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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Project Hush + +Author: Philip Klass + +Illustrator: Dick Francis + +Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32654] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROJECT HUSH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h1>PROJECT HUSH</h1> + +<h2>By WILLIAM TENN</h2> + +<h3>Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS</h3> + +<p>[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction +February 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the +U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="sidenote">The biggest job in history and it had to be done with +complete secrecy. It was—which was just the trouble!</div> + + +<p>I guess I'm just a stickler, a perfectionist, but if you do a thing, I +always say, you might as well do it right. Everything satisfied me about +the security measures on our assignment except one—the official Army +designation.</p> + +<p>Project Hush.</p> + +<p>I don't know who thought it up, and I certainly would never ask, but +whoever it was, he should have known better. Damn it, when you want a +project kept secret, you <i>don't</i> give it a designation like that! You +give it something neutral, some name like the Manhattan and Overlord +they used in World War II, which won't excite anybody's curiosity.</p> + +<p>But we were stuck with Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to +ensure secrecy. A couple of times a week, everyone on the project had to +report to Psycho for DD & HA—dream detailing and hypnoanalysis—instead +of the usual monthly visit. Naturally, the commanding general of the +heavily fortified research post to which we were attached could not ask +what we were doing, under penalty of court-martial, but he had to be +given further instructions to shut off his imagination like a faucet +every time he heard an explosion. Some idiot in Washington was actually +going to list Project Hush in the military budget by name! It took fast +action, I can tell you, to have it entered under Miscellaneous "X" +Research.</p> + +<p>Well, we'd covered the unforgivable blunder, though not easily, and now +we could get down to the real business of the project. You know, of +course, about the A-bomb, H-bomb and C-bomb because information that +they existed had been declassified. You don't know about the other +weapons being devised—and neither did we, reasonably enough, since they +weren't our business—but we had been given properly guarded +notification that they were in the works. Project Hush was set up to +counter the new weapons.</p> + +<p>Our goal was not just to reach the Moon. We had done that on 24 June +1967 with an unmanned ship that carried instruments to report back data +on soil, temperature, cosmic rays and so on. Unfortunately, it was put +out of commission by a rock slide.</p> + +<p>An unmanned rocket would be useless against the new weapons. We had to +get to the Moon before any other country did and set up a permanent +station—an armed one—and do it without anybody else knowing about it.</p> + +<p>I guess you see now why we on (<i>damn</i> the name!) Project Hush were so +concerned about security. But we felt pretty sure, before we took off, +that we had plugged every possible leak.</p> + +<p>We had, all right. Nobody even knew we had raised ship.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>We landed at the northern tip of Mare Nubium, just off Regiomontanus, +and, after planting a flag with appropriate throat-catching ceremony, +had swung into the realities of the tasks we had practiced on so many +dry runs back on Earth. Major Monroe Gridley prepared the big rocket, +with its tiny cubicle of living space, for the return journey to Earth +which he alone would make.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant-colonel Thomas Hawthorne painstakingly examined our +provisions and portable quarters for any damage that might have been +incurred in landing.</p> + +<p>And I, Colonel Benjamin Rice, first commanding officer of Army Base No. +1 on the Moon, dragged crate after enormous crate out of the ship on my +aching academic back, and piled them in the spot two hundred feet away +where the plastic dome would be built.</p> + +<p>We all finished at just about the same time, as per schedule, and went +into Phase Two.</p> + +<p>Monroe and I started work on building the dome. It was a simple pre-fab +affair, but big enough to require an awful lot of assembling. Then, +after it was built, we faced the real problem—getting all the complex +internal machinery in place and in operating order.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile, Tom Hawthorne took his plump self off in the single-seater +rocket which, up to then, had doubled as a lifeboat.