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Smith + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: The Ordeal of Colonel Johns + +Author: George H. Smith + +Illustrator: Rudolph Palais + +Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32688] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ORDEAL OF COLONEL JOHNS *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction June 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img class="img1" src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="572" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img class="img1" src="images/image_001.jpg" width="400" height="571" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> + +<h1><i>The Ordeal of</i> COLONEL JOHNS</h1> +<p> </p> +<h2>By George H. Smith</h2> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrated by Rudolph Palais</h3> +<p> </p> +<div class="blockquot"> +<i>Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the +unique—and painful—experience of meeting his +great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't +change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from +changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?</i></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_c.jpg" alt="C" width="35" height="40" /></div> +<p>lark Decker winced and scrounged still lower in his seat as Mrs. +Appleby-Simpkin rested her enormous bosom on the front of the podium +and smiled down on the Patriot Daughters of America in convention +assembled as she announced: "And now, my dears, I will read you one +more short quotation from Major Wicks' fascinating book 'The Minor +Tactics of The American Revolution.' When I am finished, I know that +you will all agree that Rebecca Johns-Hayes will be a more than +fitting successor to myself as your President."</p> + +<p>Decker looked wildly about for a way of escape from the convention +auditorium. If he had only remained in the anteroom with Professor +MacCulloch and the Historical Reintegrator! After suffering through +four days of speeches by ladies in various stages of mammalian +top-heaviness, he hadn't believed it possible that anyone could top +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin for either sheer ability to bore or for the +nobility of her bust. Mrs. Rebecca Johns-Hayes had come as something +of a shock as she squirmed her way onto the speaker's platform. But +there she was as big as life, or rather bigger, smiling at Mrs. +Appleby-Simpkin, the Past President, beaming at Mrs. Lynd-Torris, a +defeated candidate for the presidency and whose ancestor had been only +a captain, and completely ignoring Mrs. Tolman, the other defeated +candidate whose ancestor had been so inconsiderate as to have been a +Continental sergeant. Only the thought that now that the voting was +over and the new president chosen, the ladies might be ready for the +demonstration of the Reintegrator had brought Decker onto the +convention floor, and now he was trapped and would have to listen.</p> + +<p>"And so," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin was reading, "upon such small events do +the great moments of history depend. The brilliant scouting and +skirmishing of the riflemen under Colonel Peter Johns prevented the +breakthrough of Captain Fosdick's column and the possible flanking of +the American army before Saratoga. Thus, this little known action may +have been the deciding factor in the whole campaign that prevented +General Burgoyne from carrying out the British plan to divide the +colonies and end the war. It is impossible for the historian to +refrain from speculation as to what might have happened had Colonel +Johns not been on hand to direct the riflemen and militia in this +section; as indeed he might <i>not</i> have been, since his own regiment of +short-term enlistees had returned to Pennsylvania a few days +previously. Only the Colonel's patriotism and devotion to duty kept +him in the field and made his abilities available to the country when +they were most needed."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin waited until the burst of applause +had died down and then continued, "That is the man whose +great-great-great-great-granddaughter you have elected your +president today ... Mrs. Rebecca Johns-Hayes!" Turning to Mrs. +Johns-Hayes she went on, "Before you make your acceptance speech, +dear, we have a little surprise for you."</p> + +<p>Clark Decker had been edging his way toward the side of the auditorium +where the Men's Auxiliary of the Daughters had their seats but he +turned back at the mention of the surprise. It sounded as though it +was time for him and the Professor to start their demonstration.</p> + +<p>"A surprise which we hope will also be a surprise to the whole world +of science," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin was holding the podium against a +determinedly advancing Mrs. Johns-Hayes. "Indeed we may be able to say +in future years, that the 1989 Convention of the Patriot Daughters was +marked by the first public demonstration of one of the most momentous +inventions in the history of science." The Past President was speaking +faster and faster, because the new President with a hand full of notes +was doing her best to edge her away from both the podium and the +microphone.