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But darkness has other + dangers...._ + + +THE EYES HAVE IT + +By James McKimmey, Jr. + +Illustrated by Paul Orban + + +Joseph Heidel looked slowly around the dinner table at the five men, +hiding his examination by a thin screen of smoke from his cigar. He was +a large man with thick blond-gray hair cut close to his head. In three +more months he would be fifty-two, but his face and body had the vital +look of a man fifteen years younger. He was the President of the +Superior Council, and he had been in that post--the highest post on the +occupied planet of Mars--four of the six years he had lived here. As his +eyes flicked from one face to another his fingers unconsciously tapped +the table, making a sound like a miniature drum roll. + +One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Five top officials, selected, tested, +screened on Earth to form the nucleus of governmental rule on Mars. + +Heidel's bright narrow eyes flicked, his fingers drummed. Which one? Who +was the imposter, the ringer? Who was the Martian? + +Sadler's dry voice cut through the silence: "This is not just an +ordinary meeting then, Mr. President?" + +Heidel's cigar came up and was clamped between his teeth. He stared into +Sadler's eyes. "No, Sadler, it isn't. This is a very special meeting." +He grinned around the cigar. "This is where we take the clothes off the +sheep and find the wolf." + +Heidel watched the five faces. Sadler, Meehan, Locke, Forbes, Clarke. +One of them. Which one? + +"I'm a little thick tonight," said Harry Locke. "I didn't follow what +you meant." + +"No, no, of course not," Heidel said, still grinning. "I'll explain it." +He could feel himself alive at that moment, every nerve singing, every +muscle toned. His brain was quick and his tongue rolled the words out +smoothly. This was the kind of situation Heidel handled best. A tense, +dramatic situation, full of atmosphere and suspense. + +"Here it is," Heidel continued, "simply and briefly." He touched the +cigar against an ash tray, watching with slitted shining eyes while the +ashes spilled away from the glowing tip. He bent forward suddenly. "We +have an imposter among us, gentlemen. A spy." + +He waited, holding himself tense against the table, letting the sting of +his words have their effect. Then he leaned back, carefully. "And +tonight I am going to expose this imposter. Right here, at this table." +He searched the faces again, looking for a tell-tale twitch of a muscle, +a movement of a hand, a shading in the look of an eye. + +There were only Sadler, Meehan, Locke, Forbes, Clarke, looking like +themselves, quizzical, polite, respecting. + +"One of us, you say," Clarke said noncommittally, his phrase neither a +question nor a positive statement. + +"That is true," said Heidel. + +"Bit of a situation at that," said Forbes, letting a faint smile touch +his lips. + +"Understatement, Forbes," Heidel said. "Understatement." + +"Didn't mean to sound capricious," Forbes said, his smile gone. + +"Of course not," Heidel said. + +Edward Clarke cleared his throat. "May I ask, sir, how this was +discovered and how it was narrowed down to the Superior Council?" + +"Surely," Heidel said crisply. "No need to go into the troubles we've +been having. You know all about that. But how these troubles originated +is the important thing. Do you remember the missionary affair?" + +"When we were going to convert the Eastern industrial section?" + +"That's right," Heidel said, remembering. "Horrible massacre." + +"Bloody," agreed John Meehan. + +"Sixty-seven missionaries lost," Heidel said. + +"I remember the Martian note of apology," Forbes said. "'We have +worshipped our own God for two-hundred thousand years. We would prefer +to continue. Thank you.' Blinking nerve, eh?" + +"Neither here nor there," Heidel said abruptly. "The point is that no +one _knew_ those sixty-seven men were missionaries except myself and you +five men." + + * * * * * + +Heidel watched the faces in front of him. "One case," he said. "Here's +another. Do you recall when we outlawed the free selection system?" + +"Another bloody one," said Sadler. + +"Forty-eight victims in that case," Heidel said. "Forty-eight honorable +colonists, sanctioned by us to legally marry any couple on the planet, +and sent out over the country to abolish the horrible free-love +situation." + +"Forty-eight