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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 Dancers - -Author: Wilton Hazzard - -Release Date: December 10, 2020 [EBook #64007] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DANCERS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>The Dancers</h1> - -<h2>By WILTON HAZZARD</h2> - -<p><i>There was time now—plenty of time on<br /> -this strange, dark planet—for those erudite<br /> -exiles from frozen Earth to ponder the<br /> -value of man's accumulated knowledge.</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories January 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>It was the hour before dawn. In the middle of the night the big ship -had landed on the new planet, the satellite of the sun Proxima. Now -they sat in the dark waiting, and they talked.</p> - -<p>"I wish we hadn't killed them," Rossiter said softly. His profile was -faintly visible against the diffused light of the stars. "It's a bad -sign, a bad start for a new life."</p> - -<p>"They attacked us," Bernard answered quickly.</p> - -<p>"Two spears, against forty blasters and stun guns?" Rossiter laughed. -"An attack! We should have met them with stunners at low charge. But -McNess ordered us to blast. The woman and the baby stick in my craw."</p> - -<p>"All our nerves were on edge," Bernard answered thoughtfully. "I know I -was afraid when we first stepped out of the ship. There was something -terrifying about air, and space, and the sky. But you're right, of -course. We shouldn't have been ordered to blast." The two men were -sitting a little apart, but there was a murmur of many low voices -around them as the others from the <i>Elpis</i> waited and talked.</p> - -<p>"I wonder why they attacked us?" Bernard went on. "Primitives usually -run. We must have been an unbelievable sight to them, spiraling down -out of the sky."</p> - -<p>"I don't know," Rossiter replied wearily. "And we can't ask them. -They're dead, all five of them. That wind's cold." He was shivering.</p> - -<p>"You could go back inside the ship," Bernard said half-humorously.</p> - -<p>"I'm sick of the <i>Elpis</i>. We all are. Eight years of it—it's too much. -We'll get used to the wind, I suppose. There's going to be lots of -wind, with so much water and only this one land mass on our new world. -It's not like Earth."</p> - -<p>Bernard made an involuntary movement. Then he relaxed. "I suppose the -taboo is lifted now that we've landed," he said heavily. "We can talk -about Earth again, and wonder, and speculate. I wonder what they're -doing now on Earth."</p> - -<p>"Starving. Freezing. Burrowing into the ground for coal and warmth. -They must be living a good many hundred feet down now, those that are -left. And the seas are frozen. There's an ice sheet from pole to pole.</p> - -<p>"We astronomers paid you back finely, didn't we, Bernard, for all -the appropriations you got us in committee meeting. You were always -generous with us and the physicists. But when the catastrophe happened, -the mystery, the debacle, we couldn't help. We didn't know the answer. -We didn't know."</p> - -<p>"I remember—" Bernard answered, choking a little, "—I remember the -day before it happened. There was a report on my desk about some tribe -of Indians high in the Andes. The report said that the parents had been -persuaded to send their children to the school in the foothills, that -even among the adults illiteracy and ignorance were being eliminated. -It was the last of the ignorant tribes.</p> - -<p>"I looked up at the sign over my desk and read the motto, 'There -is nothing unknowable. There are only things not yet known,' and I -thought, 'Yes, we're getting near our goal. We've conquered ignorance -and superstition and illiteracy. And as time goes on we'll know more -and more things. The area of the unknown will constantly diminish. -Knowledge is like an expanding circle of light that eats into the -darkness.' Then the darkness came. And you didn't know."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"We know what happened well enough," Rossiter corrected. He sounded -older than his fifty-two years. "I was at the observatory that night. -I remember thinking that it was almost time for me to go to the -dormitory to sleep. It was summer; Sirius and the sun would both soon -be up. Sirius rose, blazing in the darkness, and after him Leo, in the -southeast. It should have been invisible in the sunlight. I couldn't -believe what I saw. And still the sun didn't come up.</p> - -<p>"We know what happened in a way. We don't know how or why. The sun, our -sun, never rose. The sun just disappeared."</p> - -<p>"How softly everyone's speaking," Bernard said irrelevantly. "It's the -sky and the darkness. I could hardly hear you." He got to his feet.