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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: Trouble On Sun-Side - -Author: S. M. Tenneshaw - -Release Date: July 5, 2021 [eBook #65768] - -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 TROUBLE ON SUN-SIDE *** - - - - - Trouble On Sun-Side - - By S. M. Tenneshaw - - Jansen came to Mercury to find one man, - and that seemed an easy enough task; the hitch - was that as a hunter he was also being hunted! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1956 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Jansen began to sweat as soon as he left the spaceship. The bloated, -swollen sun hovering near the horizon here in twilight zone was -dazzling even through his protective goggles. Jansen knew he would have -to get used to it: Mercury's twilight zone, like it or not, would be -his home for the indefinite future. - -Stowing his gear in the barracks while sweat streamed from his body, -Jansen realized for the first time that his luggage had been examined -aboard the spaceship. That was bad; it could mean anything; it -certainly meant trouble. - -_I have to hurry_, Jansen thought. _In a day or so, they're liable to -haul me in for questioning._ - -"Still time for me to go out and join the work force?" Jansen asked the -barracks orderly as the old man came shuffling by. - -"Eager, ain't you, mister. They'll get along without you till -tomorrow, you can bet." - -"Well, can I go take a look, then?" - -The old man studied him with surprise. Apparently gold-bricking and not -eager-beavering was the order of the day here. "What's your rating?" -the orderly asked. - -"Twelve." - -"Well, nobody would push you around, I guess," admitted the barracks -orderly with grudging respect. "Why don't you see the town, though? -Town's all right. Don't go out to the bogs unless you have to." - -_Bogs_, thought Jansen. _Bogs on Mercury's sun-side._ He still couldn't -get over it. - -Jansen changed into a skin-tight white insulsuit and went outside. The -insulsuit covered him almost like an additional layer of skin: he wore -trousers and a shirt over it. Without the insulsuit, exposure this -close to Mercury's sun-side would be impossible for more than a few -moments. - -It took Jansen twenty minutes to realize he was being followed. His -tail wore an insulsuit and a pair of colorful shorts. This seemed to be -the universal garb in Sun-side City, so that the hundreds of loungers -and shoppers all looked alike, with the skull-cap cowls of their -insulsuits even hiding the distinctiveness of their hair. Jansen's tail -was a man bigger than most, though, and it was only because he was -wandering aimlessly in the sun-dazzled streets that Jansen became aware -of pursuit at all. - -He ducked into an alley between two cafes. Two women in skin-tight -insulsuits came by, then a man and a boy, then the big man who had been -following Jansen. Abruptly Jansen stepped from the alley. - -"Just a minute," he said. - -The man whirled, a blank expression on his face. - -"What do you want?" Jansen asked. - -"I don't get you, mister. You stopped me, I didn't stop you. What do -_you_ want?" - -"You were following me," Jansen said. - -"I never saw you before in my life." - -Before Jansen could answer, the sun went down. It did not set, as the -sun sets on Earth. It disappeared, due to the sudden unpredictable -wobbles of Mercury's twilight zone. It was an astronomical phenomena. -And, despite the sun's great apparent size, Jansen suddenly found -himself in pitch darkness. It alarmed him at first, until he realized -that Mercury had no atmosphere, except for the artificial pockets under -the man-made domes. There was no layer of air to retain the sun's glow. -One moment, dazzling light; the next, almost total darkness. - -"Where are you?" Jansen called. He groped his way toward where the man -had been standing. He heard a girl's laughter on the street nearby, -heard an old woman's shout. - -Something struck the side of his head, summoning blinding pain. Jansen -staggered and fell to the sidewalk on hands and knees. He felt himself -being frisked expertly in his half-conscious state. Something was -removed from his trouser-pocket: his wallet probably. He tried to get -up but fell forward, scraping his jaw. He heard retreating footsteps. - -_Number one botch-job_, he thought, and lost