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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 Watchers - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: December 05, 2020 [EBook #63972] - -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 WATCHERS *** - - - - - THE WATCHERS - - By ROGER DEE - - _It had taken him ten years to find them--to even convince - himself that they existed. Now Manson was ready to_ kill! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories September 1951. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -He left his gyro on the dark lawn and circled the villa, carefully -avoiding the wash of light from open windows. The blast gun lay snug -and cold in his hand, and his thought ran bleakly: _Here am I, Peter -Manson, pacifist, idealist, reformer, preacher in print of tolerance -and amity--about to kidnap a man whom I shall almost certainly kill -before morning._ - -Tomorrow the telecast would list his madness with other insanities: -sex murders, suicides, political drumbeatings for the coming holocaust -of the inevitable Fourth War.... - -_War._ - -"They're going too far," he said, half aloud. "Their routine meddlings -were bad enough, but another war now might mean the end of everything." - -He found the alien who called himself Leonard Havlik in a bright, -book-lined study, packing a miscellany of papers into a brief case -that bore his name in gold lettering. A secretary was helping, a slim -girl with crisp, copper-colored hair and clear green eyes. - -Manson waited, tense with unaccustomed strain. Somewhere a bird trilled -sleepily, and the night-wind, fragrant with the smell of trampled -clover, blew cool against his damp face. - -Irrelevantly, the scene inside reminded him of his own quiet study -where he had labored for ten years over the scant gleanings of -his search. In that time he had written four books, fighting with -a reformer's apostolic zeal to open the eyes of men to their own -possibilities, and he had failed. - -He had not awakened his kind, but he had found the Watchers. The -failure was not his fault. It was Theirs.... - -The girl left the room. Manson straightened at his window, bringing up -the blast gun. - -"Come out, Havlik," he ordered. "Quickly, or I'll blow you to dust -where you stand--_Watcher_!" - - * * * * * - -His quarry looked up, startled--a small, dark man with a thin, tired -face and sparse gray hair, a perfect replica of the million ordinary -businessmen his camouflage of humanity aped. - -Manson snicked off the safety catch of his weapon, and Havlik came -through the window quickly, without protest. Manson prodded him into -the gyro and manacled his wrists together. - -"We Earthmen have a time-tested proverb," Manson said, "to the effect -that you can't fool all the people all the time. I've spent ten years -searching for you, Havlik--and here I am." - -He set the autopilot for his cabin on Green River, holding his blast -gun warily, and sent the gyro slanting upward into the night. Havlik -smiled faintly, dark eyes gleaming in the light of the instrument panel. - -"Laugh while you can," Manson said grimly. "I've learned something of -you Watchers already. I'll know more by morning." - -"Force was unnecessary," Havlik said unexpectedly. "I would have given -you information willingly, since our mission here is ended. The Kha -Niish, who are our masters, have ordered us to leave Earth. Tonight." - -Manson stared, the alien's assurance fanning his anger. - -"You're lying--you Watchers have mingled with us for centuries, using -our own ignorance to set us against each other. You've kept us in -perpetual confusion, deafening us with our own bickering while you -tightened your hold on us. Now you're fomenting a Fourth War that may -wipe us out completely, to save yourselves the trouble of liquidating -us directly. You'd never go now, with success almost in your hands." - -"Perhaps you mistake our intention," Havlik said. "How do you know -you're right?" - -"Because men of themselves would not do the brutal, idiotic things -that fill the telecasts every day," Manson said. "We are a gregarious -people, craving affection--why should we lie and steal and murder -each other by the millions? Man is a rational animal, yet he does not -behave in a rational manner. By simple induction, the basic cause of -his social idiocy stems from outside himself. Someone, or Something, is -setting us against each other. I suspected as much ten years ago, and -tonight I have proved it." - -Havlik shrugged. "You've wasted your time. We leave Earth tonight." - -Manson laughed shortly. "_You're_ not going anywhere, my friend. I need -you for information." - -"What else would you know? Our reason for quitting Earth?" - -"You're not leaving at all," Manson said, nettled. "You may have -planned a routine jump to your base on Pluto, but you're not giving up -a juicy plum like Earth. Not after all these years!" - - * * * * * - -He peered