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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Runaway, by William Morrison
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+Title: Runaway
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+Author: William Morrison
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+Illustrator: William Ashman
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+Release Date: September 3, 2009 [EBook #29897]
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+Language: English
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+runaway
+
+By WILLIAM MORRISON
+
+
+ _Heroism is merely daring and ingenuity--at
+ the age of ten--experience can come later!_
+
+
+Illustrated by ASHMAN
+
+
+_A thin speck appeared in the visor plate and grew with sinister and
+terrifying speed. Bursts of flame began to play around the rocketing
+spaceship, the explosions hurtling it from side to side as it twisted
+and turned in a frantic effort to escape. Rogue Rogan, his vicious lips
+compressed, his glittering evil eyes narrowed, heart pounding, knew that
+this was it._
+
+_This was the day of retribution, he had so long feared...._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Plato!"
+
+Plato leaped to his feet and slid the book under the pillow. Then he
+seized a textbook at random, and opened it wide. His eyes fastened
+themselves to the print, seizing upon the meaningless words as if they
+would save him from a retribution that Rogue Rogan had never had to
+fear.
+
+The dorm master frowned from the doorway. "Plato, didn't you hear the
+Assembly bell?"
+
+"Assembly?" Plato's eyes looked up in mild astonishment. "No, sir, I
+didn't hear any bell. I was so absorbed in my studying, sir--" He shut
+the book and placed it back with the others. "I'm sorry, sir. I'm
+willing to accept my punishment."
+
+The dorm master studied the little martyr's expression. "You'd better
+be, Plato. Now live up to your name and show some intelligence. Run
+along to Assembly."
+
+Plato ran, but he also winced. How he had suffered from that miserable
+name of his! Even before he had known that the original Plato had been a
+philosopher, even before he had been capable of understanding what a
+philosopher was, he had been able to see the amused expression in the
+eyes of those who heard his name, and had hated them for it. "Show a
+little intelligence, Plato." Why couldn't they have given him a name
+like the others? There were so many ordinary, commonplace, _manly_ names
+from which they might have chosen. Jim, Jack, George, Tom,
+Bill--anything would have been better than Plato. And infinitely better
+than what he was sometimes called by his equals--"Plato, the dopy
+philosopher."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He slipped into his seat in the Assembly quietly, so as not to interrupt
+the droning of the principal. So they thought his name was funny, did
+they? Let them laugh at him. He was only ten now, but some day he would
+really act like a man. Some day it would be he himself, and not a
+fictional hero like Comets Carter, who would be adventuring on strange
+planets of unknown suns, tracking down the Rogans and the other
+criminals who sought refuge in the wide reaches of galactic space.
+
+Some day--and then the thought burst on him like a nova exploding in his
+brain.
+
+_Why not now?_
+
+Why not indeed? He was smart; he could take care of himself. Even his
+masters admitted that, when they weren't carping at him for his
+daydreaming. Take that model of a spaceship they had brought to school
+one day, with a retired astrogator to explain to the pupils how the
+thing was run, and how it avoided stray meteors. He had sat down at the
+controls, and even the astrogator had been surprised at how confidently
+he took over the role of pilot, how he got the idea at once.
+
+He could do as well in real life. He was sure of it. Give him a really
+worthwhile problem to work on, instead of these silly questions about
+square roots and who discovered the third satellite of Mars, and he'd
+show them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Thus," declaimed the principal, "you will be prepared to take up your
+duties--"
+
+"Norberts to you," thought Plato. "I'm going to run away."
+
+Where to? There were so many stars to go to, such a bewildering number
+of planets and asteroids.
+
+Plato sat lost in thought. A planet whose habitation required a
+spacesuit was out of the question. Spacesuits his size were hard to get.
+The sensible thing would be to choose a place where the physical
+conditions, from gravity to atmospheric pressure and composition would
+tend to resemble those here on Venus or on Earth. But full of the most
+thrilling danger.
