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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'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Luminous Blonde - -Author: Hayden Howard - -Release Date: November 27, 2020 [EBook #63889] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LUMINOUS BLONDE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>THE LUMINOUS BLONDE</h1> - -<h2>By HAYDEN HOWARD</h2> - -<p><i>Some dames are bright. Some brighter. Like the<br /> -gorgeous wife of the playboy Commish who combined<br /> -all the stellar attributes necessary to slice in<br /> -two parts an ultra modern spaceship, and a<br /> -marriage, with one swoop of a clockhand.</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories November 1952.<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>As the frilly-bloused rockette bent over him to unbuckle his -safticorsette, newly appointed Commissioner-For-Economics-For-Mars -J. Edwin Elbert peeked. But her fingernails tatted so hastily at the -buckle that he raised his surprisingly youthful blue eyes to her face. -She was blushing there too. A pretty little baby face.</p> - -<p>Skillfully he swallowed a rising belch that was a natural consequence -of the cessation of gravity upon a paunch overbloated with farewell -champagne, Venus-dipped cold crab and too sweet apricot bread.</p> - -<p>"Director Hugens is to be congratulated upon his choice of rockettes," -he rumbled, sneaking his fat, glossily manicured fingers about her -wrist. The click of the powder-room door would warn him of his wife's -return. "Just the other day I was telling him that the new Bolo II -should have only the best. I see he has exceeded even my most hopeful -expectations."</p> - -<p>She giggled nervously.</p> - -<p>"Tell me my dear, when does the Bolo go into Hugens' celebrated -centrigrav? This weightlessness is rather unsettling to one's stomach."</p> - -<p>"Can I get you a demamine pill, sir?"</p> - -<p>"No, thank you. When does—"</p> - -<p>"Oh! At 1900 hours," she gushed.</p> - -<p>"The ship splits in half," she added helpfully, and dimpled in that -winning way of little girls who will never grow up.</p> - -<p>"Remarkable. They tell me some sort of cable will tie us together."</p> - -<p>"Yes sir, when we are far enough out in space so there isn't any air -friction, Mr. Webley, the pilot, pulls a little lever and the nose -flies off. He'll be all alone out there for forty-two days."</p> - -<p>"And only a thin cable connects our passenger section to his control -section?" He was quite familiar with the details since he had lobbied -for the initial appropriation. Her forearm had a nice warm smooth -feeling.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you understand it perfectly, sir. When we're a mile apart a little -rocket in the side makes us spin round and round. Then I can take off -these old iron shoes." She followed his gaze to her legs and tittered.</p> - -<p>He speculated that similar magnets must be holding down the hem of her -nylon skirt.</p> - -<p>"And does this spinning about a common axis continue until we near -Mars?"</p> - -<p>"Yes sir, for forty-two days. Excuse me sir, I think null gravity is -making that lady ill."</p> - -<p>After carefully wiping his palm on his coatsleeve he replaced his unlit -cigar in his broad, gleaming face. He was in the smiling sensuality of -a daydream when the powder-room door clicked.</p> - -<p>His wife was beautiful.</p> - -<p>Uptilting his cigar he watched her drift down the aisle. With one -scarlet-tipped finger she prevented her diaphanous skirt from floating -very high above her knees. A lovely lady. He champed on the cigar. It's -not every man whose wife is a natural blonde ex-starlet young enough to -be his daughter.</p> - -<p>But a little discipline was in order.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Landa, I wish you had remembered to have Hykato pack my golf things."</p> - -<p>"Edwin please, this null gravity is upsetting my tummy."</p> - -<p>"Well, it's the least you could have done."</p> - -<p>"And how would we have gotten it on the ship?" her voice shrilled -unexpectedly. "You embarrassed me enough as it was."</p> - -<p>"Listen, I'm the Commissioner. No two-bit pilot is going to tell me -what I can't take. The luggage limit is ridiculous!"</p> - -<p>"What are you complaining about? He let you take everything, didn't he?"</p> - -<p>"After you smiled at him."</p> - -<p>"I was only trying to be pleasant."</p> - -<p>"Pleasant is it? Last time you said it was to influence him to take all -my luggage."</p> - -<p>"Yeah and you got sore because you weren't a big enough shot to swing -the deal alone," her voice rasped through its lady-like veneer.