</p> + +<p>The schedule called for him to make a rough three-hour scouting survey +in an ever-widening spiral from our dome. This had been regarded as a +probable waste of time, rocket fuel and manpower—but a necessary +precaution. He was supposed to watch for such things as bug-eyed +monsters out for a stroll on the Lunar landscape. Basically, however, +Tom's survey was intended to supply extra geological and astronomical +meat for the report which Monroe was to carry back to Army HQ on Earth.</p> + +<p>Tom was back in forty minutes. His round face, inside its transparent +bubble helmet, was fish-belly white. And so were ours, once he told us +what he'd seen.</p> + +<p>He had seen another dome.</p> + +<p>"The other side of Mare Nubium—in the Riphaen Mountains," he babbled +excitedly. "It's a little bigger than ours, and it's a little flatter on +top. And it's not translucent, either, with splotches of different +colors here and there—it's a dull, dark, heavy gray. But that's all +there is to see."</p> + +<p>"No markings on the dome?" I asked worriedly. "No signs of anyone—or +anything—around it?"</p> + +<p>"Neither, Colonel." I noticed he was calling me by my rank for the first +time since the trip started, which meant he was saying in effect, "Man, +have you got a decision to make!"</p> + +<p>"Hey, Tom," Monroe put in. "Couldn't be just a regularly shaped bump in +the ground, could it?"</p> + +<p>"I'm a geologist, Monroe. I can distinguish artificial from natural +topography. Besides—" he looked up—"I just remembered something I left +out. There's a brand-new tiny crater near the dome—the kind usually +left by a rocket exhaust."</p> + +<p>"Rocket exhaust?" I seized on that. "<i>Rockets</i>, eh?"</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Tom grinned a little sympathetically. "Spaceship exhaust, I should have +said. You can't tell from the crater what kind of propulsive device +these characters are using. It's not the same kind of crater our +rear-jets leave, if that helps any."</p> + +<p>Of course it didn't. So we went into our ship and had a council of war. +And I do mean war. Both Tom and Monroe were calling me Colonel in every +other sentence. I used their first names every chance I got.</p> + +<p>Still, no one but me could reach a decision. About what to do, I mean.</p> + +<p>"Look," I said at last, "here are the possibilities. They know we are +here—either from watching us land a couple of hours ago or from +observing Tom's scout-ship—or they do not know we are here. They are +either humans from Earth—in which case they are in all probability +enemy nationals—or they are alien creatures from another planet—in +which case they may be friends, enemies or what-have-you. I think common +sense and standard military procedure demand that we consider them +hostile until we have evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, we proceed +with extreme caution, so as not to precipitate an interplanetary war +with potentially friendly Martians, or whatever they are.</p> + +<p>"All right. It's vitally important that Army Headquarters be informed of +this immediately. But since Moon-to-Earth radio is still on the drawing +boards, the only way we can get through is to send Monroe back with the +ship. If we do, we run the risk of having our garrison force, Tom and +me, captured while he's making the return trip. In that case, their side +winds up in possession of important information concerning our personnel +and equipment, while our side has only the bare knowledge that somebody +or something else has a base on the Moon. So our primary need is more +information.</p> + +<p>"Therefore, I suggest that I sit in the dome on one end of a telephone +hookup with Tom, who will sit in the ship, his hand over the firing +button, ready to blast off for Earth the moment he gets the order from +me. Monroe will take the single-seater down to the Riphaen Mountains, +landing as close to the other dome as he thinks safe. He will then +proceed the rest of the way on foot, doing the best scouting job he can +in a spacesuit.</p> + +<p>"He will not use his radio, except for agreed-upon nonsense syllables to +designate landing the single-seater, coming upon the dome by foot, and +warning me to tell Tom to take off. If he's captured, remembering that +the first purpose of a scout is acquiring and transmitting knowledge of +the enemy, he will snap his suit radio on full volume and pass on as +much data as time and the enemy's reflexes permit. How does that sound +to you?"</p> + +<p>They both nodded. As far as they were concerned, the command decision +had been made. But I was sitting under two inches of sweat.</p> + +<p>"One question," Tom said. "Why did you pick Monroe for the scout?"</p> + +<p>"I was afraid you'd ask that," I told him. "We're three extremely +unathletic Ph.D.s who have been in the Army since we finished our +schooling. There isn't too much choice. But I remembered that Monroe is +half Indian—Arapahoe, isn't it, Monroe?—and I'm hoping blood will +tell."