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Stecher - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world 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. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Cakewalk to Gloryanna - -Author: L.J. Stecher - -Release Date: September 9, 2016 [EBook #53016] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAKEWALK TO GLORYANNA *** - - - - -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="366" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>CAKEWALK TO GLORYANNA</h1> - -<p>BY L. J. STECHER, JR.</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of Tomorrow June 1963<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">The job was easy. The profit was enormous. The<br /> -only trouble was—the cargo had a will of its own!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Captain Hannah climbed painfully down from the <i>Delta Crucis</i>, hobbled -across the spaceport to where Beulah and I were waiting to greet him -and hit me in the eye. Beulah—that's his elephant, but I have to take -care of her for him because Beulah's baby belongs to me and Beulah has -to take care of it—kept us apart until we both cooled down a little. -Then, although still somewhat dubious about it, she let us go together -across the field to the spaceport bar.</p> - -<p>I didn't ask Captain Hannah why he had socked me.</p> - -<p>Although he has never been a handsome man, he usually has the -weathered and austere dignity that comes from plying the remote reaches -among the stars. Call it the Look of Eagles. Captain Hannah had lost -the Look of Eagles. His eyes were swollen almost shut; every inch of -him that showed was a red mass of welts piled on more welts, as though -he had tangled with a hive of misanthropic bees. The gold-braided hat -of his trade was not clamped in its usual belligerent position slightly -over one eye. It was riding high on his head, apparently held up by -more of the ubiquitous swellings.</p> - -<p>I figured that he figured that I had something to do with the way he -looked.</p> - -<p>"Shipping marocca to Gloryanna III didn't turn out to be a cakewalk -after all?" I suggested.</p> - -<p>He glared at me in silence.</p> - -<p>"Perhaps you would like a drink first, and then you would be willing to -tell me about it?"</p> - -<p>I decided that his wince was intended for a nod, and ordered rhial. -I only drink rhial when I've been exposed to Captain Hannah. It was -almost a pleasure to think that <i>I</i> was responsible, for a change, for -having <i>him</i> take the therapy.</p> - -<p>"A <i>Delta</i> Class freighter can carry almost anything," he said at last, -in a travesty of his usual forceful voice. "But some things it should -never try."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He lapsed back into silence after this uncharacteristic admission. I -almost felt sorry for him, but just then Beulah came racking across -the field with her two-ton infant in tow, to show her off to Hannah. I -walled off my pity. He had foisted those two maudlin mastodons off onto -me in one of our earlier deals, and if I had somehow been responsible -for his present troubles, it was no more than he deserved. I rated -winning for once.</p> - -<p>"You <i>did</i> succeed in getting the marocca to Gloryanna III?" I asked -anxiously, after the elephants had been admired and sent back home. -The success of that venture—even if the job had turned out to be more -difficult than we had expected—meant an enormous profit to both of -us. The fruit of the marocca is delicious and fabulously expensive. -The plant grew only on the single planet Mypore II. Transshipped seeds -invariably failed to germinate, which explained its rarity.</p> - -<p>The Myporians were usually, and understandably, bitterly, opposed to -letting any of the living plants get shipped off their planet. But when -I offered them a sizable piece of cash plus a perpetual share of the -profits for letting us take a load of marocca plants to Gloryanna III, -they relented and, for the first time in history, gave their assent. In -fact, they had seemed delighted.</p> - -<p>"I got them there safely," said Captain Hannah.</p> - -<p>"And they are growing all right?" I persisted.</p> - -<p>"When I left, marocca was growing like mad," said Captain Hannah.</p> - -<p>I relaxed and leaned back in my chair. I no longer felt the need of -rhial for myself. "Tell me about it," I suggested.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"It was you who said that we should carry those damn plants to -Gloryanna III," he said balefully. "I ought to black your other eye."</p> - -<p>"Simmer down and have some more rhial," I told him. "Sure I get the -credit for that. Gloryanna III is almost a twin to Mypore II. You know -that marocca takes a very special kind of environment. Bright sun most -of the time—that means an almost cloudless environment. A very equable -climate. Days and nights the same length and no seasons—that means no -ecliptical and no axial tilt. But our tests showed that the plants had -enough tolerance to cause no trouble in the trip in <i>Delta Crucis</i>." A -light dawned. "Our tests were no good?"</p> - -<p>"Your tests were no good," agreed the captain with feeling. "I'll tell -you about it first, and <i>then</i> I'll black your other eye," he decided.</p> - -<p>"You'll remember that I warned you that we should take some marocca -out into space and solve any problems we might find before committing -ourselves to hauling a full load of it?" asked Captain Hannah.</p> - -<p>"We couldn't," I protested. "The Myporians gave us a deadline. If -we had gone through all of that rigamarole, we would have lost the -franchise. Besides, they gave you full written instructions about what -to do under all possible circumstances."</p> - -<p>"Sure. Written in Myporian. A very difficult language to translate. -Especially when you're barricaded in the head."</p> - -<p>I almost asked him why he had been barricaded in the bathroom of the -<i>Delta Crucis</i>, but I figured it was safer to let him tell me in his -own way, in his own time.</p> - -<p>"Well," he said, "I got into parking orbit around Mypore without any -trouble. The plastic film kept the water in the hydroponic tanks -without any trouble, even in a no-gravity condition. And by the time I -had lined up for Gloryanna and Jumped, I figured, like you said, that -the trip would be a cakewalk.