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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hand, by Gerald Allan Sohl
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+Title: The Hand
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+Author: Gerald Allan Sohl
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+Release Date: April 19, 2010 [EBook #32055]
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+    This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and
+    Fantasy January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence
+    that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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+
+                               THE HAND
+
+
+                                  by
+
+                              Jerry Sohl
+
+
+     Alice knew that Dobie was a good dog, even if he did have an
+     alarming habit of hunting down rabbits and gophers. But one
+     day he brought her--
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Alice McNearby was washing breakfast dishes and looking out the
+kitchen window at the November sky when she first spied Dobie. The way
+he was sneaking up to the house she knew he had killed something.
+
+She dried her hands on her apron and tried to put down the suspicion
+that gnawed at the edge of her mind as she went to the door. During
+the past month Dobie had killed a cat, a pheasant, two rabbits and a
+field mouse and it seemed it would be only a question of time until he
+got one of the chickens or even one of the suckling pigs. That would
+be all Mac would need to throw one of his wild spells and he'd
+probably take a gun to Dobie as he had threatened to do. To make it
+worse, Dobie seemed to know how Mac felt and often growled at him. Mac
+didn't growl back but the look in her husband's eyes was enough to
+convince her Dobie's continued existence was in doubt.
+
+It was a wonder to Alice that Mac hadn't done away with him already,
+judging from the comfort she derived from the dog. Dobie never
+fretted, never whined and seemed so appreciative of everything she did
+for him. She had scolded him for his killing but found herself unable
+to put her heart in it because he seemed to love it so. Instead, she
+always managed to clear any bones away before Mac returned from town
+or came up from the barn and she was thankful he seemed as yet unaware
+of the brown dog's hunting nature.
+
+Now it appeared she'd have to cover up for the dog once again and she
+opened the door. Dobie was under a bush half way across the barn yard,
+his kill still in his mouth. He was circling around, and she knew
+he'd soon be on his stomach enjoying his feast.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Dobie!" she called in a low voice, hoping it would not carry to the
+barn.
+
+Dobie's ears came up. He looked her way.
+
+"Dobie!... Come here, Dobie!"
+
+The dog was undecided, looking at her, unmoving for a moment. Then his
+tail started flicking, he lowered his head and came up to her.
+
+Then she saw what he had in his mouth and her blood stopped and only a
+great effort on the part of her heart started it going again.
+
+It was a human hand, blood still oozing from the severed wrist.
+
+"_Dobie!_"
+
+The way she said it, the way she looked--something made the dog drop
+the hand. It fell to the ground, limp, palm down.
+
+Dobie, head hung, tail down, ventured forward, nuzzled her hand. But
+Alice could not tear her eyes from the thing on the cold ground. She
+had cared for Dobie like a baby ever since someone dropped him off
+out in the country and she had adopted the name Dobie because a
+passing child had called him that and it seemed like a good name ...
+and she loved him.
+
+But this, this hand. That was too much.
+
+She looked around, saw a milk pail, put it open end down over the hand
+and carried two large rocks from the garden border to put on top to
+secure it. She didn't want it to be gone when she brought Mac back to
+see it.
+
+She heard her ring on the telephone--rather early for Mrs. Swearingen
+or Mrs. Abbey wasn't it?--but ignored it. There was something else she
+had to do and do quickly. For the first time in months she felt
+thankful for Mac's presence. Surely he would know what to do. Though
+it was cold, she was unmindful of the fact that she did not wear a
+coat as she hurried to the barn; she was thinking instead that perhaps
+she should have answered the phone in case it might have been someone
+other than her women friends, possibly something in connection with
+the severed hand. She shuddered as she remembered how it had looked.
+
+Alice found Mac in the loft. He had a forkful of hay over the opening
+when he saw her below. He stopped, narrowed his eyes before he slowly
+brought the hay back to the loft floor and leaned on the pitchfork.
+
+"Dobie's found something," she said and wished her voice hadn't
+quavered so.
