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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/license - - -Title: A Little Journey - -Author: Ray Bradbury - -Release Date: February 10, 2016 [EBook #51171] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LITTLE JOURNEY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>A Little Journey</h1> - -<p>By RAY BRADBURY</p> - -<p>Illustrated by THORNE</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3">She'd paid good money to see the inevitable ...<br /> -and then had to work to make it happen!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that -Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn't he patted her hand and -said: "Mrs. Bellowes, we'll take off into space in my rocket, and go -to find Him together."</p> - -<p>And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn't like any other -group Mrs. Bellowes had ever joined. In her fervor to light a path for -her delicate, tottering feet, she had struck matches down dark alleys, -and found her way to Hindu mystics who floated their flickering, starry -eyelashes over crystal balls. She had walked on the meadow paths with -ascetic Indian philosophers imported by daughters-in-spirit of Madame -Blavatsky. She had made pilgrimages to California's stucco jungles -to hunt the astrological seer in his natural habitat. She had even -consented to signing away the rights to one of her homes in order to be -taken into the shouting order of a temple of amazing evangelists who -had promised her golden smoke, crystal fire, and the great soft hand of -God coming to bear her home.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="400" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>None of these people had ever shaken Mrs. Bellowes' faith, even when -she saw them sirened away in a black wagon in the night, or discovered -their pictures, bleak and unromantic, in the morning tabloids. The -world had roughed them up and locked them away because they knew too -much, that was all.</p> - -<p>And then, two weeks ago, she had seen Mr. Thirkell's advertisement in -New York City:</p> - -<p class="ph3">COME TO MARS!</p> - -<p class="ph4">Stay at the Thirkell Restorium for one week. And then,<br /> -on into space on the greatest adventure life can offer!</p> - -<p class="ph4">Send for Free Pamphlet: "Nearer My God To Thee."</p> - -<p class="ph4">Excursion rates. Round trip slightly lower.</p> - -<p>"Round trip," Mrs. Bellowes had thought. "But who would come back after -seeing <i>Him</i>?"</p> - -<p>And so she had bought a ticket and flown off to Mars and spent seven -mild days at Mr. Thirkell's Restorium, the building with the sign on it -which flashed: THIRKELL'S ROCKET TO HEAVEN! She had spent the -week bathing in limpid waters and erasing the care from her tiny bones, -and now she was fidgeting, ready to be loaded into Mr. Thirkell's own -special private rocket, like a bullet, to be fired on out into space -beyond Jupiter and Saturn and Pluto. And thus—who could deny it?—you -would be getting nearer and nearer to the Lord. How wonderful! Couldn't -you just <i>feel</i> Him drawing near? Couldn't you just sense His breath, -His scrutiny, His Presence?</p> - -<p>"Here I am," said Mrs. Bellowes, "an ancient rickety elevator, ready to -go up the shaft. God need only press the button."</p> - -<p>Now, on the seventh day, as she minced up the steps of the Restorium, a -number of small doubts assailed her.</p> - -<p>"For one thing," she said aloud to no one, "it isn't quite the land of -milk and honey here on Mars that they said it would be. My room is like -a cell, the swimming pool is really quite inadequate, and, besides, how -many widows who look like mushrooms or skeletons want to swim? And, -finally, the whole Restorium smells of boiled cabbage and tennis shoes!"</p> - -<p>She opened the front door and let it slam, somewhat irritably.</p> - -<p>She was amazed at the other women in the auditorium. It was like -wandering in a carnival mirror-maze, coming again and again upon -yourself—the same floury face, the same chicken hands, and jingling -bracelets. One after another of the images of herself floated before -her. She put out her hand, but it wasn't a mirror; it was another lady -shaking her fingers and saying:</p> - -<p>"We're waiting for Mr. Thirkell. <i>Sh!</i>"</p> - -<p>"Ah," whispered everyone.</p> - -<p>The velvet curtains parted.