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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: Unwelcome Tenant - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: March 04, 2021 [eBook #64696] - -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 UNWELCOME TENANT *** - - - - - Unwelcome Tenant - - by ROGER DEE - - The first Earthman to hit deep space discovered - what was so terribly wrong with the world he - had left behind. Why couldn't he turn back? - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Summer 1950. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It happened just before he reached the zero point, the no-man's land -in space where the attenuated gravity fields of two planets meet and -cancel out. - -Maynard was dividing his attention equally between the transparent -bubble that housed the Meinz pendulum and the two ports, forward -and aft, that broke the steel panelling of the control cubicle. He -listened critically to the measured clicking of the Geiger counters -and the quiet sibilance of the air purifiers, and in spite of his -weightlessness and his total loss of equilibrium he was quite calm. - -But deep inside him, under his trained calmness, Maynard felt a -steadily growing triumph, a swelling exultation that was a thing quite -apart from scientific pride. The feeling that he was a pioneer, an -advance guard for a conquering people, elated him and multiplied the -eagerness in him when he turned his eyes to the forward port where -Mars hung, full and ruddy, a spotted enigmatic disc of promise. - -Earth hung in the after port behind and below him, a soft emerald -crescent in its first thin quarter. A warm green sickle that was home, -a hustling verdant young world impatient to push its way across black -empty space and satisfy its lusty curiosity about its cosmic neighbors. - -He was at the end of his second day out, and he had covered roughly -half of the distance he must travel. The atomic jets had cut off long -ago, at escape velocity, and would not come on again until they were -needed to slow his approach. The midpoint lay just ahead; in a matter -of minutes now he would leave Earth's waning field and fall free into -the grasp of the red planet. - -He was watching the cobalt ball of the Meinz pendulum quiver on its -thin quartz thread with the first fluttering release of Earth's gravity -when the fear came. - -Terror struck him suddenly, galvanically, blanking out all reason and -all sensation. The control cubicle whirled giddily before his eyes, and -the abysmal panic that gripped his mind was a monstrous thing boiling -up out of unguessed subconscious depths. It froze him, breathing, like -a man paralyzed under an overwhelming electric shock. - -[Illustration: _Then terror struck!_] - -It was not fear of death. It was not even his own fear. - -It was the blind panic of Something inside him whose existence he -had never remotely suspected, Something that shrieked soundlessly in -senseless maniac terror and fought to tear Itself free of him. - -He was torn by the struggle for an interminable instant, and then it -was over. He felt it writhe loose from the encumbrance of his mind, -like a madman writhing out of a strait-jacket, and then It was falling -back toward Earth, away from him. He could sense It plainly, once It -was outside him--a malevolent, intangible Thing that fell back swiftly -toward the emerald crescent of Earth. - -He sat for a moment dazed while breath came back into his lungs and the -steel-panelled cubicle grew steady again before his starting eyes. -And, when It had gone in the distance and he could no longer feel -the frenzy of Its terror, he felt the swift unbounded freedom that a -spirited horse feels when it has, unexpectedly, lost its rider. - -He was still Robert Maynard, but with a difference. - -_He was free._ - - * * * * * - -The feeling of utter freedom staggered him. For the first time in his -life he possessed himself entirely, without doubt or reservation, a -complete and serene entity. He could feel his consciousness still -expanding, reaching into every hidden corner of his mind and taking -control of functions he had not dreamed of before. - -An analogy occurred to him in perfect exactness of detail: he was like -a man waking from a vague world of sleep to find that what he had -thought a single small room was in reality a spacious house. There -were other rooms than the cramped chamber he had lived in all his -life--rooms that had been tenanted a moment before by Something else, -but which lay open and ready for his own use now that their Tenant was -gone. A moment before his ego had occupied a meager one-twelfth of his -brain; with Its departure the whole of his mind was his. - -As suddenly as that he knew what had happened to him and why, and his -incredibly-multiplied intelligence arranged the details of it precisely -for his consideration. - -He had been host to a parasitic intelligence, without knowing it, all -his life. He had moved at Its dictates, following his own will only -when It slept or tired or was distracted, never succeeding fully in any -endeavor of his own because It was in control and must be obeyed. He -knew when he had explored the vacated premises of his newly freed mind -that It was only one of many, that all earthmen had Tenants like It, -intangible parasitic entities subsisting upon and controlling the human -life force. - -He thought: _No wonder we have wars on Earth! We have no common ground -for agreement because we are under Their compulsion. They know our -inherent abilities and keep us at each others' throats lest we learn -of and destroy them. Everything that man has accomplished has been done -in spite of Them._ - -He looked with new eyes at the instrument panel under the forward port -and was astonished at the crudity of the engines it controlled. He was -primarily an astrophysicist, and his understanding of atomic propulsion -had been