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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: Ultimatum - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: March 05, 2021 [eBook #64702] - -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 ULTIMATUM *** - - - - - ULTIMATUM - - By ROGER DEE - - In a dingy little Indiana hotel room the fate of - three worlds suddenly hung in precarious balance! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Spring 1950. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Winant followed the lanky sheriff down the jail corridor past rows of -empty, plank-walled cells and drew a sharp breath of relief when they -found the last cubicle still tenanted. - -"That's Uncle Ivor, all right," Winant said. "Sorry he caused you so -much trouble, sheriff, but I'll be glad to pay his fine. What's the -charge against him?" - -The sheriff rubbed a palm across his drooping mustaches and looked -doubtfully at the old man who sat on the edge of the cell bunk, the -bald dome of his head cradled dejectedly in his hands. - -"You couldn't rightly say there _is_ a charge, mister," he admitted. -"Your uncle popped into Ben Stuart's Drop Inn restaurant night before -last with a little black box under his arm, naked as a jaybird and -talking like a crazy man. - -"'I'm a visitor from Mars,' he says. 'Take me to your president, and -quick!' Ben thought he was crazy, or drunk, and ran him out with a meat -cleaver, and the old duck went down to the Warner Hotel and pulled the -same goofy act. Pop Warner called me, and I went down and threw the old -coot into the cooler. I knew right off that he was cracked, because I -even had to show him how to put on the clothes I brought him. And the -wingding he pitched when I took that black box away from him--wow!" - -Winant shook his head. "Poor Uncle Ivor," he said commiseratingly. "The -last time he got away from us he thought he was Mahatma Ghandi, and -tried to buy a bus ticket from Cincinnati to New Delhi, India. I found -him, finally, in Evansville, Indiana. It's amazing how he got this far -south, but then a mentally-unbalanced person can do surprising things, -sometimes." - -The sheriff snorted. "Unbalanced, hell," he said. "The old coot's -crazy as a bed-bug. Just got in from Mars, he says, and he wants the -president of the United States--on the double!" - -He unlocked the door and Winant went inside. - -"It's all right now, Uncle Ivor," he said gently. The old man raised -a wrinkled, leathery face and stared at him uncomprehendingly. "Let's -go over to my hotel and get a good meal and a hot bath," Winant urged. -"Then we'll go home again. Ready, now?" - -A few minutes later in the jail office the sheriff pocketed the bill -Winant gave him and handed over a small lacquered metal box that was -surprisingly heavy for its size. - -"Here's your uncle's radio," he said. "New-fangled model, I reckon. I -couldn't make head nor tail of it, so I just left it alone." - -Winant lifted the hinged cover and looked inside the box at the neat -array of tiny meters and knobs that covered the control panel. - -"A wise decision, sheriff," he said dryly. "Wiser, perhaps, than you'll -ever know." - - * * * * * - -The old man stood in the center of Winant's hotel room, the sheriff's -ill-fitting denims hanging on his slight frame like the castoff -clothing of a scare-crow. - -"The box," he said. His voice, after talking for so long, was a hoarse, -rasping croak. "Give me the box." - -Winant sat in a decrepit wicker chair, holding the box in his lap, his -eyes missing no detail of the old man's shrunken figure with its bald -dome-like head and wrinkled parchment face. - -"I'll give you the box when you tell me something that makes sense," he -said. "What you've just told me is nothing but a rehash of the story -you told the sheriff--that your name is Yardana and that you are an -envoy from Mars, sent to Earth to help scientific authorities develop -safe atomic power. Look--I'm a news writer, down here to investigate -the rumors of a blue meteorite landing in the hills just north of here -and to check up on the comic accounts I read of your appearance. I went -to a lot of trouble and some risk to get you out of jail, and I want a -reasonable story for my trouble. What about it, now?" - -The old man wrung his hands. "Give me the box. Give me the box!" - -"Later," Winant promised. "When you give me the real story behind this -thing I'll not only give you back your box, I'll give you a lift out of -this burg as well." - -He looked at the old man sharply. "How could a Martian speak the kind -of English you've been using? Why should a Martian look so much like an -ordinary human being? It doesn't add up." - -"We are of the same root stock," Yardana said. "Intelligent life -follows the same evolutionary pattern, no matter where it develops, so -long as conditions are the same. As for the language, my people have -followed your