have peace on Sunday," he said. "It +just goes to show what happens +when you marry a woman solely for +her looks." He drained the bottle; +then hurled it into the garbage pail +with a resounding crash.</p> + +<p>Gloria's shoulders shook as she +filled the kettle. "I wish I'd decided +to be an old maid," she sobbed.</p> + +<p>A very unlikely possibility, he +thought. Even now, shopworn as +she was, Gloria could have a fairly +wide range of suitors should something +happen to him. She looked +sexy, but how deceiving appearances +could be!</p> + +<p>Professor Falabella was still talking +as Bill and Gloria emerged +from the kitchen. "I believe that it +is possible for an individual who +exists on a limited plane of imagination +to transpose from one plane +to an adjacent one without difficulty ... +Great Heavens, what was +that?"</p> + +<p>Something had whisked past the +archway leading into the foyer.</p> + +<p>"Don't pay any attention," Gloria +smiled nervously. "The house is +haunted."</p> + +<p>"My dear," one of the ladies offered, +"I know of the most marvelous +exterminator—"</p> + +<p>"The house," Gloria assured her +coldly, "really <i>is</i> haunted. We've +been seeing things ever since we +moved in."</p> + +<p>And she really believed it, Bill +thought. Believed that the house +was haunted, that is. Of course he +had seen things too—but he was +enlightened enough to know that +ghosts don't exist, even if you do +see them.</p> + +<p>Professor Falabella cleared his +throat. "As I was saying, it is possible +to send the individual through +another—well, dimension, as some +popular writers would have it, to +one of his other spatial existences +on the same temporal plane. It is +merely necessary for him to find +the Door."</p> + +<p>"Nonsense!" Bill interrupted. +"Holy, unmitigated nonsense!"</p> + +<p>Every head swivelled to look at +him. Gloria restrained tears with +an effort.</p> + +<p>"Brute," someone muttered.</p> + +<p>But ridicule apparently only +stimulated the professor. He +beamed. "You don't believe me. +Your imagination cannot extend to +the comprehension of the multifariousness +of space."</p> + +<p>"Nonsense," Bill said again, but +less confidently.</p> + +<p>"I believe that I have discovered +the Doorway," Professor Falabella +continued, "and the Way is Open. +However, most people fear to penetrate +the unknown, even though it +is to enter another phase of their +own existence. I do admit that the +shock of spatial transference, no +matter how slight, combined with +the concrete awareness of a previous +spatial relationship would be perhaps +too much for the keenly sensitive +individualism ..."</p> + +<p>Bill opened his mouth.</p> + +<p>"I know what you're about to +say, young man!"</p> + +<p>"You don't have to be a mind +reader to know that," Bill assured +him. His consonants were already +a little slurred and he knew Gloria +was ashamed of him. It served her +right. He'd been ashamed of her +for years.</p> + +<p>Professor Falabella smiled. His +teeth were very sharp and white. +"Very well, Mr. Hughes, since you +are a skeptic, perhaps you will not +object to being the subject of our +experiment yourself?"</p> + +<p>"What kind of an experiment?" +Bill asked suspiciously.</p> + +<p>"Merely to go through the Door. +Any door can become the Doorway, +if it is transposed into the +proper spatial dimension. That +door, for instance." Professor Falabella +waved his hand toward the +doorway of what Gloria liked to +call "Bill's study."</p> + +<p>"You mean you just want me to +open the door and go into that +room?" Bill asked incredulously. +"That's all?"</p> + +<p>"That is all. Of course, you go +with the awareness that it is the +threshold of another plane and that +you step voluntarily from this existence +to an adjacent one."</p> + +<p>"Sure," Bill said. He had just +remembered there was a nearly full +bottle of Calvert in the bottom +drawer of the desk. "Sure. Anything +to oblige."</p> + +<p>"Very well. Go to the door, and +keep remembering that of your own +free will you are passing from this +plane to the next."</p> + +<p>"Look out, everybody!" Bill +called raucously, as he pulled open +the door. "I'm coming in on the +next plane!"</p> + +<p>No one laughed.</p> + +<p>He stepped over the threshold, +shutting the door firmly behind +him. A wonderful excuse to get +away from those blasted women. +He'd climb out of the window as +soon as he'd collected the whiskey +and give them a nervous moment +thinking he'd really passed into another +existence. It would serve +Gloria right.</p> + +<p>For a moment, as he crossed, he +had a queer sensation. Maybe there +was something in what Professor +Falabella said. But no, there he +was in the study. All that mumbo +jumbo was getting him down, that +was all. He was a nervous man—only +nobody appreciated the fact.</p> + +<p>Taking a cigarette out of the pack +in his pocket, he reached for the +lighter on his desk. It wasn't there. +Time and time again he'd told +Gloria not to touch his things, and +always she'd disobeyed him. Company +was coming and she must tidy +up. Cooking and cleaning—that was +all she was good for. But this was +carrying tidiness too far; she'd even +removed the ashtrays.</p> + +<p>And where did that glass block +paperweight come from? He'd had +a penguin in a snowstorm and he'd +been happy with it. This was too +much. He'd tell Gloria off. Stealing +a man's penguin!</p> + +<p>He opened the door into the living +room and bumped into Lucy +Allison. "Don't you think you've +been in there long enough, Bill?" +she asked acridly. "I'm sure your +guests would appreciate catching a +glimpse of you."</p> + +<p>"Why, hello, Lucy," he said, surprised. +"I didn't know Gloria had +invited you—"</p> + +<p>"Gloria, Gloria, Gloria!" Lucy +cut across his sentence. "You've +been talking about nothing but that +dumb little blonde for months." +Because of the people in the room +beyond, her voice was pitched low, +but her pale eyes glittered unpleasantly +behind her spectacles. "I wish +you had married her. You'd have +made a fine pair."</p> + +<p>Gently, caressingly, the short +hairs on the back of Bill's neck +rose.</p> + +<p>"Come back in here," Lucy said, +hauling him back into the living +room where a number of people +who had been enjoying the domestic +fracas suddenly broke into loud +and animated chatter. "Dr. Hildebrand +was telling us all about +nuclear fission."</p> + +<p>"Can't find an ashtray," Bill muttered, +seizing on something tangible. +"Can't find an ashtray in the +whole darn place."</p> + +<p>"We've been over this millions +of times, Bill. You know—" she +smiled at the guests, a smile that +carefully excluded Bill. "—I'm +allergic to smoke, but I never can +get my husband to remember he +isn't to smoke inside the house."</p> + +<p>"Now take the neutron, for example," +Dr. Hildebrand said +through a mouthful of pâté. "What +is the neutron? It is only ... What +was that?"</p> + +<p>The wraith of Gloria crossed the +foyer and disappeared. Bill took a +step forward; then stood still.</p> + +<p>Lucy smiled self-consciously. +"That's nothing at all. The house +is merely haunted."</p> + +<p>Everyone laughed.</p> + +<p>"Forgot something," Bill muttered, +and dashed back into the +study. He yanked open the bottom +drawer of the desk. Sure enough, +there was a bottle of Schenley, nearly +a third full. "There are some +advantages," he thought as he tilted +it to his lips, "in having a +limited imagination."</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> September 1955. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Doorway, by Evelyn E. 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