</p> - -<p>"Do you remember how the plants always keep their leaves facing the -sun? They twist on their stems all day, and then they go on twisting -them all night, still pointing at the underground sun, so that they're -aimed right at sunrise. So the stem looks like a corkscrew?"</p> - -<p>I nodded. "Sure. That's why they can't stand an axial tilt. They -'remember' the rate and direction of movement, and keep it up during -the night time. So what? We had that problem all figured out."</p> - -<p>"You think so? That solution was one of yours, too, wasn't it?" He -gazed moodily at his beaker of rhial. "I must admit it sounded good -to me, too. In Limbo, moving at multiple light-speeds, the whole -Universe, of course, turns into a bright glowing spot in our direction -of motion, with everything else dark. So I lined up the <i>Delta Crucis</i> -perpendicular to her direction of motion, put a once-every-twenty-one -hour spin on her to match the rotation rates of Mypore II and Gloryanna -III, and uncovered the view ports to let in the light. It gradually -brightened until 'noon time', with the ports pointing straight at the -light source, and then dimmed until we had ten and one-half hours of -darkness.</p> - -<p>"Of course, it didn't work."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"For Heaven's sake, why not?"</p> - -<p>"For Heaven's sake why should it? With no gravity for reference, how -were the plants supposed to know that the 'sun' was supposed to be -moving?"</p> - -<p>"So what did you do?" I asked, when that had sunk in. "If the stem -doesn't keep winding, the plants die; and they can only take a few -extra hours of night time before they run down."</p> - -<p>"Oh," said Captain Hannah in quiet tones of controlled desperation, "it -was very simple. I just put enough spin on the ship to make artificial -gravity, and then I strung a light and moved it every fifteen minutes -for ten and one-half hours, until I had gone halfway around the room. -Then I could turn the light off and rest for ten and one-half hours. -The plants liked it fine.</p> - -<p>"Of course, first I had to move all the hydroponic tanks from their -original positions perpendicular to the axial thrust line of the ship -to a radial position. And because somehow we had picked up half of -the plants in the northern hemisphere of Mypore and the other half in -the southern hemisphere, it turned out that half of the plants had a -sinistral corkscrew and the other half had a dextral. So I had to set -the plants up in two different rooms, and run an artificial sun for -each, going clockwise with one, widdershins with the other.</p> - -<p>"I won't even talk about what I went through while I was shifting the -hydroponic tanks, when all the plastic membranes that were supposed to -keep the water in place started to break."</p> - -<p>"I'd like to know," I said sincerely.</p> - -<p>He stared at me in silence for a moment. "Well, it filled the cabin -with great solid bubbles of water. Water bubbles will oscillate and -wobble like soap bubbles," he went on dreamily, "but of course, -they're not empty, like soap bubbles. The surface acts a little like -a membrane, so that sometimes two of the things will touch and gently -bounce apart without joining. But just try <i>touching</i> one of them. You -could drown—I almost did. Several times.</p> - -<p>"I got a fire pump—an empty one. You know the kind; a wide cylinder -with a piston with a handle, and a hose that you squirt the water out -of, or can suck water in with. The way you use it is, you float up on -a big ball of water, with the pump piston down—closed. You carefully -poke the end of the hose into the ball of water, letting only the metal -tip touch. <i>Never</i> the hose. If you let the hose touch, the water runs -up it and tries to drown you. Then you pull up on the piston, and draw -all the water into the cylinder. Of course, you have to hold the pump -with your feet while you pull the handle with your free hand."</p> - -<p>"Did it work?" I asked eagerly.</p> - -<p>"Eventually. Then I stopped to think of what to do with the water. -It was full of minerals and manure and such, and I didn't want to -introduce it into the ship's tanks."</p> - -<p>"But you solved the problem?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"In a sense," said the captain. "I just emptied the pump back into the -air, ignored the bubbles, repositioned the tanks, put spin on the ship -and then ladled the liquid back into the tanks with a bucket."</p> - -<p>"Didn't you bump into a lot of the bubbles and get yourself dunked a -good deal while you were working with the tanks?"</p> - -<p>He shrugged. "I couldn't say. By that time I was ignoring them. It was -that or suicide. I had begun to get the feeling that they were stalking -me. So I drew a blank."</p> - -<p>"Then after that you were all right, except for the tedium of moving -the lights around?" I asked him. I answered myself at once. "No. There -must be more. You haven't told me why you hid out in the bathroom, yet."</p> - -<p>"Not yet," said Captain Hannah. "Like you, I figured I had the -situation fairly well under control, but like you, I hadn't thought -things through. The plastic membranes hadn't torn when we brought the -tanks in board the <i>Delta Crucis</i>. It never occurred to me to hunt -around for the reasons for the change. But I wouldn't have had long to -hunt anyway, because in a few hours the reasons came looking for me.</p> - -<p>"They were a tiny skeeter-like thing. A sort of midge or junior grade -mosquito. They had apparently been swimming in the water during their -larval stage. Instead of making cocoons for themselves, they snipped -tiny little pieces of plastic to use as protective covers in the pupal -stage. I guess they were more like butterflies than mosquitoes in their -habits. And now they were mature.</p> - -<p>"There were thousands and thousands of them, and each one of them made -a tiny, maddening whine as it flew."</p> - -<p>"And they bit? That explains your bumps?" I asked sympathetically.</p> - -<p>"Oh, no. These things didn't bite, they itched. And they got down -inside of everything they could get down inside, and clung. That -included my ears and my eyes and my nose.</p> - -<p>"I broke out a hand sprayer full of a DDT solution, and sprayed it -around me to try to clear the nearby air a little, so that I could -have room to think. The midges loved it. But the plants that were in -reach died so fast that you could watch their leaves curl up and drop -off.