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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 Inquisitor - -Author: Randall Garrett - -Release Date: June 29, 2021 [eBook #65728] - -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 INQUISITOR *** - - - - - It wasn't that Kroll enjoyed watching the - traitors broken in body and spirit. But why did - they keep insisting they were innocent before-- - - The Inquisitor - - By Randall Garrett - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - December 1956 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -When Conway Kroll reached his office that morning, there were three -prisoners waiting to be interrogated. He smiled coldly at the sight of -them, standing in the large bare room awaiting their fate. - -"Good morning," he said, with steely politeness. "My name is Kroll. -It is my job to conduct the interrogation to which you three will be -subjected today." - -One of the three--a tall, youthful-looking man--glared up at him -bitterly. "Interrogation? _Torture_, you mean!" - -Kroll brought his eyes to rest on the man who had spoken slowly, almost -scornfully. "You have the wrong idea completely, my friend. It is -necessary to persuade you to divulge certain facts. The State requires -it of you. If you refuse--" He gestured sadly--"we must compel you. -But you are all so determined to make things hard for us. I don't -_want_ to hurt you, you know." - -"But you _will_ hurt us," said another of the prisoners. She was a -girl, no more than twenty, slim and darkhaired. Even in the dreary -prison garb, thought Kroll, she retained her beauty. "You're going to -torture us!" - -Kroll shrugged: "I repeat: I don't want to." - -He looked at his watch. "Come; we are wasting time, and the Inquisitor -is waiting. Miss Horniman, you must be first." - -The girl shrank back behind the bitter-eyed young man. The third -prisoner, a resigned-looking, balding man of fifty or so, did not -change his expression. - -"Take me first," the man said. "Leave her alone." - -Again Kroll shrugged. "The Inquisitor would like Miss Horniman first, -Mr. Leslie. This is the preferred order, and this is the order that -will be." - -A guard stepped forward and shoved the sobbing girl up and ahead, -toward the door. The man named Leslie clashed his manacles impotently -together and spat. "Butchers! Torturers!" - -"Please, Mr. Leslie," Kroll said gently, a pained expression on his -face. "You make our job even harder than it is." - - * * * * * - -He followed the girl into the adjoining room, where the Inquisitor was -waiting. The Interrogation Chamber was an immense rectangular room with -concrete floor and bleak white walls, in the center of which stood the -Inquisitor. - -"Good morning, Kroll," the Inquisitor said. Its metallic voice rattled -and boomed in the big room. In the depths of the machine, relays -clicked and hummed. Kroll bowed to it, and the Inquisitor responded -with a gesture of a prolonged metal arm. "The first prisoner, Kroll." - -"Miss Florence Horniman," Kroll said. "Accused of treason against the -State. Denies charge." - -"How do you plead?" the machine asked coldly. - -"Not guilty," stammered the girl. - -Two huge metal arms extended from the Inquisitor's sides and folded -around her. They drew her across the room to the bosom of the robot. -"Feed in the data, Kroll." - -At the signal, Kroll slipped in the tape on the girl. A moment passed -while the Inquisitor digested the data, and then: "The plea of not -guilty is rejected as invalid." - -"You can't just do that!" the girl said. "That's my plea!" - -"Not valid in view of the evidence," said the Inquisitor. Kroll smiled -distantly. He had seen this scene repeated, over and over, almost -every day for the ten years he had held the post. He wrapped his -blue-and-gold Interrogator's cloak around himself impressively and -stepped forward. - -"You are accused of treason against the State," Kroll said sonorously. -"But it is my duty to inform you that your sentence may be mitigated -upon your delivering us certain information--about leaders of your -movement, future plans, location of your party cell, and so forth." - -Florence Horniman's eyes flashed brightly. "I won't tell you anything!" - -"Perhaps I did not make myself clear," Kroll said. He repeated his -offer. - -"The answer is still