justices of the peace dead as pickerels," Forbes said. + +"Do you happen to remember _that_ note of apology?" Heidel asked, a +slight edge in his voice. He examined Forbes' eyes. + +"Matter of fact, yes," said Forbes, returning Heidel's stare steadily. +"'You love your way, we'll love ours.' Terribly caustic, what?" + +"Terribly," said Heidel. "Although that too is neither here nor there. +The point again, no one except the six of us right here knew what those +forty-eight men were sent out to do." + +Heidel straightened in his chair. The slow grating voice of Forbes had +taken some of the sharpness out of the situation. He wanted to hold +their attention minutely, so that when he was ready, the dramatics of +his action would be tense and telling. + +"There is no use," he said, "in going into the details of the other +incidents. You remember them. When we tried to install a free press, the +Sensible Art galleries, I-Am-A-Martian Day, wrestling, and all the +rest." + +"I remember the wrestling business awfully well," said Forbes. "Martians +drove a wrestler through the street in a yellow jetmobile. Had flowers +around his neck and a crown on his head. He was dead, of course. +Stuffed, I think...." + +"All right," snapped Heidel. "Each one of our efforts to offer these +people a chance to benefit from our culture was snapped off at the bud. +And only a leak in the Superior Council could have caused it. It is a +simple matter of deduction. There is one of us, here tonight, who is +responsible. And I am going to expose him." Heidel's voice was a low +vibrant sound that echoed in the large dining room. + +The five men waited. Forbes, his long arms crossed. Sadler, his eyes on +his fingernails. Meehan, blinking placidly. Clarke, twirling his thumbs. +Locke, examining his cigarette. + +"Kessit!" Heidel called. + +A gray-haired man in a black butler's coat appeared. + +"We'll have our wine now," Heidel said. There was a slight quirk in his +mouth, so that his teeth showed between his lips. The butler moved +methodically from place to place, pouring wine from a silver decanter. + +"Now then, Kessit," Heidel said, when the butler had finished, "would +you be kind enough to fetch me that little pistol from the mantel over +there?" He smiled outwardly this time. The situation was right again; he +was handling things, inch by inch, without interruption. + +He took the gun from the old man's hands. "One thing more, Kessit. Would +you please light the candles on the table and turn out the rest of the +lights in the room. I've always been a romanticist," Heidel said, +smiling around the table. "Candlelight with my wine." + +"Oh, excellent," said Locke soberly. + +"Quite," said Forbes. + +Heidel nodded and waited while the butler lit the candles and snapped +off the overhead lights. The yellow flames wavered on the table as the +door closed gently behind the butler. + +"Now, then," Heidel said, feeling the tingling in his nerves. "This, +gentlemen, is a replica of an antique of the twentieth century. A +working replica, I might add. It was called a P-38, if my memory serves +me." He held the pistol up so that the candlelight reflected against the +glistening black handle and the blue barrel. + +There was a polite murmur as the five men stretched forward to look at +the gun in Heidel's hands. + +"Crude," Sadler said. + +"But devilish-looking," Forbes added. + +"My hobby," Heidel said. "I would like to add that not only do I collect +these small arms, but I am very adept at using them. Something I will +demonstrate to you very shortly," he added, grinning. + +"Say now," nodded Meehan. + +"That should be jolly," Forbes said, laughing courteously. + +"I believe it will at that," Heidel said. "Now if you will notice, +gentlemen," he said touching the clip ejector of the pistol and watching +the black magazine slip out into his other hand. "I have but five +cartridges in the clip. Just five. You see?" + +They all bent forward, blinking. + +"Good," said Heidel, shoving the clip back into the grip of the gun. He +couldn't keep his lips from curling in his excitement, but his hands +were as steady as though his nerves had turned to ice. + +The five men leaned back in their chairs. + +"Now then, Meehan," he said to the man at the opposite end of the table. +"Would you mind moving over to your left, so that the end of the table +is clear?" + +"Oh?" said Meehan. "Yes, of