</p> - -<p>"I couldn't figure whether to turn up the fans and dissipate the -cloud—by spreading it all through the ship—or whether to try to block -off the other plant room, and save it at least. So I ended up by not -doing anything, which was the right thing to do. No more plants died -from the DDT.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"So then I did a few experiments, and found that the regular poison -spray in the ship's fumigation system worked just fine. It killed -the bugs without doing the plants any harm at all. Of course, the -fumigation system is designed to work with the fumigator off the ship, -because it's poisonous to humans too.</p> - -<p>"I finally blocked the vents and the door edges in the head, after -running some remote controls into there, and then started the -fumigation system going. While I was sitting there with nothing much -to do, I tried to translate what I could of the Myporian instructions. -It was on page eleven that it mentioned casually that the midges—the -correct word is carolla—are a necessary part of the life cycle of the -marocca. The larvae provide an enzyme without which the plants die.</p> - -<p>"Of course. I immediately stopped slapping at the relatively few midges -that had made their way into the head with me, and started to change -the air in the ship to get rid of the poison. I knew it was too late -before I started, and for once I was right.</p> - -<p>"The only live midges left in the ship were the ones that had been -with me during the fumigation process. I immediately tried to start -a breeding ground for midges, but the midges didn't seem to want to -cooperate. Whatever I tried to do, they came back to me. I was the only -thing they seemed to love. I didn't dare bathe, or scratch, or even -wriggle, for fear of killing more of them. And they kept on itching. It -was just about unbearable, but I bore it for three interminable days -while the midges died one by one. It was heartbreaking—at least, it -was to me.</p> - -<p>"And it was unnecessary, too. Because apparently the carolla had -already laid their eggs, or whatever it is that they do, before I -had fumigated them. After my useless days of agony, a new batch -came swarming out. And this time there were a few of a much larger -thing with them—something like an enormous moth. The new thing just -blundered around aimlessly.</p> - -<p>"I lit out for the head again, to keep away from that intolerable -whining. This time I took a luxurious shower and got rid of most of the -midges that came through the door with me. I felt almost comfortable, -in fact, until I resumed my efforts to catch up on my reading.</p> - -<p>"The mothlike things—they are called dingleburys—also turn out to -provide a necessary enzyme. They are supposed to have the same timing -of their life cycle as the carolla. Apparently the shaking up I had -given their larvae in moving the tanks and dipping the water up in -buckets and all that had inhibited them in completing their cycle the -first time around.</p> - -<p>"And the reason they had the same life cycle as the carolla was that -the adult dinglebury will eat only the adult carolla, and it has to -fill itself full to bursting before it will reproduce. If I had the -translation done correctly, they were supposed to dart gracefully -around, catching carolla on the wing and stuffing themselves happily.</p> - -<p>"I had to find out what was wrong with my awkward dingleburys. And -that, of course, meant going out into the ship again. But I had to do -that anyway, because it was almost 'daylight', and time for me to start -shifting the lights again.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"The reason for the dingleburys' problem is fairly obvious. When you -set up artificial gravity by spinning a ship, the gravity is fine down -near the skin where the plants are. But the gravity potential is very -high, and it gets very light up where things fly around, going to zero -on the middle line of the ship. And the unfamiliar gravity gradient, -together with the Coriolis effect and all, makes the poor dingleburys -dizzy, so they can't catch carolla.</p> - -<p>"And if you think I figured all that out about dingleburys getting -dizzy at the time, in that madhouse of a ship, then you're crazy. What -happened was that I saw that there was one of the creatures that didn't -seem to be having any trouble, but was acting like the book said it -should. I caught it and examined it. The poor thing was blind, and was -capturing her prey by sound alone.</p> - -<p>"So I spent the whole day—along with my usual chore of shifting the -lights—blindfolding dingleburys. Which is a hell of a sport for a man -who is captain of his own ship."</p> - -<p>I must say that I agreed with him, but it seemed to be a good time for -me to keep my mouth shut.</p> - -<p>"Well, after the dingleburys had eaten and propagated, they became -inquisitive. They explored the whole ship, going into places I wouldn't -have believed it to be possible for them to reach, including the inside -of the main computer, which promptly shorted out. I finally figured -that one of the things had managed to crawl up the cooling air exhaust -duct, against the flow of air, to see what was going on inside.</p> - -<p>"I didn't dare to get rid of the things without checking my book, of -course, so it was back to the head for me. 'Night' had come again—and -it was the only place I could get any privacy. There were plenty of the -carolla left to join me outside.</p> - -<p>"I showered and swatted and started to read. I got as far as where it -said that the dingleburys continued to be of importance, and then I'm -afraid I fell asleep.</p> - -<p>"I got up with the sun the next morning. Hell, I had to, considering -that it was I who turned the sun on! I found that the dingleburys -immediately got busy opening small buds on the stems of the marocca -plants. Apparently they were pollinating them. I felt sure that these -buds weren't the marocca blossoms from which the fruit formed—I'd -seen a lot of those while we were on Mypore II and they were much -bigger and showier than these little acorn-sized buds.</p> - -<p>"Of course, I should have translated some more of my instruction book, -but I was busy.</p> - -<p>"Anyway, the action of the dingleburys triggered the violent growth -phase of the marocca plants. Did you know that they plant marocca -seedlings, back on Mypore II, <i>at least</i> a hundred feet apart? If -you'll recall, a mature field, which was the only kind we ever saw, is -one solid mass of green growth.