</p> - -<p>"That's a lie. Furthermore I don't want to catch you smiling at him -again."</p> - -<p>"I give up," she exclaimed and reached for a telemag.</p> - -<p>But he wouldn't drop it there. "I didn't like that fellow's looks. -Pads in his shoulders, little waxed mustache. Who does he think he is, -Captain Future?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, don't be funny. Just think what he thinks of you after what you -said to him in front of all the other passengers and crew."</p> - -<p>"Taking his side now?"</p> - -<p>"I am not." She gave a little sniff and fumbled for her handkerchief. -"You're so mean and masterful I'm surprised you don't make me go up -front and tell him what a sap he is."</p> - -<p>"He was a sap smiling at my wife all right." He uplifted his cigar with -a mollified grin. "He wasted a smile there. Two-bit pilot, who does he -think he is?"</p> - -<p>"He did smile at me though," she appended in a small voice.</p> - -<p>His voice snapped out again: "And you smiled back!" He ground his unlit -cigar into the ash tray. "I think you were just now trying to flatter -me; I think you were trying to turn me off the track when you said -you'd go up and tell him what a sap he is."</p> - -<p>"I was not."</p> - -<p>"Don't try to wiggle out of it. That's what you said."</p> - -<p>"All right, if you think I should, I will."</p> - -<p>"Well now—" He paused smiling and carefully trimmed the crushed end of -his cigar with a gold plated cigar cutter before he continued: "If you -insist, go ahead."</p> - -<p>"There's not much time left," she said, pointing at the neon-dialed -clock above the powder-room door. Beneath it hung an orange luminescent -sign: U. S. Eastern Standard Earth Time Equivalent.</p> - -<p>"1850 hours," he snorted. "Don't try to wiggle out on that account. You -have a half hour."</p> - -<p>"O.K., if you say so," she shrugged and chewed the inside of her -cheek. "This isn't very nice."</p> - -<p>"Let's not get that way. You coolly slip the shaft in me enough. And -stop powdering your nose."</p> - -<p>Without another word she rose and floated down the aisle, taking little -care to suppress her skirt. Somebody whistled and the Commissioner -angrily craned his thick neck around. He couldn't see who had done it. -But he suspected the three grinning Cadet Astronauts in the last row of -seats.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>She rose and floated down the aisle, taking little care to suppress her rising, diaphanous skirt.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>As the door to the control room clanged shut, the powder-room door -clicked open and the rockette tapped out on her iron shoe-soles. -Commissioner Elbert rolled his eyes and smiled, but she seemed -preoccupied with a smaller female with pigtails and the hiccups.</p> - -<p>Guess I'll have a look forward myself, he thought. Just like a woman to -go up there, wait in the hall a minute and come back.</p> - -<p>Rising, he floated past the rockette toward the control room door.</p> - -<p>"Don't open that, sir. The ship's about to separate."</p> - -<p>"What? It's only 1855 hours."</p> - -<p>"That is Eastern Standard Time, sir. The clock at the other end of -the aisle, over the men's room, gives the Standard Star Time our ship -schedule operates on."</p> - -<p>Those neon hands pointed at 1900.</p> - -<p>With a strangled yell he lunged for the door, but as his hand closed -about the handle something clicked and it resisted his straining and -then his pounding fists.</p> - -<p>A buzzer sounded and a cheery masculine voice spoke over the intercom. -"Hello again passengers, this is your pilot Hugh Webley wishing you a -pleasant crossing. Please re-enter your safticorsettes. The Bolo II -will now separate."</p> - -<p>"Intercom," the Commissioner shouted. Shoving past the slack-jawed -rockette, he literally swam down the gravityless aisle to the -engineering hatchway. It opened to his shouts.</p> - -<p>"Yeah?" A giant with a handlebar mustache peered up at him.</p> - -<p>"I'm Commissioner Elbert. Call your pilot at once. I order the ship not -to separate."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Hastily the giant lifted the phone. Commissioner Elbert could hear the -steady buzz.</p> - -<p>"Sorry sir, Webley's cut us off. He does that so no one will interrupt -him while he's setting the auto controls."</p> - -<p>"Get him somehow. My wife's up there."</p> - -<p>The giant coughed and strangled and turned his face away. "I'll keep -trying sir," he gasped. "But sometimes he cuts us off for days. He -sleeps a lot."</p> - -<p>"Forehatch," the Commissioner shouted suddenly. "Unlock the forehatch."</p> - -<p>Wearily the giant clambered up. He towered above Elbert.</p> - -<p>"Didn't you hear what I said," the Commissioner yelled. "Unlock the -door to the control room."