</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell appeared, fantastically serene, his Egyptian eyes upon -everyone. But there was something, nevertheless, in his appearance -which made one expect him to call "Hi!" while fuzzy dogs jumped over -his legs, through his hooped arms, and over his back. Then, dogs and -all, he should dance with a dazzling piano-keyboard smile off into the -wings.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Bellowes, with a secret part of her mind which she constantly had -to grip tightly, expected to hear a cheap Chinese gong sound when Mr. -Thirkell entered. His large liquid dark eyes were so improbable that -one of the old ladies had facetiously claimed she saw a mosquito cloud -hovering over them as they did around summer rain-barrels. And Mrs. -Bellowes sometimes caught the scent of the theatrical mothball and the -smell of calliope steam on his sharply pressed suit.</p> - -<p>But with the same savage rationalization that had greeted all other -disappointments in her rickety life, she bit at the suspicion and -whispered, "This time it's <i>real</i>. This time it'll work. Haven't we got -a <i>rocket</i>?"</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell bowed. He smiled a sudden Comedy Mask smile. The old -ladies looked in at his epiglottis and sensed chaos there.</p> - -<p>Before he even began to speak, Mrs. Bellowes saw him picking up each of -his words, oiling it, making sure it ran smooth on its rails. Her heart -squeezed in like a tiny fist, and she gritted her porcelain teeth.</p> - -<p>"Friends," said Mr. Thirkell, and you could hear the frost snap in the -hearts of the entire assemblage.</p> - -<p>"No!" said Mrs. Bellowes ahead of time. She could hear the bad news -rushing at her, and herself tied to the track while the immense black -wheels threatened and the whistle screamed, helpless.</p> - -<p>"There will be a slight delay," said Mr. Thirkell.</p> - -<p>In the next instant, Mr. Thirkell might have cried, or been tempted to -cry, "Ladies, be seated!" in minstrel-fashion, for the ladies had come -up at him from their chairs, protesting and trembling.</p> - -<p>"Not a very long delay." Mr. Thirkell put up his hands to pat the air.</p> - -<p>"How long?"</p> - -<p>"Only a week."</p> - -<p>"A week!"</p> - -<p>"Yes. You can stay here at the Restorium for seven more days, can't -you? A little delay won't matter, will it, in the end? You've waited a -lifetime. Only a few more days."</p> - -<p><i>At twenty dollars a day</i>, thought Mrs. Bellowes, coldly.</p> - -<p>"What's the trouble?" a woman cried.</p> - -<p>"A legal difficulty," said Mr. Thirkell.</p> - -<p>"We've a rocket, haven't we?"</p> - -<p>"Well, ye-ess."</p> - -<p>"But I've been here a whole month, waiting," said one old lady. -"Delays, delays!"</p> - -<p>"That's right," said everyone.</p> - -<p>"Ladies, ladies," murmured Mr. Thirkell, smiling serenely.</p> - -<p>"We want to see the rocket!" It was Mrs. Bellowes forging ahead, -alone, brandishing her fist like a toy hammer.</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell looked into the old ladies' eyes, a missionary among -albino cannibals.</p> - -<p>"Well, now," he said.</p> - -<p>"Yes, <i>now</i>!" cried Mrs. Bellowes.</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid—" he began.</p> - -<p>"So am I!" she said. "That's why we want to see the ship!"</p> - -<p>"No, no, now, Mrs.—" He snapped his fingers for her name.</p> - -<p>"Bellowes!" she cried. She was a small container, but now all the -seething pressures that had been built up over long years came -steaming through the delicate vents of her body. Her cheeks became -incandescent. With a wail that was like a melancholy factory whistle, -Mrs. Bellowes ran forward and hung to him, almost by her teeth, like a -summer-maddened Spitz. She would not and never could let go, until he -died, and the other women followed, jumping and yapping like a pound -let loose on its trainer, the same one who had petted them and to whom -they had squirmed and whined joyfully an hour before, now milling about -him, creasing his sleeves and frightening the Egyptian serenity from -his gaze.</p> - -<p>"This way!" cried Mrs. Bellowes, feeling like Madame Lafarge. "Through -the back! We've waited long enough to see the ship. Every day he's put -us off, every day we've waited, now let's see."</p> - -<p>"No, no, ladies!" cried Mr. Thirkell, leaping about.</p> - -<p>They burst through the back of the stage and out a door, like a flood, -bearing the poor man with them into a shed, and then out, quite -suddenly, into an abandoned gymnasium.