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+Title: The Terrible Answer
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+Author: Arthur G. Hill
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+Release Date: November 24, 2009 [EBook #30539]
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+ _They came to Mars inquiring after the
+ stuff of Empire. They got--_
+
+
+       The
+     TERRIBLE
+      ANSWER
+
+ By Arthur G. Hill
+
+
+They came down to Mars ahead of the rest because Larkin had bought an
+unfair advantage--a copy of the Primary Report. There were seven of
+them, all varying in appearance, but with one thing in common; in the
+eyes of each glowed the greed for Empire. They came down in a flash of
+orange tail-fire and they looked first at the Martians.
+
+"Green," marveled Evans. "What a queer shade of green!"
+
+"Not important," Cleve, the psychologist, replied. "Merely a matter of
+pigmentation. White, yellow, black, green. It proves only that God loves
+variety."
+
+"And lord how they grin!"
+
+Cleve peered learnedly. "Doesn't indicate a thing. They were born with
+those grins. They'll die with them."
+
+Of the seven strong men, Larkin exuded the most power. Thus, his role of
+leader was a natural one. No man would ever stand in front of Larkin. He
+said, "To hell with color or the shape of their mouths. What we're after
+lies inside. Come on. Let's set up a camp."
+
+"For the time being," Cleve cautioned, "we must ignore them. Later--we
+know what to do. I'll give the nod."
+
+They brought what they needed out of the ship. They brought the plastic
+tents, broke the small, attached cylinders, and watched the tents bulge
+up into living quarters. They set up the vapor condenser and it began
+filling the water tank from the air about them. They plugged a line into
+the ship and attached it to the tent-line. Immediately the gasses in the
+plastic tents began to glow and give off both light and heat.
+
+They did many things while the Martians stood silently by with their
+arms hanging, their splay-feet flat on the ground, their slash-mouths
+grinning.
+
+The seven sat down to their first meal under the Martian stars and while
+they ate the rich, delicate foods, they listened to the words of Larkin.
+"A new empire waiting to be built. A whole planet--virgin--new."
+
+"Not new," Dane, the archeologist, said. "It's older than Earth. It's
+been worked before."
+
+Larkin waved an impatient hand. "But hardly scratched. It can have risen
+and fallen a thousand times for all we care. The important thing is the
+vital ingredient of empire. Is it here? Can it be harnessed? Are we or
+are we not, on the threshold of wealth, splendor, and progress so great
+as to take away the breath?"
+
+And as Larkin spoke, all seven men looked at the Martians; looked
+covertly while appearing to study the rolling plain and the purple
+ridges far away; the texture of the soil; the color of the sky; the food
+on their plates; the steaming fragrance of their coffee. They looked at
+all these things but they studied the Martians.
+
+"Stupid-looking animals," Evans muttered. "Odd though. So like us--yet
+so different."
+
+At first there had been only a handful of Martians to grin at the
+landing of the ship. Now they numbered over a hundred, their ranks
+augmented by stragglers who came to stare with their fellows in happy
+silence.
+
+"The prospects are excellent," Cleve said. Then he jerked his attention
+back to Larkin from whom it had momentarily wandered. When Larkin spoke,
+one listened.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Larkin had been directing his words toward a young man named Smith.
+Smith had inherited a great deal of money which was fine. But Larkin
+wasn't too sure of his qualifications otherwise. "--the pyramids,"
+Larkin was saying. "Would they have ever been built if the men up
+above--the men with vision--had had to worry about a payroll?"
+
+Smith regarded the Martians with not quite the impersonal stare of the
+other six Earthlings. Once or twice he grinned back at them. "I'll grant
+the truth of what you say," he told Larkin, "but what good were the
+pyramids? They're something I could never figure."
+
+Smith had a sardonic twist of mouth that annoyed Larkin. "Let's not
+quibble, man. I merely used the pyramids as an example. Call them
+Empire; call them any Empire on Earth from the beginning of known
+history and let's face facts."
+
+"Facts?" Smith asked. He had been looking at a six-foot-six Martian,
+thinking what a magnificent specimen he was. If only they'd wipe off
+those silly grins.
+
+"Yes, facts. The building must be done. It is a law of nature. Man must
+progress or not. And what empire can arise without free labor? Can we
+develop this planet at union scale? Impossible! Yet it's crying to be
+developed."
+
+Cleve knocked the ashes off his cigar and frowned. Being a man of direct
+action, he inquired. "Do you want your money back, Smith?"
+
+The latter shook his head. "Oh no! Don't get me wrong, gentlemen. I'm
+for empire first, last and always. And if we can lay the foundations of
+one on the backs of these stupid creatures, I'm for it."