</p> - -<p>"Sorry sir, the lock's automatic."</p> - -<p>"Well dammit, blast it down."</p> - -<p>Noisily the giant scratched his crewcut. "Maybe I could crowbar it."</p> - -<p>"Quick, you fool."</p> - -<p>"No, I can't. I can't sir. The ship might separate while the hatch was -open and our own air pressure would blow us all into the vacuum. I -can't risk the lives of our passengers, sir."</p> - -<p>"I'm Commissioner Elbert. Give me that crowbar."</p> - -<p>The giant held it behind him.</p> - -<p>"That's an order."</p> - -<p>"Sorry sir, better reclaim your seat before the jolt." The giant -signalled with his fingers at the rockette.</p> - -<p>Elbert snatched at the crowbar. As the two men grappled for it, -whirling like fighting cocks in the air, a tremendous surge hurled them -the length of the aisle. Another slammed them against the powder-room -door. When the giant helped the bleeding Commissioner to his feet, -artificial gravity held them down.</p> - -<p>Emitting motherly sounds, the rockette tried to wipe the blood from his -forehead. But he shoved her aside.</p> - -<p>"I'll sue. I'll have your transport license revoked."</p> - -<p>"Please sir," the rockette squeaked, "I'll bring you a sedative."</p> - -<p>"Hugens will hear about this," he shouted, writhing in the engineer's -brawny arms. But then he sobbed: "I sent her up there. My fault, my -idea, she didn't want to go. She was worried about the time and I told -her there was plenty of time."</p> - -<p>As he gulped the sedative he looked like a punctured balloon.</p> - -<p>"I don't want a sedative," he shouted. But he had just swallowed it. -He sagged again. "My fault. I told her there was plenty of time." He -rubbed his sleeve across his nose.</p> - -<p>After they had settled him groggily in his seat, the rockette drew the -engineer aside. Her pretty little brow wrinkled.</p> - -<p>"Dan, I can't figure it. Why does he think it's his fault? Gee, when -we were in the powder-room together she asked me about why the clocks -told different times, and I explained how we figure time by positions -of stars instead of the earth and sun and all that stuff. You'd think -she'd understood. She talked bright enough."</p> - -<p>The giant squeezed her arm affectionately. Lucky Webley, sap Commish, -bright dame. Forty-two days and an alibi.</p> - -<p>He chuckled and walked his fingers up her arm.</p> - -<p>"Carol, you can't ever tell. All dames don't have the same amount of -brightness you do."</p> - -<p>She giggled and shivered a little at his hand. 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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'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Luminous Blonde - -Author: Hayden Howard - -Release Date: November 27, 2020 [EBook #63889] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LUMINOUS BLONDE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE LUMINOUS BLONDE - - By HAYDEN HOWARD - - _Some dames are bright. Some brighter. Like the - gorgeous wife of the playboy Commish who combined - all the stellar attributes necessary to slice in - two parts an ultra modern spaceship, and a - marriage, with one swoop of a clockhand._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories November 1952. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -As the frilly-bloused rockette bent over him to unbuckle his -safticorsette, newly appointed Commissioner-For-Economics-For-Mars -J. Edwin Elbert peeked. But her fingernails tatted so hastily at the -buckle that he raised his surprisingly youthful blue eyes to her face. -She was blushing there too. A pretty little baby face. - -Skillfully he swallowed a rising belch that was a natural consequence -of the cessation of gravity upon a paunch overbloated with farewell -champagne, Venus-dipped cold crab and too sweet apricot bread. - -"Director Hugens is to be congratulated upon his choice of rockettes," -he rumbled, sneaking his fat, glossily manicured fingers about her -wrist. The click of the powder-room door would warn him of his wife's -return. "Just the other day I was telling him that the new Bolo II -should have only the best. I see he has exceeded even my most hopeful -expectations." - -She giggled nervously. - -"Tell me my dear, when does the Bolo go into Hugens' celebrated -centrigrav? This weightlessness is rather unsettling to one's stomach." - -"Can I get you a demamine pill, sir?" - -"No, thank you. When does--" - -"Oh! At 1900 hours," she gushed. - -"The ship splits in half," she added helpfully, and dimpled in that -winning way of little girls who will never grow up. - -"Remarkable. They tell me some sort of cable will tie us together." - -"Yes sir, when we are far enough out in space so