course." He grinned at the others, and there +was a ripple of amusement as Meehan slid his chair to the left. + +"Yes," said Heidel. "All pretty foolish-looking, perhaps. But it won't +be in a few minutes when I discover the bastard of a Martian who's in +this group, I'll tell you that!" His voice rose and rang in the room, +and he brought the glistening pistol down with a crack against the +table. + + * * * * * + +There was dead silence and Heidel found his smile again. "All right, now +I'll explain a bit further. Before Dr. Kingly, the head of our +laboratory, died a few days ago, he made a very peculiar discovery. As +you know, there has been no evidence to indicate that the Martian is any +different, physically, from the Earthman. Not until Dr. Kingly made his +discovery, that is." + +Heidel looked from face to face. "This is how it happened," he went on. +"Dr. Kingly ..." + +He paused and glanced about in false surprise. "I beg your pardon, +gentlemen. We might as well be enjoying our wine. Excellent port. Very +old, I believe. Shall we?" he asked, raising his glass. + +Five other glasses shimmered in the candlelight. + +"Let us, ah, toast success to the unveiling of the rotten Martian who +sits among us, shall we?" Heidel's smile glinted and he drank a quarter +of his glass. + +The five glasses tipped and were returned to the table. Again there was +silence as the men waited. + +"To get back," Heidel said, listening with excitement to his own voice. +"Dr. Kingly, in the process of an autopsy on a derelict Martian, made a +rather startling discovery ..." + +"I beg your pardon," Forbes said. "Did you say autopsy?" + +"Yes," said Heidel. "We've done this frequently. Not according to base +orders, you understand." He winked. "But a little infraction now and +then is necessary." + +"I see," said Forbes. "I just didn't know about that." + +"No, you didn't, did you?" said Heidel, looking at Forbes closely. "At +any rate, Dr. Kingly had developed in his work a preserving solution +which he used in such instances, thereby prolonging the time for +examination of the cadaver, without experiencing deterioration of the +tissues. This solution was merely injected into the blood stream, +and ..." + +"Sorry again, sir," Forbes said. "But you said blood stream?" + +"Yes," Heidel nodded. "This had to be done before the cadaver was a +cadaver, you see?" + +"I think so, yes," said Forbes, leaning back again. "Murdered the +bastard for an autopsy, what?" + +Heidel's fingers closed around the pistol. "I don't like that, Forbes." + +"Terribly sorry, sir." + +"To get on," Heidel said finally, his voice a cutting sound. "Dr. Kingly +had injected his solution and then ... Well, at any rate, when he +returned to his laboratory, it was night. His laboratory was black as +pitch--I'm trying to paint the picture for you, gentlemen--and the +cadaver was stretched out on a table, you see. And before Dr. Kingly +switched on the lights, he saw the eyes of this dead Martian glowing in +the dark like a pair of hot coals." + +"Weird," said Sadler, unblinking. + +"Ghostly," said Clarke. + +"The important thing," Heidel said curtly, "is that Dr. Kingly +discovered the difference, then, between the Martian and the Earthman. +The difference is the eyes. The solution, you see, had reacted +chemically to the membranes of the eyeballs, so that as it happened +they lit up like electric lights. I won't go into what Dr. Kingly found +further, when he dissected the eyeballs. Let it suffice to say, the +Martian eyeball is a physical element entirely different from our +own--at least from those of five of us, I should say." + +His grin gleamed. He was working this precisely and carefully, and it +was effective. "Now, however," he continued, "it is this _sixth_ man who +is at issue right now. The fly in the soup, shall we say. And in just a +few seconds I am going to exterminate that fly." + +He picked up the pistol from the table. "As I told you, gentlemen, I am +quite versatile with this weapon. I am a dead shot, in other words. And +I am going to demonstrate it to you." He glanced from face to face. + +"You will notice that since Mr. Meehan has moved, I have a clear field +across the table. I don't believe a little lead in the woodwork will mar +the room too much, would you say, Forbes?" + +Forbes sat very still. "No, I shouldn't think so, sir." + +"Good. Because I am going to snuff out each