no!" - -Kroll sighed. "Very well," he said. A third hand slid from the -Inquisitor's body and a needle-thin finger traced a line down the -girl's bare arm. A bloody trickle appeared. - -She began to sob again. Kroll stepped closer and lifted her head. "Why -must you hold out?" he asked. "Why don't you speak?" - -Still silence. The finger rose again and sliced lightly across her -cheek. - - * * * * * - -"All right, take her away," Kroll said when twenty minutes had passed. -The Inquisitor was humming merrily, busily taping the data that had -been extracted from the girl and feeding it to the main computers -downstairs. They would integrate it and notify the State Police. It was -a smooth-functioning system. - -The bloody thing that had been Florence Horniman was led away by -a guard, and the next prisoner led in. It was the middle-aged man, -Chester Wengrove. - -"Get your hands off me," he snapped to the guard as he was shoved into -the room. "You have no right to--" - -"Unfortunately, as a representative of the State he has every right," -Kroll said calmly. He fed Wengrove's tape to the Inquisitor. The trial -proceeded. - -Wengrove was stubborn; it took half an hour to break him down at all, -but when he did speak he sang freely, giving data on his cell of the -Movement. - -"Very good," the Inquisitor said when Wengrove finally coughed and said -he knew no more. "You are completely exonerated from the charge of -treason, in view of the information you have given." - -The eyes in the bloody face lit up. "I'm free, you mean?" - -"Unfortunately, no," the Inquisitor said. "Because of your danger -to the State, you must be kept in Quarantine Camp, along with other -diseased former members of society, until such time as we are able to -clear your mind of its confusion. But you will not be punished." - -"I won't be punished?" Wengrove repeated mindlessly. - -"When the Inquisitor says something, it means it," Kroll said. "Take -him away." - -The next prisoner was Neil Leslie. He strode into the Inquisitor's -Chamber without having to be pushed, and confronted Kroll defiantly. -"My turn, eh?" - -Kroll nodded. "Your companions have both been removed." He nodded -meaningful toward the Inquisitor, whose claws were red with the blood -of Florence Horniman and Chester Wengrove. "They both spoke most -satisfactorily----after some persuasion." - -"Torture, you mean." - -"We've been through this already," Kroll said. "Since you're going to -talk anyway, I don't understand why you can't save yourself a great -deal of pain by talking now, before I hand you to the Inquisitor." - -"Because I don't mean to talk at all," Leslie said. He ran a hand -through his shock of blonde hair and glared fiercely at Kroll. - -"Very well," the Interrogator said. He stepped to the robot and slipped -in Neil Leslie's tape. - - * * * * * - -"I don't understand you at all," Kroll admitted, looking down at the -pain-racked body before him. "Why don't you talk? I don't _want_ to -keep you in here, you know." - -Bloodshot eyes looked back at him, eyes clouded with pain and hatred. -"I'm not saying anything," Leslie murmured. "Oil up your robot and -let's try again." - -For the hundredth time the Inquisitor's talons descended, raked a red -line across the man's body. He shuddered, but did not speak. Kroll -shook his head impatiently. No prisoner had ever held out against the -Inquisitor this long before. He found himself perspiring. - -The Inquisitor said, "The name of your leader is David Cosbro. Is this -true?" - -No answer. - -A needle descended. - -Still no answer. - -"Your Cell was located in East Appalachia. Upper Quadrant. Is this -true?" - -No answer again. - -Minutes passed, minutes in which Leslie continued to stare defiantly -outward, continued to clench his fists and remain silent. - -Finally the Inquisitor opened its tightly-clamped arms and let Leslie -stagger out. He slumped to the ground at the feet of the robot and -leaned dazedly against the Inquisitor's gleaming base. - -"Prisoner is on the verge of death," the Inquisitor said. "Further -questioning is pointless." - -Kroll looked down in surprise and chagrin. In ten years, this was the -first time a prisoner had not broken under Interrogation. He scowled -angrily; it was his first failure. - -"You're a stubborn man, Leslie. But it's killed you." - -"I'm not dead yet," the prisoner said brokenly. Suddenly he mustered -some strength and managed to look up. "Tell me something, Kroll. I want -to know something." - -"Yes?" - -"Why do you do what you do?" - -"You mean--Interrogate?" - -"I mean torture," Leslie said. - -"I am an Interrogator because it is my duty to the State. Treason must -be unmasked, the enemies of the State destroyed. It is necessary." - -Leslie looked up, and there seemed to be pity in his eyes. "Just one -question, Kroll. Doesn't it bother you, when you go home? _How do you -know you're right and we're wrong?