there isn't any air -friction, Mr. Webley, the pilot, pulls a little lever and the nose -flies off. He'll be all alone out there for forty-two days." - -"And only a thin cable connects our passenger section to his control -section?" He was quite familiar with the details since he had lobbied -for the initial appropriation. Her forearm had a nice warm smooth -feeling. - -"Oh, you understand it perfectly, sir. When we're a mile apart a little -rocket in the side makes us spin round and round. Then I can take off -these old iron shoes." She followed his gaze to her legs and tittered. - -He speculated that similar magnets must be holding down the hem of her -nylon skirt. - -"And does this spinning about a common axis continue until we near -Mars?" - -"Yes sir, for forty-two days. Excuse me sir, I think null gravity is -making that lady ill." - -After carefully wiping his palm on his coatsleeve he replaced his unlit -cigar in his broad, gleaming face. He was in the smiling sensuality of -a daydream when the powder-room door clicked. - -His wife was beautiful. - -Uptilting his cigar he watched her drift down the aisle. With one -scarlet-tipped finger she prevented her diaphanous skirt from floating -very high above her knees. A lovely lady. He champed on the cigar. It's -not every man whose wife is a natural blonde ex-starlet young enough to -be his daughter. - -But a little discipline was in order. - - * * * * * - -"Landa, I wish you had remembered to have Hykato pack my golf things." - -"Edwin please, this null gravity is upsetting my tummy." - -"Well, it's the least you could have done." - -"And how would we have gotten it on the ship?" her voice shrilled -unexpectedly. "You embarrassed me enough as it was." - -"Listen, I'm the Commissioner. No two-bit pilot is going to tell me -what I can't take. The luggage limit is ridiculous!" - -"What are you complaining about? He let you take everything, didn't he?" - -"After you smiled at him." - -"I was only trying to be pleasant." - -"Pleasant is it? Last time you said it was to influence him to take all -my luggage." - -"Yeah and you got sore because you weren't a big enough shot to swing -the deal alone," her voice rasped through its lady-like veneer. - -"That's a lie. Furthermore I don't want to catch you smiling at him -again." - -"I give up," she exclaimed and reached for a telemag. - -But he wouldn't drop it there. "I didn't like that fellow's looks. -Pads in his shoulders, little waxed mustache. Who does he think he is, -Captain Future?" - -"Oh, don't be funny. Just think what he thinks of you after what you -said to him in front of all the other passengers and crew." - -"Taking his side now?" - -"I am not." She gave a little sniff and fumbled for her handkerchief. -"You're so mean and masterful I'm surprised you don't make me go up -front and tell him what a sap he is." - -"He was a sap smiling at my wife all right." He uplifted his cigar with -a mollified grin. "He wasted a smile there. Two-bit pilot, who does he -think he is?" - -"He did smile at me though," she appended in a small voice. - -His voice snapped out again: "And you smiled back!" He ground his unlit -cigar into the ash tray. "I think you were just now trying to flatter -me; I think you were trying to turn me off the track when you said -you'd go up and tell him what a sap he is." - -"I was not." - -"Don't try to wiggle out of it. That's what you said." - -"All right, if you think I should, I will." - -"Well now--" He paused smiling and carefully trimmed the crushed end of -his cigar with a gold plated cigar cutter before he continued: "If you -insist, go ahead." - -"There's not much time left," she said, pointing at the neon-dialed -clock above the powder-room door. Beneath it hung an orange luminescent -sign: U. S. Eastern Standard Earth Time Equivalent. - -"1850 hours," he snorted. "Don't try to wiggle out on that account. You -have a half hour." - -"O.K., if you say so," she shrugged and chewed the inside of her -cheek. "This isn't very nice." - -"Let's not get that way. You coolly slip the shaft in me enough. And -stop powdering your nose." - -Without another word she rose and floated down the aisle, taking little -care to suppress her skirt. Somebody whistled and the Commissioner -angrily craned his thick neck around. He couldn't see who had done it. -But he suspected the three grinning Cadet Astronauts in the last row of -seats. - -[Illustration: _She rose and floated down the aisle, taking little care -to suppress her rising, diaphanous skirt._] - -As the door to the control room clanged shut, the powder-room door -clicked open and the rockette tapped out on her iron shoe-soles. -Commissioner Elbert rolled his eyes and smiled, but she seemed -preoccupied with a smaller female