experiments with electro-magnetics since their beginning. -We know every language of Earth intimately, through long study of your -radio programs." - -Winant laughed. "Maybe the sheriff was right, at that," he said. "It's -a goofy story, too fantastic for belief." - -He shrugged and handed the old man the black box. - -"Here's your toy," he said resignedly. "I guess that's all I'm -going to get for my trouble; just enough misinformation for another -tongue-in-cheek article for Sunday supplements." - -He picked up his brief-case from the floor and laid it on the corner of -the writing table at his elbow. "The lift I promised you still goes, if -you want it, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow." - -The old man took the black box eagerly and threw back the cover. His -fingers flickered over the controls with practised familiarity. - -"I shall not need your assistance--now," he said. His pale eyes met -Winant's triumphantly. "Now that I have the Bubble again I have a means -of return to my ship better than any Earthly conveyance could offer. -Watch!" - - * * * * * - -From the black box swelled a pulsing radiance, a misty rose-tinted -sphere that grew swiftly until it enveloped Yardana in a six-foot -bubble of iridescent light. Through its wavering envelope the old -man's face showed taut and purposeful, its pleading replaced by grim -determination. - -[Illustration: _From the black box swelled a pulsing bubble of -iridescent light._] - -"Print your story," he said. "Tell your people about Yardana and his -mission. Tell them too that their days are numbered from this minute, -for in their savage perversion of natural principles to warlike uses -they have forged a menace that threatens the peace of the Solar System -and, eventually, of the universe itself." - -He moved toward the window, the rosy Bubble glowing about him. Winant -turned his chair slightly, watching, but he did not rise. - -"My people knew the secrets of the atom," Yardana said, "before your -own learned the use of fire. We built great cities and telescopes -when your ancestors were troglodytes, living in caves and eating -uncooked meat. We expected no dangerous intelligence to arise on your -planet for thousands of years as yet, and we paid little attention -to your progress until recently, when we learned through your radio -broadcasts that you had cracked the atom. We knew then that something -was dangerously wrong, and that we must investigate quickly before your -sudden wisdom put you upon equal footing with us. - -"Today, when you should be only learning to compound gunpowder, we -find you applying electromagnetic principles which you cannot possibly -understand, and harnessing the atom for the sole purpose of killing -greater numbers of your fellow beings. I came here, not to aid your -scientists in developing the rudiments of the atomic power they -have discovered, but to find the reason behind the sudden freakish -intelligence they are displaying. I have discovered that reason--the -scientific and political powers of Earth are under the domination and -guidance of alien intelligences, entities bent upon developing a race -of Earthmen so warlike and so technically proficient in the waging of -war that it must endanger our own Martian culture." - -Winant sat unmoving, his eyes not leaving the Martian's wrinkled face. -The Bubble hissed audibly, its tiny sussuration suddenly loud in the -room. - -"Therefore I shall recommend in my report that the human race be -completely destroyed," Yardana said. "Alone it could not offer -a serious threat against us for ages, but led and instructed by -these outside intelligences it must soon surpass our own scientific -development. And we must destroy you before you learn the secret of -space travel, or we shall be too late to save ourselves. - -"We fought with the peoples of Venus once in ages past for the same -reason, and reduced them to inconsequence if not to extinction, for no -sign of intelligent life has been detected upon their world since we -blasted it three thousand years ago. When I have made my report the -council of Elders will recommend the blasting of Earth, and the solar -system will be safe again for our superior Martian civilization--this -time forever." - -"When you have made your report," Winant said. His smile was edged with -a sudden secret amusement. "But suppose these 'alien entities' prevent -your return?" - -He opened the brief-case on the table and put a hand inside it. The -Martian laughed harshly. - -"No missile can penetrate a Bubble, you fool," he said contemptuously. -"It is impervious to any Earthly weapon." - -Winant laughed in turn, his lips pressed back flat against his teeth. -The repressed hatred of three thousand years spoke in his voice, added -pressure to the thrust of his thumb on the stud of the little silver -tube in his hand. - -"Of course it is," he said, as the sullen crimson ray from the tube -disintegrated Martian, box and Bubble alike in a breath. "That's why I -came prepared--with a Venusian weapon!" - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ULTIMATUM *** - -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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"Sorry he caused you so -much trouble, sheriff, but I'll be glad to pay his fine. What's the -charge against him?"