+
+Mac spat a blob of tobacco on the floor above her. "He's a no-good
+dog," he said. "Scares the pigs. Always sneakin' around. Ought to be
+rid of him. Should have got 'round to it before this. What did he
+find?"
+
+"A hand." She swallowed ... and shivered.
+
+"A what?"
+
+"A hand. A human hand." She suddenly took pride in the fact that she
+was telling him something he didn't know and that he was interested.
+"I don't know where he got it."
+
+Mac put down the fork and lowered his burly frame over the edge of the
+opening and came down the ladder without a word. He followed her up to
+the house and she was thankful Dobie was nowhere around. When he
+kicked over the pail she was gratified to hear his sharp intake of
+breath.
+
+"By God!" he said, staring down at it. Then he flicked it over with
+his boot. "By God!" he said again. Alice had never seen him so
+agitated.
+
+He turned to her, his eyes narrower than she had ever seen them. "You
+take a good look at it?"
+
+She nodded, looked down at the way the fingers were bent upward as if
+the hand were holding an invisible ball. She heard Mac spit, looked at
+him running his fingers along his stubbled jaw.
+
+"It ain't human," he said. "Anybody with any sense could see that.
+It's got six fingers."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Just then the phone rang again. It seemed to come from a long way off
+and Alice hadn't consciously noticed it until her husband said. "Ain't
+you goin' to answer the phone?" And then she went to the door, dazed
+and wondering. She turned before she went in.
+
+"What are you going to do with it?" she asked.
+
+"You just go in and gab with those women folks," he said. "I'll take
+care of it."
+
+"Shouldn't we call the sheriff?"
+
+His eyes came up level with hers. "We ain't goin' to call nobody. I
+don't want no trouble. And don't you go talkin' about it with _them_
+either."
+
+The phone was Mrs. Swearingen who told her that she had been trying to
+get her for the last half hour ever since she heard about that ship
+that crashed and wasn't it awful and that a person wasn't safe in his
+bed asleep any more with these planes flying around and crashing--and
+so far from an airport, too. Mrs. Swearingen was surprised that Alice
+had noticed no smoke and didn't she know the wreck was closer to the
+McNearby place than it was to the Swearingens?
+
+"It's right south of your lower forty on the old Carnahan land, Alice.
+I'd figure it at about a mile from your place. Lots of people down
+there."
+
+And then there was the call from Mrs. Abbey who told her she'd come
+from the crash site and wasn't it a peculiar plane with those funny
+windows and that once-broken-one somebody had patched up from the
+inside.
+
+"The sheriff won't let anybody go near it," Mrs. Abbey said. "He says
+it's a space ship and the army ought to have a look at it first. But I
+saw him trying to find where to get in. Except for that broken window
+and that crumpled nose it don't look too bad off. Big clouds of smoke
+were shooting out the tail when I first got there but it's not smoking
+any more. Really, you ought to go down and see it, Alice."
+
+Alice told her husband about it. He had gone back to the barn and she
+didn't see the severed hand anywhere on the way there.
+
+"So that's where it come from," he said. "Good thing it didn't land
+on my place." He spat and wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his
+overalls. It always bothered Alice when he did this because the stain
+was so difficult to get out but she had long ceased trying to change
+him. "If it'd landed here I'd of blown it up like a stump."
+
+"Shouldn't we go down and see it?" Alice asked, knowing too late she
+had phrased the question the wrong way.
+
+"Curiosity killed the cat," he said, and there was the faintest
+glimmer of a smile on his face but it was only fleeting. "Let
+everybody else go down and I'll get my work done while they're
+standin' around with their mouths hangin' open. I'm runnin' a farm and
+I aim to run it right."
+
+"I think I'll go down." She tried to make it have resolve but didn't
+quite succeed.
+
+He glared at her and spat again. "Then git," he said. He threw down a
+large forkful of hay and she had to jump out of the way. She went
+right after dinner.
+
+She saw a silver cylinder that looked ever so much like pictures of
+guided missiles she had seen in the newspapers except that this one
+was bigger than any of them. Its nose was dug she could not tell how
+far into the earth and some of the metal on the sides was battered and
+bent and the tail was she guessed about a hundred and fifty feet in
+the air. It was about twenty-five feet across.