consciousness. - - * * * * * - -When he came to, he was not alone. He was no longer on the sidewalk, -either. He had been taken into a house. - -He found himself looking at a girl in insulsuit and shorts. The -forehead-piece of the girl's skin-tight cowl came down in a sharp -widow's peak, in the current feminine fashion. It made her entire face, -with its high cheek bones and long narrow eyes and small, stubborn, -pointed chin, look somewhat aquatic. She was a very pretty girl and her -figure under the revealing insulsuit was breath-taking. - -"You're all right, Mr. Jansen?" she asked. - -Jansen. She'd called him by his name. He was on his guard at once. He'd -gotten work at the Sun-station employment office on Earth as Wilson. -His name was unknown here on Mercury--except to the person who'd gone -through his bags aboard ship and the big man who'd taken his wallet on -the street. - -He nodded his head slowly. His head ached and he felt weak and washed -out, but he could feel the strength flowing back into him. - -The woman smiled. Then the smile left her face so quickly, it startled -Jansen. "We don't want you here," she said. "We don't want you on -Mercury, Jansen." - -He stood up. "Thanks for dragging me in off the street. I'll get out of -here now." - -"Leave Mercury, Mr. Jansen. While you still can." - -He headed for the door, his temple throbbing with pain. She helped him -across the room coolly, efficiently, supporting his shoulder but barely -seeming to touch him. He wished his head was clearer. He wanted to -question this girl. She knew him; she'd had him tailed. - -"Get out while you can," she was saying. "Remember what happened to -your brother." - -He whirled on the threshold and pushed her back into the room ahead of -him. "Go ahead," he said coldly. "Tell me about my brother." - -Her face told him she knew she'd blundered. "Just get out of here, you -fool!" she cried. - -"Tell me about my brother." - -"He's dead. What does it matter except he's dead?" - -"How did he die, Miss Hilliard?" - -She gave him a startled look. "You know me?" - -"A guess. You're Wendy Hilliard, aren't you?" - -"Y-yes." - -"He used to write me about you," Jansen said bitterly. "Girl Friday -or something. But when he started to go down you took off like the -well-known rats. Didn't you, Wendy?" - -Her hand struck his cheek stingingly. "Now clear out," she said, her -voice catching on a sob. - -He laughed harshly. "Well, what did you expect? It's why you had my -things searched on the ship, isn't it? It's why you had that big guy -follow me." - -Wendy Hilliard's face was white. "I didn't have your things searched on -the ship," she said. - -He looked at her searchingly: she meant that, he knew. - -"Oh, don't you see?" she said, clutching his arm. "Don't you see? It -was Bareen, Mr. Jansen. I know you're here and Bareen knows it. It was -Bareen who had your brother killed and--" - -"Why?" Jansen asked. - -"Because he knew too much. Because Bareen is going to become the -richest man in the solar system and--and Ted got an inkling of what was -happening." - -"You seem to know," Jansen said dryly. "But you're still here. So what -happened to Ted?" - -"Look, Mr. Jansen. Let me give you about a five minute course in -Mercurian economics. Here at Sun-side station, we produce food for -Earth's teeming billions. Since directly or indirectly, all food is -stored solar energy and since we're much closer to the sun here, -food-energy is produced abundantly and not expensively." - -"I know all that," Jansen said irritably. - -"Let me finish. You'll see why. What we grow in the sun-side bogs is -chlorella, millions of tons of chlorella, which is converted into -synth-steak and other pseudo-meats on Earth. Now, there are two keys to -the production. The first, of course, is water. Chlorella must grow in -bogs, which means artificial irrigation. The second is the sub-space -tunnel. You know about that, Jansen. Call it a hole in space which -shortcuts the distance between Mercury and Earth. The chlorella is -shipped Earthward through this sub-space tunnel, not only instantly, -but cheaply. - -"Bareen works the tunnel, Mr. Jansen. Bareen's men control the -irrigation station. Bareen is now in a position to demand any price -he wishes from Earth for the chlorella. If Earth doesn't agree, Earth -starves. That's why your brother was killed. He learned