</p> + +<p>"Thank you, darling," Mrs. Johns-Hayes said, pulling the microphone +firmly toward her, "but we really must get along with business. I have +quite a few things I want to say and several motions which I want to +place before the Convention."</p> + +<p>"And as I was saying, dear," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin said, pulling the +microphone back with equal firmness, "I know that you will be just +unbearably thrilled." There was another brief struggle for the mike and +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin won and went on. "I know that he will be just as +proud of you as you are of him. That is why we have arranged for Professor +MacCulloch to demonstrate his historical Reintegrator at our convention by +bringing into our midst Colonel Peter Johns, the hero of the action at +Temple Farm, to see his great-great-great-great-granddaughter installed as +the fifty-fourth president of the Loyal Order of Patriot Daughters of +America. Now I...." Mrs. Johns-Hayes again won control of the mike.</p> + +<p>"Thank you very much, dear." Her voice was a genteel screech. "I'm +sure that we will be only too glad to have the ... who? Who did you +say?" Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin regained the microphone from the other +woman's relaxing grip.</p> + +<p>"I believe I see Mr. Decker, the Professor's assistant, in the +audience," she said. "Will you be so good as to tell the Professor +that we are ready for his epic-making experiment?"</p> + +<p>With a great feeling of relief, Decker escaped from the rising turmoil +of the convention hall into the relative quiet of the anteroom where +MacCulloch waited with the Reintegrator. He found the Professor +sitting with his head in his hands staring at the machine. The little +man looked up and smiled quizzically as his assistant approached him.</p> + +<p>"They're ready, Professor! They're ready!" Still under the influence +of the convention, Decker found himself shouting.</p> + +<p>"Ah. Ah, yes. Then it will be today. I've waited so long. Ten years of +work and now instead of a scientific gathering, I have to demonstrate +my machine before a woman's club."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" width="45" height="40" /></div> +<p>ecker began to wheel the platform which held the Reintegrator toward the +door. "After today, Professor, all the scientific organizations in the +world will have heard of you and will be demanding demonstrations."</p> + +<p>"Yes, but these Patriot Daughters! Who are they? Who in the scientific +world ever heard of them?"</p> + +<p>"No one except a few scientists unfortunate enough to fall afoul of +their Loyalty and Conformity Committee."</p> + +<p>"I think we should have gone elsewhere for our demonstration."</p> + +<p>"Now Professor. Who in the world today would be interested in the past +except a group of ancestor conscious women?"</p> + +<p>"Some historical society perhaps," the Professor said wistfully.</p> + +<p>"And what historical society could have advanced the twenty thousand +dollars we needed to complete the machine?"</p> + +<p>"I suppose you're right, my boy," MacCulloch sighed as he helped push +the Reintegrator onto the auditorium floor.</p> + +<p>By the time Clark Decker reached the platform to explain the +demonstration, the fight for the microphone had turned into a +three-way struggle. A lady who represented the Finance Committee was +trying to win it away from both the Past President and the new +President.</p> + +<p>Taking them by surprise, Decker managed to gain control long enough to +explain what was about to happen.</p> + +<p>"You mean," demanded Mrs. Johns-Hayes, "that this is some sort of time +machine and you're going to transport great-great-great-great-grandfather +from the past into the present?"</p> + +<p>"No, Mrs. Hayes. This isn't a time machine in the comic book use of +the term. It is just what Professor MacCulloch has called it, an +historical Reintegrator. The theory upon which it is based, the +MacCulloch Reaction, says that every person who ever existed, and +every event which ever took place caused electrical disturbances in +the space-time continuum of the universe by displacing an equal and +identical group of electrons. The task of the Reintegrator is to +reassemble those electrons. That is why Professor MacCulloch is now +placing your ancestor's sword in the machine. We will use that as a +base point from which our recreation will begin."</p> + +<p>The machine was humming and small lights were beginning to play about +its tubes and dials. "If our calculations are accurate, and we believe +that they are," Decker said, "within a very few minutes, Colonel Johns +should be standing before us as he was on a day approximately a week +before his heroic action in the battle at Temple Farm."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Johns-Hayes, although still gripping her notes, was beginning to +get a little flustered. "Oh my, that would be before he married +great-great-great-great-grandmother Sayles. They were married only two +days before the battle, you know. It was so romantic ... a wartime +romance and all."</p> + +<p>"Just imagine," Mrs. Tolman remarked, "at that time your whole family +was just a gleam in the Colonel's eye!"