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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: Old Rambling House + +Author: Frank Patrick Herbert + +Illustrator: Johnson + +Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29492] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD RAMBLING HOUSE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1><big>Old Rambling House</big></h1> + +<h2>By FRANK HERBERT</h2> + +<div class="bk1"><p><big><b><i>All the Grahams desired was a +home they could call their own +... but what did the home want?</i></b></big></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><p><big><b>Illustrated by JOHNSON</b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">On</span> his last night on Earth, +Ted Graham stepped out +of a glass-walled telephone +booth, ducked to avoid a +swooping moth that battered itself +in a frenzy against a bare globe +above the booth.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham was a long-necked +man with a head of pronounced +egg shape topped by prematurely +balding sandy hair. Something +about his lanky, intense appearance +suggested his occupation: certified +public accountant.</p> + +<p>He stopped behind his wife, +who was studying a newspaper +classified page, and frowned. +"They said to wait here. They'll +come get us. Said the place is hard +to find at night."</p> + +<p>Martha Graham looked up from +the newspaper. She was a doll-faced +woman, heavily pregnant, a +kind of pink prettiness about her. +The yellow glow from the light +above the booth subdued the red-auburn +cast of her ponytail hair.</p> + +<p>"I just <i>have</i> to be in a house +when the baby's born," she said. +"What'd they sound like?"</p> + +<p>"I dunno. There was a funny +kind of interruption—like an argument +in some foreign language."</p> + +<p>"Did they sound foreign?"</p> + +<p>"In a way." He motioned along +the night-shrouded line of trailers +toward one with two windows +glowing amber. "Let's wait inside. +These bugs out here are fierce."</p> + +<p>"Did you tell them which trailer +is ours?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. They didn't sound at all +anxious to look at it. That's odd—them +wanting to trade their house +for a trailer."</p> + +<p>"There's nothing odd about it. +They've probably just got itchy +feet like we did."</p> + +<p>He appeared not to hear her. +"Funniest-sounding language you +ever heard when that argument +started—like a squirt of noise."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Inside</span> the trailer, Ted Graham +sat down on the green couch +that opened into a double bed for +company.</p> + +<p>"They could use a good tax accountant +around here," he said. +"When I first saw the place, I got +that definite feeling. The valley +looks prosperous. It's a wonder +nobody's opened an office here +before."</p> + +<p>His wife took a straight chair +by the counter separating kitchen +and living area, folded her hands +across her heavy stomach.</p> + +<p>"I'm just continental tired of +wheels going around under me," +she said. "I want to sit and stare +at the same view for the rest of +my life. I don't know how a trailer +ever seemed glamorous when—"</p> + +<p>"It was the inheritance gave us +itchy feet," he said.</p> + +<p>Tires gritted on gravel outside.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham straightened. +"Could that be them?"</p> + +<p>"Awful quick, if it is." He went +to the door, opened it, stared down +at the man who was just raising +a hand to knock.</p> + +<p>"Are you Mr. Graham?" asked +the man.</p> + +<p>"Yes." He found himself staring +at the caller.</p> + +<p>"I'm Clint Rush. You called +about the house?" The man moved +farther into the light. At first, he'd +appeared an old man, fine wrinkle +lines in his face, a tired leather look +to his skin. But as he moved his +head in the light, the wrinkles +seemed to dissolve—and with them, +the years lifted from him.</p> + +<p>"Yes, we called," said Ted +Graham. He stood aside. "Do you +want to look at the trailer now?"</p> + +<p>Martha Graham crossed to +stand beside her husband. "We've +kept it in awfully good shape," she +said. "We've never let anything +get seriously wrong with it."</p> + +<p><i>She sounds too anxious</i>, thought +Ted Graham. <i>I wish she'd let me +do the talking for the two of us.</i></p> + +<p>"We can come back and look +at your trailer tomorrow in daylight," +said Rush. "My car's right +out here, if you'd like to see our +house."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham hesitated. He felt +a nagging worry tug at his mind, +tried to fix his attention on what +bothered him.