</p> - -<p>"There it is!" said someone. "The rocket."</p> - -<p>And then a silence fell that was terrible to entertain.</p> - -<p>There was the rocket.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Bellowes looked at it and her hands sagged away from Mr. -Thirkell's collar.</p> - -<p>The rocket was something like a battered copper pot. There were a -thousand bulges and rents and rusty pipes and dirty vents on and in it. -The ports were clouded over with dust, resembling the eyes of a blind -hog.</p> - -<p>Everyone wailed a little sighing wail.</p> - -<p>"Is that the rocket ship <i>Glory Be to the Highest</i>?" cried Mrs. -Bellowes, appalled.</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell nodded and looked at his feet.</p> - -<p>"For which we paid out our one thousand dollars apiece and came all the -way to Mars to get on board with you and go off to find Him?" asked -Mrs. Bellowes.</p> - -<p>"Why, that isn't worth a sack of dried peas," said Mrs. Bellowes.</p> - -<p>"It's nothing but junk!"</p> - -<p><i>Junk</i>, whispered everyone, getting hysterical.</p> - -<p>"Don't let him get away!"</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell tried to break and run, but a thousand possum traps closed -on him from every side. He withered.</p> - -<p>Everybody walked around in circles like blind mice. There was a -confusion and a weeping that lasted for five minutes as they went over -and touched the Rocket, the Dented Kettle, the Rusty Container for -God's Children.</p> - -<p>"Well," said Mrs. Bellowes. She stepped up into the askew doorway of -the rocket and faced everyone. "It looks as if a terrible thing has -been done to us," she said. "I haven't any money to go back home to -Earth and I've too much pride to go to the Government and tell them -a common man like this has fooled us out of our life's savings. I -don't know how you feel about it, all of you, but the reason all of us -came is because I'm eighty-five, and you're eighty-nine, and you're -seventy-eight, and all of us are nudging on toward a hundred, and -there's nothing on Earth for us, and it doesn't appear there's anything -on Mars either. We all expected not to breathe much more air or crochet -many more doilies or we'd never have come here. So what I have to -propose is a simple thing—to take a chance."</p> - -<p>She reached out and touched the rusted hulk of the rocket.</p> - -<p>"This is <i>our</i> rocket. We paid for our trip. And we're going to <i>take</i> -our trip!"</p> - -<p>Everyone rustled and stood on tiptoes and opened an astonished mouth.</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell began to cry. He did it quite easily and very effectively.</p> - -<p>"We're going to get in this ship," said Mrs. Bellowes, ignoring him. -"And we're going to take off to where we were going."</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell stopped crying long enough to say, "But it was all a fake. -I don't know anything about space. He's not out there, anyway. I lied. -I don't know where He is, and I couldn't find Him if I wanted to. And -you were fools to ever take my word on it."</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Mrs. Bellowes, "we were fools. I'll go along on that. But -you can't blame us, for we're old, and it was a lovely, good and fine -idea, one of the loveliest ideas in the world. Oh, we didn't really -fool ourselves that we could get nearer to Him physically. It was the -gentle, mad dream of old people, the kind of thing you hold onto for a -few minutes a day, even though you know it's not true. So, all of you -who want to go, you follow me in the ship."</p> - -<p>"But you can't go!" said Mr. Thirkell. "You haven't got a navigator. -And that ship's a ruin!"</p> - -<p>"You," said Mrs. Bellowes, "will be the navigator."</p> - -<p>She stepped into the ship, and after a moment, the other old ladies -pressed forward. Mr. Thirkell, windmilling his arms frantically, -was nevertheless pressed through the port, and in a minute the door -slammed shut. Mr. Thirkell was strapped into the navigator's seat, with -everyone talking at once and holding him down. The special helmets -were issued to be fitted over every gray or white head to supply extra -oxygen in case of a leakage in the ship's hull, and at long last the -hour had come and Mrs. Bellowes stood behind Mr. Thirkell and said, -"We're ready, sir."