</p> + +<p>Professor MacCulloch made one or two last passes at the machine and +then stood back to watch, a look of pure scientific ecstasy on his +face. A mistiness began to gather on the platform where the Colonel's +sword lay and through it from time to time shot sparks of electricity. +Suddenly a gasp went up from the assembled Daughters as a man's head +and shoulders appeared and expanded downward, a long way downward, to +a large pair of feet. There was one last hum from the machine and then +a tall young man in faded blue regimentals and very much in need of a +shave was standing blinking in the blazing lights of the auditorium.</p> + +<p>"Oh, Mr. Decker, surely there's some mistake!" was Mrs. Johns-Hayes' +first comment as she surveyed the very tall, very tattered, and very +dirty young man. "Great-great-great-great-grandfather's pictures +always show him as a dignified old gentleman."</p> + +<p>The Colonel took one quick look around and made a grab for his sword, but +the Professor managed to calm him and to explain the situation before any +violence could take place. After a few minutes of hurried talk, MacCulloch +steered the Colonel in the direction of the speaker's platform for the +meeting with his great-great-great-great-granddaughter.</p> + +<p>Peter Johns' bewilderment faded into astonishment, but he still +gripped his sword as the Professor guided him through the throngs of +excited ladies onto the stage. He paused momentarily to look at the +brilliant lights and at the huge number of American flags which hung +overhead. A picture of George Washington, hung among the flags, seemed +to reassure him and he allowed the Professor to lead him to Mrs. +Johns-Hayes.</p> + +<p>That lady had drawn herself together at the approach of her ancestor and +had obviously decided to carry it off as best she could. She advanced to +meet him crying, "Dear, dear great-great-great-great-grandfather! This is +such a pleasure! You can't know how proud all of us in the family have +always been of you."</p> + +<p>The young Continental officer stared open mouthed at the red-faced, +big-bosomed woman who was twice his age, but who addressed him as +great-great-great-great-grandfather. Then he turned to MacCulloch who +stood beside him. "Are you sure you have the right man?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes! Perfectly, perfectly! You're Colonel Peter Johns of Pamworth, +Pennsylvania, and this is your great-great-great-great-granddaughter, +Rebecca Johns-Hayes."</p> + +<p>"Rebecca? You mean she's named after Becky Sayles?" The Colonel rubbed +a hand across his several days' growth of beard.</p> + +<p>"That's right, dear great-great-great-great-grandfather. I'm named +after great-great-great-great-grandmother," Mrs. Johns-Hayes +announced.</p> + +<p>"Then I married Becky Sayles?" the Colonel asked.</p> + +<p>"Why, of course! Aren't you planning on getting married in a few +days?" Clark Decker asked.</p> + +<p>The Colonel was embarrassed but he grinned, "Well, I don't rightly +know. Miss Sayles and I have been courtin' for some months but there's +little Jennie Taylor down in Trenton.... To tell the truth, I haven't +quite made up my mind."</p> + +<p>"Well! Of all things! What would the family think! What would great +Aunt Mary Hayes say?" Mrs. Johns-Hayes puffed out even farther than +usual.</p> + +<p>"Well, we can ease your mind on that subject, Colonel. The history +books say that you married Miss Sayles—and here is Mrs. Johns-Hayes +to prove it."</p> + +<p>The Colonel scratched his chin again as he looked at Mrs. Johns-Hayes. +"Is that so? Is that so? What's all this about history books? You mean +I got in history because I married Becky Sayles?"</p> + +<p>The Professor laughed. "Well, not exactly. It was because of your +heroism in the defeat of Burgoyne's army. If you hadn't blocked +Captain Fenwick's flanking move at Temple Farm, the American army +under General Gates might have been defeated and the Colonies might +even have lost the war."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'll be.... Me? I did all that? I didn't even know there was +going to be a battle. Did I end up a live hero or a dead one?" The +Colonel was beginning to feel a bit more easy in his surroundings, +and, to the horror of Mrs. Johns-Hayes, took a plug of tobacco out of +his pocket and bit off a piece and began to chew it.</p> + +<p>"You came through the battle with only a slight wound and lived to a +ripe old age surrounded by grandchildren," the Professor told him.</p> + +<p>"Then I reckon I won't go back to Pennsylvania with the other boys. +They figure that since their enlistments are up, it's time to get back +to the farm and let them New Yorkers do some of their own fighting."</p> + +<p>"Oh no! You weren't thinking of going back—of leaving the fighting?" +Mrs. Johns-Hayes demanded.</p> + +<p>The Colonel shifted his wad of tobacco and looked at the woman +carefully as though he couldn't quite believe the evidence of his +eyes. "No, ma'am, I don't reckon I am. I don't exactly look on it the +same as the other boys do. I kind of feel like if we're ever going to +have a country, it's worth fighting for."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Johns-Hayes beamed, as did all the other officers of the +Daughters. "Well, your faith and heroism have been rewarded, +great-great-great-great-grandfather. I know you'll be proud to know +that these ladies whom you see before you are the present guardians of +the ideals that you fought for."