</p> - -<p>"Where are you going, Tom?" Rossiter asked.</p> - -<p>"I want to look at the bodies. The people we blasted, I mean."</p> - -<p>"That's morbid. Don't go, Tom. Stay here."</p> - -<p>"But I want to go. I'll be back." He moved away through the dimly -visible outlines of men and women seated on the ground.</p> - -<p>He came back after a while and sat down by his friend in silence. "I -think I know why they attacked us," he said after a pause.</p> - -<p>"Why?"</p> - -<p>"I think we interrupted some magical or religious rite. They were at -a very low level of material culture, of course. The points on the -spears were stone, and they were wearing garments of what looked like -some sort of tree bark. Not woven cloth. But the young men were wearing -rattles of some sort of shell around their ankles, and the old man was -holding a little drum in his hands.</p> - -<p>"You see, they had a good cranial capacity. As soon as human beings can -think at all, they start trying to impose their will on the universe. -I think they met here by the shore to perform some sort of magic. The -woman and the baby watched, the old man played his drum, the two young -men sang and danced. Perhaps this bit of the coast was sacred to them. -Perhaps, when we set our ship down here, we profaned a sacred place."</p> - -<p>"The woman and the baby bother me," Rossiter said thoughtfully. "It -seems a dreadful thing to me to kill a woman. Ever since Kate died...."</p> - -<p>Bernard rested his hand for a moment on the older man's shoulder in -sympathy. "It was wrong. We shouldn't have done it," he responded. "But -we must forget it. Tomorrow, when it's light, we'll bury them."</p> - -<p>"I wonder if they were the only humanoid life on the planet," Rossiter -said, pursuing his own train of thought "This island was the only land -mass we found anywhere. If those five, so few.... When we blasted them, -did we wipe out the planet's native humanoid life?"</p> - -<p>"Possibly," Bernard admitted uneasily. He cleared his throat. "If they -hadn't attacked us we could have helped them. They were primitive, -superstitious, blankly ignorant, of course. But they had good -skulls. They could have learned. We'd have taught them, as we did -the primitives on Earth. We'd have led them gently away from their -superstition and ignorance. As we did on Earth. Let's not talk about it -any more."</p> - -<p>Rossiter made a sort of noise. Bernard leaned forward quickly. "What's -the matter, Dick? Are you all right?"</p> - -<p>"I—what you said—" Rossiter seemed to grope for words. "Be quiet a -minute, Tom. I want to think. What you said then—I—it—" He laid his -hands over his eyes.</p> - -<p>"I'll get Dr. Ferguson," Bernard offered.</p> - -<p>"No, I'm all right." Once more he fumbled for words. "I've suddenly -come to understand. You made me understand—<i>as we did on Earth</i>."</p> - -<p>"What—"</p> - -<p>Rossiter got to his feet. In his normal voice, which sounded very loud -in the darkness, he said, "I know what made the sun go out."</p> - -<p>The murmur of low talking ceased suddenly. There was a sense of -listening, of half-seen bodies leaning forward intently in the -starlight. Rossiter said, "On Earth there was always somebody dancing."</p> - -<p>"Dancing? I don't see—" Bernard spoke in wonderment, but there was an -odd, apprehensive note in his voice.</p> - -<p>"There was always somebody dancing," said Rossiter. He halted. Then he -continued in a stronger voice, "Always, in the high mountains there was -somebody fasting and praying. Always before dawn there was the sound of -the rattles and the stamping footsteps.</p> - -<p>"In the winter the flame leaped high on the rock through the swirls of -snow as they made fire magic. They danced. They prayed. They chanted. -And the sun came up."</p> - -<p>"What are you trying to say?" Bernard demanded. He had risen and was -standing facing the older man.</p> - -<p>"That people used to think, before we taught them better, that they had -something to do with the sun's rising. They grew too wise to believe -it any longer. But who knows? Who knows whether they were not right? -Whether the force that impels the stars is not, finally, the human -will?"</p> - -<p>There was a silence. Somebody laughed nervously.</p> - -<p>Dr. Ferguson had already stepped forward and was holding Rossiter by -the elbow. Together, he and Bernard urged the older man toward the -<i>Elpis</i>. They spoke to him gently. They did not argue or disagree with -him. They led him inside the ship.</p> - -<p>Much later Bernard came out alone. Dr. Ferguson had remained with -Rossiter, quieting him with sedatives. It was still quite dark.</p> - -<p>Bernard looked up at the sky, sighing. 