_" - -Kroll started to say something, then saw there was no point in -bothering. - -"Prisoner is dead," said the Inquisitor. - -"Take him away," ordered Kroll. The day was over. - - * * * * * - -What Leslie had said preyed on Kroll's mind all the way home. He got -out of the tube and made his way to his austere room with his mind -fixed on one question--the snarling words the dying prisoner had -hurled at him: _How do you know you're right and we're wrong?_ - -They _had_ to be wrong, Kroll told himself firmly. The State had to -be right. It was necessary; it was logical; it was the way things had -always been. - -But the thought obsessed him, and the image of Neil Leslie's face, -bloody but undefeated, hung before him as he went about his evening's -activities. The face was still in his mind as he prepared to go to bed. - -Odd, Kroll thought. This was the first time he had been disturbed after -a torture session. He had seen hundreds--no, thousands--pass through -the Inquisitor, come out shambling rags of bone and flesh, and it had -never bothered him, because they were enemies of the State and deserved -no more. - -He dropped off into an uneasy sleep. But suddenly, in the small hours -of the night, he sat bolt upright in bed, a cold, clammy perspiration -breaking out on him. - -Leslie had just asked the question for the hundredth time. And Kroll -had had no answer. He _didn't_ know who was right. He just didn't know. -His mind, unswervingly loyal for so many years, swayed in an agony of -doubt. - -He got out of bed and paced back and forth across the floor of his room. - -"The State is wrong!" he said aloud. But it didn't sound right. It -couldn't be true. It wasn't true. "Stupid!" he told himself. It -was stupid to distrust the State--and wrong. "Wrong! Criminally, -disgustingly wrong!" - -There! He felt better. He had rid himself of his foolish doubts. "How -could I have been so foolish?" he said aloud. His nerves felt better -now. Once again he was ready to do his duty as a loyal officer of the -State. - -Smiling to himself for being so easily disturbed by the remarks of -disloyal traitors, he climbed back into bed and closed his eyes. A few -moments later, he was asleep. - -In the morning, everything seemed to be all right; the terrors of the -last twelve hours were pale things of the past, no longer exerting -pressure on him. He caught the tube and headed to the Ministry. - -He donned his uniform in the locker room and took the elevator to the -Interrogation Floor. He stepped into his office. It was empty. No -prisoners this morning? It didn't seem likely. - -He pushed open the inner door and entered the Interrogation Chamber. -To his surprise, he saw Matthews, one of his assistants, wearing the -uniform of an Interrogator and standing near the robot, arms folded. - -"What are you doing in here dressed that way?" Kroll snapped. - -"I am the new Interrogator," Matthews told him. - -"Since when?" - -"The appointment was made very early this morning," the Inquisitor -said. "We have all the evidence we need to brand you as a traitor to -the State." - -The new Interrogator turned a switch, and Kroll heard his own voice -come from a speaker. "_The State is wrong! Stupid! Wrong! Criminally, -disgustingly wrong! How could I have been so foolish?_" - -"There is no need to deny these words," said the Interrogator. "It is -only necessary that you tell us with whom you have been working." - -"But there's no one!" Kroll shouted. "You don't understand! 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But why did<br /> -they keep insisting they were innocent before—</p> - -<h1>The Inquisitor</h1> - -<h2>By Randall Garrett</h2> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -December 1956<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>When Conway Kroll reached his office that morning, there were three -prisoners waiting to be interrogated. He smiled coldly at the sight of -them, standing in the large bare room awaiting their fate.