</p> + +<p>"Well, now, is that so, ma'am? Is that so?" Peter Johns looked around +the convention hall in amazement.</p> + +<p>"And that I, your descendant, have just been elected their President!"</p> + +<p>"Well, what do you know about that! Maybe all the hard times and the +danger we been going through is worth it if you folks still remember +the way we felt about things."</p> + +<p>"It's too bad," Decker whispered to MacCulloch, "that we can't let him +see what the country is really like. I'm not sure these ladies are +representative."</p> + +<p>There was a worried look on the Professor's face. "That's impossible. +The reintegration is good for only an hour or so. I hope nothing goes +wrong here."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin took charge of the Colonel and ushered him to a +seat of honor near the podium while the new President prepared to +deliver her speech. Decker and the professor managed to obtain seats +on either side of Johns just as Rebecca started. He managed to whisper +to them, "I'm sure amazed! I'm sure amazed! All these nice old ladies +feeling the same way about things as we do."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" width="45" height="40" /></div> +<p>ecker had a premonition of trouble as Mrs. Hayes' words poured forth. +He had hoped for a cut and dried acceptance speech with nothing but +the usual patriotic platitudes, but, as she went on his worst fears +were realized. Inspired by the presence of her ancestor, the woman was +going into superlatives about the purposes and aims of the Patriot +Daughters. She covered everything from the glories of her ancestry to +the morals of the younger generation and women in politics.</p> + +<p>Decker watched the Colonel's face, saw it changed from puzzlement to +painful boredom as word after word floated from the battery of +speakers overhead.</p> + +<p>MacCulloch was whispering in Johns' ear in an attempt to draw his +attention from the woman's booming voice but the man disregarded him. +"Am I really responsible for that?" The Colonel jerked his head in the +direction of Mrs. Johns-Hayes.</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid, Colonel, that you're getting a distorted idea of what +America is like in our time," Decker said. The Colonel didn't even +turn to look at him. He was scowling at his Amazonian descendant as +her screeching reached new heights.</p> + +<p>"... and we hold that this is true! Our simple motto, as you all know, +is: One race, one creed, one way of thinking!"</p> + +<p>Colonel Johns began to squirm violently in his seat. The professor +found it necessary to grasp him firmly by one arm while Decker held +him by the other.</p> + +<p>The president of the Patriot Daughters had finished her speech amidst +thunderous applause and started to present suggestions for the +formation of new committees, for the passing of new by-laws and for +resolutions.</p> + +<p>"A committee should be formed to see that the public parks are +properly policed to prevent so-called 'spooners' from pursuing their +immoral behaviour.</p> + +<p>"A new by-law is needed," and here Mrs. Hayes glanced aside at Mrs. +Tolman, "to prevent members being accepted unless their forebears were +lieutenants or of higher rank in the glorious Continental army."</p> + +<p>The Colonel was a strong man and both Decker and MacCulloch were older +than he. With something between a snort and a roar he shook them loose +and started for the exit.</p> + +<p>"Oh my," MacCulloch moaned, "I was afraid that this whole thing was a +mistake."</p> + +<p>Colonel Johns had taken only two steps toward the door when he seemed +to stagger. MacCulloch leaped to his side and caught him by the arm. +There was an uproar in the auditorium as the Colonel faded slightly +and the professor hurried him down the steps toward the Reintegrator.</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid the Colonel isn't going to be with us much longer," the +professor explained.</p> + +<p>Thank goodness, Decker thought, I don't believe the poor man could +have stood it much longer.</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid the reintegration time of Colonel Johns is running out and +he must return to his own time," the professor went on.</p> + +<p>The grim-faced Colonel said nothing as MacCulloch led him up to the +machine.</p> + +<p>"Goodbye, great-great-great-great-grandfather," Mrs. Johns-Hayes +called from the platform. "It has been so nice having you with us."</p> + +<p>"Goodbye, Rebecca," the Colonel said as he began to fade away.</p> + +<p>"Give my regards to great-great-great-great-grandmother."</p> + +<p>The figure in the dirty, faded blue uniform was gone but Decker and +MacCulloch heard him mutter just before he disappeared altogether, "I +will, if I ever see her again!"</p> + +<p>MacCulloch turned to stare at the platform and Decker turned to follow +his gaze. A sudden dizziness overcame them both and there was a slight +haze about the auditorium. When it cleared, the podium was empty. Mrs. +Johns-Hayes was gone as if she had never been.</p> + +<p>"My God!," the professor gasped. "I was afraid something like this +might happen. He must have married the other girl."