+
+There were clusters of people about and she recognized many of them
+she hadn't seen for a long time and she was glad she had come because
+it gave her a rare chance to visit; Mac seldom cared for just
+visiting. She talked to the Blaines, the Purveses, to the Gordon
+children whose parents had let them remain at the wreck site even
+after they had gone home for chores, to the Barfords and Hocholters
+and many others. They asked about Mac and she offered her usual
+excuses for him.
+
+While she was there she saw an army car driven up. She watched while
+some men got out and went through the roped-off area and pounded and
+scraped on the cylinder and then stood off looking at the tail of it,
+scratching their heads.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When she went home she was surprised to see how far the sun had moved
+across the sky and hoped Mac wouldn't be upset by her prolonged
+absence. She was gratified to see that he wasn't in the house. She
+petted Dobie for a while before she went in to stir up the stove and
+prepare supper.
+
+During the meal Alice tried to tell her husband something of what she
+had seen at the wreck site but if he paid any attention to her he
+didn't reveal it. He had propped up a farm equipment catalogue against
+the sugar bowl and studied the pages without saying a word. She
+resigned herself to eating in silence with this great hulk of a man
+before her and reflected that this night was no different from most of
+the others. She wondered what it was that made him the way he was, so
+intent on his farm to the exclusion of everything else, including
+humanity. It was a fetish, an obsession that didn't pay off because
+she couldn't see that they were better off than the Swearingens or the
+Abbeys or any of the others in the neighborhood.
+
+When he was through he simply got up, put on his overcoat and went
+outside. In a few minutes she could hear the car start and knew it
+would be another lonely evening. Mac would be home when he felt like
+it, reeking of liquor but handling it well. She did not begrudge him
+these absences because the man obviously needed something to take his
+mind off his work. But she wished she had some comparable escape.
+
+She had got out her writing board, had settled herself comfortably
+with pen in hand in Mac's big chair and had even put the date on the
+letter to her mother who lived in Canada when she heard Dobie's
+excited bark.
+
+She picked up a shawl on the way to the kitchen, turned on the big
+light on the windmill and looked out the window. Dobie was in the
+middle of the yard barking at something she couldn't see. She went
+out.
+
+"Dobie," she called. "What is it?"
+
+The dog whined and moved about nervously, looking first at her and
+then at the darkness between the big barn and the machine shed. As she
+sought to pierce the blackness there, a shape moved out from between
+the buildings and the sudden move caused her to step back. Dobie at
+once set up loud and ferocious barking.
+
+"Quiet, Dobie," she managed to say, laying a hand aside the dog's head
+and viewing the figure before her. It was a man--at least a man
+_shape_--with hands (she thanked God the creature had both its hands),
+a head, neck, shoulders and legs. But the head was a lot larger than a
+man's, there was no hair on it and the eyes were smaller, the nose
+longer and the mouth a narrow slash across the face. The neck was
+short, the shoulders thin and the legs and arms were spindling. She
+saw that each hand had six fingers. Across the narrow shoulders had
+been flung what looked like a carpet and from beneath this fell a
+skirt that went to the knees, held to the body with a metal rope belt
+just under his ribs. The shoes were enormous things for such pipestem
+legs--until she saw they were soft and furry and that this gave them
+their size. For a moment she almost laughed because he presented such
+a grotesque figure, but she did not dare. The creature spoke.
+
+"Good evening, Mrs. McNearby," it said in a not unpleasant, whistling
+voice and Alice wondered how it could talk so well to her.
+
+"I come from the crashed ship. You know of it, of course. You were
+there this afternoon."
+
+Alice was on the point of asking how he knew she had been at the wreck
+site when he started in again.
+
+"We have traced the severed hand of one of our crew to your place
+here. We came down at considerable velocity when our ship went out of
+control. We were lucky to escape with our lives. But one of us was
+thrown from the ship with such force that his hand was cut off by an
+obstruction on the ship. Your dog happened on the scene before we
+could find the hand."
