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+Title: Old Rambling House
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+Old Rambling House
+
+By FRANK HERBERT
+
+
+ _All the Grahams desired was a
+ home they could call their own
+ ... but what did the home want?_
+
+
+Illustrated by JOHNSON
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+"I just _have_ to be in a house when the baby's born," she said. "What'd
+they sound like?"
+
+"I dunno. There was a funny kind of interruption--like an argument in
+some foreign language."
+
+"Did they sound foreign?"
+
+"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."
+
+"Did you tell them which trailer is ours?"
+
+"Yes. They didn't sound at all anxious to look at it. That's odd--them
+wanting to trade their house for a trailer."
+
+"There's nothing odd about it. They've probably just got itchy feet like
+we did."
+
+He appeared not to hear her. "Funniest-sounding language you ever heard
+when that argument started--like a squirt of noise."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Inside the trailer, Ted Graham sat down on the green couch that opened
+into a double bed for company.
+
+"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."
+
+His wife took a straight chair by the counter separating kitchen and
+living area, folded her hands across her heavy stomach.
+
+"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--"
+
+"It was the inheritance gave us itchy feet," he said.
+
+Tires gritted on gravel outside.
+
+Martha Graham straightened. "Could that be them?"
+
+"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.
+
+"Are you Mr. Graham?" asked the man.
+
+"Yes." He found himself staring at the caller.
+
+"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.
+
+"Yes, we called," said Ted Graham. He stood aside. "Do you want to look
+at the trailer now?"
+
+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."
+
+_She sounds too anxious_, thought Ted Graham. _I wish she'd let me do
+the talking for the two of us._
+
+"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."
+
+Ted Graham hesitated. He felt a nagging worry tug at his mind, tried to
+fix his attention on what bothered him.
+
+"Hadn't we better take our car?" he asked. "We could follow you."
+
+"No need," said Rush. "We're coming back into town tonight anyway. We
+can drop you off then."
+
+Ted Graham nodded. "Be right with you as soon as I lock up."
+
+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.
+
+_Odd name_, thought Ted Graham. And he noticed that she, too, gave that
+strange first impression of age that melted in a shift of light.
+
+Mrs. Rush turned her gypsy features toward Martha Graham. "You are going
+to have a baby?"
+
+It came out as an odd, veiled statement.
+
+Abruptly, the car rolled forward.
+
+Martha Graham said, "It's supposed to be born in about two months. We
+hope it's a boy."
+
+Mrs. Rush looked at her husband. "I have changed my mind," she said.
+
+Rush spoke without taking his attention from the road. "It is too ..."
+He broke off, spoke in a tumble of strange sounds.
+
+Ted Graham recognized it as the language he'd heard on the telephone.
+
+Mrs. Rush answered in the same tongue, anger showing in the intensity of
+her voice. Her husband replied, his voice calmer.
+
+Presently, Mrs. Rush fell moodily silent.
+
+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."
+
+Ted Graham said, "Oh." Then: "Are you Spanish?"
+
+Rush hesitated. "No. We are Basque."
+
+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.
+
+Ted Graham lost track.
+
+They hit a jolting bump that made Martha gasp.
+
+"I hope that wasn't too rough on you," said Rush. "We're almost there."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+Ted Graham helped his wife out of the car, followed the Rushes to the
+door.
+
+"I thought you told me it was an old house," he said.
+
+"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.
+
+Martha Graham gasped, entered the hall as though in a trance. Ted Graham
+followed, heard the door close behind them.
+
+"It's so--so--so _big_," exclaimed Martha Graham.
+
+"You want to trade _this_ for our trailer?" asked Ted Graham.
+
+"It's too inconvenient for us," said Rush. "My work is over the
+mountains on the coast." He shrugged. "We cannot sell it."
+
+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.
+
+"Plenty of money, but no real estate customers."
+
+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.
+
+Warning bells clamored in his mind.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Martha 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."
+
+Mrs. Rush emitted a short, nervous laugh.
+
+Ted Graham glanced around the room, thought: _If the rest of the house
+is like this, it's worth fifty or sixty thousand_. He thought of the
+trailer: _A good one, but not worth more than seven thousand_.
+
+Uneasiness was like a neon sign flashing in his mind. "This seems
+so ..." He shook his head.