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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 Dancers - -Author: Wilton Hazzard - -Release Date: December 10, 2020 [EBook #64007] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DANCERS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - The Dancers - - By WILTON HAZZARD - - _There was time now--plenty of time on - this strange, dark planet--for those erudite - exiles from frozen Earth to ponder the - value of man's accumulated knowledge._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories January 1952. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It was the hour before dawn. In the middle of the night the big ship -had landed on the new planet, the satellite of the sun Proxima. Now -they sat in the dark waiting, and they talked. - -"I wish we hadn't killed them," Rossiter said softly. His profile was -faintly visible against the diffused light of the stars. "It's a bad -sign, a bad start for a new life." - -"They attacked us," Bernard answered quickly. - -"Two spears, against forty blasters and stun guns?" Rossiter laughed. -"An attack! We should have met them with stunners at low charge. But -McNess ordered us to blast. The woman and the baby stick in my craw." - -"All our nerves were on edge," Bernard answered thoughtfully. "I know I -was afraid when we first stepped out of the ship. There was something -terrifying about air, and space, and the sky. But you're right, of -course. We shouldn't have been ordered to blast." The two men were -sitting a little apart, but there was a murmur of many low voices -around them as the others from the _Elpis_ waited and talked. - -"I wonder why they attacked us?" Bernard went on. "Primitives usually -run. We must have been an unbelievable sight to them, spiraling down -out of the sky." - -"I don't know," Rossiter replied wearily. "And we can't ask them. -They're dead, all five of them. That wind's cold." He was shivering. - -"You could go back inside the ship," Bernard said half-humorously. - -"I'm sick of the _Elpis_. We all are. Eight years of it--it's too much. -We'll get used to the wind, I suppose. There's going to be lots of -wind, with so much water and only this one land mass on our new world. -It's not like Earth." - -Bernard made an involuntary movement. Then he relaxed. "I suppose the -taboo is lifted now that we've landed," he said heavily. "We can talk -about Earth again, and wonder, and speculate. I wonder what they're -doing now on Earth." - -"Starving. Freezing. Burrowing into the ground for coal and warmth. -They must be living a good many hundred feet down now, those that are -left. And the seas are frozen. There's an ice sheet from pole to pole. - -"We astronomers paid you back finely, didn't we, Bernard, for all -the appropriations you got us in committee meeting. You were always -generous with us and the physicists. But when the catastrophe happened, -the mystery, the debacle, we couldn't help. We didn't know the answer. -We didn't know." - -"I remember--" Bernard answered, choking a little, "--I remember the -day before it happened. There was a report on my desk about some tribe -of Indians high in the Andes. The report said that the parents had been -persuaded to send their children to the school in the foothills, that -even among the adults illiteracy and ignorance were being eliminated. -It was the last of the ignorant tribes. - -"I looked up at the sign over my desk and read the motto, 'There -is nothing unknowable. There are only things not yet known,' and I -thought, 'Yes, we're getting near our goal. We've conquered ignorance -and superstition and illiteracy. And as time goes on we'll know more -and more things. The area of the unknown will constantly diminish. -Knowledge is like an expanding circle of light that eats into the -darkness.' Then the darkness came. And you didn't know." - - * * * * * - -"We know what happened well enough," Rossiter corrected. He sounded -older than his fifty-two years. "I was at the observatory that night. -I remember thinking that it was almost time for me to go to the -dormitory to sleep. It was summer; Sirius and the sun would both soon -be up. Sirius rose, blazing in the darkness, and after him Leo, in the -southeast. It should have been invisible in the sunlight. I couldn't -believe what I saw. And still the sun didn't come up. - -"We know what happened in a way. We don't know how or why. The sun, our -sun, never rose. The sun just disappeared." - -"How softly everyone's speaking," Bernard said irrelevantly. "It's the -sky and the darkness. I could hardly hear you." He got to his feet. - -"Where are you going, Tom?" Rossiter asked. - -"I want to look at the bodies. The people we blasted, I mean." - -"That's morbid. Don't go, Tom. Stay here." - -"But I