</p> - -<p>He said nothing. He pleaded with them silently, using his great, dark, -wet eyes, but Mrs. Bellowes shook her head and pointed to the control.</p> - -<p>"Takeoff," agreed Mr. Thirkell morosely, and pulled a switch.</p> - -<p>Everybody fell. The rocket went up from the planet Mars in a great -fiery glide, with the noise of an entire kitchen thrown down an -elevator shaft, with a sound of pots and pans and kettles and fires -boiling and stews bubbling, with a smell of burned incense and -rubber and sulphur, with a color of yellow fire, and a ribbon of red -stretching below them, and all the old women singing and holding -to each other, and Mrs. Bellowes crawling upright in the sighing, -straining, trembling ship.</p> - -<p>"Head for space, Mr. Thirkell."</p> - -<p>"It can't last," said Mr. Thirkell, sadly. "This ship can't last. It -will—"</p> - -<p>It did.</p> - -<p>The rocket exploded.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Bellowes felt herself lifted and thrown about dizzily, like a -doll. She heard the great screamings and saw the flashes of bodies -sailing by her in fragments of metal and powdery light.</p> - -<p>"Help, help!" cried Mr. Thirkell, far away, on a small radio beam.</p> - -<p>The ship disintegrated into a million parts, and the old ladies, -all one hundred of them, were flung straight on ahead with the same -velocity as the ship.</p> - -<p>As for Mr. Thirkell, for some reason of trajectory, perhaps, he had -been blown out the other side of the ship. Mrs. Bellowes saw him -falling separate and away from them, screaming, screaming.</p> - -<p><i>There goes Mr. Thirkell</i>, thought Mrs. Bellowes.</p> - -<p>And she knew where he was going. He was going to be burned and roasted -and broiled good, but very good.</p> - -<p>Mr. Thirkell was falling down into the Sun.</p> - -<p><i>And here we are</i>, thought Mrs. Bellowes. <i>Here we are, going on out, -and out, and out.</i></p> - -<p>There was hardly a sense of motion at all, but she knew that she was -traveling at fifty thousand miles an hour and would continue to travel -at that speed for an eternity, until....</p> - -<p>She saw the other women swinging all about her in their own -trajectories, a few minutes of oxygen left to each of them in their -helmets, and each was looking up to where they were going.</p> - -<p><i>Of course</i>, thought Mrs. Bellowes. <i>Out into space. Out and out, and -the darkness like a great church, and the stars like candles, and in -spite of everything, Mr. Thirkell, the rocket, and the dishonesty, we -are going toward the Lord.</i></p> - -<p>And there, yes, <i>there</i>, as she fell on and on, coming toward her, -she could almost discern the outline now, coming toward her was His -mighty golden hand, reaching down to hold her and comfort her like a -frightened sparrow....</p> - -<p>"I'm Mrs. Amelia Bellowes," she said quietly, in her best company -voice. 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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/license - - -Title: A Little Journey - -Author: Ray Bradbury - -Release Date: February 10, 2016 [EBook #51171] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LITTLE JOURNEY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - A Little Journey - - By RAY BRADBURY - - Illustrated by THORNE - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - She'd paid good money to see the inevitable ... - and then had to work to make it happen! - - -There were two important things--one, that she was very old; two, that -Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn't he patted her hand and -said: "Mrs. Bellowes, we'll take off into space in my rocket, and go -to find Him together." - -And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn't like any other -group Mrs. Bellowes had ever joined. In her fervor to light a path for -her delicate, tottering feet, she had struck matches down dark alleys, -and found her way to Hindu mystics who floated their flickering, starry -eyelashes over crystal balls. She had walked on the meadow paths with -ascetic Indian philosophers imported by daughters-in-spirit of Madame -Blavatsky. She had made pilgrimages to California's stucco jungles -to hunt the astrological seer in his natural habitat. She had even -consented to signing away the rights to one of her homes in order to be -taken into the shouting order of a temple of amazing evangelists who -had promised her golden smoke, crystal fire, and the great soft hand of -God coming to bear her