</p> - -<p>"Good morning," he said, with steely politeness. "My name is Kroll. -It is my job to conduct the interrogation to which you three will be -subjected today."</p> - -<p>One of the three—a tall, youthful-looking man—glared up at him -bitterly. "Interrogation? <i>Torture</i>, you mean!"</p> - -<p>Kroll brought his eyes to rest on the man who had spoken slowly, almost -scornfully. "You have the wrong idea completely, my friend. It is -necessary to persuade you to divulge certain facts. The State requires -it of you. If you refuse—" He gestured sadly—"we must compel you. -But you are all so determined to make things hard for us. I don't -<i>want</i> to hurt you, you know."</p> - -<p>"But you <i>will</i> hurt us," said another of the prisoners. She was a -girl, no more than twenty, slim and darkhaired. Even in the dreary -prison garb, thought Kroll, she retained her beauty. "You're going to -torture us!"</p> - -<p>Kroll shrugged: "I repeat: I don't want to."</p> - -<p>He looked at his watch. "Come; we are wasting time, and the Inquisitor -is waiting. Miss Horniman, you must be first."</p> - -<p>The girl shrank back behind the bitter-eyed young man. The third -prisoner, a resigned-looking, balding man of fifty or so, did not -change his expression.</p> - -<p>"Take me first," the man said. "Leave her alone."</p> - -<p>Again Kroll shrugged. "The Inquisitor would like Miss Horniman first, -Mr. Leslie. This is the preferred order, and this is the order that -will be."</p> - -<p>A guard stepped forward and shoved the sobbing girl up and ahead, -toward the door. The man named Leslie clashed his manacles impotently -together and spat. "Butchers! Torturers!"</p> - -<p>"Please, Mr. Leslie," Kroll said gently, a pained expression on his -face. "You make our job even harder than it is."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He followed the girl into the adjoining room, where the Inquisitor was -waiting. The Interrogation Chamber was an immense rectangular room with -concrete floor and bleak white walls, in the center of which stood the -Inquisitor.</p> - -<p>"Good morning, Kroll," the Inquisitor said. Its metallic voice rattled -and boomed in the big room. In the depths of the machine, relays -clicked and hummed. Kroll bowed to it, and the Inquisitor responded -with a gesture of a prolonged metal arm. "The first prisoner, Kroll."</p> - -<p>"Miss Florence Horniman," Kroll said. "Accused of treason against the -State. Denies charge."</p> - -<p>"How do you plead?" the machine asked coldly.</p> - -<p>"Not guilty," stammered the girl.</p> - -<p>Two huge metal arms extended from the Inquisitor's sides and folded -around her. They drew her across the room to the bosom of the robot. -"Feed in the data, Kroll."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>At the signal, Kroll slipped in the tape on the girl. A moment passed -while the Inquisitor digested the data, and then: "The plea of not -guilty is rejected as invalid."</p> - -<p>"You can't just do that!" the girl said. "That's my plea!"</p> - -<p>"Not valid in view of the evidence," said the Inquisitor. Kroll smiled -distantly. He had seen this scene repeated, over and over, almost -every day for the ten years he had held the post. He wrapped his -blue-and-gold Interrogator's cloak around himself impressively and -stepped forward.</p> - -<p>"You are accused of treason against the State," Kroll said sonorously. -"But it is my duty to inform you that your sentence may be mitigated -upon your delivering us certain information—about leaders of your -movement, future plans, location of your party cell, and so forth."</p> - -<p>Florence Horniman's eyes flashed brightly. "I won't tell you anything!"</p> - -<p>"Perhaps I did not make myself clear," Kroll said. He repeated his -offer.</p> - -<p>"The answer is still no!"</p> - -<p>Kroll sighed. "Very well," he said. A third hand slid from the -Inquisitor's body and a needle-thin finger traced a line down the -girl's bare arm. A bloody trickle appeared.</p> - -<p>She began to sob again. Kroll stepped closer and lifted her head. "Why -must you hold out?" he asked. "Why don't you speak?"