want to go. I'll be back." He moved away through the dimly -visible outlines of men and women seated on the ground. - -He came back after a while and sat down by his friend in silence. "I -think I know why they attacked us," he said after a pause. - -"Why?" - -"I think we interrupted some magical or religious rite. They were at -a very low level of material culture, of course. The points on the -spears were stone, and they were wearing garments of what looked like -some sort of tree bark. Not woven cloth. But the young men were wearing -rattles of some sort of shell around their ankles, and the old man was -holding a little drum in his hands. - -"You see, they had a good cranial capacity. As soon as human beings can -think at all, they start trying to impose their will on the universe. -I think they met here by the shore to perform some sort of magic. The -woman and the baby watched, the old man played his drum, the two young -men sang and danced. Perhaps this bit of the coast was sacred to them. -Perhaps, when we set our ship down here, we profaned a sacred place." - -"The woman and the baby bother me," Rossiter said thoughtfully. "It -seems a dreadful thing to me to kill a woman. Ever since Kate died...." - -Bernard rested his hand for a moment on the older man's shoulder in -sympathy. "It was wrong. We shouldn't have done it," he responded. "But -we must forget it. Tomorrow, when it's light, we'll bury them." - -"I wonder if they were the only humanoid life on the planet," Rossiter -said, pursuing his own train of thought "This island was the only land -mass we found anywhere. If those five, so few.... When we blasted them, -did we wipe out the planet's native humanoid life?" - -"Possibly," Bernard admitted uneasily. He cleared his throat. "If they -hadn't attacked us we could have helped them. They were primitive, -superstitious, blankly ignorant, of course. But they had good -skulls. They could have learned. We'd have taught them, as we did -the primitives on Earth. We'd have led them gently away from their -superstition and ignorance. As we did on Earth. Let's not talk about it -any more." - -Rossiter made a sort of noise. Bernard leaned forward quickly. "What's -the matter, Dick? Are you all right?" - -"I--what you said--" Rossiter seemed to grope for words. "Be quiet a -minute, Tom. I want to think. What you said then--I--it--" He laid his -hands over his eyes. - -"I'll get Dr. Ferguson," Bernard offered. - -"No, I'm all right." Once more he fumbled for words. "I've suddenly -come to understand. You made me understand--_as we did on Earth_." - -"What--" - -Rossiter got to his feet. In his normal voice, which sounded very loud -in the darkness, he said, "I know what made the sun go out." - -The murmur of low talking ceased suddenly. There was a sense of -listening, of half-seen bodies leaning forward intently in the -starlight. Rossiter said, "On Earth there was always somebody dancing." - -"Dancing? I don't see--" Bernard spoke in wonderment, but there was an -odd, apprehensive note in his voice. - -"There was always somebody dancing," said Rossiter. He halted. Then he -continued in a stronger voice, "Always, in the high mountains there was -somebody fasting and praying. Always before dawn there was the sound of -the rattles and the stamping footsteps. - -"In the winter the flame leaped high on the rock through the swirls of -snow as they made fire magic. They danced. They prayed. They chanted. -And the sun came up." - -"What are you trying to say?" Bernard demanded. He had risen and was -standing facing the older man. - -"That people used to think, before we taught them better, that they had -something to do with the sun's rising. They grew too wise to believe -it any longer. But who knows? Who knows whether they were not right? -Whether the force that impels the stars is not, finally, the human -will?" - -There was a silence. Somebody laughed nervously. - -Dr. Ferguson had already stepped forward and was holding Rossiter by -the elbow. Together, he and Bernard urged the older man toward the -_Elpis_. They spoke to him gently. They did not argue or disagree with -him. They led him inside the ship. - -Much later Bernard came out alone. Dr. Ferguson had remained with -Rossiter, quieting him with sedatives. It was still quite dark. - -Bernard looked up at the sky, sighing. "How long the dawn is in -coming," he said, as if to himself. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dancers, by Wilton Hazzard - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DANCERS *** - -***** This file should be named 64007.txt or 64007.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/0/0/64007/ - -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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