through the gyro's side glass searching for the white peak of -Green Mountain to check his position. The skyglow of Denver shimmered -in the east, but the peak was lost in darkness. - -"You misunderstand our motive," the alien said. "But you're quite right -about our base on Pluto. Induction again?" - -"On a different level, yes," Manson said. "Pluto is a solar anomaly--a -small, heavy planet where there should be nothing but a larger and -lighter world. Pluto was never born to Sol--it's an alien planet, -brought in from Outside by you Watchers." - -A red light winked on the control panel, and the gyro swerved -fractionally. A fiery streak of crimson rocket exhaust flared ahead and -vanished, explaining the deviation. - -"Seattle-Miami express," Manson muttered. Then the unnatural angle of -the exhaust-trail registered, troubling him. "But it shouldn't cross my -course--and it should be going up, not _down_!" - -"Your crusade is based on a false premise," Havlik said. "We came to -Earth less than fifty years ago, not to destroy humanity but to guide -it. The Kha Niish sent us as missionaries, to sow the seed of Their -benign culture among men as we have sowed it among a thousand other -infant races born into Their galaxy." - -The gyro tilted, spiraling down for a landing. A farmhouse, lighted -windows cheerful against the dark countryside, rose to meet it. Beside -the house, standing on end like a giant cartridge case, Manson saw a -sleek, shining bulk--a ship. - -He raised incredulous eyes to meet the alien's dark stare. -Comprehension stunned him. - -"You fiend," he breathed. "You've tricked me somehow--you've played -cat-and-mouse with me from the first!" - -He remembered the gun in his hand and swung it up. - -"Let your weapon drop," Havlik said. "You set the autopilot at my -direction. This is our evacuation point." - -The gun slid from Manson's fingers. He tried to retrieve it from the -floor and cried out, startled, when his body refused to obey. - -The alien removed his manacles. "You will be free again as soon as we -lift." - -"Lies," Manson grated. He fought to break the stasis that held him, -veins knotting in his forehead with the effort. "I might have known!" - -The gyro landed gently, a hundred yards from the cylinder. - - * * * * * - -Figures swarmed about the great ship, pouring up a wide ramp in orderly -embarkation. The girl Manson had seen at the villa came running toward -the gyro, copper hair blowing in the night-wind. - -"You were almost late," she called to Havlik. "We're ready to--" She -caught sight of the Earthman and broke off. - -In the dark depth of her eyes Manson saw understanding and a great -pity, and for the first time it came to him that Havlik had not lied. -Aliens they might be, but not destroyers--in this girl burned the same -ideals, the same transcendent zeal that drove him. She was as human, -basically, as he. - -_The same will to raise up the helpless is in us both_, he thought. -_The compulsion to carry the saving light of reason to those in -darkness...._ - -"Wait," he begged. "Your master wouldn't have ordered you away if Earth -needed you--and if men can work out their own salvation, then they -don't need me, either! Take me with you out there--let me help you, let -me see the Outside galaxy of the Kha Niish for myself!" - -He spoke to Havlik, but his eyes clung to the girl as to a magnet. She -met his gaze fully, the compassion in her own eyes deeper than grief. - -Havlik shook his head. "Your sanity would not bear the presence of the -Kha Niish, nor of the other races Outside. You are drawn to this girl -as to another of your own kind--but do you suppose that the Kha Niish -would shape her in Their image? She is like the rest of us, an android -creature, refashioned by the Masters to suit the environment of each -new world we visit." - -The last of the swarming figures vanished into the great cylinder. A -muted gong-sound thrummed through the night. A voice called, urgently. - -"The Kha Niish did not order us away because men are solving their own -problems," the alien said. "We leave you to destroy yourselves, as you -will, because man is one of the rare failures of the Galactic Urge. You -are a race of incorrigibles." - -Later Manson sat woodenly in his gyro, waiting for volition to return, -the scent of scorched earth and ozone and trampled clover strong in his -nostrils. - -_We Earthmen have another inerrant old saw_, he thought bitterly. _An -excruciatingly funny one dealing with silk purses and sows' ears...._ - -For a long time he sat quietly, straining his eyes to follow the last -faint rocket-streak that arced upward against the stars. 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Now Manson was ready to</i> kill!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories September 1951.