about this -before Bareen was ready to strike. He's almost ready now, Mr. Jansen." - -"Where do you fit in? If Ted was killed--" - -Wendy's face colored. "I wanted to go on living, Mr. Jansen. I didn't -want to die. I can't be an idealist if my own life--" - -"What did you do?" His hand gripped her wrist. "Did you turn Ted over -to Bareen?" - -She struck his face a second time. "I loved your brother. I wouldn't -have done a thing like that." - -"Then what?" - -"I told you what you wanted to know. I don't have to tell you more. Now -get out of here." She followed him to the door. "But you have to leave -Mercury at once, you see," she said. "Bareen can't afford to let you -live. Bareen will have you killed." - -"The way they tell it on Earth, Bareen's a loner. If he goes, the whole -outfit folds and will play ball with Earth the way it ought to. Is that -the way you see it?" - -"Yes, but--" - -"You thought I was here for revenge? I am, baby. Don't get any wrong -ideas. But I've also got a job to do. Earth needs that chlorella." He -opened the door. - -"Jansen--" - -"Well?" - -"Nothing. Just be careful." - -He laughed harshly and walked out into the darkness. - - * * * * * - -The man's name was Dinnison. He had the bunk next to Jansen's in the -barracks and he, like Jansen, was a newcomer. He'd shipped to Mercury -from the Venusian dust-desert in search of greener pastures. Jansen -felt sorry for him, then ruthlessly beat down the feeling. He had no -time for pity. - -While it was still dark he followed Dinnison outside the barracks and -thrust a mugging arm around his neck. Dinnison struggled, his arms -flailing, his legs drumming. Once he almost broke loose, but Jansen -held him until he had lost consciousness. _A day_, Jansen thought. -_Bareen knows I'm here, so all I can expect is a day now._ - -He dragged Dinnison into a storage shed. The slight effort left him -drenched with sweat, despite the insulsuit. He found rope and bound -Dinnison, then took tape from his pocket and gagged him. - -Ten minutes later he returned to the barracks with Dinnison's -identification papers. _Andrew Dinnison_, he thought. _I'm Dinnison -now._ Bareen's men would be looking for Frank Jansen, he knew. But -unless Wendy Hilliard told them, they wouldn't know what Jansen looked -like. - -_I'm Dinnison...._ - -He slept poorly. He dreamed but in the morning did not remember his -dreams. When he awoke, Mercury had wobbled sufficiently for the -twilight zone to be in sunlight again. - -"Rise and shine, men!" a supervisor's voice blared over the -loudspeaker. "Got some gunk to harvest!" - -Jansen watched the men get up, groaning and complaining, in the -barracks. Gunk was the supervisor's word for chlorella, Jansen thought. -Looking at the men he decided they had other words for it, none of them -printable. For, although the pay was good, it was sheer hell working on -Mercury and the average employee at the chlorella bogs didn't stay more -than three months. - -With the others Jansen went outside and piled onto one of the half -dozen swamp-buggies which came for them. The buggies were surplus Army -amphibian vehicles and rattled noisily over dry ground. They formed -a line, single file, and headed through the domed corridor that -connected Sun-side city, which was actually in the twilight zone, with -the bogs themselves, which were on the sun-side of Mercury. - -If it had been hot in the city, despite man's best air-conditioning -efforts, it was murderously hot in the bogs. The sun burned down on -the dome and through it; the irrigation water evaporated rapidly, so -rapidly that the dehumidifiers could not carry it away quickly enough. -As a result, the bogs were not only terribly hot, but humid as the -inside of a Turkish bath. Jansen felt washed out before he'd even begun -his work. - -The swamp-buggies took them to a field of chlorella, the valuable plant -growing like a thick coating of slime on the bogs. The men, moving -slowly to conserve energy in the heat, climbed down from the buggies -and attacked the chlorella by sweeping the surface of the bogs with -their muscle-powered harvesters. - -Jansen smiled in spite of himself. Agricultural methods five thousand -and more years old! It couldn't be helped on Mercury, of course. -Most available machinery was needed on Earth, for Earth's billions. -The metal for machinery was at a premium; the