</p> + +<p>"I suppose," Decker said quietly, "that we should consider ourselves +lucky that he didn't decide to go back to Pennsylvania." His voice +broke off and he wondered what he had been saying. He looked up at the +speakers' platform trying to remember why he should think it strange +that it was draped in Union Jacks and that Lady Appleby-Simpkin should +be saying, "And now, my dears, I know that all of you, as Loyal +Daughters of the British Empire will be happy to know...."</p> + +<p class="p1">... THE END</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Ordeal of Colonel Johns, by George H. 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Smith + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: The Ordeal of Colonel Johns + +Author: George H. Smith + +Illustrator: Rudolph Palais + +Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32688] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ORDEAL OF COLONEL JOHNS *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction June 1954. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + [Illustration] + + + _The Ordeal of_ COLONEL JOHNS + + + By George H. Smith + + + Illustrated by Rudolph Palais + + + _Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the + unique--and painful--experience of meeting his + great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't + change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from + changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?_ + + * * * * * + + + + +Clark Decker winced and scrounged still lower in his seat as Mrs. +Appleby-Simpkin rested her enormous bosom on the front of the podium +and smiled down on the Patriot Daughters of America in convention +assembled as she announced: "And now, my dears, I will read you one +more short quotation from Major Wicks' fascinating book 'The Minor +Tactics of The American Revolution.' When I am finished, I know that +you will all agree that Rebecca Johns-Hayes will be a more than +fitting successor to myself as your President." + +Decker looked wildly about for a way of escape from the convention +auditorium. If he had only remained in the anteroom with Professor +MacCulloch and the Historical Reintegrator! After suffering through +four days of speeches by ladies in various stages of mammalian +top-heaviness, he hadn't believed it possible that anyone could top +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin for either sheer ability to bore or for the +nobility of her bust. Mrs. Rebecca Johns-Hayes had come as something +of a shock as she squirmed her way onto the speaker's platform. But +there she was as big as life, or rather bigger, smiling at Mrs. +Appleby-Simpkin, the Past President, beaming at Mrs. Lynd-Torris, a +defeated candidate for the presidency and whose ancestor had been only +a captain, and completely ignoring Mrs. Tolman, the other defeated +candidate whose ancestor had been so inconsiderate as to have been a +Continental sergeant. Only the thought that now that the voting was +over and the new president chosen, the ladies might be ready for the +demonstration of the Reintegrator had brought Decker onto the +convention floor, and now he was trapped and would have to listen. + +"And so," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin was reading, "upon such small events do +the great moments of history depend. The brilliant scouting and +skirmishing of the riflemen under Colonel Peter Johns prevented the +breakthrough of Captain Fosdick's column and the possible flanking of +the American army before Saratoga. Thus, this little known action may +have been the deciding factor in the whole campaign that prevented +General Burgoyne from carrying out the British plan to divide the +colonies and end the war. It is impossible for the historian to +refrain from speculation as to what might have happened had Colonel +Johns not been on hand to direct the riflemen and militia in this +section; as indeed he might _not_ have been, since his own regiment of +short-term enlistees had returned to Pennsylvania a few days +previously. Only the Colonel's patriotism and devotion to duty kept +him in the field and made his abilities available to the country when +they were most needed." + +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin waited until the burst of applause +had died down and then continued, "That is the man whose +great-great-great-great-granddaughter you have elected your +president today ... Mrs. Rebecca Johns-Hayes!" Turning to Mrs. +Johns-Hayes she went on, "Before you make your acceptance speech, +dear, we have a little surprise for you." + +Clark Decker had been edging his way toward the side of the auditorium +where the Men's Auxiliary of the Daughters had their seats but he +turned back at the mention of the surprise. It sounded as though it +was time for him and the Professor to start their demonstration. + +"A surprise which we hope will also be a surprise to the whole world +of science," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin was holding the podium against a +determinedly advancing Mrs. Johns-Hayes. "Indeed we may be able to say +in future years, that the 1989 Convention of the Patriot Daughters was +marked by the first public demonstration of one of the most momentous +inventions in the history of