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"The book says that it takes just six hours for a marocca field to -shift from the seedling stage to the mature stage. It didn't seem that -long. You could <i>watch</i> the stuff grow—groping and crawling along; one -plant twining with another as they climbed toward the light.</p> - -<p>"It was then that I began to get worried. If they twined around the -light, they would keep me from moving it, and they would shadow it so -it wouldn't do its job right. In effect, their growth would put out the -sun.</p> - -<p>"I thought of putting up an electrically charged fence around the -light, but the bugs had put most of my loose equipment out of action, -so I got a machete. When I took a swing at one of the vines, something -bit me on the back of the neck so hard it almost knocked me down. It -was one of the dingleburys, and it was as mad as blazes. It seems that -one of the things they do is to defend the marocca against marauders. -That was the first of my welts, and it put me back in the head in -about two seconds.</p> - -<p>"And what's more, I found that I couldn't kill the damn things. Not if -I wanted to save the plants. The growth only stops at the end of six -hours, after the blossoms appear and are visited by the dingleburys. No -dingleburys, no growth stoppage.</p> - -<p>"So for the next several hours I had to keep moving those lights, and -keep them clear of the vines, and keep the vines from shadowing each -other to the point where they curled up and died, and I had to do it -<i>gently</i>, surrounded by a bunch of worried dingleburys.</p> - -<p>"Every time they got a little too worried, or I slipped and bumped into -a plant too hard, or looked crosseyed at them, they bit me. If you -think I look bad now, you should have seen me just about the time the -blossoms started to burst.</p> - -<p>"I was worried about those blossoms. I felt sure that they would smell -terrible, or make me sick, or hypnotize me, or something. But they just -turned out to be big, white, odorless flowers. They did nothing for me -or to me. They drove the dingleburys wild, though, I'm happy to say. -Made them forget all about me.</p> - -<p>"While they were having their orgy, I caught up on my reading. It -was necessary for me to cut back the marocca vines. For one thing, -I couldn't get up to the area of the bridge. For another, the main -computer was completely clogged. I could use the auxiliary, on the -bridge, if I could get to it, but it's a poor substitute. For another -thing, I would have to cut the stuff way back if I was ever going to -get the plants out of the ship. And I was a little anxious to get my -<i>Delta Crucis</i> back to normal as soon as possible. But before cutting, -I had to translate the gouge.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"It turns out that it's all right to cut marocca as soon as it stops -growing. To keep the plants from dying, though, you have to mulch the -cuttings and then feed them back to the plants, where the roots store -whatever they need against the time of the next explosive period of -growth. Of course, if you prefer you can wait for the vines to die back -naturally, which takes several months.</p> - -<p>"There was one little catch, of course. The cuttings from the vines -will poison the plants if they are fed back to them without having been -mixed with a certain amount of processed mulch. Enzymes again. And -there was only one special processor on board.</p> - -<p>"I was the special processor. That's what the instructions said—I -translated very carefully—it required an 'organic processor'.</p> - -<p>"So I had to eat pounds of that horrible tasting stuff every day, and -process it the hard way.</p> - -<p>"I didn't even have time to scratch my bites. I must have lost weight -everywhere but in the swollen places, and they looked worse than they -do now. The doctor says it may take a year before the bumps all go -away—if they ever do—but I have improved a lot already.</p> - -<p>"For a while I must have been out of my head. I got so caught up in -the rhythm of the thing that I didn't even notice when we slipped out -of Limbo into real space near Gloryanna III. It was three days, the -Control Tower on Gloryanna III told me, that they tried continuously -to raise me on the communications gear before I heard the alarm bell -and answered them, so I had to do a good deal of backtracking before -I could get into parking orbit around the planet, and then set <i>Delta -Crucis</i> down safely. Even as shaky as I was, <i>Delta Crucis</i> behaved -like a lady.</p> - -<p>"I hadn't chopped off all of the new growth, although I had the plants -down to manageable size. Some of the blossoms left on the plants had -formed fruit, and the fruit had ripened and dried, and the seeds had -developed fully. They were popping and spreading fine dust-like spores -all over the ship, those last few hours before I landed.</p> - -<p>"By that time, though, an occasional sneezing fit and watering eyes -didn't bother me any. I was far beyond the point where hay fever could -add to my troubles.</p> - -<p>"When I opened the airlock door, though, the spores drifting outside -set the customs inspectors to sneezing and swearing more than seemed -reasonable at the time." Captain Hannah inhaled a sip of rhial, and -seemed to be enjoying the powerful stuff. He acted as if he thought he -had finished.</p> - -<p>"Well, go on," I urged him. "The marocca plants were still in good -shape, weren't they?"</p> - -<p>Hannah nodded. "They were growing luxuriously." He nodded his head a -couple of more times, in spite of the discomfort it must have given -him.</p> - -<p>He said, "They made me burn the entire crop right away, of course. They -didn't get all of the carolla or dingleburys, though. Or spores."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Gloryanna III is the original home planet of marocca. They hated the -stuff, of course, but they liked the profit. Then, when a plague almost -wiped out the dingleburys, they introduced khorram furs as a cash -crop. It wasn't as lucrative, but it was so much more pleasant that -they outlawed marocca. Took them almost fifty years to stamp it out -completely. Meanwhile, some clever native shipped a load of the stuff -to Mypore II. He took his time, did it without any trouble and made his -fortune. And got out again quickly.</p> - -<p>"The Gloryannans were going to hold my <i>Delta Crucis</i> as security to -pay for the cost of stamping out marocca all over again—those spores -sprout fast—and for a time I was worried.