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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this ebook. - -Title: The Recluse - -Author: Mike Curry - -Release Date: November 08, 2020 [EBook #63677] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECLUSE *** - - - - - THE RECLUSE - - By MIKE CURRY - - _The human voice! Had there even been - so sweet a sound? Arak Miller ached - for it--too eagerly; too swiftly._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Winter 1954. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Twenty-five years later a ship appeared, on an afternoon in the -planet's summer. - -Arak Miller watched it from the mesa. - -_From Earth_, he thought. _From Earth!_ - -But Arak Miller was an ordered man. Even now, in the face of resurging -visions of his wife, and his sons, and his work, and the mighty -civilization from which he had been cut adrift, his thoughts were -ordered: probably the ship had arrived from Earth to resurvey one of -the Class II uninhabitable planets of the Alpha Centaurus System. -Tomorrow its scout ships would whip along the day sides at five -thousand feet. Tomorrow atop the mesa he must light his pyres, some -hundred-odd gigantic piles of pine trees and brush that would burn with -billowing smoke. He must signal the presence of a lone Earthman. - -With a hypnotic intensity he stood watching the ship until, toward -evening, it merged into the gray sky over the horizon. Then he ran -across the clearing and down to his house by the river that wound -through the valley a thousand feet below. "Come on, you fool!" he -shouted to Marbach, sitting beneath a tree. Arak Miller threw the -figure over his shoulder and carried him to the house. He sat Marbach -on a chair and went into the kitchen to eat. - -Arak Miller had been nomadic the first few years after he crashed and -had been abandoned for dead, until he found in the planet's narrow -temperate zone one of the few arable regions capable of sustaining him. -There was sufficient small game, the river was cool, and because the -rain fell mainly in the valley, his pyres were safe. - -In recent years he was always building. He had added a front porch to -the cabin he had started with, then more rooms which he had never -used, then an attic into which he never went. Now it was a house. It -had chairs and tables, a bed, a rug of vines, a garden for vegetables -and tobacco, and a garden for flowers. - -He ate a leisurely meal of potatoes and corn and meat of the -rabbit-like creatures which he trapped. Miss Gormeley was sitting on -the porch as he went out. "A ship's come," he shouted. "I may be saved, -you understand?" - -He recalled he had intended to do something about Miss Gormeley's -nostril. With one of his knives he scraped a little against the wall of -her left nostril. Then he stood back, satisfied. "Now you look better," -he said. With a wry grin he added, "You can smell better, too." - - * * * * * - -For a long time he could not sleep, remembering that he had been cut -off in the prime of his life. He had been the Senior Astrophysicist -in the Systems War Office on Earth, working on the Second Einstein -Modifications that promised travel to the more distant galactic -Systems. He had completed six months of comparison spectography in the -barren Centaurus System and had been about to take the year's return -journey to Earth, looking forward to a vacation trip with his family to -Venus City. He had been in the forefront of the free world's pushing -back of the last frontiers of man. - -He twisted on his bed in a wild agony of hope and yearning. "Someday -soon," he shouted to the walls, "I'll ride the monorail across the -Western plains." He had discovered that it helped, to talk aloud, -though none of his devices could make him forget he was a prisoner. To -feel the Centaurus skies closing down on him and the alien mountains -crushing him, so far from his work and those he loved, was to feel a -terrible suffocation from which there was no release. - -But then he would go doggedly to work, or else carve the life-size -figures to keep him silent company, and try to forget. - -He talked on and on, and finally he could talk no more. He slept. - -He was awakened by a pattering on the roof. - -"Rain!" he shouted. He jumped up and ran to the window socket. The rain -clouds were high, and heavy with storm. - -It struck him like a blow: they hung above the mesa. - -Above his pyres. - -In a panic he clambered up to the mesa, forgetting his breakfast, -forgetting his outer clothing, his mind in disorder. - -The shock wave pounded his eardrums. - -He was too startled to make words. With unbelieving eyes he saw, about -five miles away where the river emptied into the sea, the black cloud -of an atomic explosion rise into the sky to spread out under the rain. - -Then suddenly he was running blindly through the rain. The scout must -have come down. They must be testing. The area was ideal for testing -atomic weapons. _I must reach them before they leave._ - -Through heavy undergrowth he pushed his way down the slope to the -valley. His foot slipped on an exposed root. With a sharp crack of -bone, he fell. - -"My ankle!" he screamed, with terror smashing at his mind. He managed -to find two thick lengths of branch that would serve as crutches. Then -he started hobbling awkwardly toward the river. - -For an hour he forced himself on urgently along the river bank, now -feeling knife-like pains slicing up through his body. The effort of -moving was beginning to exhaust him. - -He fell down, and rested a moment. He heard a tree crash in the forest -ahead. He heard someone shout. - -A human voice! - -He began to sob, softly at first, then uncontrollably. A human