+
+A boy's voice said, "Get up, you dopy philosopher. It's all over."
+
+He raised his head and realized that the principal had stopped droning
+from the platform, that all the pupils were standing up to leave. He
+stood up and marched out.
+
+When the signal for lights out came that night, Plato lay motionless for
+a time in the dark, his mind racing far too rapidly for him to think of
+sleep. He had plans to make. And after a time, when the dormitory
+quieted down, he went to the well of knowledge for inspiration. He
+slipped on his pair of goggles and threw the special switch he himself
+had made. The infra-red light flared on, invisible to any one in the
+room but himself, and he drew his book from its hiding place and resumed
+his reading.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The ship curvetted in space like a prancing steed. Panic-stricken by
+the four-dimensional space-warp in which he was trapped, Rogue Rogan
+stormed at his terrified followers. "By all the devils of the Coal
+Sack," he shouted, "the man doesn't live who can take me alive! You'll
+fight and die like men, you hen-hearted cowards...."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But they didn't die like men. In fact, they didn't die at all, and Plato
+permitted a slight sneer to play across his youthful features. Though he
+considered himself a passionate admirer of Comets Carter, even he felt
+dissatisfied with the story. When they were trapped, they were never
+_really_ trapped. Comets Carter, sterling hero that he usually was,
+always showed weakness of intellect at the last moment, giving his
+deadly enemy an incredibly simple way out, one that Comets had, in his
+own incredibly simple way, overlooked.
+
+Plato would never be guilty of such stupidity. He himself--and now _he_
+was Comets Carter, a quicker-thinker, smarter Carter, dealing out to
+Rogue Rogan a retribution many eons overdue. He was whistling through
+space at ten light-speeds. He was compressing light-centuries into a
+single second. He was--
+
+He had just time to slip the goggles from his face before his eyes
+closed in sleep.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+During the day, he continued to make his plans. There was a spaceport a
+hundred and forty miles away. At night, if the students poked their
+heads out of the window, they could see the distant ships as points of
+flame racing away into the darkness, like shooting stars in reverse. He
+would steal out of his room in the night, take a glider-train to the
+spaceport, and stow away. It would be as simple as that.
+
+Of course, he needed money. He might travel at half fare, but even that
+would be expensive. And then there was the matter of food. He'd have to
+stay hidden until the spaceship took off and there was no turning back,
+and at the thought of crouching in some dark hold, motionless for hours,
+cramped, and _with an empty stomach_--
+
+He wasn't going to starve himself. Even Comets Carter couldn't have gone
+without eating and got very far in his pursuit of Rogan. Plato would
+have to acquire money for flight, fare and food.
+
+The book, of course, he couldn't think of selling. It was only a
+decicredit novel in the first place, and somewhat worn at that. And the
+other students would have laughed at him for reading it. But his
+infra-red bedside lamp and his goggles and the space-receptor radio he
+had built out of spare parts--those should bring him enough to travel
+and live on for a few days.
+
+He made his first sale in the free time that evening, to a young squirt
+in the neighboring dormitory who had a passion akin to his own. He liked
+to listen to tales of high adventure, of the kind the radiocasters loved
+and the teachers in the school frowned upon. Having arrived here from
+Earth only six months before, he had difficulty adjusting to the type of
+derring-do featured on the Venus stations, and he lacked a
+space-receptor that would bring him his favorites from the next planet.
+He snapped up, at the bargain price of ten credits, the receptor that
+Plato offered.
+
+There was a little difficulty with the infra-red lamp and goggles. The
+customer Plato had selected turned out to be rather suspicious. He
+demanded, "Where did you steal them?"
+
+Plato explained patiently, "I didn't steal them. I made them myself."
+
+"That's a lot of hot oxo-nitrogen. You hooked them some place, and if
+they ever find out--"
+
+"Okay," said Plato, "if you don't want them, you don't have to take
+them. I can sell them to somebody else."