</p> + +<p>"Only trouble, Colonel," Monroe said slowly as he rose, "is that I'm +one-<i>fourth</i> Indian and even that.... Didn't I ever tell you that my +great-grandfather was the only Arapahoe scout who was with Custer at the +Little Big Horn? He'd been positive Sitting Bull was miles away. +However, I'll do my best. And if I heroically don't come back, would you +please persuade the Security Officer of our section to clear my name for +use in the history books? Under the circumstances, I think it's the +least he could do."</p> + +<p>I promised to do my best, of course.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>After he took off, I sat in the dome over the telephone connection to +Tom and hated myself for picking Monroe to do the job. But I'd have +hated myself just as much for picking Tom. And if anything happened and +I had to tell Tom to blast off, I'd probably be sitting here in the dome +all by myself after that, waiting....</p> + +<p>"<i>Broz neggle!</i>" came over the radio in Monroe's resonant voice. He had +landed the single-seater.</p> + +<div class="figright"> +<img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<p>I didn't dare use the telephone to chat with Tom in the ship, for fear I +might miss an important word or phrase from our scout. So I sat and sat +and strained my ears. After a while, I heard "<i>Mishgashu!</i>" which told +me that Monroe was in the neighborhood of the other dome and was +creeping toward it under cover of whatever boulders were around.</p> + + + +<p>And then, abruptly, I heard Monroe yell my name and there was a terrific +clattering in my headphones. Radio interference! He'd been caught, and +whoever had caught him had simultaneously jammed his suit transmitter +with a larger transmitter from the alien dome.</p> + +<p>Then there was silence.</p> + +<p>After a while, I told Tom what had happened. He just said, "Poor +Monroe." I had a good idea of what his expression was like.</p> + +<p>"Look, Tom," I said, "if you take off now, you still won't have anything +important to tell. After capturing Monroe, whatever's in that other dome +will come looking for us, I think. I'll let them get close enough for us +to learn something of their appearance—at least if they're human or +non-human. Any bit of information about them is important. I'll shout it +up to you and you'll still be able to take off in plenty of time. All +right?"</p> + +<p>"You're the boss, Colonel," he said in a mournful voice. "Lots of luck."</p> + +<p>And then there was nothing to do but wait. There was no oxygen system in +the dome yet, so I had to squeeze up a sandwich from the food +compartment in my suit. I sat there, thinking about the expedition. Nine +years, and all that careful secrecy, all that expenditure of money and +mind-cracking research—and it had come to this. Waiting to be wiped +out, in a blast from some unimaginable weapon. I understood Monroe's +last request. We often felt we were so secret that our immediate +superiors didn't even want us to know what we we were working on. +Scientists are people—they wish for recognition, too. I was hoping the +whole expedition would be written up in the history books, but it looked +unpromising.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Two hours later, the scout ship landed near the dome. The lock opened +and, from where I stood in the open door of our dome, I saw Monroe come +out and walk toward me.</p> + +<p>I alerted Tom and told him to listen carefully. "It may be a trick—he +might be drugged...."</p> + +<p>He didn't act drugged, though—not exactly. He pushed his way past me +and sat down on a box to one side of the dome. He put his booted feet up +on another, smaller box.</p> + +<p>"How are you, Ben?" he asked. "How's every little thing?"</p> + +<p>I grunted. "<i>Well?</i>" I know my voice skittered a bit.</p> + +<p>He pretended puzzlement. "Well <i>what</i>? Oh, I see what you mean. The +other dome—you want to know who's in it. You have a right to be +curious, Ben. Certainly. The leader of a top-secret expedition like +this—Project Hush they call us, huh, Ben—finds another dome on the +Moon. He thinks he's been the first to land on it, so naturally he wants +to—"</p> + +<p>"Major Monroe Gridley!" I rapped out. "You will come to attention and +deliver your report. Now!" Honestly, I felt my neck swelling up inside +my helmet.</p> + +<p>Monroe just leaned back against the side of the dome. "That's the <i>Army</i> +way of doing things," he commented admiringly. "Like the recruits say, +there's a right way, a wrong way and an Army way. Only there are other +ways, too." He chuckled. "Lots of other ways."</p> + +<p>"He's off," I heard Tom whisper over the telephone. "Ben, Monroe has +gone and blown his stack."</p> + +<p>"They aren't extraterrestrials in the other dome, Ben," Monroe +volunteered in a sudden burst of sanity. "No, they're human, all right, +and from Earth. Guess <i>where</i>."</p> + +<p>"I'll kill you," I warned him. "I swear I'll kill you, Monroe. Where are +they from—Russia, China, Argentina?"</p> + +<p>He grimaced. "What's so secret about those places? Go on!—guess again."</p> + +<p>I stared at him long and hard. "The only place else—"</p> + +<p>"Sure," he said. "You got it, Colonel. The other dome is owned and +operated by the Navy. The goddam United States Navy!"