+
+The chill of the November night air was beginning to penetrate her
+shawl and Alice could feel a stirring of air on her legs. Dobie moved
+restlessly at her side but she did not let go of his neck hair for
+fear of what he might do.
+
+"We need that hand, Mrs. McNearby. Without it the man who lost it will
+be at a tragic disadvantage among us. That is why we were looking so
+hard for it this morning after the crash. If we can return the hand to
+him in time it can, through proper treatment, be made as good as new.
+Would you be so good as to return it to me, now, please?"
+
+The eyes, though tiny, seemed not unkind, and the alien stood silent.
+She was moved by his pleas.
+
+"Mac--that's my husband--has it," Alice said. "I saw Dobie here with
+it and put it under a milk pail and when Mac saw it he said he'd take
+care of it." She hoped she was making sense.
+
+"Do you know where it is?"
+
+"I don't know where Mac put it."
+
+"Would you find it for me, please? I'll wait."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alice agreed and, wondering what Mac would say if he came home and
+found the hand gone, started looking for it. But surely Mac would
+understand about the hand, she thought. I'll explain to him the
+urgency of it, that one of the aliens needs it to live and be useful.
+
+She looked in the obvious places, in the storeroom just off the
+kitchen, in the cellar, then in the house itself, in Mac's room and
+through his things, and even in the attic, though she knew it couldn't
+be there. She became frantic then, paced by the alien's necessity for
+his hand, and did not bother to straighten things up after she looked.
+It simply couldn't be in the house. But where else? She went out and
+told the alien she could not find it but that she would look in the
+barn.
+
+In the end she could find it nowhere and when she told the alien he
+seemed as disappointed as she.
+
+"I have seen you searching," he said. "I want to thank you for your
+trouble."
+
+"I'm awfully sorry," she said. "I don't know where Mac could have hid
+it. When he comes home I'll ask him."
+
+"I'll wait for him," the alien said. "It's imperative we have the
+hand. It is the only thing standing in the way of our leaving your
+planet. Your husband will know where it is and return it to us."
+
+"I'm sure he will," she said, hoping she was right but knowing how
+stubborn Mac could be. Then she got to worrying about what would
+happen if he would refuse and as she went back to the house with Dobie
+at her side she was overcome with the shakes.
+
+She did not get her composure back until she had drunk a cup of
+steaming hot coffee. Then she looked at the clock, saw it was eleven
+and that she had spent nearly two hours looking for the hand. She saw,
+too, that the figure was still in the yard, standing there motionless,
+like something carved out of stone.
+
+Her husband drove in at mid-night and it seemed an eternity between
+the time the engine stopped and he entered the house.
+
+From the way he looked at her he was surprised to find her still in
+the kitchen.
+
+"You still up?" His face was flushed, his tongue thick.
+
+"Mac," she said, not knowing how to begin. "Where is that hand?"
+
+"You still worried about that?" He took off his coat and threw it on
+the table.
+
+"But Mac! They've come after it."
+
+He looked at her dully. "Who's come after it?"
+
+"The aliens--from the ship. There's one of them in the yard. Look out
+the window."
+
+He turned around and saw the stationary figure in the yard. He took a
+deep breath. "So that's one of 'em, eh?" He laughed in a way that
+chilled her, then went to the cupboard and reached for his shotgun on
+the wall next to it.
+
+Alice put her hand on his shoulders and he stopped before he touched
+the gun.
+
+"Listen, Mac. They need that hand. It belongs to one of their men and
+they need it because they're going to put it back on and it will be as
+good as new. Then they're going to leave."
+
+He looked down at her with bloodshot, narrow eyes and she could see
+where tobacco had run out of the corner of his mouth and the only
+thing she could think of was what it would look like on the overalls
+when she'd wash them.
+
+"That thing out there," Mac said, "ain't got no business 'round here
+scarin' the pigs and chickens. And I aim to get it."