</p> - -<p>"Of course, when I showed them our contract—that you alone were -responsible for everything once I landed the plants safely on Gloryanna -III, they let me go.</p> - -<p>"They'll send you the bill. They don't figure it will take them more -than a few months to complete the job."</p> - -<p>Captain Hannah stopped talking and stood up, painfully and a little -unsteadily.</p> - -<p>I'm afraid I didn't even notice when he blacked my other eye. I was too -busy reaching for the rhial.</p> - -<p class="ph3">END</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cakewalk to Gloryanna, by L.J. 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Stecher - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world 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. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Cakewalk to Gloryanna - -Author: L.J. Stecher - -Release Date: September 9, 2016 [EBook #53016] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAKEWALK TO GLORYANNA *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - CAKEWALK TO GLORYANNA - - BY L. J. STECHER, JR. - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of Tomorrow June 1963 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - The job was easy. The profit was enormous. The - only trouble was--the cargo had a will of its own! - - -Captain Hannah climbed painfully down from the _Delta Crucis_, hobbled -across the spaceport to where Beulah and I were waiting to greet him -and hit me in the eye. Beulah--that's his elephant, but I have to take -care of her for him because Beulah's baby belongs to me and Beulah has -to take care of it--kept us apart until we both cooled down a little. -Then, although still somewhat dubious about it, she let us go together -across the field to the spaceport bar. - -I didn't ask Captain Hannah why he had socked me. - -Although he has never been a handsome man, he usually has the -weathered and austere dignity that comes from plying the remote reaches -among the stars. Call it the Look of Eagles. Captain Hannah had lost -the Look of Eagles. His eyes were swollen almost shut; every inch of -him that showed was a red mass of welts piled on more welts, as though -he had tangled with a hive of misanthropic bees. The gold-braided hat -of his trade was not clamped in its usual belligerent position slightly -over one eye. It was riding high on his head, apparently held up by -more of the ubiquitous swellings. - -I figured that he figured that I had something to do with the way he -looked. - -"Shipping marocca to Gloryanna III didn't turn out to be a cakewalk -after all?" I suggested. - -He glared at me in silence. - -"Perhaps you would like a drink first, and then you would be willing to -tell me about it?" - -I decided that his wince was intended for a nod, and ordered rhial. -I only drink rhial when I've been exposed to Captain Hannah. It was -almost a pleasure to think that _I_ was responsible, for a change, for -having _him_ take the therapy. - -"A _Delta_ Class freighter can carry almost anything," he said at last, -in a travesty of his usual forceful voice. "But some things it should -never try." - - * * * * * - -He lapsed back into silence after this uncharacteristic admission. I -almost felt sorry for him, but just then Beulah came racking across -the field with her two-ton infant in tow, to show her off to Hannah. I -walled off my pity. He had foisted those two maudlin mastodons off onto -me in one of our earlier deals, and if I had somehow been responsible -for his present troubles, it was no more than he deserved. I rated -winning for once. - -"You _did_ succeed in getting the marocca to Gloryanna III?" I asked -anxiously, after the elephants had been admired and sent back home. -The success of that venture--even if the job had turned out to be more -difficult than we had expected--meant an enormous profit to both of -us. The fruit of the marocca is delicious and fabulously expensive. -The plant grew only on the single planet Mypore II. Transshipped seeds -invariably failed to germinate, which explained its rarity. - -The Myporians were usually, and understandably, bitterly, opposed to -letting any of the living plants get shipped off their planet. But when -I offered them a sizable piece of cash plus a perpetual share of the -profits for letting us take a load of marocca plants to Gloryanna III, -they relented and, for the first time in history, gave their assent. In -fact, they had seemed delighted. - -"I got them there safely," said Captain Hannah. - -"And they are growing all right?" I persisted. - -"When I left, marocca was growing like mad," said Captain Hannah. - -I relaxed and leaned back in my chair. I no longer felt the need of -rhial for myself. "Tell me about it," I suggested. - - * * * * * - -"It was you who said that we should carry those damn plants to -Gloryanna III," he said balefully. "I ought to black your other eye." - -"Simmer down and have some more rhial," I told him. "Sure I get the -credit for that. Gloryanna III is almost a twin to Mypore II. You know -that marocca takes a very special kind of environment. Bright sun most -of the time--that means an almost cloudless environment. A very equable -climate. Days and nights the same length and no seasons--that means no -ecliptical and no axial tilt. But our tests showed that the plants had -enough tolerance to cause no trouble in the trip in _Delta Crucis_." A -light dawned. "Our tests were no good?" - -"Your tests were no good," agreed the captain with feeling. "I'll tell -you about it first, and _then_ I'll black your other eye," he decided. - -"You'll remember that I warned you that we should take some marocca -out into space and solve any problems we might find before committing -ourselves to hauling a full load of it?" asked Captain Hannah. - -"We couldn't," I protested. "The Myporians gave us a deadline. If -we had gone through all of that rigamarole, we would have lost the -franchise. Besides, they gave you full written instructions about what -to do under all possible circumstances." - -"Sure. Written in Myporian. A very difficult language to translate. -Especially when you're barricaded in the head." - -I almost asked him why he had been barricaded in the bathroom of the -_Delta Crucis_, but I figured it was safer to let him tell me in his -own way, in his own time. - -"Well," he said, "I got into parking orbit around Mypore without any -trouble. The plastic film kept the water in the hydroponic tanks -without any trouble, even in a no-gravity condition. And by the time I -had lined up for Gloryanna and Jumped, I figured, like