</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Project Hush, by Philip Klass + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROJECT HUSH *** + +***** This file should be named 32654-h.htm or 32654-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/6/5/32654/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Project Hush + +Author: Philip Klass + +Illustrator: Dick Francis + +Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32654] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROJECT HUSH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + PROJECT HUSH + + By WILLIAM TENN + + Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS + +[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction +February 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the +U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +[Sidenote: The biggest job in history and it had to be done with +complete secrecy. It was--which was just the trouble!] + + +I guess I'm just a stickler, a perfectionist, but if you do a thing, I +always say, you might as well do it right. Everything satisfied me about +the security measures on our assignment except one--the official Army +designation. + +Project Hush. + +I don't know who thought it up, and I certainly would never ask, but +whoever it was, he should have known better. Damn it, when you want a +project kept secret, you _don't_ give it a designation like that! You +give it something neutral, some name like the Manhattan and Overlord +they used in World War II, which won't excite anybody's curiosity. + +But we were stuck with Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to +ensure secrecy. A couple of times a week, everyone on the project had to +report to Psycho for DD & HA--dream detailing and hypnoanalysis--instead +of the usual monthly visit. Naturally, the commanding general of the +heavily fortified research post to which we were attached could not ask +what we were doing, under penalty of court-martial, but he had to be +given further instructions to shut off his imagination like a faucet +every time he heard an explosion. Some idiot in Washington was actually +going to list Project Hush in the military budget by name! It took fast +action, I can tell you, to have it entered under Miscellaneous "X" +Research. + +Well, we'd covered the unforgivable blunder, though not easily, and now +we could get down to the real business of the project. You know, of +course, about the A-bomb, H-bomb and C-bomb because information that +they existed had been declassified. You don't know about the other +weapons being devised--and neither did we, reasonably enough, since they +weren't our business--but we had been given properly guarded +notification that they were in the works. Project Hush was set up to +counter the new weapons. + +Our goal was not just to reach the Moon. We had done that on 24 June +1967 with an unmanned ship that carried instruments to report back data +on soil, temperature, cosmic rays and so on. Unfortunately, it was put +out of commission by a rock slide. + +An unmanned rocket would be useless against the new weapons. We had to +get to the Moon before any other country did and set up a permanent +station--an armed one--and do it without anybody else knowing about it. + +I guess you see now why we on (_damn_ the name!) Project Hush were so +concerned about security. But we felt pretty sure, before we took off, +that we had plugged every possible leak. + +We had, all right. Nobody even knew we had raised ship. + + * * * * * + +We landed at the northern tip of Mare Nubium, just off Regiomontanus, +and, after planting a flag with appropriate throat-catching ceremony, +had swung into the realities of the tasks we had practiced on so many +dry runs back on Earth. Major Monroe Gridley prepared the big rocket, +with its tiny cubicle of living space, for the return journey to Earth +which he alone would make. + +Lieutenant-colonel Thomas Hawthorne painstakingly examined our +provisions and portable quarters for any damage that might have been +incurred in landing. + +And I, Colonel Benjamin Rice, first commanding officer of Army Base No. +1 on the Moon, dragged crate after enormous crate out of the ship on my +aching academic back, and piled them in the spot two hundred feet away +where the plastic dome would be built. + +We all finished at just about the same time, as per schedule, and went +into Phase Two. + +Monroe and I started work on building the dome. It was a simple pre-fab +affair, but big enough to require an awful lot of assembling. Then, +after it was built, we faced the real problem--getting all the complex +internal machinery in place and in operating order. + +Meanwhile, Tom Hawthorne took his plump self off in the single-seater +rocket which, up to then, had doubled as a lifeboat. + +The schedule called for him to make a rough three-hour scouting survey +in an ever-widening spiral from our dome. This had been regarded as a +probable waste of time, rocket