</p> + +<p>"Hadn't we better take our +car?" he asked. "We could follow +you."</p> + +<p>"No need," said Rush. "We're +coming back into town tonight +anyway. We can drop you off +then."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham nodded. "Be right +with you as soon as I lock up."</p> + +<p>Inside the car, Rush mumbled +introductions. His wife was a dark +shadow in the front seat, her hair +drawn back in a severe bun. Her +features suggested gypsy blood. He +called her Raimee.</p> + +<p><i>Odd name</i>, thought Ted Graham. +And he noticed that she, too, +gave that strange first impression +of age that melted in a shift of +light.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Rush turned her gypsy +features toward Martha Graham. +"You are going to have a baby?"</p> + +<p>It came out as an odd, veiled +statement.</p> + +<p>Abruptly, the car rolled forward.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham said, "It's supposed +to be born in about two +months. We hope it's a boy."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Rush looked at her husband. +"I have changed my mind," +she said.</p> + +<p>Rush spoke without taking his +attention from the road. "It is +too ..." He broke off, spoke in +a tumble of strange sounds.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham recognized it as +the language he'd heard on the +telephone.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Rush answered in the same +tongue, anger showing in the intensity +of her voice. Her husband +replied, his voice calmer.</p> + +<p>Presently, Mrs. Rush fell moodily +silent.</p> + +<p>Rush tipped his head toward +the rear of the car. "My wife has +moments when she does not want +to get rid of the old house. It has +been with her for many years."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham said, "Oh." Then: +"Are you Spanish?"</p> + +<p>Rush hesitated. "No. We are +Basque."</p> + +<p>He turned the car down a well-lighted +avenue that merged into a +highway. They turned onto a side +road. There followed more turns—left, +right, right.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham lost track.</p> + +<p>They hit a jolting bump that +made Martha gasp.</p> + +<p>"I hope that wasn't too rough +on you," said Rush. "We're almost +there."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> car swung into a lane, its +lights picking out the skeleton +outlines of trees: peculiar trees—tall, +gaunt, leafless. They added to +Ted Graham's feeling of uneasiness.</p> + +<p>The lane dipped, ended at a low +wall of a house—red brick with +clerestory windows beneath overhanging +eaves. The effect of the +wall and a wide-beamed door they +could see to the left was ultramodern.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham helped his wife out +of the car, followed the Rushes to +the door.</p> + +<p>"I thought you told me it was +an old house," he said.</p> + +<p>"It was designed by one of the +first modernists," said Rush. He +fumbled with an odd curved key. +The wide door swung open onto +a hallway equally wide, carpeted +by a deep pile rug. They could +glimpse floor-to-ceiling view windows +at the end of the hall, city +lights beyond.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham gasped, entered +the hall as though in a trance. +Ted Graham followed, heard the +door close behind them.</p> + +<p>"It's so—so—so <i>big</i>," exclaimed +Martha Graham.</p> + +<p>"You want to trade <i>this</i> for our +trailer?" asked Ted Graham.</p> + +<p>"It's too inconvenient for us," +said Rush. "My work is over the +mountains on the coast." He +shrugged. "We cannot sell it."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham looked at him +sharply. "Isn't there any money +around here?" He had a sudden +vision of a tax accountant with no +customers.</p> + +<p>"Plenty of money, but no real +estate customers."</p> + +<p>They entered the living room. +Sectional divans lined the walls. +Subdued lighting glowed from the +corners. Two paintings hung on +the opposite walls—oblongs of odd +lines and twists that made Ted +Graham dizzy.</p> + +<p>Warning bells clamored in his +mind.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Martha</span> Graham crossed to +the windows, looked at the +lights far away below. "I had no +idea we'd climbed that far," she +said. "It's like a fairy city."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Rush emitted a short, nervous +laugh.