+
+He allowed the young skeptic to try the goggles on and read by the light
+of the lamp. He knew little of the psychology of salesmanship, but with
+what might be called Platonic shrewdness, he sensed that once the
+prospect had experienced the joys of using the magic articles, he would
+never give them up.
+
+The method worked. And soon Plato was richer by fifteen credits, instead
+of the ten or twelve he had hoped for.
+
+He had a few other odds and ends, which he sold for as much as they
+would bring. After all, once he was out in space, he wouldn't need them
+any more.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the middle of the next day, when the bell sounded the end of the
+class on Planetary Geography and it was time to go to the class on
+Animal Physiology, Plato picked himself up and walked out. One of the
+'copter custodians looked at him suspiciously, but Plato didn't dignify
+the man by paying him direct attention.
+
+He muttered to himself, "Always picking on me. I don't see why he can't
+send somebody else on his errands." It was better than the forged pass
+signed with the headmaster's name.
+
+The pass itself came in handy when he bought a flight ticket. The ticket
+agent also stared at him suspiciously, but Plato was ready for him. He
+had prepared the slip of paper beforehand, tracing the headmaster's name
+laboriously from one of the lists of regulations attached to the wall.
+
+To make pursuit as difficult as possible for any one who tried to trail
+him, Plato asked for a ticket not to Space Junction, where he was going,
+but to Venusberg, in the opposite direction. Both tickets cost about the
+same; the ticket to Venusberg, in fact, cost three decicredits more.
+Once on the plane-drawn glider, he could explain to the conductor that
+the agent had made a mistake and offer the ticket he had. Since the
+company would lose nothing by the transaction, there was no reason why
+the conductor should object.
+
+Plato was proud of this bit of trickery, and he flattered himself that
+by means of it he had entirely thrown off pursuit. It must be remembered
+that he was only ten years old.
+
+On the glider-flight, he found himself sitting next to a middle-aged
+woman who wore glasses and was surrounded by packages. She beamed at
+him, as she did at every one else around her, and Plato shrank back into
+his seat. If there was anything he didn't want on this trip, it was to
+be mothered.
+
+But he couldn't escape her. She said, "My, my, you're awfully young to
+be traveling alone. This the first time?"
+
+"Yes, ma'am," said Plato nervously, afraid of the embarrassing questions
+he could read on her face.
+
+Hastily he stared out over the side and gasped, "Gee, how small
+everything is!"
+
+Imagine anyone who had traveled vicariously through space with Comets
+Carter being awed by a flight in a plane-drawn glider! But the ruse
+worked.
+
+She said, "Yes, it is frightening, isn't it? Even worse than space
+travel."
+
+"You've been in space, ma'am?"
+
+"Bless your heart, I've been in space more times than you could shake a
+stick at. The takeoff isn't so nice, I'll admit, but after that you're
+just sailing free. What are you going to be when you grow up?"
+
+They had his future all planned for him, but he knew that he wasn't
+going to be any of the things they wanted him to be.
+
+He said boldly, "A space explorer."
+
+She laughed. "You youngsters are all alike inside, no matter how
+different you seem. My boy was the same way when he was young. But he
+got over it. A space explorer, no less!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Plato didn't answer. It was only a half hour's trip, and the conductor
+was walking down the aisle. Plato found it difficult to take his eyes
+off him. He was afraid that the man would take a look at his ticket,
+say, "Wrong plane, son," and turn him over to the stationmaster at Space
+Junction, to be shipped back.
+
+In his nervousness, Plato had difficulty getting his ticket out of his
+pocket. As he had expected, the conductor said, "You're on the wrong
+flight."
+
+The motherly woman exclaimed, "Oh, isn't that a shame! Are they waiting
+for you in Venusberg?"
+
+Plato said tearfully, "Yes, ma'am." The tearfulness wasn't hard to
+manage; he'd learned the trick at school.
+
+"That's too bad. How are you going to get there?"