science." The Past President was speaking +faster and faster, because the new President with a hand full of notes +was doing her best to edge her away from both the podium and the +microphone. + +"Thank you, darling," Mrs. Johns-Hayes said, pulling the microphone +firmly toward her, "but we really must get along with business. I have +quite a few things I want to say and several motions which I want to +place before the Convention." + +"And as I was saying, dear," Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin said, pulling the +microphone back with equal firmness, "I know that you will be just +unbearably thrilled." There was another brief struggle for the mike and +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin won and went on. "I know that he will be just as +proud of you as you are of him. That is why we have arranged for Professor +MacCulloch to demonstrate his historical Reintegrator at our convention by +bringing into our midst Colonel Peter Johns, the hero of the action at +Temple Farm, to see his great-great-great-great-granddaughter installed as +the fifty-fourth president of the Loyal Order of Patriot Daughters of +America. Now I...." Mrs. Johns-Hayes again won control of the mike. + +"Thank you very much, dear." Her voice was a genteel screech. "I'm +sure that we will be only too glad to have the ... who? Who did you +say?" Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin regained the microphone from the other +woman's relaxing grip. + +"I believe I see Mr. Decker, the Professor's assistant, in the +audience," she said. "Will you be so good as to tell the Professor +that we are ready for his epic-making experiment?" + +With a great feeling of relief, Decker escaped from the rising turmoil +of the convention hall into the relative quiet of the anteroom where +MacCulloch waited with the Reintegrator. He found the Professor +sitting with his head in his hands staring at the machine. The little +man looked up and smiled quizzically as his assistant approached him. + +"They're ready, Professor! They're ready!" Still under the influence +of the convention, Decker found himself shouting. + +"Ah. Ah, yes. Then it will be today. I've waited so long. Ten years of +work and now instead of a scientific gathering, I have to demonstrate +my machine before a woman's club." + + * * * * * + +Decker began to wheel the platform which held the Reintegrator toward the +door. "After today, Professor, all the scientific organizations in the +world will have heard of you and will be demanding demonstrations." + +"Yes, but these Patriot Daughters! Who are they? Who in the scientific +world ever heard of them?" + +"No one except a few scientists unfortunate enough to fall afoul of +their Loyalty and Conformity Committee." + +"I think we should have gone elsewhere for our demonstration." + +"Now Professor. Who in the world today would be interested in the past +except a group of ancestor conscious women?" + +"Some historical society perhaps," the Professor said wistfully. + +"And what historical society could have advanced the twenty thousand +dollars we needed to complete the machine?" + +"I suppose you're right, my boy," MacCulloch sighed as he helped push +the Reintegrator onto the auditorium floor. + +By the time Clark Decker reached the platform to explain the +demonstration, the fight for the microphone had turned into a +three-way struggle. A lady who represented the Finance Committee was +trying to win it away from both the Past President and the new +President. + +Taking them by surprise, Decker managed to gain control long enough to +explain what was about to happen. + +"You mean," demanded Mrs. Johns-Hayes, "that this is some sort of time +machine and you're going to transport great-great-great-great-grandfather +from the past into the present?" + +"No, Mrs. Hayes. This isn't a time machine in the comic book use of +the term. It is just what Professor MacCulloch has called it, an +historical Reintegrator. The theory upon which it is based, the +MacCulloch Reaction, says that every person who ever existed, and +every event which ever took place caused electrical disturbances in +the space-time continuum of the universe by displacing an equal and +identical group of electrons. The task of the Reintegrator is to +reassemble those electrons. That is why Professor MacCulloch is now +placing your ancestor's sword in the machine. We will use that as a +base point from which our recreation will begin." + +The machine was humming and small lights were beginning to play about +its tubes and dials. "If our calculations are accurate, and we believe +that they are," Decker said, "within a very few minutes, Colonel Johns +should be standing before us as he was on a day approximately a week +before his heroic action in the battle at Temple Farm." + +Mrs. Johns-Hayes, although still gripping her notes, was beginning to +get a little flustered. "Oh my, that would be before he married +great-great-great-great-grandmother Sayles. They were married only two +days before the battle, you know. It was so romantic ... a wartime +romance and all." + +"Just imagine," Mrs. Tolman remarked, "at that time your whole family +was just a gleam in the Colonel's eye!" + +Professor MacCulloch made one or two last passes at the machine and +then stood back to watch, a look of pure