you said, that -the trip would be a cakewalk. - -"Do you remember how the plants always keep their leaves facing the -sun? They twist on their stems all day, and then they go on twisting -them all night, still pointing at the underground sun, so that they're -aimed right at sunrise. So the stem looks like a corkscrew?" - -I nodded. "Sure. That's why they can't stand an axial tilt. They -'remember' the rate and direction of movement, and keep it up during -the night time. So what? We had that problem all figured out." - -"You think so? That solution was one of yours, too, wasn't it?" He -gazed moodily at his beaker of rhial. "I must admit it sounded good -to me, too. In Limbo, moving at multiple light-speeds, the whole -Universe, of course, turns into a bright glowing spot in our direction -of motion, with everything else dark. So I lined up the _Delta Crucis_ -perpendicular to her direction of motion, put a once-every-twenty-one -hour spin on her to match the rotation rates of Mypore II and Gloryanna -III, and uncovered the view ports to let in the light. It gradually -brightened until 'noon time', with the ports pointing straight at the -light source, and then dimmed until we had ten and one-half hours of -darkness. - -"Of course, it didn't work." - - * * * * * - -"For Heaven's sake, why not?" - -"For Heaven's sake why should it? With no gravity for reference, how -were the plants supposed to know that the 'sun' was supposed to be -moving?" - -"So what did you do?" I asked, when that had sunk in. "If the stem -doesn't keep winding, the plants die; and they can only take a few -extra hours of night time before they run down." - -"Oh," said Captain Hannah in quiet tones of controlled desperation, "it -was very simple. I just put enough spin on the ship to make artificial -gravity, and then I strung a light and moved it every fifteen minutes -for ten and one-half hours, until I had gone halfway around the room. -Then I could turn the light off and rest for ten and one-half hours. -The plants liked it fine. - -"Of course, first I had to move all the hydroponic tanks from their -original positions perpendicular to the axial thrust line of the ship -to a radial position. And because somehow we had picked up half of -the plants in the northern hemisphere of Mypore and the other half in -the southern hemisphere, it turned out that half of the plants had a -sinistral corkscrew and the other half had a dextral. So I had to set -the plants up in two different rooms, and run an artificial sun for -each, going clockwise with one, widdershins with the other. - -"I won't even talk about what I went through while I was shifting the -hydroponic tanks, when all the plastic membranes that were supposed to -keep the water in place started to break." - -"I'd like to know," I said sincerely. - -He stared at me in silence for a moment. "Well, it filled the cabin -with great solid bubbles of water. Water bubbles will oscillate and -wobble like soap bubbles," he went on dreamily, "but of course, -they're not empty, like soap bubbles. The surface acts a little like -a membrane, so that sometimes two of the things will touch and gently -bounce apart without joining. But just try _touching_ one of them. You -could drown--I almost did. Several times. - -"I got a fire pump--an empty one. You know the kind; a wide cylinder -with a piston with a handle, and a hose that you squirt the water out -of, or can suck water in with. The way you use it is, you float up on -a big ball of water, with the pump piston down--closed. You carefully -poke the end of the hose into the ball of water, letting only the metal -tip touch. _Never_ the hose. If you let the hose touch, the water runs -up it and tries to drown you. Then you pull up on the piston, and draw -all the water into the cylinder. Of course, you have to hold the pump -with your feet while you pull the handle with your free hand." - -"Did it work?" I asked eagerly. - -"Eventually. Then I stopped to think of what to do with the water. -It was full of minerals and manure and such, and I didn't want to -introduce it into the ship's tanks." - -"But you solved the problem?" - - * * * * * - -"In a sense," said the captain. "I just emptied the pump back into the -air, ignored the bubbles, repositioned the tanks, put spin on the ship -and then ladled the liquid back into the tanks with a bucket." - -"Didn't you bump into a lot of the bubbles and get yourself dunked a -good deal while you were working with the tanks?" - -He shrugged. "I couldn't say. By that time I was ignoring them. It was -that or suicide. I had begun to get the feeling that they were stalking -me. So I drew a blank." - -"Then after that you were all right, except for the tedium of moving -the lights around?" I asked him. I answered myself at once. "No. There -must be more. You haven't told me why you hid out in the bathroom, yet." - -"Not yet," said Captain Hannah. "Like you, I figured I had the -situation fairly well under control, but like you, I hadn't thought -things through. The plastic membranes hadn't torn when we brought the -tanks in board the _Delta Crucis_. It never occurred to me to hunt -around for the reasons for the change. But I wouldn't have had long to -hunt anyway, because in a few hours the reasons came looking for me. - -"They were a tiny skeeter-like thing. A sort of midge or junior grade -mosquito. They had apparently been swimming in the water during their -larval stage. Instead of making cocoons for themselves, they snipped -tiny little pieces of plastic to use as protective covers in the pupal -stage. I guess they were more like butterflies than mosquitoes in their -habits. And now they were mature. - -"There were thousands and thousands of them, and each one of them made -a tiny, maddening whine as it flew." - -"And they bit? That explains your bumps?" I asked sympathetically. - -"Oh, no. These things didn't bite, they itched. And they got down -inside of everything they could get down inside, and clung. That -included my ears and my eyes and my nose. - -"I broke out a hand sprayer full of a DDT solution, and sprayed it -around me to try to clear the nearby air a little, so that I could -have room to think. The midges loved it. But the plants that were in -reach died so fast that you could watch their leaves curl up and drop -off. - -"I couldn't figure whether to turn up the fans and dissipate the -cloud--by spreading it all through the ship--or whether to try to block -off the other plant room, and save it at least. So I ended up by not -doing