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham glanced around the +room, thought: <i>If the rest of the +house is like this, it's worth fifty +or sixty thousand</i>. He thought of +the trailer: <i>A good one, but not +worth more than seven thousand</i>.</p> + +<p>Uneasiness was like a neon sign +flashing in his mind. "This seems +so ..." He shook his head.</p> + +<p>"Would you like to see the rest +of the house?" asked Rush.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham turned from +the window. "Oh, yes."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham shrugged. <i>No harm +in looking</i>, he thought.</p> + +<p>When they returned to the living +room, Ted Graham had +doubled his previous estimate on +the house's value. His brain reeled +with the summing of it: a solarium +with an entire ceiling covered by +sun lamps, an automatic laundry +where you dropped soiled clothing +down a chute, took it washed and +ironed from the other end ...</p> + +<p>"Perhaps you and your wife +would like to discuss it in private," +said Rush. "We will leave you for +a moment."</p> + +<p>And they were gone before Ted +Graham could protest.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham said, "Ted, I honestly +never in my life dreamed—"</p> + +<p>"Something's very wrong, honey."</p> + +<p>"But, Ted—"</p> + +<p>"This house is worth at least a +hundred thousand dollars. Maybe +more. And they want to trade +<i>this</i>—" he looked around him—"for +a seven-thousand-dollar trailer?"</p> + +<p>"Ted, they're foreigners. And if +they're so foolish they don't know +the value of this place, then why +should—"</p> + +<p>"I don't like it," he said. Again +he looked around the room, recalled +the fantastic equipment of +the house. "But maybe you're +right."</p> + +<p>He stared out at the city lights. +They had a lacelike quality: tall +buildings linked by lines of flickering +incandescence. Something +like a Roman candle shot skyward +in the distance.</p> + +<p>"Okay!" he said. "If they want +to trade, let's go push the deal ..."</p> + +<p>Abruptly, the house shuddered. +The city lights blinked out. A humming +sound filled the air.</p> + +<p>Martha Graham clutched her +husband's arm. "Ted! Wha— what +was that?"</p> + +<p>"I dunno." He turned. "Mr. +Rush!"</p> + +<p>No answer. Only the humming.</p> + +<p>The door at the end of the room +opened. A strange man came +through it. He wore a short toga-like +garment of gray, metallic +cloth belted at the waist by something +that glittered and shimmered +through every color of the spectrum. +An aura of coldness and +power emanated from him—a sense +of untouchable hauteur.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">He</span> glanced around the room, +spoke in the same tongue the +Rushes had used.</p> + +<p>Ted Graham said, "I don't understand +you, mister."</p> + +<p>The man put a hand to his flickering +belt. Both Ted and Martha +Graham felt themselves rooted to +the floor, a tingling sensation vibrating +along every nerve.</p> + +<p>Again the strange language +rolled from the man's tongue, but +now the words were understood.</p> + +<p>"Who are you?"</p> + +<p>"My name's Graham. This is +my wife. What's going—"</p> + +<p>"How did you get here?"</p> + +<p>"The Rushes—they wanted to +trade us this house for our trailer. +They brought us. Now look, we—"</p> + +<p>"What is your talent—your occupation?"</p> + +<p>"Tax accountant. Say! Why all +these—"</p> + +<p>"That was to be expected," said +the man. "Clever! Oh, excessively +clever!" His hand moved again to +the belt. "Now be very quiet. This +may confuse you momentarily."</p> + +<p>Colored lights filled both the +Grahams' minds. They staggered.</p> + +<p>"You are qualified," said the +man. "You will serve."</p> + +<p>"Where are we?" demanded +Martha Graham.</p> + +<p>"The coordinates would not be +intelligible to you," he said. "I am +of the Rojac. It is sufficient for +you to know that you are under +Rojac sovereignty."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Ted</span> Graham said, "But—"</p> + +<p>"You have, in a way, been kidnapped. +And the Raimees have +fled to your planet—an unregistered +planet."</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid," Martha Graham +said shakily.</p> + +<p>"You have nothing to fear," said +the man. "You are no longer on +the planet of your birth—nor even +in the same galaxy." He glanced +at Ted Graham's wrist. "That device +on your wrist—it tells your +local time?"</p> + +<p>"Yes."</p> + +<p>"That will help in the search. +And your sun—can you describe +its atomic cycle?"</p> + +<p>Ted Graham groped in his mind +for his science memories from +school, from the Sunday supplements. +"I can recall that our galaxy +is a spiral like—"</p> + +<p>"Most galaxies are spiral."