with pigtails and the hiccups. - -Guess I'll have a look forward myself, he thought. Just like a woman to -go up there, wait in the hall a minute and come back. - -Rising, he floated past the rockette toward the control room door. - -"Don't open that, sir. The ship's about to separate." - -"What? It's only 1855 hours." - -"That is Eastern Standard Time, sir. The clock at the other end of -the aisle, over the men's room, gives the Standard Star Time our ship -schedule operates on." - -Those neon hands pointed at 1900. - -With a strangled yell he lunged for the door, but as his hand closed -about the handle something clicked and it resisted his straining and -then his pounding fists. - -A buzzer sounded and a cheery masculine voice spoke over the intercom. -"Hello again passengers, this is your pilot Hugh Webley wishing you a -pleasant crossing. Please re-enter your safticorsettes. The Bolo II -will now separate." - -"Intercom," the Commissioner shouted. Shoving past the slack-jawed -rockette, he literally swam down the gravityless aisle to the -engineering hatchway. It opened to his shouts. - -"Yeah?" A giant with a handlebar mustache peered up at him. - -"I'm Commissioner Elbert. Call your pilot at once. I order the ship not -to separate." - - * * * * * - -Hastily the giant lifted the phone. Commissioner Elbert could hear the -steady buzz. - -"Sorry sir, Webley's cut us off. He does that so no one will interrupt -him while he's setting the auto controls." - -"Get him somehow. My wife's up there." - -The giant coughed and strangled and turned his face away. "I'll keep -trying sir," he gasped. "But sometimes he cuts us off for days. He -sleeps a lot." - -"Forehatch," the Commissioner shouted suddenly. "Unlock the forehatch." - -Wearily the giant clambered up. He towered above Elbert. - -"Didn't you hear what I said," the Commissioner yelled. "Unlock the -door to the control room." - -"Sorry sir, the lock's automatic." - -"Well dammit, blast it down." - -Noisily the giant scratched his crewcut. "Maybe I could crowbar it." - -"Quick, you fool." - -"No, I can't. I can't sir. The ship might separate while the hatch was -open and our own air pressure would blow us all into the vacuum. I -can't risk the lives of our passengers, sir." - -"I'm Commissioner Elbert. Give me that crowbar." - -The giant held it behind him. - -"That's an order." - -"Sorry sir, better reclaim your seat before the jolt." The giant -signalled with his fingers at the rockette. - -Elbert snatched at the crowbar. As the two men grappled for it, -whirling like fighting cocks in the air, a tremendous surge hurled them -the length of the aisle. Another slammed them against the powder-room -door. When the giant helped the bleeding Commissioner to his feet, -artificial gravity held them down. - -Emitting motherly sounds, the rockette tried to wipe the blood from his -forehead. But he shoved her aside. - -"I'll sue. I'll have your transport license revoked." - -"Please sir," the rockette squeaked, "I'll bring you a sedative." - -"Hugens will hear about this," he shouted, writhing in the engineer's -brawny arms. But then he sobbed: "I sent her up there. My fault, my -idea, she didn't want to go. She was worried about the time and I told -her there was plenty of time." - -As he gulped the sedative he looked like a punctured balloon. - -"I don't want a sedative," he shouted. But he had just swallowed it. -He sagged again. "My fault. I told her there was plenty of time." He -rubbed his sleeve across his nose. - -After they had settled him groggily in his seat, the rockette drew the -engineer aside. Her pretty little brow wrinkled. - -"Dan, I can't figure it. Why does he think it's his fault? Gee, when -we were in the powder-room together she asked me about why the clocks -told different times, and I explained how we figure time by positions -of stars instead of the earth and sun and all that stuff. You'd think -she'd understood. She talked bright enough." - -The giant squeezed her arm affectionately. Lucky Webley, sap Commish, -bright dame. Forty-two days and an alibi. - -He chuckled and walked his fingers up her arm. - -"Carol, you can't ever tell. All dames don't have the same amount of -brightness you do." - -She giggled and shivered a little at his hand. "We learned all about -time in rockette school." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Luminous Blonde, by Hayden Howard - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LUMINOUS BLONDE *** - -***** This file should be named 63889.txt or 63889.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/8/8/63889/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -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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