anything, which was the right thing to do. No more plants died -from the DDT. - - * * * * * - -"So then I did a few experiments, and found that the regular poison -spray in the ship's fumigation system worked just fine. It killed -the bugs without doing the plants any harm at all. Of course, the -fumigation system is designed to work with the fumigator off the ship, -because it's poisonous to humans too. - -"I finally blocked the vents and the door edges in the head, after -running some remote controls into there, and then started the -fumigation system going. While I was sitting there with nothing much -to do, I tried to translate what I could of the Myporian instructions. -It was on page eleven that it mentioned casually that the midges--the -correct word is carolla--are a necessary part of the life cycle of the -marocca. The larvae provide an enzyme without which the plants die. - -"Of course. I immediately stopped slapping at the relatively few midges -that had made their way into the head with me, and started to change -the air in the ship to get rid of the poison. I knew it was too late -before I started, and for once I was right. - -"The only live midges left in the ship were the ones that had been -with me during the fumigation process. I immediately tried to start -a breeding ground for midges, but the midges didn't seem to want to -cooperate. Whatever I tried to do, they came back to me. I was the only -thing they seemed to love. I didn't dare bathe, or scratch, or even -wriggle, for fear of killing more of them. And they kept on itching. It -was just about unbearable, but I bore it for three interminable days -while the midges died one by one. It was heartbreaking--at least, it -was to me. - -"And it was unnecessary, too. Because apparently the carolla had -already laid their eggs, or whatever it is that they do, before I -had fumigated them. After my useless days of agony, a new batch -came swarming out. And this time there were a few of a much larger -thing with them--something like an enormous moth. The new thing just -blundered around aimlessly. - -"I lit out for the head again, to keep away from that intolerable -whining. This time I took a luxurious shower and got rid of most of the -midges that came through the door with me. I felt almost comfortable, -in fact, until I resumed my efforts to catch up on my reading. - -"The mothlike things--they are called dingleburys--also turn out to -provide a necessary enzyme. They are supposed to have the same timing -of their life cycle as the carolla. Apparently the shaking up I had -given their larvae in moving the tanks and dipping the water up in -buckets and all that had inhibited them in completing their cycle the -first time around. - -"And the reason they had the same life cycle as the carolla was that -the adult dinglebury will eat only the adult carolla, and it has to -fill itself full to bursting before it will reproduce. If I had the -translation done correctly, they were supposed to dart gracefully -around, catching carolla on the wing and stuffing themselves happily. - -"I had to find out what was wrong with my awkward dingleburys. And -that, of course, meant going out into the ship again. But I had to do -that anyway, because it was almost 'daylight', and time for me to start -shifting the lights again. - - * * * * * - -"The reason for the dingleburys' problem is fairly obvious. When you -set up artificial gravity by spinning a ship, the gravity is fine down -near the skin where the plants are. But the gravity potential is very -high, and it gets very light up where things fly around, going to zero -on the middle line of the ship. And the unfamiliar gravity gradient, -together with the Coriolis effect and all, makes the poor dingleburys -dizzy, so they can't catch carolla. - -"And if you think I figured all that out about dingleburys getting -dizzy at the time, in that madhouse of a ship, then you're crazy. What -happened was that I saw that there was one of the creatures that didn't -seem to be having any trouble, but was acting like the book said it -should. I caught it and examined it. The poor thing was blind, and was -capturing her prey by sound alone. - -"So I spent the whole day--along with my usual chore of shifting the -lights--blindfolding dingleburys. Which is a hell of a sport for a man -who is captain of his own ship." - -I must say that I agreed with him, but it seemed to be a good time for -me to keep my mouth shut. - -"Well, after the dingleburys had eaten and propagated, they became -inquisitive. They explored the whole ship, going into places I wouldn't -have believed it to be possible for them to reach, including the inside -of the main computer, which promptly shorted out. I finally figured -that one of the things had managed to crawl up the cooling air exhaust -duct, against the flow of air, to see what was going on inside. - -"I didn't dare to get rid of the things without checking my book, of -course, so it was back to the head for me. 'Night' had come again--and -it was the only place I could get any privacy. There were plenty of the -carolla left to join me outside. - -"I showered and swatted and started to read. I got as far as where it -said that the dingleburys continued to be of importance, and then I'm -afraid I fell asleep. - -"I got up with the sun the next morning. Hell, I had to, considering -that it was I who turned the sun on! I found that the dingleburys -immediately got busy opening small buds on the stems of the marocca -plants. Apparently they were pollinating them. I felt sure that these -buds weren't the marocca blossoms from which the fruit formed--I'd -seen a lot of those while we were on Mypore II and they were much -bigger and showier than these little acorn-sized buds. - -"Of course, I should have translated some more of my instruction book, -but I was busy. - -"Anyway, the action of the dingleburys triggered the violent growth -phase of the marocca plants. Did you know that they plant marocca -seedlings, back on Mypore II, _at least_ a hundred feet apart? If -you'll recall, a mature field, which was the only kind we ever saw, is -one solid mass of green growth. - - * * * * * - -"The book says that it takes just six hours for a marocca field to -shift from the seedling stage to the mature stage. It didn't seem that -long. You could _watch_ the stuff grow--groping and crawling along; one -plant twining with another as they climbed toward the light. - -"It was then that I began to get worried. If they twined around the -light, they would keep me from