+
+"I don't know. I had just enough money to pay for this ticket."
+
+"Doesn't the company correct mistakes, Conductor?"
+
+"Not mistakes the passengers make," said the conductor sourly. "I'm
+sorry, boy, I'll have to take that ticket."
+
+The woman's eyes flashed and, as the conductor moved on, she said, "The
+nasty thing. They have no consideration at all. Look, child." For a
+moment Plato thought she was going to offer him flight fare from Space
+Junction to Venusberg, but she was not, he discovered, as motherly as
+that. "You know what you'll do when you get off? Send a 'gram, collect,
+to your people in Venusberg. They'll wire you your fare. And you'll
+reach them in a couple of hours."
+
+"Thank you, ma'am," he said, not feeling thankful at all. So it was all
+right to be sympathetic, he thought indignantly, up to the point where
+sympathy might cost her money. Like most people, she was free-handed
+only with advice.
+
+Who wanted advice?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At Space Junction he waved her a shy farewell, and then turned and
+disappeared into the station crowd.
+
+At the takeoff grounds, his heart sank. As he might have expected, the
+entrance to the space tarmac was well guarded. How was he going to
+become a stowaway on a spaceship if he couldn't even get close to it?
+
+He wandered around outside, staring through the charged wire fence at
+the crowds, the spacemen, the ships inside. They were gigantic shining
+things, those wonderful ships, each so long that he realized for the
+first time how far away they must have been and how rapidly they must
+have traveled, for those he saw had seemed to him like shooting stars.
+They were pointed almost straight up. Near the stern of each ship was a
+vacuum-pit to absorb the radioactive exhaust gases.
+
+His eye caught an old tub, its shininess dulled, its hull faintly
+scarred. Just such a ship, he thought with a thrill, as the one on which
+Comets Carter had been shanghaied on that momentous occasion when ...
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The old freighter swung a great circle, its torsion jets blasting
+desperately in an effort to keep it on an even keel. This, thought
+Comets Carter, was it. This was the foul revenge that Rogue Rogan had
+planned, the evil death he had plotted with his unhuman companions. In a
+moment the pulsating radiations of electroid rays would set off the
+cargo of ghoulite, and when the interplanetary echoes of the explosion
+died away, Comets Carter would be no more than a series of photon
+packets, his body torn apart, his very atoms converted into radiation
+that was hurtling with the speed of light to the far corners of the
+universe...._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It hadn't happened that way, of course. But if it _had_ happened--well,
+it might have on just such a tub as this.
+
+A guard saw him peering through the fence, and said, "What are you
+looking at, kid?"
+
+"Those ships," said Plato, honestly enough. And then he added, to throw
+the man off the track, "Gee, I'd be scared to go up in one of them. No,
+sir, you couldn't get me into one of them for a million credits."
+
+The man laughed. "They're not for the likes of you. A lot of those ships
+go to other stars."
+
+"Other stars? Gosh! Does that little one, the _Marie T._--"
+
+"That tub? Just an interplanetary freighter. But even that isn't for
+you. Now run along and mind your own business."
+
+Plato was happy to run along. Unfortunately, he realized, running along
+didn't help him to get past the fence.
+
+And then he had a fear-inspiring thought. He couldn't tell an
+interplanetary ship from an interstellar. What if he did manage,
+somehow, to get in and stow away--and then found himself on a ship bound
+for no more distant port than Earth, from which he could easily be sent
+home in disgrace?
+
+It sent a shiver through him. Fortunately, it also stimulated his mind.
+After all, there _were_ such things as newspapers, and the school,
+nuisance in many ways though it was, had taught him to read.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He bought a paper and turned at once to the shipping news section. As he
+had hoped, every ship was listed. He checked off some of the names he
+had glimpsed on the field, and found happily that their destinations
+were printed in the most routine manner.
+
+There still remained the question of how to get past the guards. This,
+he suddenly realized, was a question impossible to solve on an empty
+stomach. It had been many hours since he had eaten lunch.