+
+"I still don't like your--"
+
+"My outspoken manner? Don't give it a thought, old man. I just don't
+want to be all cloyed up with platitudes. If we're going to chain the
+children of Israel into the house of bondage, let's get on with it."
+
+"I don't like your attitude," Larkin said stubbornly. "In the long run,
+it will benefit these people."
+
+"Let's say, rather, that it may benefit their children. I doubt if these
+jokers will be around very long after we start cracking the whip."
+
+Dane was stirred. "The whip," he murmured. "Symbol of empire." But
+nobody heard him. They were too busy listening to Larkin and Smith--and
+watching the Martians.
+
+The Martians stood around grinning, waiting patiently for something to
+happen. Larkin's attitude toward them had changed again. First there had
+been curiosity. Then a narrow-eyed calculation; now he regarded them
+with contempt. The careful, studied checks and tests would be made of
+course. But Larkin, a man of sure instincts, had already made up his
+mind.
+
+He stretched luxuriously. "Let's call it a day and turn in. Tomorrow
+we'll go about the business at hand with clearer heads."
+
+"A good idea," Cleve said, "but first, one little gesture. I think it
+would be judicious." He eyed the Martians, settling finally upon one--a
+male--standing close and somewhat apart from the rest. Cleve scowled.
+Standing erect, he called, "Hey--you!" He interpreted the words with a
+beckoning gesture of his arm. "Come here! Here, boy! Over here!"
+
+The Martian reacted with a typically Earthian gesture. He pointed to his
+own chest with one green finger, while a questioning expression
+reflected through the eternal grin.
+
+"Yes, you! On the double."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Martian came forward. There was in his manner a slight hesitation,
+and Smith expected to see his hind quarters wriggle like that of a
+dog--uncertain, but eager to please.
+
+Cleve pointed with a martinet gesture toward the smoked-out cigar butt
+he'd thrown to the ground. "Pick it up!"
+
+The Martian stood motionless.
+
+"Pick--it--_up_, you stupid lout!"
+
+[Illustration: _Larkin--now beyond sanity--was gibbering in the
+grave._]
+
+The Martian understood. With a glad little whimper, he bent over and
+took the cigar butt in his hand.
+
+"There," Cleve said. "Garbage can! Get it? _Garbage can._ Place for
+trash--for cigar butts. Put it in there."
+
+Smith wasn't sure whether the grin deepened or not. He thought it did,
+as the Martian laid the cigar butt carefully into the trash can.
+
+"Okay, you fella," Cleve barked, still scowling. "Back and away now.
+Stay out there! Get it? Only come when you're called."
+
+It took a few eloquent gestures, including the pantomime of swinging a
+whip, before the Martian understood and complied. After he backed into
+the circle of his fellows, Cleve dropped the cruel overseer manner and
+turned with satisfaction to Larkin. "I think there will be no trouble at
+all," he said. "Tomorrow we'll really get down to cases. I predict
+smooth sailing."
+
+They said goodnight to each other and went about the business of
+preparing for slumber. As he raised the glowing flap of his tent, Larkin
+saw Smith lounging in a chair before the electric heat unit. "Aren't you
+going to get some sleep?"
+
+"In a little while. I'm going to wait around until those two famous
+moons come. Want to see them first hand."
+
+"A waste of time," Larkin said. "Better keep your mind on more important
+things."
+
+"Goodnight," Smith said. Larkin did not reply, and Smith turned his head
+to look at the Martians. He wondered where they had come from. They
+probably had a village somewhere over the rise. He regarded them without
+fear or apprehension of what might occur during the sleeping hours. He
+had read the Primary Report, brought back by the pioneer expedition.
+These people were entirely harmless. Also they were possessed of
+remarkable stamina. They had stood for days, watching the first
+expedition, grinning at it, without nourishment of any kind.
+
+Maybe they live off the atmosphere, Smith told himself dreamily. At any
+rate, they were ideal specimens to use as the foundation stones of an
+empire. He lay back, thinking of Larkin; he did not like Larkin
+personally, but he had to admire the steel in the man; the unswerving
+determination that had made him what he was.
+
+His mind drifted back to the things of beauty around him. The far purple
+ridges had changed now, as a light bloomed behind them to gleam like
+azure through old crystal. Then the two moons shot over the horizon;
+huge silver bullets riding the thin atmosphere.
+
+The oldest planet. Had it ever been great? Were the bones of any dead
+civilizations mouldering beneath this strange yellow soil? Smith closed
+his eyes while the cool Martian breezes soothed his face. Greatness.
+What was greatness after all? Merely a matter of viewpoint perhaps.