+
+"I wish you had told me where the hand is," Alice said, her eyes
+scalded with tears. "I tried to find it. I looked everywhere. If I had
+found it I would have given it to him and now they'd be gone."
+
+He shoved her from him rudely. "Jest like a woman to do a thing like that.
+And without even askin' me." He was breathing hard and he moved to the
+window to look at the alien again. "You, out there. You want that hand,
+eh?" He laughed again, then turned to her. "You looked for it. That's what
+you said. Well, you jest looked in the wrong place. I hid it good." He
+went over to his coat and withdrew a newspaper-wrapped package from one of
+the pockets. He unfolded it on the table. It was the hand.
+
+"Please take it out to him, Mac," Alice said. "He's waiting for it."
+
+His face was sour and his lips a sneer. "Give it to him, hell," he
+said. "Dobie brought it here, didn't he? I've a mind to let Dobie have
+it."
+
+"No, No!"
+
+Mac put his hands on the table, stared down at the hand and shook his
+head. "But Dobie don't deserve it."
+
+He picked up the hand and a queasiness prevented Alice from looking
+directly at it.
+
+"It's a matter of time," she pleaded. "Please take it to them. They've
+got to have it right away or they can't use it. She heard the clink of
+one of the stove lids and watched in horror as Mac dropped the hand
+through the hole into the fire beneath. She was suddenly sick. During
+it all she could hear was Mac's laughter.
+
+"Git on upstairs," he said a few minutes later. "Git on up to bed."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alice looked at him, knowing her face was pale and her eyes wet and
+hating him for what he had done to her and what he had done to the
+aliens. But she felt fear, too, because she had never seen him quite
+like this.
+
+"What are you going to do?"
+
+He went over, took down a box of shells from the cupboard. "What d'you
+suppose? I'm goin' to run that thing off my place."
+
+"You can't do that!"
+
+"You wait and see."
+
+"But he's done nothing to you!"
+
+"He's on my property, ain't he? Now you get on upstairs like I told
+you. Git!"
+
+Alice went up the stairs engulfed by a feeling of sorrow for the
+aliens, particularly for the one that would never get his hand back,
+and filled with fury for her husband.
+
+From her bedroom window she could see the alien still standing in the
+yard and she wondered what he would think of them for burning the hand
+and for what Mac was about to do.
+
+She stood there a long time before the alien moved. She heard the
+downstairs door open and close and she knew Mac was outside and that
+the two were approaching each other. The alien finally moved from her
+field of vision.
+
+Listening, she heard the alien's calm, whistling voice but she could
+not make out what he said. She could only hear the raving of her
+husband and this she did not want to hear.
+
+When the shotgun blast came she jumped as if she herself had been hit
+and once again she was flooded with compassion for the creature from
+another world somewhere who had come in friendship and who had been
+given something hateful in return.
+
+She went to the window but she could see nothing. She did not dare go
+downstairs again with Mac in the mood he was in. She sat in an
+armchair at the window looking out into the barn lot illuminated by
+the lone electric light high in the windmill. And eventually, she did
+not know when, she fell asleep.
+
+When she woke up the day was just dawning and with a rush she
+remembered everything that had happened the night before and she found
+she had slept through the night in the chair without removing her
+clothes. When she stood up, her muscles screamed protestingly. She
+looked out into the yard and saw that the light in the windmill was
+still burning.
+
+She went to Mac's bedroom, expecting to find him sprawled out across
+his bed. But his bed had not been slept in. Downstairs she expected to
+find him, head in hands, asleep at the kitchen table. But he was not
+there and the shotgun was not in its place on the wall.
+
+She found the gun on the doorstep. But Mac wasn't in sight. Dobie came
+up to her and nuzzled her hands.
+
+"Where is he Dobie?" she asked. "Where's Mac?"
+
+Dobie turned and trotted before her, looking back at her as if to say,
+"This is the way."
+
+She found Mac behind the barn.
+
+He was alive, but in a state of shock, moaning in pain and fear.
+
+His right hand was missing. Severed neatly at the wrist.
+
+THE END.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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