</p> - -<p>Still silence. The finger rose again and sliced lightly across her -cheek.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"All right, take her away," Kroll said when twenty minutes had passed. -The Inquisitor was humming merrily, busily taping the data that had -been extracted from the girl and feeding it to the main computers -downstairs. They would integrate it and notify the State Police. It was -a smooth-functioning system.</p> - -<p>The bloody thing that had been Florence Horniman was led away by -a guard, and the next prisoner led in. It was the middle-aged man, -Chester Wengrove.</p> - -<p>"Get your hands off me," he snapped to the guard as he was shoved into -the room. "You have no right to—"</p> - -<p>"Unfortunately, as a representative of the State he has every right," -Kroll said calmly. He fed Wengrove's tape to the Inquisitor. The trial -proceeded.</p> - -<p>Wengrove was stubborn; it took half an hour to break him down at all, -but when he did speak he sang freely, giving data on his cell of the -Movement.</p> - -<p>"Very good," the Inquisitor said when Wengrove finally coughed and said -he knew no more. "You are completely exonerated from the charge of -treason, in view of the information you have given."</p> - -<p>The eyes in the bloody face lit up. "I'm free, you mean?"</p> - -<p>"Unfortunately, no," the Inquisitor said. "Because of your danger -to the State, you must be kept in Quarantine Camp, along with other -diseased former members of society, until such time as we are able to -clear your mind of its confusion. But you will not be punished."</p> - -<p>"I won't be punished?" Wengrove repeated mindlessly.</p> - -<p>"When the Inquisitor says something, it means it," Kroll said. "Take -him away."</p> - -<p>The next prisoner was Neil Leslie. He strode into the Inquisitor's -Chamber without having to be pushed, and confronted Kroll defiantly. -"My turn, eh?"</p> - -<p>Kroll nodded. "Your companions have both been removed." He nodded -meaningful toward the Inquisitor, whose claws were red with the blood -of Florence Horniman and Chester Wengrove. "They both spoke most -satisfactorily——after some persuasion."</p> - -<p>"Torture, you mean."</p> - -<p>"We've been through this already," Kroll said. "Since you're going to -talk anyway, I don't understand why you can't save yourself a great -deal of pain by talking now, before I hand you to the Inquisitor."</p> - -<p>"Because I don't mean to talk at all," Leslie said. He ran a hand -through his shock of blonde hair and glared fiercely at Kroll.</p> - -<p>"Very well," the Interrogator said. He stepped to the robot and slipped -in Neil Leslie's tape.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"I don't understand you at all," Kroll admitted, looking down at the -pain-racked body before him. "Why don't you talk? I don't <i>want</i> to -keep you in here, you know."</p> - -<p>Bloodshot eyes looked back at him, eyes clouded with pain and hatred. -"I'm not saying anything," Leslie murmured. "Oil up your robot and -let's try again."</p> - -<p>For the hundredth time the Inquisitor's talons descended, raked a red -line across the man's body. He shuddered, but did not speak. Kroll -shook his head impatiently. No prisoner had ever held out against the -Inquisitor this long before. He found himself perspiring.</p> - -<p>The Inquisitor said, "The name of your leader is David Cosbro. Is this -true?"</p> - -<p>No answer.</p> - -<p>A needle descended.</p> - -<p>Still no answer.</p> - -<p>"Your Cell was located in East Appalachia. Upper Quadrant. Is this -true?"</p> - -<p>No answer again.</p> - -<p>Minutes passed, minutes in which Leslie continued to stare defiantly -outward, continued to clench his fists and remain silent.</p> - -<p>Finally the Inquisitor opened its tightly-clamped arms and let Leslie -stagger out. He slumped to the ground at the feet of the robot and -leaned dazedly against the Inquisitor's gleaming base.</p> - -<p>"Prisoner is on the verge of death," the Inquisitor said. "Further -questioning is pointless."</p> - -<p>Kroll looked down in surprise and chagrin. In ten years, this was the -first time a prisoner had not broken under Interrogation. He scowled -angrily; it was his first failure.</p> - -<p>"You're a stubborn man, Leslie. But it's killed you."