scientific ecstasy on his +face. A mistiness began to gather on the platform where the Colonel's +sword lay and through it from time to time shot sparks of electricity. +Suddenly a gasp went up from the assembled Daughters as a man's head +and shoulders appeared and expanded downward, a long way downward, to +a large pair of feet. There was one last hum from the machine and then +a tall young man in faded blue regimentals and very much in need of a +shave was standing blinking in the blazing lights of the auditorium. + +"Oh, Mr. Decker, surely there's some mistake!" was Mrs. Johns-Hayes' +first comment as she surveyed the very tall, very tattered, and very +dirty young man. "Great-great-great-great-grandfather's pictures +always show him as a dignified old gentleman." + +The Colonel took one quick look around and made a grab for his sword, but +the Professor managed to calm him and to explain the situation before any +violence could take place. After a few minutes of hurried talk, MacCulloch +steered the Colonel in the direction of the speaker's platform for the +meeting with his great-great-great-great-granddaughter. + +Peter Johns' bewilderment faded into astonishment, but he still +gripped his sword as the Professor guided him through the throngs of +excited ladies onto the stage. He paused momentarily to look at the +brilliant lights and at the huge number of American flags which hung +overhead. A picture of George Washington, hung among the flags, seemed +to reassure him and he allowed the Professor to lead him to Mrs. +Johns-Hayes. + +That lady had drawn herself together at the approach of her ancestor and +had obviously decided to carry it off as best she could. She advanced to +meet him crying, "Dear, dear great-great-great-great-grandfather! This is +such a pleasure! You can't know how proud all of us in the family have +always been of you." + +The young Continental officer stared open mouthed at the red-faced, +big-bosomed woman who was twice his age, but who addressed him as +great-great-great-great-grandfather. Then he turned to MacCulloch who +stood beside him. "Are you sure you have the right man?" he asked. + +"Oh yes! Perfectly, perfectly! You're Colonel Peter Johns of Pamworth, +Pennsylvania, and this is your great-great-great-great-granddaughter, +Rebecca Johns-Hayes." + +"Rebecca? You mean she's named after Becky Sayles?" The Colonel rubbed +a hand across his several days' growth of beard. + +"That's right, dear great-great-great-great-grandfather. I'm named +after great-great-great-great-grandmother," Mrs. Johns-Hayes +announced. + +"Then I married Becky Sayles?" the Colonel asked. + +"Why, of course! Aren't you planning on getting married in a few +days?" Clark Decker asked. + +The Colonel was embarrassed but he grinned, "Well, I don't rightly +know. Miss Sayles and I have been courtin' for some months but there's +little Jennie Taylor down in Trenton.... To tell the truth, I haven't +quite made up my mind." + +"Well! Of all things! What would the family think! What would great +Aunt Mary Hayes say?" Mrs. Johns-Hayes puffed out even farther than +usual. + +"Well, we can ease your mind on that subject, Colonel. The history +books say that you married Miss Sayles--and here is Mrs. Johns-Hayes +to prove it." + +The Colonel scratched his chin again as he looked at Mrs. Johns-Hayes. +"Is that so? Is that so? What's all this about history books? You mean +I got in history because I married Becky Sayles?" + +The Professor laughed. "Well, not exactly. It was because of your +heroism in the defeat of Burgoyne's army. If you hadn't blocked +Captain Fenwick's flanking move at Temple Farm, the American army +under General Gates might have been defeated and the Colonies might +even have lost the war." + +"Well, I'll be.... Me? I did all that? I didn't even know there was +going to be a battle. Did I end up a live hero or a dead one?" The +Colonel was beginning to feel a bit more easy in his surroundings, +and, to the horror of Mrs. Johns-Hayes, took a plug of tobacco out of +his pocket and bit off a piece and began to chew it. + +"You came through the battle with only a slight wound and lived to a +ripe old age surrounded by grandchildren," the Professor told him. + +"Then I reckon I won't go back to Pennsylvania with the other boys. +They figure that since their enlistments are up, it's time to get back +to the farm and let them New Yorkers do some of their own fighting." + +"Oh no! You weren't thinking of going back--of leaving the fighting?" +Mrs. Johns-Hayes demanded. + +The Colonel shifted his wad of tobacco and looked at the woman +carefully as though he couldn't quite believe the evidence of his +eyes. "No, ma'am, I don't reckon I am. I don't exactly look on it the +same as the other boys do. I kind of feel like if we're ever going to +have a country, it's worth fighting for." + +Mrs. Johns-Hayes beamed, as did all the other officers of the +Daughters. "Well, your faith and heroism have been rewarded, +great-great-great-great-grandfather. I know you'll be proud to know +that these ladies whom you see before you are the present guardians of +the ideals that you fought for." + +"Well, now, is that so, ma'am? Is that so?" Peter Johns looked around +the convention hall in amazement. + +"And that I, your descendant, have just been elected their