+
+There were a dozen restaurants in the spaceport, and he selected one
+carefully, studying the illuminated menus and the prices before daring
+to enter. If that motherly old woman had been as kind-hearted as she
+pretended to be, he wouldn't have had to worry so much about prices. As
+it was, he knew that he had money enough for only two days, and after
+that--his stomach could complain all it wanted to, it would have to go
+unfed.
+
+He chose from the menu only items that he never tasted at school--dishes
+made from real plant and animal life, with just enough synthetics to
+give them flavor. He couldn't say that he liked what he ate, but at
+least it gave him the feeling of being on his own, of having made the
+break with his tame past as complete as possible. Earth-beef tasted too
+strong; Venus seaweed stew had a pungency that he didn't like.
+
+He finished his plate only because he had been taught that to leave food
+over was wasteful. And for the first time he began to wonder what they
+would feed him on the spaceship. Suppose he got on one that wasn't
+scheduled to make port for five years--and all he received to eat was
+stuff like this? The thought made him shudder. Here was a hardship of
+space travel that the books he read had never mentioned.
+
+After eating, he slumped back in his chair. He hadn't realized he was so
+completely exhausted until a hand shook his shoulder. Then he awoke
+with a start.
+
+A waiter said, "This is no place to sleep, youngster."
+
+"I'm sorry, sir. I was tired and I didn't realize."
+
+"You been here for a long time. Waiting for someone?"
+
+"Yes, sir. Something must have held him up."
+
+"Seems to me that I noticed you walk in here about three hours ago.
+That's a long time to wait."
+
+"That's what I thought, sir. I can't understand what happened."
+
+"Well, you can't hang around here. I'll tell you what I'll do, though.
+I'll turn you over to the matron in our Lost and Found room, and she'll
+look out for you. Follow me."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In a daze, Plato followed. But as his feet were set into motion, so was
+his brain. By now, of course, the search for him must be well on. They
+must have traced him to the station, and perhaps, despite his clever
+trick with the ticket, they had found the flight he had taken. For all
+he knew, they might be waiting for him in the Lost and Found room, ready
+to seize him the moment he showed his face there.
+
+He hadn't gone so far to be recaptured so easily. As they passed an exit
+door, Plato darted out. He heard the waiter's surprised shout, but he
+didn't wait to reply. In a second, he had lost himself in the crowd.
+
+He knew now that if he was going to get aboard an interstellar vessel,
+he would have to do so soon. What would Comets Carter have done in
+Plato's place--if Comets had been in one of his brighter moods? And then
+he had it. He saw a messenger coming down the street, gleaming in his
+uniform, and, somewhat nervously, approached him.
+
+"May I speak to you?" asked Plato, with school-taught politeness.
+
+"What about, bud? I'm busy."
+
+"Well, I've been wanting to get Captain Halverson's autograph. He's on
+the _Space Symphony_--"
+
+"So what?"
+
+"Well, the thing is, they won't let me past the gate. So I thought that
+if I wore a messenger's uniform--"
+
+The other boy glared at him. "Are you off your Norbert? I wouldn't let
+you wear this uniform for a zillion credits."
+
+Plato swallowed nervously, and said in desperation, "I don't have a
+zillion credits, but I've got eight, and I'll give them to you if you
+let me wear it. Just half an hour, that's all it'll take. It's the last
+chance I'll have to ask him. He's bound for Rigel, and he won't be back
+for five years, and you see--"
+
+His voice tapered to a thin, tearful squeak as the messenger looked at
+him.
+
+"You're offering me eight space-lousy credits?"
+
+"It's all I have. We'll just change clothes for a few minutes, and
+that'll be all. Please, I've got to see him. I know that if I do, he'll
+give me his autograph."
+
+"Okay," said the messenger unexpectedly. "But hurry back. I'll be at the
+gate waiting for you."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As they exchanged clothes, Plato was almost feverish with excitement.