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He left his gyro on the dark lawn and circled the villa, carefully -avoiding the wash of light from open windows. The blast gun lay snug -and cold in his hand, and his thought ran bleakly: <i>Here am I, Peter -Manson, pacifist, idealist, reformer, preacher in print of tolerance -and amity—about to kidnap a man whom I shall almost certainly kill -before morning.</i></p> - -<p>Tomorrow the telecast would list his madness with other insanities: -sex murders, suicides, political drumbeatings for the coming holocaust -of the inevitable Fourth War....</p> - -<p><i>War.</i></p> - -<p>"They're going too far," he said, half aloud. "Their routine meddlings -were bad enough, but another war now might mean the end of everything."</p> - -<p>He found the alien who called himself Leonard Havlik in a bright, -book-lined study, packing a miscellany of papers into a brief case -that bore his name in gold lettering. A secretary was helping, a slim -girl with crisp, copper-colored hair and clear green eyes.</p> - -<p>Manson waited, tense with unaccustomed strain. Somewhere a bird trilled -sleepily, and the night-wind, fragrant with the smell of trampled -clover, blew cool against his damp face.</p> - -<p>Irrelevantly, the scene inside reminded him of his own quiet study -where he had labored for ten years over the scant gleanings of -his search. In that time he had written four books, fighting with -a reformer's apostolic zeal to open the eyes of men to their own -possibilities, and he had failed.</p> - -<p>He had not awakened his kind, but he had found the Watchers. The -failure was not his fault. It was Theirs....</p> - -<p>The girl left the room. Manson straightened at his window, bringing up -the blast gun.</p> - -<p>"Come out, Havlik," he ordered. "Quickly, or I'll blow you to dust -where you stand—<i>Watcher</i>!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>His quarry looked up, startled—a small, dark man with a thin, tired -face and sparse gray hair, a perfect replica of the million ordinary -businessmen his camouflage of humanity aped.</p> - -<p>Manson snicked off the safety catch of his weapon, and Havlik came -through the window quickly, without protest. Manson prodded him into -the gyro and manacled his wrists together.</p> - -<p>"We Earthmen have a time-tested proverb," Manson said, "to the effect -that you can't fool all the people all the time. I've spent ten years -searching for you, Havlik—and here I am."</p> - -<p>He set the autopilot for his cabin on Green River, holding his blast -gun warily, and sent the gyro slanting upward into the night. Havlik -smiled faintly, dark eyes gleaming in the light of the instrument panel.</p> - -<p>"Laugh while you can," Manson said grimly. "I've learned something of -you Watchers already. I'll know more by morning."</p> - -<p>"Force was unnecessary," Havlik said unexpectedly. "I would have given -you information willingly, since our mission here is ended. The Kha -Niish, who are our masters, have ordered us to leave Earth. Tonight."</p> - -<p>Manson stared, the alien's assurance fanning his anger.</p> - -<p>"You're lying—you Watchers have mingled with us for centuries, using -our own ignorance to set us against each other. You've kept us in -perpetual confusion, deafening us with our own bickering while you -tightened your hold on us. Now you're fomenting a Fourth War that may -wipe us out completely, to save yourselves the trouble of liquidating -us directly. You'd never go now, with success almost in your hands."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps you mistake our intention," Havlik said. "How do you know -you're right?"</p> - -<p>"Because men of themselves would not do the brutal, idiotic things -that fill the telecasts every day," Manson said. "We are a gregarious -people, craving affection—why should we lie and steal and murder -each other by the millions? Man is a rational animal, yet he does not -behave in a rational manner. By simple induction, the basic cause of -his social idiocy stems from outside himself. Someone, or Something, is -setting us against each other. I suspected as much ten years ago, and -tonight I have proved it."</p> - -<p>Havlik shrugged. "You've wasted your time. We leave Earth tonight."</p> - -<p>Manson laughed shortly. "<i>You're</i> not going anywhere, my friend. I need -you for information."</p> - -<p>"What else would you know? Our reason for quitting Earth?"</p> - -<p>"You're not leaving at all," Manson said, nettled. "You may have -planned a routine jump to your base on Pluto, but you're not giving up -a juicy plum like Earth. Not after all these years!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He peered through the gyro's side glass searching for the white peak of -Green Mountain to check his position. The skyglow of Denver shimmered -in the east, but the peak was lost in darkness.</p> - -<p>"You misunderstand our motive," the alien said. "But you're quite right -about our base on Pluto. Induction again?"