fuel and manpower--but a necessary +precaution. He was supposed to watch for such things as bug-eyed +monsters out for a stroll on the Lunar landscape. Basically, however, +Tom's survey was intended to supply extra geological and astronomical +meat for the report which Monroe was to carry back to Army HQ on Earth. + +Tom was back in forty minutes. His round face, inside its transparent +bubble helmet, was fish-belly white. And so were ours, once he told us +what he'd seen. + +He had seen another dome. + +"The other side of Mare Nubium--in the Riphaen Mountains," he babbled +excitedly. "It's a little bigger than ours, and it's a little flatter on +top. And it's not translucent, either, with splotches of different +colors here and there--it's a dull, dark, heavy gray. But that's all +there is to see." + +"No markings on the dome?" I asked worriedly. "No signs of anyone--or +anything--around it?" + +"Neither, Colonel." I noticed he was calling me by my rank for the first +time since the trip started, which meant he was saying in effect, "Man, +have you got a decision to make!" + +"Hey, Tom," Monroe put in. "Couldn't be just a regularly shaped bump in +the ground, could it?" + +"I'm a geologist, Monroe. I can distinguish artificial from natural +topography. Besides--" he looked up--"I just remembered something I left +out. There's a brand-new tiny crater near the dome--the kind usually +left by a rocket exhaust." + +"Rocket exhaust?" I seized on that. "_Rockets_, eh?" + + * * * * * + +Tom grinned a little sympathetically. "Spaceship exhaust, I should have +said. You can't tell from the crater what kind of propulsive device +these characters are using. It's not the same kind of crater our +rear-jets leave, if that helps any." + +Of course it didn't. So we went into our ship and had a council of war. +And I do mean war. Both Tom and Monroe were calling me Colonel in every +other sentence. I used their first names every chance I got. + +Still, no one but me could reach a decision. About what to do, I mean. + +"Look," I said at last, "here are the possibilities. They know we are +here--either from watching us land a couple of hours ago or from +observing Tom's scout-ship--or they do not know we are here. They are +either humans from Earth--in which case they are in all probability +enemy nationals--or they are alien creatures from another planet--in +which case they may be friends, enemies or what-have-you. I think common +sense and standard military procedure demand that we consider them +hostile until we have evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, we proceed +with extreme caution, so as not to precipitate an interplanetary war +with potentially friendly Martians, or whatever they are. + +"All right. It's vitally important that Army Headquarters be informed of +this immediately. But since Moon-to-Earth radio is still on the drawing +boards, the only way we can get through is to send Monroe back with the +ship. If we do, we run the risk of having our garrison force, Tom and +me, captured while he's making the return trip. In that case, their side +winds up in possession of important information concerning our personnel +and equipment, while our side has only the bare knowledge that somebody +or something else has a base on the Moon. So our primary need is more +information. + +"Therefore, I suggest that I sit in the dome on one end of a telephone +hookup with Tom, who will sit in the ship, his hand over the firing +button, ready to blast off for Earth the moment he gets the order from +me. Monroe will take the single-seater down to the Riphaen Mountains, +landing as close to the other dome as he thinks safe. He will then +proceed the rest of the way on foot, doing the best scouting job he can +in a spacesuit. + +"He will not use his radio, except for agreed-upon nonsense syllables to +designate landing the single-seater, coming upon the dome by foot, and +warning me to tell Tom to take off. If he's captured, remembering that +the first purpose of a scout is acquiring and transmitting knowledge of +the enemy, he will snap his suit radio on full volume and pass on as +much data as time and the enemy's reflexes permit. How does that sound +to you?" + +They both nodded. As far as they were concerned, the command decision +had been made. But I was sitting under two inches of sweat. + +"One question," Tom said. "Why did you pick Monroe for the scout?" + +"I was afraid you'd ask that," I told him. "We're three extremely +unathletic Ph.D.s who have been in the Army since we finished our +schooling. There isn't too much choice. But I remembered that Monroe is +half Indian--Arapahoe, isn't it, Monroe?