President!" + +"Well, what do you know about that! Maybe all the hard times and the +danger we been going through is worth it if you folks still remember +the way we felt about things." + +"It's too bad," Decker whispered to MacCulloch, "that we can't let him +see what the country is really like. I'm not sure these ladies are +representative." + +There was a worried look on the Professor's face. "That's impossible. +The reintegration is good for only an hour or so. I hope nothing goes +wrong here." + +Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin took charge of the Colonel and ushered him to a +seat of honor near the podium while the new President prepared to +deliver her speech. Decker and the professor managed to obtain seats +on either side of Johns just as Rebecca started. He managed to whisper +to them, "I'm sure amazed! I'm sure amazed! All these nice old ladies +feeling the same way about things as we do." + + * * * * * + +Decker had a premonition of trouble as Mrs. Hayes' words poured forth. +He had hoped for a cut and dried acceptance speech with nothing but +the usual patriotic platitudes, but, as she went on his worst fears +were realized. Inspired by the presence of her ancestor, the woman was +going into superlatives about the purposes and aims of the Patriot +Daughters. She covered everything from the glories of her ancestry to +the morals of the younger generation and women in politics. + +Decker watched the Colonel's face, saw it changed from puzzlement to +painful boredom as word after word floated from the battery of +speakers overhead. + +MacCulloch was whispering in Johns' ear in an attempt to draw his +attention from the woman's booming voice but the man disregarded him. +"Am I really responsible for that?" The Colonel jerked his head in the +direction of Mrs. Johns-Hayes. + +"I'm afraid, Colonel, that you're getting a distorted idea of what +America is like in our time," Decker said. The Colonel didn't even +turn to look at him. He was scowling at his Amazonian descendant as +her screeching reached new heights. + +"... and we hold that this is true! Our simple motto, as you all know, +is: One race, one creed, one way of thinking!" + +Colonel Johns began to squirm violently in his seat. The professor +found it necessary to grasp him firmly by one arm while Decker held +him by the other. + +The president of the Patriot Daughters had finished her speech amidst +thunderous applause and started to present suggestions for the +formation of new committees, for the passing of new by-laws and for +resolutions. + +"A committee should be formed to see that the public parks are +properly policed to prevent so-called 'spooners' from pursuing their +immoral behaviour. + +"A new by-law is needed," and here Mrs. Hayes glanced aside at Mrs. +Tolman, "to prevent members being accepted unless their forebears were +lieutenants or of higher rank in the glorious Continental army." + +The Colonel was a strong man and both Decker and MacCulloch were older +than he. With something between a snort and a roar he shook them loose +and started for the exit. + +"Oh my," MacCulloch moaned, "I was afraid that this whole thing was a +mistake." + +Colonel Johns had taken only two steps toward the door when he seemed +to stagger. MacCulloch leaped to his side and caught him by the arm. +There was an uproar in the auditorium as the Colonel faded slightly +and the professor hurried him down the steps toward the Reintegrator. + +"I'm afraid the Colonel isn't going to be with us much longer," the +professor explained. + +Thank goodness, Decker thought, I don't believe the poor man could +have stood it much longer. + +"I'm afraid the reintegration time of Colonel Johns is running out and +he must return to his own time," the professor went on. + +The grim-faced Colonel said nothing as MacCulloch led him up to the +machine. + +"Goodbye, great-great-great-great-grandfather," Mrs. Johns-Hayes +called from the platform. "It has been so nice having you with us." + +"Goodbye, Rebecca," the Colonel said as he began to fade away. + +"Give my regards to great-great-great-great-grandmother." + +The figure in the dirty, faded blue uniform was gone but Decker and +MacCulloch heard him mutter just before he disappeared altogether, "I +will, if I ever see her again!" + +MacCulloch turned to stare at the platform and Decker turned to follow +his gaze. A sudden dizziness overcame them both and there was a slight +haze about the auditorium. When it cleared, the podium was empty. Mrs. +Johns-Hayes was gone as if she had never been. + +"My God!," the professor gasped. "I was afraid something like this +might happen. He must have married the other girl." + +"I suppose," Decker said quietly, "that we should consider ourselves +lucky that he didn't decide to go back to Pennsylvania." His voice +broke off and he wondered what he had been saying. He looked up at the +speakers' platform trying to remember why he should think it strange +that it was draped in Union Jacks and that Lady Appleby-Simpkin should +be saying, "And now, my dears, I know that all of you, as Loyal +Daughters of the British Empire will be happy to know...." + + ... THE END + + * * * * * + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Ordeal of Colonel Johns, by George H. 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