negligible; now its every function was clear to him at a -glance. Experimentally he drew a graph of the arc he described through -space, and knew to a minute how long it would be before the braking -jets slowed his speed for landing. - -He raised his eyes to the forward port where the ruddy disc of Mars -hung framed against the black velvet backdrop of space like a red jewel -burning dully among a random display of lesser brilliants, beckoning -him on with the future's illimitable promise. - - * * * * * - -He sat quite still for a time on the padded control couch, thinking -intently, testing the new powers of his mind as he might have flexed a -newly discovered limb. - -His first conclusion was inescapable: his Tenant had left him because -It could not exist outside Earth's gravity. It had been forced to quit -him or perish, and Its departure had made him the first really free man. - -They were not invincible. They were not even particularly intelligent, -in spite of Their gift of parasitic control, or his own Tenant would -have known Its danger. The fact that They were gravity-bound entities -gave him the first vulnerable chink in Their armor, an Achilles heel -that offered eventual salvation for men. There would be other ways to -be rid of Them, and it was his responsibility as the first free man to -see that others of his kind were freed as he had been. - -He pictured the harmonious integration of an Earth peopled by free -men and saw clearly the heights men might reach unhampered by their -Tenants. His own possibilities, when he had summed them up, awed him in -their extent. There were no limits to what he could do, no bounds to -the knowledge he could accumulate and use. - -_This is what being a man is really like. I can liberate a world. Like -Moses, I can set my people free._ - -The thought set his face shining, suffused him with a glow of -anticipated triumph. It was all so simple, now that he was free.... - -In a few hours he would land on Mars, and in a matter of minutes he -could set up a beam transmitter to report back to the scientific -foundation that had sent him out. He could not tell his fellows the -truth because they were still captive, and their Tenants must not -be warned; but he could invent a plausible story of easily acquired -wealth on Mars that would bring other and larger commercial expeditions -swarming after him. With the help of other freed men he could found a -new civilization on the red planet, develop means to carry the fight -back to Earth and exterminate the Tenants utterly. It would take time, -but in the end men would be free. - -The Meinz centrifuge spun slowly, and with the swing of its cobalt ball -Maynard felt the shift from terrestrial to Martian gravity. He felt the -first tiny tug of weight and the slow returning of equilibrium as his -body oriented itself to the growing pull of the new attraction. - -With the return of equilibrium he suddenly realized that he was upside -down and turned to the control board for correction. The cubicle -righted itself, rotating gently until the ruddy expanding disc of Mars -hung below and ahead of the forward port. The Meinz pendulum ceased to -oscillate, the little cobalt ball hanging stiffly at the end of its -taut quartz filament. - -He was well into the Martian attraction field by now. He made a quick -calculation (which once would have taken painstaking hours) and knew -that he would release the first braking blast from his forward jets -in precisely ten hours. The little ship would nose into a slowly -tightening spiral, avoiding the odd-planed orbits of the two tiny moons -and, within minutes of establishing his declaration track, he would be -ready to land. - -He watched eagerly as the red disc of Mars swelled to a mottled globe, -blurred already at the edges by atmospheric refraction. Down there on -the dead ground of that ancient world he would set up his equipment and -flash back his triumphant message to Earth, a fabulous exultant lie -that would bring other men like him swarming to the red planet. - -_Free men! Supermen, really, in a new free world. Nothing impossible, -then!_ - - * * * * * - -Later, he shut off the braking blast of the forward jets and felt -the soft rubber-foam padding of the couch rise gently under him as -deceleration ceased. He was well into his landing spiral, eating up the -paltry thousands of miles that lay between him and the shining future. - -He lay back on the couch, smiling, his mind busy with the message he -would beam back to Earth, planning already the campaign he would carry -out. Years must pass before men were freed completely of their Tenants, -perhaps decades, but time did not matter. It was essentially a simple -task because he and those to come after him would be free of Their -compulsion--serene unhampered supermen to whom time was nothing. - -In the end they could not fail.... - -Something impinged sharply upon his new perception, a chill groping -tentacle of questioning intelligence. The smile froze on his face; -he sat up stiffly, numbled with the unforeseen horror of what was -happening to him. The groping ceased, and the hungry Intelligence from -outside poured into his mind like smoke into an empty room, smothering -his feeble attempt at resistance. - -He rose and went to the forward port, staring dully down at the -uprushing sandy wastes and trying to recall what glorious thing it -was that he had been thinking. Or had it been only a dream? Somewhere -in the farthest recess of his blunted consciousness a thought formed -and floated like a bubble up into his awareness; but like a bubble it -burst, and its meaning was lost on him. - -_There were Tenants on Earth_, it said. _Why not on Mars, too?_ - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNWELCOME TENANT *** - -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. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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