+
+Smith got up and moved slowly toward his tent. Out in the shadows he
+could feel the grins of the Martians. "Goodnight," he called.
+
+But there was no answer.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"I put them out there," Cleve said. "It seemed as good a place as any."
+
+"Fine," Larkin rumbled. He wore boots and britches and a big,
+wide-brimmed hat. He had on soft leather gloves. He looked like an
+empire builder.
+
+The Martians were standing around grinning at the pile of shovels lying
+in the fuzz-bush. The Martians seemed interested and appeared to
+communicate with one another in some imperceptible manner.
+
+Larkin shoved through the circle of green men, pushing rudely. He
+stopped, picked up one of the shovels; thrust it toward a Martian. The
+Martian took it in his hands.
+
+"It's very important that you _tell_ them--that you don't show them,"
+Cleve said. "You must not do any of the work yourself."
+
+"I'll handle it," Larkin snapped. "Now, you--all of you! Grab a shovel.
+Pick 'em up, see? Pick 'em up! We've got work to do. A ditch to dig."
+
+Larkin's pantomime was a universal language. "We start the ditch here.
+Right here--you fella! Get digging! And put your back into that shovel.
+Hit hard or maybe it gives the whip--understand?" Larkin made a
+threatening motion toward the lash coiled at his belt.
+
+Smith, already on the scene, turned as Evans and Dane arrived carrying
+undefined plastic. They snapped the cylinders and chairs appeared;
+chairs--and a table upon which Carter and Lewis, bringing up the rear,
+placed a pitcher of beer, glasses and a box of cigars.
+
+Cleve, the psychologist, looked with satisfaction upon the string of
+Martians manipulating the shovels. "All right," he said. "Let's sit
+down. Pour the beer, one of you."
+
+"Allow me," Smith said. He fought to straighten the smile bending his
+lips. He picked up the pitcher and poured beer into the glasses. It all
+seemed so absurd; these grim-faced men acting out an asinine tableau.
+
+Cleve caught the smile. "I wish you'd take this seriously," he said.
+"It's a mighty touchy and important business."
+
+"Sorry," Smith said, raising his glass. "Here's to empire."
+
+Larkin was striding up and down the line of straining Martians. The
+scowl had become a part of him.
+
+_It's getting him_, Smith marveled. _Act or no act, he likes it.
+Experiment or not, he's in his element._
+
+The six men sat drinking their beer and watching Larkin. But only Cleve
+was aware of the skill with which the man worked. The gradual
+application of pressure; the careful moving forward from bog to bog with
+the path of retreat always open. From sharpness to brusqueness. From the
+brusque to the harsh. From the harsh to the brutal.
+
+"Will you tell me," Smith asked, "why we have to sit here drinking like
+a pack of fools? I don't like beer."
+
+"I'm not enjoying it, either," Cleve said. "But you can certainly
+understand that the roles must be set right from the beginning. They
+must understand we are their masters, so we must conduct ourselves in
+that manner. Never any sign that could be interpreted as compromise."
+
+Larkin, satisfied with the progress of the entirely useless ditch, came
+to the table and raised a glass of beer. He wiped the foam from his
+mustache and asked, "What do you think?" directing the question toward
+Cleve.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The latter regarded the sweating Martians with calculating eyes. "It's
+going entirely as I predicted. The next step is in order, I believe."
+
+"You think it's safe?"
+
+"I'm certain of it."
+
+Smith, studying Larkin, saw the latter smile, and was again struck by
+its quality.
+
+_Whatever the test, Larkin's for it, even above the call of scientific
+experimentation._
+
+Larkin was uncoiling the whip from his belt. He strode toward the
+fast-deepening ditch. He selected a subject. "You--fella. You're lazy,
+huh? You like to gold-brick it? Then see how you like this!" He laid the
+whip across the green shoulders of the Martian.
+
+The Martian winced. He raised an arm to shield off the whip. Again it
+curled against his flesh. He whimpered. His grin was stark, inquiring.
+
+"Hit that shovel, you green bastard!" Larkin roared.
+
+The Martian understood. So did the other Martians. Their muscles
+quivered as they drove into their work.
+
+Larkin came back, smiling--almost dreamily, Smith thought. Cleve said,
+"Excellent. I'd hardly hoped for such conformity. Hardly expected it."
+
+"You mean," Smith asked, "that this little scene can be projected from a
+dozen to a hundred? From a hundred to a thousand--?"
+
+"From this little plot to the whole, surface of the planet," Cleve said.
+"The mass is nothing more than a collection of individuals. Control the
+individual and you've got the mob. That is if you follow through with
+the original method. Set the hard pattern."
+
+"Then we're in--is that it? They've passed every test with flying
+colors."