</p> - -<p>"I'm not dead yet," the prisoner said brokenly. Suddenly he mustered -some strength and managed to look up. "Tell me something, Kroll. I want -to know something."</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"Why do you do what you do?"</p> - -<p>"You mean—Interrogate?"</p> - -<p>"I mean torture," Leslie said.</p> - -<p>"I am an Interrogator because it is my duty to the State. Treason must -be unmasked, the enemies of the State destroyed. It is necessary."</p> - -<p>Leslie looked up, and there seemed to be pity in his eyes. "Just one -question, Kroll. Doesn't it bother you, when you go home? <i>How do you -know you're right and we're wrong?</i>"</p> - -<p>Kroll started to say something, then saw there was no point in -bothering.</p> - -<p>"Prisoner is dead," said the Inquisitor.</p> - -<p>"Take him away," ordered Kroll. The day was over.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>What Leslie had said preyed on Kroll's mind all the way home. He got -out of the tube and made his way to his austere room with his mind -fixed on one question—the snarling words the dying prisoner had -hurled at him: <i>How do you know you're right and we're wrong?</i></p> - -<p>They <i>had</i> to be wrong, Kroll told himself firmly. The State had to -be right. It was necessary; it was logical; it was the way things had -always been.</p> - -<p>But the thought obsessed him, and the image of Neil Leslie's face, -bloody but undefeated, hung before him as he went about his evening's -activities. The face was still in his mind as he prepared to go to bed.</p> - -<p>Odd, Kroll thought. This was the first time he had been disturbed after -a torture session. He had seen hundreds—no, thousands—pass through -the Inquisitor, come out shambling rags of bone and flesh, and it had -never bothered him, because they were enemies of the State and deserved -no more.</p> - -<p>He dropped off into an uneasy sleep. But suddenly, in the small hours -of the night, he sat bolt upright in bed, a cold, clammy perspiration -breaking out on him.</p> - -<p>Leslie had just asked the question for the hundredth time. And Kroll -had had no answer. He <i>didn't</i> know who was right. He just didn't know. -His mind, unswervingly loyal for so many years, swayed in an agony of -doubt.</p> - -<p>He got out of bed and paced back and forth across the floor of his room.</p> - -<p>"The State is wrong!" he said aloud. But it didn't sound right. It -couldn't be true. It wasn't true. "Stupid!" he told himself. It -was stupid to distrust the State—and wrong. "Wrong! Criminally, -disgustingly wrong!"</p> - -<p>There! He felt better. He had rid himself of his foolish doubts. "How -could I have been so foolish?" he said aloud. His nerves felt better -now. Once again he was ready to do his duty as a loyal officer of the -State.</p> - -<p>Smiling to himself for being so easily disturbed by the remarks of -disloyal traitors, he climbed back into bed and closed his eyes. A few -moments later, he was asleep.</p> - -<p>In the morning, everything seemed to be all right; the terrors of the -last twelve hours were pale things of the past, no longer exerting -pressure on him. He caught the tube and headed to the Ministry.</p> - -<p>He donned his uniform in the locker room and took the elevator to the -Interrogation Floor. He stepped into his office. It was empty. No -prisoners this morning? It didn't seem likely.</p> - -<p>He pushed open the inner door and entered the Interrogation Chamber. -To his surprise, he saw Matthews, one of his assistants, wearing the -uniform of an Interrogator and standing near the robot, arms folded.</p> - -<p>"What are you doing in here dressed that way?" Kroll snapped.</p> - -<p>"I am the new Interrogator," Matthews told him.</p> - -<p>"Since when?"</p> - -<p>"The appointment was made very early this morning," the Inquisitor -said. "We have all the evidence we need to brand you as a traitor to -the State."</p> - -<p>The new Interrogator turned a switch, and Kroll heard his own voice -come from a speaker. "<i>The State is wrong! Stupid! Wrong! Criminally, -disgustingly wrong! How could I have been so foolish?</i>"</p> - -<p>"There is no need to deny these words," said the Interrogator. "It is -only necessary that you tell us with whom you have been working."</p> - -<p>"But there's no one!" Kroll shouted. "You don't understand! 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