home. - -None of these people had ever shaken Mrs. Bellowes' faith, even when -she saw them sirened away in a black wagon in the night, or discovered -their pictures, bleak and unromantic, in the morning tabloids. The -world had roughed them up and locked them away because they knew too -much, that was all. - -And then, two weeks ago, she had seen Mr. Thirkell's advertisement in -New York City: - - COME TO MARS! - - Stay at the Thirkell Restorium for one week. And then, on into - space on the greatest adventure life can offer! - - Send for Free Pamphlet: "Nearer My God To Thee." - - Excursion rates. Round trip slightly lower. - -"Round trip," Mrs. Bellowes had thought. "But who would come back after -seeing _Him_?" - -And so she had bought a ticket and flown off to Mars and spent seven -mild days at Mr. Thirkell's Restorium, the building with the sign on it -which flashed: THIRKELL'S ROCKET TO HEAVEN! She had spent the -week bathing in limpid waters and erasing the care from her tiny bones, -and now she was fidgeting, ready to be loaded into Mr. Thirkell's own -special private rocket, like a bullet, to be fired on out into space -beyond Jupiter and Saturn and Pluto. And thus--who could deny it?--you -would be getting nearer and nearer to the Lord. How wonderful! Couldn't -you just _feel_ Him drawing near? Couldn't you just sense His breath, -His scrutiny, His Presence? - -"Here I am," said Mrs. Bellowes, "an ancient rickety elevator, ready to -go up the shaft. God need only press the button." - -Now, on the seventh day, as she minced up the steps of the Restorium, a -number of small doubts assailed her. - -"For one thing," she said aloud to no one, "it isn't quite the land of -milk and honey here on Mars that they said it would be. My room is like -a cell, the swimming pool is really quite inadequate, and, besides, how -many widows who look like mushrooms or skeletons want to swim? And, -finally, the whole Restorium smells of boiled cabbage and tennis shoes!" - -She opened the front door and let it slam, somewhat irritably. - -She was amazed at the other women in the auditorium. It was like -wandering in a carnival mirror-maze, coming again and again upon -yourself--the same floury face, the same chicken hands, and jingling -bracelets. One after another of the images of herself floated before -her. She put out her hand, but it wasn't a mirror; it was another lady -shaking her fingers and saying: - -"We're waiting for Mr. Thirkell. _Sh!_" - -"Ah," whispered everyone. - -The velvet curtains parted. - -Mr. Thirkell appeared, fantastically serene, his Egyptian eyes upon -everyone. But there was something, nevertheless, in his appearance -which made one expect him to call "Hi!" while fuzzy dogs jumped over -his legs, through his hooped arms, and over his back. Then, dogs and -all, he should dance with a dazzling piano-keyboard smile off into the -wings. - -Mrs. Bellowes, with a secret part of her mind which she constantly had -to grip tightly, expected to hear a cheap Chinese gong sound when Mr. -Thirkell entered. His large liquid dark eyes were so improbable that -one of the old ladies had facetiously claimed she saw a mosquito cloud -hovering over them as they did around summer rain-barrels. And Mrs. -Bellowes sometimes caught the scent of the theatrical mothball and the -smell of calliope steam on his sharply pressed suit. - -But with the same savage rationalization that had greeted all other -disappointments in her rickety life, she bit at the suspicion and -whispered, "This time it's _real_. This time it'll work. Haven't we got -a _rocket_?" - -Mr. Thirkell bowed. He smiled a sudden Comedy Mask smile. The old -ladies looked in at his epiglottis and sensed chaos there. - -Before he even began to speak, Mrs. Bellowes saw him picking up each of -his words, oiling it, making sure it ran smooth on its rails. Her heart -squeezed in like a tiny fist, and she gritted her porcelain teeth. - -"Friends," said Mr. Thirkell, and you could hear the frost snap in the -hearts of the entire assemblage. - -"No!" said Mrs. Bellowes ahead of time. She could hear the bad news -rushing at her, and herself tied to the track while the immense black -wheels threatened and the whistle screamed, helpless. - -"There will be a slight delay," said Mr. Thirkell. - -In the next instant, Mr. Thirkell might have cried, or been tempted to -cry, "Ladies, be seated!" in minstrel-fashion, for the ladies had come -up at him from their chairs, protesting and