of the four candles in the +center of this table by shooting the wick away. You follow me, +gentlemen? Locke? Meehan? Sadler?" + +Heads nodded. + +"Then perhaps you are already ahead of me. When the last candle is +extinguished, we will have darkness, you see. And then I think we'll +find our Martian rat. Because, as a matter of fact," Heidel lolled his +words, "I have taken the privilege of adding to the wine we have been +drinking Dr. Kingly's preserving solution. Non-tasteful, non-harmful. +Except, that is, to one man in this room." + +Heidel motioned his gun. "And God rest the bastard's soul, because if +you will remember, I have five bullets in the chamber of this pistol. +Four for the candles and one for the brain of the sonofabitch whose eyes +light up when the last candle goes out." + + * * * * * + +There was a steady deadly silence while the flames of the candles licked +at the still air. + +"I think, however," Heidel said, savoring the moment, "that we should +have one final toast before we proceed." He lifted his glass. "May the +receiver of the fifth bullet go straight to hell. I phrase that +literally, gentlemen," he said, laughing. "Drink up!" + +The glasses were drained and placed again on the table. + +"Watch carefully," Heidel said and lifted the pistol. He aimed at the +first candle. The trigger was taut against his finger, the explosion +loud in the room. + +"One," said Heidel. + +He aimed again. The explosion. + +"Two," he said. "Rather good, eh?" + +"Oh, yes," Sadler said. + +"Quite," said Forbes. + +"Again," said Heidel. A third shot echoed. + +"Now," he said, pointing the muzzle at the last candle. "I would say +this is it, wouldn't you, gentlemen? And as soon as this one goes, I'm +afraid one of us is going to find a bullet right between his goddam +sparkling eyes. Are you ready?" + +He squinted one eye and looked down the sights. He squeezed the trigger, +the room echoed and there was blackness. Heidel held his pistol poised +over the table. + +Silence. + +"Well," said Forbes finally. "There you have it. Surprise, what?" + +Heidel balanced the pistol, feeling his palm go suddenly moist against +the black grip, and he looked around at the five pairs of glowing eyes. + +"Bit of a shock, I should imagine," Forbes said. "Discovering all of us, +as it were." + +Heidel licked his lips. "How? _How_ could you do this?" + +Forbes remained motionless. "Simple as one, you know. Put men on rockets +going back to Earth in place of returning colonists. Study. Observe. +Learn. Shift a record here and there. Forge, change pictures, all that +sort of thing. Poor contact between here and Earth, you know. Not too +difficult." + +"I'll get one of you," Heidel said, still balancing his pistol tightly. + +"Well, possibly," Forbes said. "But no more than one. You have three +guns pointed at you. We can see you perfectly, you know, as though it +were broad daylight. One shiver of that pistol, and you're dead." + +"Why have you done this?" Heidel said suddenly. "_Why?_ Everything that +was done was for the Martian. We tried to give you freedom and culture, +the benefit of our knowledge...." + +"We didn't like your wrestlers," Forbes said. + +Heidel's nostrils twitched, and suddenly he swung the pistol. There was +a crashing explosion and then silence. + +"Good," said Forbes. "I don't think he got the last one fired." + +"You're all right then?" asked Meehan, putting his gun on the table. + +"Oh, quite! Rather dramatic altogether, eh?" + +"Nerve tingling," Locke agreed. + +Forbes turned in his chair and called, "Oh, Kessit!" + +The butler opened the door to the darkened room, hesitated, and reached +for the light switch. + +"No, no," Forbes said, smiling. "Never mind that. Come over here, will +you please?" + +The butler crossed the room slowly. + +"It's all right," Forbes said. "The president will notice nothing +whatever, Kessit. Would you mind pouring us all another glass of wine? +I'm frightfully crazy about that port, eh?" + +There was a murmur of agreeing voices. The butler lifted the silver +decanter and filled glasses, moving easily and surely in the darkness. + +"Cheers," said Forbes. + +"Cheers," said the others, over the clink of glasses. + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _If Worlds of Science Fiction_ November + 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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