+
+"I'm sure they will," Cleve said, frowning. "But we must be thorough."
+
+"There's still another test?"
+
+"Yes. The test of final and complete subservience. It must be proven
+beyond all doubt that they know their masters."
+
+"You don't think they're aware yet that we _are_ their masters?"
+
+"I'm sure they know. It only remains to be proven." Cleve glanced up at
+Larkin. "Maybe this is as far as we should go today. We've made
+marvelous progress."
+
+That characteristic wave of Larkin's hand; the gesture of the empire
+builder brushing away mountains. "Why wait? I want to get this thing
+over with. You said yourself they're under our thumb."
+
+Cleve pondered, staring at the Martians. "Very well. There's really no
+reason to wait."
+
+Larkin smiled and turned toward the diggers, only half visible now from
+the depths of the ditch. He walked forward, appearing to exercise more
+care, this time, in the selection of his subject. Finally, he pointed at
+one of the Martians. "You--fella! Come here!"
+
+Several of them looked at one another a trifle confused. "You--damn it!
+What are you waiting for?"
+
+One of them climbed slowly from the trench. While he was engaged in so
+doing, Smith noticed two things. He saw the look of rage, simulated or
+otherwise, that came into Larkin's face. And he saw Cleve's fingers
+tighten on the edge of the table.
+
+Larkin had a gun in his fist; a roar in his voice. "When I talk--you
+jump! Get that? All of you!"
+
+He fired three bullets into the Martian's brain. The latter slumped
+grinning to the ground. Larkin, his breath coming jerkily, stood poised
+on the balls of his feet. The men at the table sat frozen--waiting.
+Around them--on the plain--some two hundred Martians stood motionless.
+
+_The final test_, Smith thought. _To prove they're cattle._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A full minute passed after the echo of the gun faded out. Silence.
+
+And nothing.
+
+The Earthmen picked up their breathing where they'd dropped it. Larkin's
+breath exploded in savage voice--triumphant voice. The Martians were
+his.
+
+"Come on, some of you! Dig a hole and bury that carrion! And if anybody
+still wonders who's boss around here--let him step forward!"
+
+"They took it!" Cleve whispered. "Glory be--they took it!"
+
+Four Martians climbed grinning from the trench. They faced Larkin and
+stood as though awaiting instructions.
+
+"Dig there," Larkin said.
+
+They went stolidly to work and Larkin pocketed his gun, making the
+pocketing a gesture of contempt.
+
+"You see," Cleve said, with the tone of one explaining an abstract
+problem, "we were at somewhat of a disadvantage because they are
+incapable of indicating emotion by facial expression. Thus the last test
+was necessary. If we could have judged the degree of fear previously
+instilled, that last might not have been necessary."
+
+"Just as well to have a double check nonetheless," Dane said. "Look at
+them! You'd think nothing out of the ordinary had happened."
+
+Larkin strode back to the table. "Glad we got it over with," he said.
+"Now we _know_. Cleve can head back for Earth tomorrow. Initial supplies
+will come to about twenty million, I estimate. The rest of us can stay
+here and really drive these beggars. Get the foundations dug; get the
+rock down from the hills."
+
+"A planet in glorious resurrection," said Dane, the poet of the group.
+
+"They've got the grave dug," Cleve observed. "They're waiting for
+orders."
+
+"Such cattle," Evans muttered.
+
+Larkin strode back to the grave. He pointed. "Him--body into the grave.
+Snap into it. We've got work to do."
+
+The Martians put the body into the grave.
+
+Then a tall, green man appeared behind Larkin. He put his arms around
+Larkin's body. Another Martian took the gun from Larkin's pocket.
+
+And they pushed the screaming Earthman down into the grave.
+
+Smith sprang to his feet. "For God's sake!"
+
+"Sit down, you fool!" Cleve hissed. "Do you want to die? We've
+miscalculated. Something's wrong."
+
+The big Martian was standing on Larkin. The others threw in the soil.
+Larkin, now beyond sanity, was gibbering like an animal.
+
+Smith sat down. The Earthman presented a frozen tableau. Soon the
+gibbering could no longer be heard and the big Martian stepped out of
+the grave.
+
+"Leave everything," Cleve whispered. "Get up very casually and walk back
+to the ship. Get inside it."
+
+"May God help us," Dane quavered.
+
+"Shut up! Act natural."
+
+They went back and got into the ship while the Martians stood patiently
+about waiting for something to happen. Their patience was rewarded when
+the ship arose on a great flaming tail from the surface of the planet.
+
+It was a sight worth waiting for.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _If Worlds of Science Fiction_ July
+    1952. 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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