trembling. - -"Not a very long delay." Mr. Thirkell put up his hands to pat the air. - -"How long?" - -"Only a week." - -"A week!" - -"Yes. You can stay here at the Restorium for seven more days, can't -you? A little delay won't matter, will it, in the end? You've waited a -lifetime. Only a few more days." - -_At twenty dollars a day_, thought Mrs. Bellowes, coldly. - -"What's the trouble?" a woman cried. - -"A legal difficulty," said Mr. Thirkell. - -"We've a rocket, haven't we?" - -"Well, ye-ess." - -"But I've been here a whole month, waiting," said one old lady. -"Delays, delays!" - -"That's right," said everyone. - -"Ladies, ladies," murmured Mr. Thirkell, smiling serenely. - -"We want to see the rocket!" It was Mrs. Bellowes forging ahead, -alone, brandishing her fist like a toy hammer. - -Mr. Thirkell looked into the old ladies' eyes, a missionary among -albino cannibals. - -"Well, now," he said. - -"Yes, _now_!" cried Mrs. Bellowes. - -"I'm afraid--" he began. - -"So am I!" she said. "That's why we want to see the ship!" - -"No, no, now, Mrs.--" He snapped his fingers for her name. - -"Bellowes!" she cried. She was a small container, but now all the -seething pressures that had been built up over long years came -steaming through the delicate vents of her body. Her cheeks became -incandescent. With a wail that was like a melancholy factory whistle, -Mrs. Bellowes ran forward and hung to him, almost by her teeth, like a -summer-maddened Spitz. She would not and never could let go, until he -died, and the other women followed, jumping and yapping like a pound -let loose on its trainer, the same one who had petted them and to whom -they had squirmed and whined joyfully an hour before, now milling about -him, creasing his sleeves and frightening the Egyptian serenity from -his gaze. - -"This way!" cried Mrs. Bellowes, feeling like Madame Lafarge. "Through -the back! We've waited long enough to see the ship. Every day he's put -us off, every day we've waited, now let's see." - -"No, no, ladies!" cried Mr. Thirkell, leaping about. - -They burst through the back of the stage and out a door, like a flood, -bearing the poor man with them into a shed, and then out, quite -suddenly, into an abandoned gymnasium. - -"There it is!" said someone. "The rocket." - -And then a silence fell that was terrible to entertain. - -There was the rocket. - -Mrs. Bellowes looked at it and her hands sagged away from Mr. -Thirkell's collar. - -The rocket was something like a battered copper pot. There were a -thousand bulges and rents and rusty pipes and dirty vents on and in it. -The ports were clouded over with dust, resembling the eyes of a blind -hog. - -Everyone wailed a little sighing wail. - -"Is that the rocket ship _Glory Be to the Highest_?" cried Mrs. -Bellowes, appalled. - -Mr. Thirkell nodded and looked at his feet. - -"For which we paid out our one thousand dollars apiece and came all the -way to Mars to get on board with you and go off to find Him?" asked -Mrs. Bellowes. - -"Why, that isn't worth a sack of dried peas," said Mrs. Bellowes. - -"It's nothing but junk!" - -_Junk_, whispered everyone, getting hysterical. - -"Don't let him get away!" - -Mr. Thirkell tried to break and run, but a thousand possum traps closed -on him from every side. He withered. - -Everybody walked around in circles like blind mice. There was a -confusion and a weeping that lasted for five minutes as they went over -and touched the Rocket, the Dented Kettle, the Rusty Container for -God's Children. - -"Well," said Mrs. Bellowes. She stepped up into the askew doorway of -the rocket and faced everyone. "It looks as if a terrible thing has -been done to us," she said. "I haven't any money to go back home to -Earth and I've too much pride to go to the Government and tell them -a common man like this has fooled us out of our life's savings. I -don't know how you feel about it, all of you, but the reason all of us -came is because I'm eighty-five, and you're eighty-nine, and you're -seventy-eight, and all of us are nudging on toward a hundred, and -there's nothing on Earth for us, and it doesn't appear there's anything -on Mars either. We all expected not to breathe much more air or crochet -many more doilies or we'd never have come here. So what I have to -propose is a simple thing--to take a chance." - -She reached out and touched the rusted hulk of the rocket. - -"This is _our_ rocket. We paid for our trip. And we're going to _take_ -our trip!" - -Everyone