voice! -It had never been so sweet a sound. - - * * * * * - -He climbed painfully to his feet, crashed on through the undergrowth. -The density of trees ended abruptly and he stopped. Around the scout -ship in the clearing beyond, robot dredges were digging the foundations -for buildings. Gray-uniformed men were setting up new-type atomic -artillery at the perimeters. - -Arak Miller drew a deep breath. "I'm saved," he said, his voice -breaking. "I'm going to be a free man!" He tottered on the edge of -hysteria, but controlled himself with a mighty effort of will. - -He took a step forward to reach the clearing. Then he stopped. - -Something was wrong. - -He tried to put together the pieces of his mind. Everything looked -normal. Construction going on, stores being transferred to temporary -warehouses, all the usual activities of a scout party on an atomic -testing mission. The artillery was pointing-- - -That was the flaw. - -The artillery faced inward. - -He looked back at the construction work. "Not foundations for -buildings," he said dully. "Ditches." - -As he watched, a flag was run up on a pole. The dreams of Arak Miller -crashed in his mind. - -It was the flag of the slave world, super-imposed upon the symbol of -the Systems. The world controlled by the dictators, which for centuries -had existed alongside the free world in a perpetual cold war. During -some stage of Arak Miller's long imprisonment, from Venus to Centaurus -the dictators had taken over. - -Hidden from guards, he lay on the ground and watched for a long time. -Only when the next batch of captives was taken out of the scout ship -and lined up in front of the ditch, did he turn his gaze away. - -He waited till the next shock wave had passed, then with tears -streaming down his face, hobbled back in the rain toward the river. -He crawled the last two miles to his house. Miss Gormeley was sitting -where he had left her. "I am sorry," he said painfully. "I will have to -destroy you. And Marbach. And our house, and the pyres. And when all -that is done, I will have to leave this area. Otherwise they might find -me." - -Miss Gormeley stared blindly out at the river. - -He lay still on the floor, gasping for breath. "You see," he explained, -"I am not a prisoner. They are the prisoners. All of them. All the -world--but me." - -His eyes closed in exhaustion. "I like it here now," he said, almost in -a whisper. "I intend to stay. 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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. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this ebook. - -Title: The Recluse - -Author: Mike Curry - -Release Date: November 08, 2020 [EBook #63677] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECLUSE *** -</pre> -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>THE RECLUSE</h1> - -<h2>By MIKE CURRY</h2> - -<p><i>The human voice! Had there even been<br /> -so sweet a sound? Arak Miller ached<br /> -for it—too eagerly; too swiftly.</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Winter 1954.<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>Twenty-five years later a ship appeared, on an afternoon in the -planet's summer.</p> - -<p>Arak Miller watched it from the mesa.</p> - -<p><i>From Earth</i>, he thought. <i>From Earth!</i></p> - -<p>But Arak Miller was an ordered man. Even now, in the face of resurging -visions of his wife, and his sons, and his work, and the mighty -civilization from which he had been cut adrift, his thoughts were -ordered: probably the ship had arrived from Earth to resurvey one of -the Class II uninhabitable planets of the Alpha Centaurus System. -Tomorrow its scout ships would whip along the day sides at five -thousand feet. Tomorrow atop the mesa he must light his pyres, some -hundred-odd gigantic piles of pine trees and brush that would burn with -billowing smoke. He must signal the presence of a lone Earthman.</p> - -<p>With a hypnotic intensity he stood watching the ship until, toward -evening, it merged into the gray sky over the horizon. Then he ran -across the clearing and down to his house by the river that wound -through the valley a thousand feet below. "Come on, you fool!" he -shouted to Marbach, sitting beneath a tree. Arak Miller threw the -figure over his shoulder and carried him to the house. He sat Marbach -on a chair and went into the kitchen to eat.</p> - -<p>Arak Miller had been nomadic the first few years after he crashed and -had been abandoned for dead, until he found in the planet's narrow -temperate zone one of the few arable regions capable of sustaining him. -There was sufficient small game, the river was cool, and because the -rain fell mainly in the valley, his pyres were safe.</p> - -<p>In recent years he was always building. He had added a front porch to -the cabin he had started with, then more rooms which he had never -used, then an attic into which he never went. Now it was a house. It -had chairs and tables, a bed, a rug of vines, a garden for vegetables -and tobacco, and a garden for flowers.</p> - -<p>He ate a leisurely meal of potatoes and corn and meat of the -rabbit-like creatures which he trapped. Miss Gormeley was sitting on -the porch as he went out. "A ship's come," he shouted. "I may be saved, -you understand?"</p> - -<p>He recalled he had intended to do something about Miss Gormeley's -nostril. With one of his knives he scraped a little against the wall of -her left nostril. Then he stood back, satisfied. "Now you look better," -he said. With a wry grin he added, "You can smell better, too."