</p> - -<p>"On a different level, yes," Manson said. "Pluto is a solar anomaly—a -small, heavy planet where there should be nothing but a larger and -lighter world. Pluto was never born to Sol—it's an alien planet, -brought in from Outside by you Watchers."</p> - -<p>A red light winked on the control panel, and the gyro swerved -fractionally. A fiery streak of crimson rocket exhaust flared ahead and -vanished, explaining the deviation.</p> - -<p>"Seattle-Miami express," Manson muttered. Then the unnatural angle of -the exhaust-trail registered, troubling him. "But it shouldn't cross my -course—and it should be going up, not <i>down</i>!"</p> - -<p>"Your crusade is based on a false premise," Havlik said. "We came to -Earth less than fifty years ago, not to destroy humanity but to guide -it. The Kha Niish sent us as missionaries, to sow the seed of Their -benign culture among men as we have sowed it among a thousand other -infant races born into Their galaxy."</p> - -<p>The gyro tilted, spiraling down for a landing. A farmhouse, lighted -windows cheerful against the dark countryside, rose to meet it. Beside -the house, standing on end like a giant cartridge case, Manson saw a -sleek, shining bulk—a ship.</p> - -<p>He raised incredulous eyes to meet the alien's dark stare. -Comprehension stunned him.</p> - -<p>"You fiend," he breathed. "You've tricked me somehow—you've played -cat-and-mouse with me from the first!"</p> - -<p>He remembered the gun in his hand and swung it up.</p> - -<p>"Let your weapon drop," Havlik said. "You set the autopilot at my -direction. This is our evacuation point."</p> - -<p>The gun slid from Manson's fingers. He tried to retrieve it from the -floor and cried out, startled, when his body refused to obey.</p> - -<p>The alien removed his manacles. "You will be free again as soon as we -lift."</p> - -<p>"Lies," Manson grated. He fought to break the stasis that held him, -veins knotting in his forehead with the effort. "I might have known!"</p> - -<p>The gyro landed gently, a hundred yards from the cylinder.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Figures swarmed about the great ship, pouring up a wide ramp in orderly -embarkation. The girl Manson had seen at the villa came running toward -the gyro, copper hair blowing in the night-wind.</p> - -<p>"You were almost late," she called to Havlik. "We're ready to—" She -caught sight of the Earthman and broke off.</p> - -<p>In the dark depth of her eyes Manson saw understanding and a great -pity, and for the first time it came to him that Havlik had not lied. -Aliens they might be, but not destroyers—in this girl burned the same -ideals, the same transcendent zeal that drove him. She was as human, -basically, as he.</p> - -<p><i>The same will to raise up the helpless is in us both</i>, he thought. -<i>The compulsion to carry the saving light of reason to those in -darkness....</i></p> - -<p>"Wait," he begged. "Your master wouldn't have ordered you away if Earth -needed you—and if men can work out their own salvation, then they -don't need me, either! Take me with you out there—let me help you, let -me see the Outside galaxy of the Kha Niish for myself!"</p> - -<p>He spoke to Havlik, but his eyes clung to the girl as to a magnet. She -met his gaze fully, the compassion in her own eyes deeper than grief.</p> - -<p>Havlik shook his head. "Your sanity would not bear the presence of the -Kha Niish, nor of the other races Outside. You are drawn to this girl -as to another of your own kind—but do you suppose that the Kha Niish -would shape her in Their image? She is like the rest of us, an android -creature, refashioned by the Masters to suit the environment of each -new world we visit."</p> - -<p>The last of the swarming figures vanished into the great cylinder. A -muted gong-sound thrummed through the night. A voice called, urgently.</p> - -<p>"The Kha Niish did not order us away because men are solving their own -problems," the alien said. "We leave you to destroy yourselves, as you -will, because man is one of the rare failures of the Galactic Urge. You -are a race of incorrigibles."</p> - -<p>Later Manson sat woodenly in his gyro, waiting for volition to return, -the scent of scorched earth and ozone and trampled clover strong in his -nostrils.</p> - -<p><i>We Earthmen have another inerrant old saw</i>, he thought bitterly. <i>An -excruciatingly funny one dealing with silk purses and sows' ears....</i></p> - -<p>For a long time he sat quietly, straining his eyes to follow the last -faint rocket-streak that arced upward against the stars. Then the -stasis that held him fell away, and he reached for the blast gun that -lay under his feet.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<pre style='margin-top:6em'> -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WATCHERS *** - -This file should be named 63972-h.htm or 63972-h.zip - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/9/7/63972/ - -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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