great iron mines of -two centuries before were almost exhausted and no new supply had -been found on any of the planets--at least none which could be mined -productively at slight enough cost. Result: the outworlds got along -with primitive methods or didn't get along at all. - -Dinnison, Jansen discovered, had a rating of Six. It was not as bad as -it could have been, but a good deal worse than Jansen's own twelve. At -least Dinnison wasn't a harvester. Instead, Dinnison had been assigned -to the packing platforms, and that was where Jansen found himself -working. Here the chlorella was dried in the fierce sun and baled. The -baling, of course, was done by hand and the chlorella, dry enough for -baling but still sodden, was heavy. Afterwards, Jansen knew, it would -be taken to the sub-space tunnel and shipped to Earth without even the -necessity of dehydration. - -All morning Jansen worked in hot, stifling silence. Whenever a -supervisor came in his direction he half-expected a heavy hand to fall -on his shoulder and an accusing voice to call out his real name. - -At lunch hour he wandered off, all but exhausted, into the scant shade -of one of the compound shacks. He sat there, popping energy tablets -into his mouth. He was too weak to eat food although he saw it being -served from big trays perhaps fifty yards away. - -"Jansen," a voice called softly. - - * * * * * - -He looked up quickly, his eyes taking seconds to focus in the almost -blinding glare. It was Wendy Hilliard, looking amazingly cool in her -insulsuit and shorts. - -He reached up and grabbed her arm, pulling her down alongside him. "How -did you find me?" he demanded. - -"It was an accident, although--" her voice trailed off. - -"Although what?" - -"You're hurting me!" - -"Although what, Miss Hilliard?" - -"I--well, I was looking for you, Jansen. I want to help you." - -"Sure," he said, a trace of bitterness in his voice. - -She smiled. "I'd say you need some help. You look all washed out." - -"Your sympathy is touching. Did you say the same thing to Ted, before -he was killed?" - -"You fool. I liked your brother." - -"He used a different word." - -"All right. I loved him. He's dead now. We can't bring him back to -life." - -"So what do you want?" - -"Bareen's here. In the bogs today." - -Instantly, Jansen was alert. He could feel fresh strength surge -through his muscles, his blood. Bareen! At last, he thought, Bareen! -For Ted.... - -And for Earth. - -Ted had been an Earth agent on Mercury. Jansen was not: Jansen had been -prospecting in the asteroids when he heard of Ted's death. But he'd -gone to Ted's agency at once and offered his services. Now he was here, -where Ted had been. Now he was in Ted's place. What would Ted have -done? He didn't know. But he had his orders. They were explicit--and -ruthless. - -"You will report to Sun-side City," they had told him. "You will seek -Bareen out. Without Bareen, the organization he has built up will -crumble. With Bareen, it will gain control, complete control instead -of managerial control, of the irrigation system and the sub-space -tunnel. Bareen will become a fabulously wealthy and powerful man, at -the expense of Earth's starving billions. You will find Bareen and kill -him." - -Assassination, Jansen thought now. Legally, it would be a crime. -The civilized worlds would forever be closed to Jansen. But morally -it would be anything but a crime. Morally, Jansen would be helping -billions of people he would never see--and, if he helped them, he would -be from that day forth an outcast who must live out the rest of his -life on the far outworlds. - -For Ted, he thought. And Earth.... - -"Why'd Bareen come here?" Jansen asked the girl suspiciously. "I -thought he runs this show from the sub-space tunnel." - -"Sure he does. But periodically he comes here to check on his men. You -must have known it: why did you come here?" - -"I couldn't get assigned to the sub-space tunnel. I'm no technician. I -was going to figure a way in, later." - -"There's no later for you. How much time do you think you have, Jansen?" - -He shrugged, and asked a question of his own. "Why are you pretending -to help me?" - -"Ted and I--" - -"He's dead now, remember?" - -Wendy stood up angrily. "All right, have it your way. Bareen is here. -You're here. I thought that was what you wanted. I told you. I--" - -Just then the