moving it, and they would shadow it so -it wouldn't do its job right. In effect, their growth would put out the -sun. - -"I thought of putting up an electrically charged fence around the -light, but the bugs had put most of my loose equipment out of action, -so I got a machete. When I took a swing at one of the vines, something -bit me on the back of the neck so hard it almost knocked me down. It -was one of the dingleburys, and it was as mad as blazes. It seems that -one of the things they do is to defend the marocca against marauders. -That was the first of my welts, and it put me back in the head in -about two seconds. - -"And what's more, I found that I couldn't kill the damn things. Not if -I wanted to save the plants. The growth only stops at the end of six -hours, after the blossoms appear and are visited by the dingleburys. No -dingleburys, no growth stoppage. - -"So for the next several hours I had to keep moving those lights, and -keep them clear of the vines, and keep the vines from shadowing each -other to the point where they curled up and died, and I had to do it -_gently_, surrounded by a bunch of worried dingleburys. - -"Every time they got a little too worried, or I slipped and bumped into -a plant too hard, or looked crosseyed at them, they bit me. If you -think I look bad now, you should have seen me just about the time the -blossoms started to burst. - -"I was worried about those blossoms. I felt sure that they would smell -terrible, or make me sick, or hypnotize me, or something. But they just -turned out to be big, white, odorless flowers. They did nothing for me -or to me. They drove the dingleburys wild, though, I'm happy to say. -Made them forget all about me. - -"While they were having their orgy, I caught up on my reading. It -was necessary for me to cut back the marocca vines. For one thing, -I couldn't get up to the area of the bridge. For another, the main -computer was completely clogged. I could use the auxiliary, on the -bridge, if I could get to it, but it's a poor substitute. For another -thing, I would have to cut the stuff way back if I was ever going to -get the plants out of the ship. And I was a little anxious to get my -_Delta Crucis_ back to normal as soon as possible. But before cutting, -I had to translate the gouge. - - * * * * * - -"It turns out that it's all right to cut marocca as soon as it stops -growing. To keep the plants from dying, though, you have to mulch the -cuttings and then feed them back to the plants, where the roots store -whatever they need against the time of the next explosive period of -growth. Of course, if you prefer you can wait for the vines to die back -naturally, which takes several months. - -"There was one little catch, of course. The cuttings from the vines -will poison the plants if they are fed back to them without having been -mixed with a certain amount of processed mulch. Enzymes again. And -there was only one special processor on board. - -"I was the special processor. That's what the instructions said--I -translated very carefully--it required an 'organic processor'. - -"So I had to eat pounds of that horrible tasting stuff every day, and -process it the hard way. - -"I didn't even have time to scratch my bites. I must have lost weight -everywhere but in the swollen places, and they looked worse than they -do now. The doctor says it may take a year before the bumps all go -away--if they ever do--but I have improved a lot already. - -"For a while I must have been out of my head. I got so caught up in -the rhythm of the thing that I didn't even notice when we slipped out -of Limbo into real space near Gloryanna III. It was three days, the -Control Tower on Gloryanna III told me, that they tried continuously -to raise me on the communications gear before I heard the alarm bell -and answered them, so I had to do a good deal of backtracking before -I could get into parking orbit around the planet, and then set _Delta -Crucis_ down safely. Even as shaky as I was, _Delta Crucis_ behaved -like a lady. - -"I hadn't chopped off all of the new growth, although I had the plants -down to manageable size. Some of the blossoms left on the plants had -formed fruit, and the fruit had ripened and dried, and the seeds had -developed fully. They were popping and spreading fine dust-like spores -all over the ship, those last few hours before I landed. - -"By that time, though, an occasional sneezing fit and watering eyes -didn't bother me any. I was far beyond the point where hay fever could -add to my troubles. - -"When I opened the airlock door, though, the spores drifting outside -set the customs inspectors to sneezing and swearing more than seemed -reasonable at the time." Captain Hannah inhaled a sip of rhial, and -seemed to be enjoying the powerful stuff. He acted as if he thought he -had finished. - -"Well, go on," I urged him. "The marocca plants were still in good -shape, weren't they?" - -Hannah nodded. "They were growing luxuriously." He nodded his head a -couple of more times, in spite of the discomfort it must have given -him. - -He said, "They made me burn the entire crop right away, of course. They -didn't get all of the carolla or dingleburys, though. Or spores." - - * * * * * - -"Gloryanna III is the original home planet of marocca. They hated the -stuff, of course, but they liked the profit. Then, when a plague almost -wiped out the dingleburys, they introduced khorram furs as a cash -crop. It wasn't as lucrative, but it was so much more pleasant that -they outlawed marocca. Took them almost fifty years to stamp it out -completely. Meanwhile, some clever native shipped a load of the stuff -to Mypore II. He took his time, did it without any trouble and made his -fortune. And got out again quickly. - -"The Gloryannans were going to hold my _Delta Crucis_ as security to -pay for the cost of stamping out marocca all over again--those spores -sprout fast--and for a time I was worried. - -"Of course, when I showed them our contract--that you alone were -responsible for everything once I landed the plants safely on Gloryanna -III, they let me go. - -"They'll send you the bill. They don't figure it will take them more -than a few months to complete the job." - -Captain Hannah stopped talking and stood up, painfully and a little -unsteadily. - -I'm afraid I didn't even notice when he blacked my other eye. I was too -busy reaching for the rhial. - -END - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cakewalk to Gloryanna, by L.J. 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