--and I'm hoping blood will +tell." + +"Only trouble, Colonel," Monroe said slowly as he rose, "is that I'm +one-_fourth_ Indian and even that.... Didn't I ever tell you that my +great-grandfather was the only Arapahoe scout who was with Custer at the +Little Big Horn? He'd been positive Sitting Bull was miles away. +However, I'll do my best. And if I heroically don't come back, would you +please persuade the Security Officer of our section to clear my name for +use in the history books? Under the circumstances, I think it's the +least he could do." + +I promised to do my best, of course. + + * * * * * + +After he took off, I sat in the dome over the telephone connection to +Tom and hated myself for picking Monroe to do the job. But I'd have +hated myself just as much for picking Tom. And if anything happened and +I had to tell Tom to blast off, I'd probably be sitting here in the dome +all by myself after that, waiting.... + +"_Broz neggle!_" came over the radio in Monroe's resonant voice. He had +landed the single-seater. + +I didn't dare use the telephone to chat with Tom in the ship, for fear I +might miss an important word or phrase from our scout. So I sat and sat +and strained my ears. After a while, I heard "_Mishgashu!_" which told +me that Monroe was in the neighborhood of the other dome and was +creeping toward it under cover of whatever boulders were around. + +[Illustration] + +And then, abruptly, I heard Monroe yell my name and there was a terrific +clattering in my headphones. Radio interference! He'd been caught, and +whoever had caught him had simultaneously jammed his suit transmitter +with a larger transmitter from the alien dome. + +Then there was silence. + +After a while, I told Tom what had happened. He just said, "Poor +Monroe." I had a good idea of what his expression was like. + +"Look, Tom," I said, "if you take off now, you still won't have anything +important to tell. After capturing Monroe, whatever's in that other dome +will come looking for us, I think. I'll let them get close enough for us +to learn something of their appearance--at least if they're human or +non-human. Any bit of information about them is important. I'll shout it +up to you and you'll still be able to take off in plenty of time. All +right?" + +"You're the boss, Colonel," he said in a mournful voice. "Lots of luck." + +And then there was nothing to do but wait. There was no oxygen system in +the dome yet, so I had to squeeze up a sandwich from the food +compartment in my suit. I sat there, thinking about the expedition. Nine +years, and all that careful secrecy, all that expenditure of money and +mind-cracking research--and it had come to this. Waiting to be wiped +out, in a blast from some unimaginable weapon. I understood Monroe's +last request. We often felt we were so secret that our immediate +superiors didn't even want us to know what we we were working on. +Scientists are people--they wish for recognition, too. I was hoping the +whole expedition would be written up in the history books, but it looked +unpromising. + + * * * * * + +Two hours later, the scout ship landed near the dome. The lock opened +and, from where I stood in the open door of our dome, I saw Monroe come +out and walk toward me. + +I alerted Tom and told him to listen carefully. "It may be a trick--he +might be drugged...." + +He didn't act drugged, though--not exactly. He pushed his way past me +and sat down on a box to one side of the dome. He put his booted feet up +on another, smaller box. + +"How are you, Ben?" he asked. "How's every little thing?" + +I grunted. "_Well?_" I know my voice skittered a bit. + +He pretended puzzlement. "Well _what_? Oh, I see what you mean. The +other dome--you want to know who's in it. You have a right to be +curious, Ben. Certainly. The leader of a top-secret expedition like +this--Project Hush they call us, huh, Ben--finds another dome on the +Moon. He thinks he's been the first to land on it, so naturally he wants +to--" + +"Major Monroe Gridley!" I rapped out. "You will come to attention and +deliver your report. Now!" Honestly, I felt my neck swelling up inside +my helmet. + +Monroe just leaned back against the side of the dome. "That's the _Army_ +way of doing things," he commented admiringly. "Like the recruits say, +there's a right way, a wrong way and an Army way. Only there are other +ways, too." He chuckled. "Lots of other ways." + +"He's off," I heard Tom whisper over the telephone. "Ben, Monroe has +gone and blown his stack." + +"They aren't extraterrestrials in the other dome, Ben," Monroe +volunteered in a sudden burst of sanity. "No, they're human, all right, +and from Earth. Guess _where_." + +"I'll kill you," I warned him. "I swear I'll kill you, Monroe. Where are +they from--Russia, China, Argentina?" + +He grimaced. "What's so secret about those places? Go on!--guess again." + +I stared at him long and hard. "The only place else--" + +"Sure," he said. "You got it, Colonel. The other dome is owned and +operated by the Navy. The goddam United States Navy!" + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Project Hush, by Philip Klass + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROJECT HUSH *** + +***** This file should be named 32654.txt or 32654.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/6/5/32654/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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