+But he knew that if he expected to get past the guard, he would have to
+control himself. The clothes didn't fit too well, even though the
+messenger was small, and he must do nothing that would arouse the
+guard's suspicion.
+
+He said to the messenger, "Gee, thanks. You don't know how much this
+means to me." And then, with a mental grip on himself so tense that it
+hurt physically, he approached the guard, and said casually, "Earth
+'gram for Captain Halverson."
+
+The guard hardly looked at him. He was past the gate!
+
+He had been tricky again. Once out of sight of the guard, he made not
+for the _Space Symphony_, but for the _Long Ranger_, bound for
+Aldebaran.
+
+"Earth 'gram for Captain Brinjar," he muttered, doing his best to look
+bored, as if delivering 'grams to ships was an old thing to him. And
+then he was aboard!
+
+It was not quite what he expected. The smooth walls were such as he
+might have found in his own dormitory. The quarters, he saw, were
+cramped, although for someone his size they were at least adequate. And
+the passageways, although brilliantly lighted, were mere narrow tunnels.
+
+From the main passageway, other tunnels branched off bewilderingly, and
+Plato hesitated until he realized that his very confusion gave him an
+excuse for poking his nose into all sorts of places. He followed one of
+the tunnels until he came to a door: ENGINE ROOM--KEEP OUT.
+
+He entered. A mechanic looked up.
+
+"Earth 'gram for Captain Brinjar. They said he was around here."
+
+"Not here," replied the mechanic. "Try the cargo hold."
+
+Plato backed out and set off down the corridor again, noting the
+direction arrows and signs. TO MAIN LOUNGE--no good. TO CAPTAIN'S
+CABIN--worse. He didn't want to find the captain and lose his excuse for
+being there.
+
+And then he saw TO FOOD STORAGE and knew that he need look no further.
+This was a place both to hide and to eat, until the ship took off, and
+the crew found him, and had to accept him as one of themselves.
+
+He opened the door to the food storage hold with an elaborate caution
+that turned out to be unnecessary. There was no one inside. He settled
+down between two packing cases and let out his breath. He had made it.
+He had stowed away successfully, and in a few hours he would be out in
+space, traveling between the stars, fighting, adventuring--
+
+A yawn almost wiped the smile off his face.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He awoke to disaster. The captain and Plato's dorm master were standing
+there, staring down at him, and the dorm master was saying, "All right,
+Plato, you've had your adventure, and now I'm afraid you'll have to pay
+for it. It's time to go home."
+
+Plato couldn't move. It was impossible, after he had been so clever, so
+ingenious, and had thrown them off the trail in so many ways, for them
+to have found him!
+
+"You shouldn't have bought a ticket to the wrong station," said the dorm
+master, somewhat amusedly. "When the conductor turned it in, the only
+one of its kind on his flight, it naturally attracted attention. We
+hadn't even suspected you had taken a glider-train until the flight
+people came to us."
+
+Now he would never adventure on strange planets of unknown suns. He
+would never course through space like Comets Carter. He would never have
+the adventures which alone made life seem worth living.
+
+Unable to control himself, he burst into tears. It was a completely
+unmanly thing to do, but he couldn't help himself. The tears flowed down
+over his cheeks, washing away all his shattered illusions. He would
+never dream such dreams again. From now on, it would be useless. They
+would be watching him carefully to make sure that he didn't leave the
+planet.
+
+He heard the captain say in astonishment, "I didn't know these young
+ones could cry like that."
+
+"Of course they cry," replied the dorm master. "They eat, sleep,
+cry--almost like you and me, Captain. And worst of all, they even have
+their dreams. That's why I sometimes wonder, Captain, if it isn't a
+mistake to send them to school."
+
+"They have to learn."
+
+"Granted," agreed the dorm master somberly. "But not to dream of being
+human when they're only androids."
+
+                                                    --WILLIAM MORRISON
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ November 1952.
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