+
+"Would you like to see the rest of the house?" asked Rush.
+
+Martha Graham turned from the window. "Oh, yes."
+
+Ted Graham shrugged. _No harm in looking_, he thought.
+
+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 ...
+
+"Perhaps you and your wife would like to discuss it in private," said
+Rush. "We will leave you for a moment."
+
+And they were gone before Ted Graham could protest.
+
+Martha Graham said, "Ted, I honestly never in my life dreamed--"
+
+"Something's very wrong, honey."
+
+"But, Ted--"
+
+"This house is worth at least a hundred thousand dollars. Maybe more.
+And they want to trade _this_--" he looked around him--"for a
+seven-thousand-dollar trailer?"
+
+"Ted, they're foreigners. And if they're so foolish they don't know the
+value of this place, then why should--"
+
+"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."
+
+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.
+
+"Okay!" he said. "If they want to trade, let's go push the deal ..."
+
+Abruptly, the house shuddered. The city lights blinked out. A humming
+sound filled the air.
+
+Martha Graham clutched her husband's arm. "Ted! Wha-- what was that?"
+
+"I dunno." He turned. "Mr. Rush!"
+
+No answer. Only the humming.
+
+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.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He glanced around the room, spoke in the same tongue the Rushes had
+used.
+
+Ted Graham said, "I don't understand you, mister."
+
+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.
+
+Again the strange language rolled from the man's tongue, but now the
+words were understood.
+
+"Who are you?"
+
+"My name's Graham. This is my wife. What's going--"
+
+"How did you get here?"
+
+"The Rushes--they wanted to trade us this house for our trailer. They
+brought us. Now look, we--"
+
+"What is your talent--your occupation?"
+
+"Tax accountant. Say! Why all these--"
+
+"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."
+
+Colored lights filled both the Grahams' minds. They staggered.
+
+"You are qualified," said the man. "You will serve."
+
+"Where are we?" demanded Martha Graham.
+
+"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."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ted Graham said, "But--"
+
+"You have, in a way, been kidnapped. And the Raimees have fled to your
+planet--an unregistered planet."
+
+"I'm afraid," Martha Graham said shakily.
+
+"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?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"That will help in the search. And your sun--can you describe its atomic
+cycle?"
+
+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--"
+
+"Most galaxies are spiral."
+
+"Is this some kind of a practical joke?" asked Ted Graham.
+
+The man smiled, a cold, superior smile. "It is no joke. Now I will make
+you a proposition."
+
+Ted nodded warily. "All right, let's have the stinger."
+
+"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."
+
+"But--"
+
+"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--"
+
+"How do you know I can do your job?"
+
+"That moment of brilliance was an aptitude test. You passed. Well, do
+you accept?"
+
+"What about our baby?" Martha Graham worriedly wanted to know.
+
+"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."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Then what?" insisted Martha Graham.
+
+"The child will take its position in society--according to its ability."
+
+"Will we ever see our child after that?"
+
+"Possibly."
+
+Ted Graham said, "What's the joker in this?"
+
+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."
+
+"Why did they trap us like this?" asked Martha Graham.
+
+"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."
+
+"_Travel?_" Martha Graham repeated in dismay.
+
+"Almost constantly."
+
+Ted Graham felt his mind whirling. And behind him, he heard his wife
+sobbing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Raimees sat in what had been the Grahams' trailer.
+
+"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."
+
+Raimee chuckled. "Yes. And now I'm going to indulge in everything the
+Rojac never permitted. I'm going to write ballads and poems."
+
+"And I'm going to paint," she said. "Oh, the delicious freedom!"
+
+"Greed won this for us," he said. "The long study of the Grahams paid
+off. They couldn't refuse to trade."
+
+"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!"
+
+"They both did. You heard them."
+
+"The baby?"
+
+He stared at his wife. "But--but it is not at the age of decision!"
+
+"In perhaps eighteen of this planet's years, it _will_ be at the age of
+decision. What then?"
+
+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!"
+
+"And they will collect another inhabitable place," she said, her voice
+flat and toneless.
+
+"I've spoiled it," he said. "I've spoiled it!"
+
+                                                       --FRANK HERBERT
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ 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.
+
+
+
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