</p> + +<p>"Is this some kind of a practical +joke?" asked Ted Graham.</p> + +<p>The man smiled, a cold, superior +smile. "It is no joke. Now I will +make you a proposition."</p> + +<p>Ted nodded warily. "All right, +let's have the stinger."</p> + +<p>"The people who brought you +here were tax collectors we Rojac +recruited from a subject planet. +They were conditioned to make it +impossible for them to leave their +job untended. Unfortunately, they +were clever enough to realize that +if they brought someone else in +who could do their job, they were +released from their mental bonds. +Very clever."</p> + +<p>"But—"</p> + +<p>"You may have their job," said +the man. "Normally, you would +be put to work in the lower echelons, +but we believe in meting out +justice wherever possible. The +Raimees undoubtedly stumbled on +your planet by accident and lured +you into this position without—"</p> + +<p>"How do you know I can do +your job?"</p> + +<p>"That moment of brilliance was +an aptitude test. You passed. Well, +do you accept?"</p> + +<p>"What about our baby?" Martha +Graham worriedly wanted to +know.</p> + +<p>"You will be allowed to keep it +until it reaches the age of decision—about +the time it will take the +child to reach adult stature."</p> + +<div class="figright"><img src="images/001.png" width="374" height="500" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"Then what?" insisted Martha +Graham.</p> + +<p>"The child will take its position +in society—according to its ability."</p> + +<p>"Will we ever see our child +after that?"</p> + +<p>"Possibly."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham said, "What's the +joker in this?"</p> + +<p>Again the cold, superior smile. +"You will receive conditioning +similar to that which we gave the +Raimees. And we will want to +examine your memories to aid us +in our search for your planet. It +would be good to find a new inhabitable +place."</p> + +<p>"Why did they trap us like +this?" asked Martha Graham.</p> + +<p>"It's lonely work," the man explained. +"Your house is actually a +type of space conveyance that +travels along your collection route—and +there is much travel to the +job. And then—you will not have +friends, nor time for much other +than work. Our methods are necessarily +severe at times."</p> + +<p>"<i>Travel?</i>" Martha Graham repeated +in dismay.</p> + +<p>"Almost constantly."</p> + +<p>Ted Graham felt his mind whirling. +And behind him, he heard his +wife sobbing.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> Raimees sat in what had +been the Grahams' trailer.</p> + +<p>"For a few moments, I feared +he would not succumb to the bait," +she said. "I knew you could never +overcome the mental compulsion +enough to leave them there without +their first agreeing."</p> + +<p>Raimee chuckled. "Yes. And +now I'm going to indulge in everything +the Rojac never permitted. +I'm going to write ballads and +poems."</p> + +<p>"And I'm going to paint," she +said. "Oh, the delicious freedom!"</p> + +<p>"Greed won this for us," he said. +"The long study of the Grahams +paid off. They couldn't refuse to +trade."</p> + +<p>"I knew they'd agree. The looks +in their eyes when they saw the +house! They both had ..." She +broke off, a look of horror coming +into her eyes. "One of them did +not agree!"</p> + +<p>"They both did. You heard +them."</p> + +<p>"The baby?"</p> + +<p>He stared at his wife. "But—but +it is not at the age of decision!"</p> + +<p>"In perhaps eighteen of this +planet's years, it <i>will</i> be at the +age of decision. What then?"</p> + +<p>His shoulders sagged. He shuddered. +"I will not be able to fight +it off. I will have to build a transmitter, +call the Rojac and confess!"</p> + +<p>"And they will collect another +inhabitable place," she said, her +voice flat and toneless.</p> + +<p>"I've spoiled it," he said. "I've +spoiled it!"</p> + +<p class="rgt"><b>—FRANK HERBERT</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="146" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Galaxy Science Fiction</i> April 1958. +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.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Old Rambling House, by Frank Patrick Herbert + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD RAMBLING HOUSE *** + +***** This file should be named 29492-h.htm or 29492-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/9/29492/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://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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