</p> - -<p>The sheriff rubbed a palm across his drooping mustaches and looked -doubtfully at the old man who sat on the edge of the cell bunk, the -bald dome of his head cradled dejectedly in his hands.</p> - -<p>"You couldn't rightly say there <i>is</i> a charge, mister," he admitted. -"Your uncle popped into Ben Stuart's Drop Inn restaurant night before -last with a little black box under his arm, naked as a jaybird and -talking like a crazy man.</p> - -<p>"'I'm a visitor from Mars,' he says. 'Take me to your president, and -quick!' Ben thought he was crazy, or drunk, and ran him out with a meat -cleaver, and the old duck went down to the Warner Hotel and pulled the -same goofy act. Pop Warner called me, and I went down and threw the old -coot into the cooler. I knew right off that he was cracked, because I -even had to show him how to put on the clothes I brought him. And the -wingding he pitched when I took that black box away from him—wow!"</p> - -<p>Winant shook his head. "Poor Uncle Ivor," he said commiseratingly. "The -last time he got away from us he thought he was Mahatma Ghandi, and -tried to buy a bus ticket from Cincinnati to New Delhi, India. I found -him, finally, in Evansville, Indiana. It's amazing how he got this far -south, but then a mentally-unbalanced person can do surprising things, -sometimes."</p> - -<p>The sheriff snorted. "Unbalanced, hell," he said. "The old coot's -crazy as a bed-bug. Just got in from Mars, he says, and he wants the -president of the United States—on the double!"</p> - -<p>He unlocked the door and Winant went inside.</p> - -<p>"It's all right now, Uncle Ivor," he said gently. The old man raised -a wrinkled, leathery face and stared at him uncomprehendingly. "Let's -go over to my hotel and get a good meal and a hot bath," Winant urged. -"Then we'll go home again. Ready, now?"</p> - -<p>A few minutes later in the jail office the sheriff pocketed the bill -Winant gave him and handed over a small lacquered metal box that was -surprisingly heavy for its size.</p> - -<p>"Here's your uncle's radio," he said. "New-fangled model, I reckon. I -couldn't make head nor tail of it, so I just left it alone."</p> - -<p>Winant lifted the hinged cover and looked inside the box at the neat -array of tiny meters and knobs that covered the control panel.</p> - -<p>"A wise decision, sheriff," he said dryly. "Wiser, perhaps, than you'll -ever know."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The old man stood in the center of Winant's hotel room, the sheriff's -ill-fitting denims hanging on his slight frame like the castoff -clothing of a scare-crow.</p> - -<p>"The box," he said. His voice, after talking for so long, was a hoarse, -rasping croak. "Give me the box."</p> - -<p>Winant sat in a decrepit wicker chair, holding the box in his lap, his -eyes missing no detail of the old man's shrunken figure with its bald -dome-like head and wrinkled parchment face.</p> - -<p>"I'll give you the box when you tell me something that makes sense," he -said. "What you've just told me is nothing but a rehash of the story -you told the sheriff—that your name is Yardana and that you are an -envoy from Mars, sent to Earth to help scientific authorities develop -safe atomic power. Look—I'm a news writer, down here to investigate -the rumors of a blue meteorite landing in the hills just north of here -and to check up on the comic accounts I read of your appearance. I went -to a lot of trouble and some risk to get you out of jail, and I want a -reasonable story for my trouble. What about it, now?"</p> - -<p>The old man wrung his hands. "Give me the box. Give me the box!"</p> - -<p>"Later," Winant promised. "When you give me the real story behind this -thing I'll not only give you back your box, I'll give you a lift out of -this burg as well."</p> - -<p>He looked at the old man sharply. "How could a Martian speak the kind -of English you've been using? Why should a Martian look so much like an -ordinary human being? It doesn't add up."</p> - -<p>"We are of the same root stock," Yardana said. "Intelligent life -follows the same evolutionary pattern, no matter where it develops, so -long as conditions are the same. As for the language, my people have -followed your experiments with electro-magnetics since their beginning. -We know every language of Earth intimately, through long study of your -radio programs."</p> - -<p>Winant laughed. "Maybe the sheriff was right, at that," he said. "It's -a goofy story, too fantastic for belief."</p> - -<p>He shrugged and handed the old man the black box.