rustled and stood on tiptoes and opened an astonished mouth. - -Mr. Thirkell began to cry. He did it quite easily and very effectively. - -"We're going to get in this ship," said Mrs. Bellowes, ignoring him. -"And we're going to take off to where we were going." - -Mr. Thirkell stopped crying long enough to say, "But it was all a fake. -I don't know anything about space. He's not out there, anyway. I lied. -I don't know where He is, and I couldn't find Him if I wanted to. And -you were fools to ever take my word on it." - -"Yes," said Mrs. Bellowes, "we were fools. I'll go along on that. But -you can't blame us, for we're old, and it was a lovely, good and fine -idea, one of the loveliest ideas in the world. Oh, we didn't really -fool ourselves that we could get nearer to Him physically. It was the -gentle, mad dream of old people, the kind of thing you hold onto for a -few minutes a day, even though you know it's not true. So, all of you -who want to go, you follow me in the ship." - -"But you can't go!" said Mr. Thirkell. "You haven't got a navigator. -And that ship's a ruin!" - -"You," said Mrs. Bellowes, "will be the navigator." - -She stepped into the ship, and after a moment, the other old ladies -pressed forward. Mr. Thirkell, windmilling his arms frantically, -was nevertheless pressed through the port, and in a minute the door -slammed shut. Mr. Thirkell was strapped into the navigator's seat, with -everyone talking at once and holding him down. The special helmets -were issued to be fitted over every gray or white head to supply extra -oxygen in case of a leakage in the ship's hull, and at long last the -hour had come and Mrs. Bellowes stood behind Mr. Thirkell and said, -"We're ready, sir." - -He said nothing. He pleaded with them silently, using his great, dark, -wet eyes, but Mrs. Bellowes shook her head and pointed to the control. - -"Takeoff," agreed Mr. Thirkell morosely, and pulled a switch. - -Everybody fell. The rocket went up from the planet Mars in a great -fiery glide, with the noise of an entire kitchen thrown down an -elevator shaft, with a sound of pots and pans and kettles and fires -boiling and stews bubbling, with a smell of burned incense and -rubber and sulphur, with a color of yellow fire, and a ribbon of red -stretching below them, and all the old women singing and holding -to each other, and Mrs. Bellowes crawling upright in the sighing, -straining, trembling ship. - -"Head for space, Mr. Thirkell." - -"It can't last," said Mr. Thirkell, sadly. "This ship can't last. It -will--" - -It did. - -The rocket exploded. - -Mrs. Bellowes felt herself lifted and thrown about dizzily, like a -doll. She heard the great screamings and saw the flashes of bodies -sailing by her in fragments of metal and powdery light. - -"Help, help!" cried Mr. Thirkell, far away, on a small radio beam. - -The ship disintegrated into a million parts, and the old ladies, -all one hundred of them, were flung straight on ahead with the same -velocity as the ship. - -As for Mr. Thirkell, for some reason of trajectory, perhaps, he had -been blown out the other side of the ship. Mrs. Bellowes saw him -falling separate and away from them, screaming, screaming. - -_There goes Mr. Thirkell_, thought Mrs. Bellowes. - -And she knew where he was going. He was going to be burned and roasted -and broiled good, but very good. - -Mr. Thirkell was falling down into the Sun. - -_And here we are_, thought Mrs. Bellowes. _Here we are, going on out, -and out, and out._ - -There was hardly a sense of motion at all, but she knew that she was -traveling at fifty thousand miles an hour and would continue to travel -at that speed for an eternity, until.... - -She saw the other women swinging all about her in their own -trajectories, a few minutes of oxygen left to each of them in their -helmets, and each was looking up to where they were going. - -_Of course_, thought Mrs. Bellowes. _Out into space. Out and out, and -the darkness like a great church, and the stars like candles, and in -spite of everything, Mr. Thirkell, the rocket, and the dishonesty, we -are going toward the Lord._ - -And there, yes, _there_, as she fell on and on, coming toward her, -she could almost discern the outline now, coming toward her was His -mighty golden hand, reaching down to hold her and comfort her like a -frightened sparrow.... - -"I'm Mrs. Amelia Bellowes," she said quietly, in her best company -voice. 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