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>For a long time he could not sleep, remembering that he had been cut -off in the prime of his life. He had been the Senior Astrophysicist -in the Systems War Office on Earth, working on the Second Einstein -Modifications that promised travel to the more distant galactic -Systems. He had completed six months of comparison spectography in the -barren Centaurus System and had been about to take the year's return -journey to Earth, looking forward to a vacation trip with his family to -Venus City. He had been in the forefront of the free world's pushing -back of the last frontiers of man.</p> - -<p>He twisted on his bed in a wild agony of hope and yearning. "Someday -soon," he shouted to the walls, "I'll ride the monorail across the -Western plains." He had discovered that it helped, to talk aloud, -though none of his devices could make him forget he was a prisoner. To -feel the Centaurus skies closing down on him and the alien mountains -crushing him, so far from his work and those he loved, was to feel a -terrible suffocation from which there was no release.</p> - -<p>But then he would go doggedly to work, or else carve the life-size -figures to keep him silent company, and try to forget.</p> - -<p>He talked on and on, and finally he could talk no more. He slept.</p> - -<p>He was awakened by a pattering on the roof.</p> - -<p>"Rain!" he shouted. He jumped up and ran to the window socket. The rain -clouds were high, and heavy with storm.</p> - -<p>It struck him like a blow: they hung above the mesa.</p> - -<p>Above his pyres.</p> - -<p>In a panic he clambered up to the mesa, forgetting his breakfast, -forgetting his outer clothing, his mind in disorder.</p> - -<p>The shock wave pounded his eardrums.</p> - -<p>He was too startled to make words. With unbelieving eyes he saw, about -five miles away where the river emptied into the sea, the black cloud -of an atomic explosion rise into the sky to spread out under the rain.</p> - -<p>Then suddenly he was running blindly through the rain. The scout must -have come down. They must be testing. The area was ideal for testing -atomic weapons. <i>I must reach them before they leave.</i></p> - -<p>Through heavy undergrowth he pushed his way down the slope to the -valley. His foot slipped on an exposed root. With a sharp crack of -bone, he fell.</p> - -<p>"My ankle!" he screamed, with terror smashing at his mind. He managed -to find two thick lengths of branch that would serve as crutches. Then -he started hobbling awkwardly toward the river.</p> - -<p>For an hour he forced himself on urgently along the river bank, now -feeling knife-like pains slicing up through his body. The effort of -moving was beginning to exhaust him.</p> - -<p>He fell down, and rested a moment. He heard a tree crash in the forest -ahead. He heard someone shout.</p> - -<p>A human voice!</p> - -<p>He began to sob, softly at first, then uncontrollably. A human voice! -It had never been so sweet a sound.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He climbed painfully to his feet, crashed on through the undergrowth. -The density of trees ended abruptly and he stopped. Around the scout -ship in the clearing beyond, robot dredges were digging the foundations -for buildings. Gray-uniformed men were setting up new-type atomic -artillery at the perimeters.</p> - -<p>Arak Miller drew a deep breath. "I'm saved," he said, his voice -breaking. "I'm going to be a free man!" He tottered on the edge of -hysteria, but controlled himself with a mighty effort of will.</p> - -<p>He took a step forward to reach the clearing. Then he stopped.</p> - -<p>Something was wrong.</p> - -<p>He tried to put together the pieces of his mind. Everything looked -normal. Construction going on, stores being transferred to temporary -warehouses, all the usual activities of a scout party on an atomic -testing mission. The artillery was pointing—</p> - -<p>That was the flaw.</p> - -<p>The artillery faced inward.</p> - -<p>He looked back at the construction work. "Not foundations for -buildings," he said dully. "Ditches."</p> - -<p>As he watched, a flag was run up on a pole. The dreams of Arak Miller -crashed in his mind.</p> - -<p>It was the flag of the slave world, super-imposed upon the symbol of -the Systems. The world controlled by the dictators, which for centuries -had existed alongside the free world in a perpetual cold war. During -some stage of Arak Miller's long imprisonment, from Venus to Centaurus -the dictators had taken over.</p> - -<p>Hidden from guards, he lay on the ground and watched for a long time. -Only when the next batch of captives was taken out of the scout ship -and lined up in front of the ditch, did he turn his gaze away.</p> - -<p>He waited till the next shock wave had passed, then with tears -streaming down his face, hobbled back in the rain toward the river. -He crawled the last two miles to his house. Miss Gormeley was sitting -where he had left her. "I am sorry," he said painfully. "I will have to -destroy you. And Marbach. And our house, and the pyres. And when all -that is done, I will have to leave this area. Otherwise they might find -me."</p> - -<p>Miss Gormeley stared blindly out at the river.</p> - -<p>He lay still on the floor, gasping for breath. "You see," he explained, -"I am not a prisoner. They are the prisoners. All of them. All the -world—but me."</p> - -<p>His eyes closed in exhaustion. "I like it here now," he said, almost in -a whisper. "I intend to stay. There must be some place here where they -can never find me, you understand?"</p> - -<pre style='margin-top:6em'> -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECLUSE *** - -This file should be named 63677-h.htm or 63677-h.zip - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/6/7/63677/ - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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