</p> - -<p>"Here's your toy," he said resignedly. "I guess that's all I'm -going to get for my trouble; just enough misinformation for another -tongue-in-cheek article for Sunday supplements."</p> - -<p>He picked up his brief-case from the floor and laid it on the corner of -the writing table at his elbow. "The lift I promised you still goes, if -you want it, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow."</p> - -<p>The old man took the black box eagerly and threw back the cover. His -fingers flickered over the controls with practised familiarity.</p> - -<p>"I shall not need your assistance—now," he said. His pale eyes met -Winant's triumphantly. "Now that I have the Bubble again I have a means -of return to my ship better than any Earthly conveyance could offer. -Watch!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>From the black box swelled a pulsing radiance, a misty rose-tinted -sphere that grew swiftly until it enveloped Yardana in a six-foot -bubble of iridescent light. Through its wavering envelope the old -man's face showed taut and purposeful, its pleading replaced by grim -determination.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>From the black box swelled a pulsing bubble of iridescent light.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Print your story," he said. "Tell your people about Yardana and his -mission. Tell them too that their days are numbered from this minute, -for in their savage perversion of natural principles to warlike uses -they have forged a menace that threatens the peace of the Solar System -and, eventually, of the universe itself."</p> - -<p>He moved toward the window, the rosy Bubble glowing about him. Winant -turned his chair slightly, watching, but he did not rise.</p> - -<p>"My people knew the secrets of the atom," Yardana said, "before your -own learned the use of fire. We built great cities and telescopes -when your ancestors were troglodytes, living in caves and eating -uncooked meat. We expected no dangerous intelligence to arise on your -planet for thousands of years as yet, and we paid little attention -to your progress until recently, when we learned through your radio -broadcasts that you had cracked the atom. We knew then that something -was dangerously wrong, and that we must investigate quickly before your -sudden wisdom put you upon equal footing with us.</p> - -<p>"Today, when you should be only learning to compound gunpowder, we -find you applying electromagnetic principles which you cannot possibly -understand, and harnessing the atom for the sole purpose of killing -greater numbers of your fellow beings. I came here, not to aid your -scientists in developing the rudiments of the atomic power they -have discovered, but to find the reason behind the sudden freakish -intelligence they are displaying. I have discovered that reason—the -scientific and political powers of Earth are under the domination and -guidance of alien intelligences, entities bent upon developing a race -of Earthmen so warlike and so technically proficient in the waging of -war that it must endanger our own Martian culture."</p> - -<p>Winant sat unmoving, his eyes not leaving the Martian's wrinkled face. -The Bubble hissed audibly, its tiny sussuration suddenly loud in the -room.</p> - -<p>"Therefore I shall recommend in my report that the human race be -completely destroyed," Yardana said. "Alone it could not offer -a serious threat against us for ages, but led and instructed by -these outside intelligences it must soon surpass our own scientific -development. And we must destroy you before you learn the secret of -space travel, or we shall be too late to save ourselves.</p> - -<p>"We fought with the peoples of Venus once in ages past for the same -reason, and reduced them to inconsequence if not to extinction, for no -sign of intelligent life has been detected upon their world since we -blasted it three thousand years ago. When I have made my report the -council of Elders will recommend the blasting of Earth, and the solar -system will be safe again for our superior Martian civilization—this -time forever."</p> - -<p>"When you have made your report," Winant said. His smile was edged with -a sudden secret amusement. "But suppose these 'alien entities' prevent -your return?"</p> - -<p>He opened the brief-case on the table and put a hand inside it. The -Martian laughed harshly.</p> - -<p>"No missile can penetrate a Bubble, you fool," he said contemptuously. -"It is impervious to any Earthly weapon."</p> - -<p>Winant laughed in turn, his lips pressed back flat against his teeth. -The repressed hatred of three thousand years spoke in his voice, added -pressure to the thrust of his thumb on the stud of the little silver -tube in his hand.</p> - -<p>"Of course it is," he said, as the sullen crimson ray from the tube -disintegrated Martian, box and Bubble alike in a breath. 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