one streamlined swamp-buggy Jansen had seen came chugging -up through the brackish water. A hatch opened and as it did so Wendy -moved quickly away from Jansen. She waded toward the buggy, smiling. A -man appeared in the hatch, a big man, big as Jansen and wider. He was -younger than Jansen thought he would be. He was handsome and somehow -cold-looking. - -"Wendy, my dear," Jansen heard him say. "This is a pleasant surprise." - -Wendy reached the swamp-buggy. Bareen--for it was Bareen--leaned over -and offered her a hand. He drew her up to him and she turned her cheek -for his kiss. Then they disappeared inside the buggy and it chugged -away. - -Jansen sat there for a moment. Bareen, he thought. Bareen and Wendy -Hilliard. Well, why not? Hadn't Ted been killed? - -_But why did she come to me?_ - -Jansen stood up. His limbs trembled with heat-fatigue and he popped two -salt tablets into his mouth. He began to walk. - -"Hey, you!" a supervisor called. "Lunch hour's almost over. Where you -going?" - -Jansen didn't answer. The swamp-buggy, moving slowly through the brown -water, was almost out of sight. A dome corridor led from the chlorella -bogs to the irrigation station, Jansen knew. The buggy was headed in -that direction. - -"I said, where you going?" - -Jansen didn't answer the shouted question. There wasn't time. He ran, -splashing through the thigh-deep water, moving clumsily and slowly. -Instead of following Bareen's buggy, he headed for where the other -vehicles were parked. He climbed on one and began to unbolt the hatch -when he heard boots on metal behind him. - -It was the supervisor. "For the last time, buddy--" - -Jansen turned and hit him. The supervisor, an astonished look on his -face, stumbled back off the amphibious vehicle and into the swamp. -Jansen waited to see that he got up, then slid in through the hatch and -started the buggy. - -There would be an alarm, he knew. But Bareen's buggy hadn't been -hurrying. If he could overtake it.... - - * * * * * - -He chugged along, expecting pursuit momentarily. He rode with the hatch -open and his body half out, for best visibility. He saw the other swamp -vehicle, perhaps three hundred yards ahead. It reached the narrow neck -of the domed corridor and paused at the check-point there, then went -through. - -Soon Jansen reached the check-point. Two men with blasting rifles stood -in his path, looking suspicious. - -"Get out of the way!" Jansen called boldly. "I'm Bareen's bodyguard." - -"Behind him?" - -"Where would you stay, friend?" - -The guards exchanged glances. One of them grinned. But the other one -said, "We got a report of a guy who--" - -"I wouldn't be interested in any reports," Jansen said curtly. "Now, do -you let me through or do I report you to Bareen?" - -Glances were exchanged again. One of the guards shrugged. They didn't -want trouble. Jansen's very boldness was his best weapon. Finally, -exchanging glances once more, they waved him on. - -The second swamp-buggy was by then out of sight down the domed -corridor. But half an hour later Jansen reached the big, white, -squat structure which housed the irrigation machinery. And Bareen's -streamlined swamp-buggy was parked outside on the dry ground. - -He went inside and an armed man stood in his path. "Well?" - -"Bareen," Jansen said. - -"Come and gone, with Miss Hilliard." - -"But his buggy--" - -"Who're you?" - -"Bodyguard," Jansen said promptly. It had worked once. - -"Hell, then you ought to know. Why ask me?" - -"You know Mr. Bareen," Jansen said, smiling. "Impulsive." - -"Is he? I guess I wouldn't know." - -"Look. Ordinarily I wouldn't mind passing the time of day with you, -but I'm not supposed to let Bareen out of my sight. So if you'll just -tell me where he is...." - -"Show me." - -"What did you say?" Jansen asked with a sickening realization of what -the guard wanted. - -"You say you're his bodyguard. Show me." - -Jansen swung his fist in a quick, blurring arc and hit the man. He felt -the pain of good contact and the man went over on his back, striking -the ground hard. Jansen knelt quickly by his side: he was breathing -normally. Quickly Jansen searched him and found a small hand-blaster. -He pocketed it and got up, dragging the unconscious man into an alcove -which housed an inter-office communications system. On impulse, Jansen -picked up the microphone and said: - -"Mr. Bareen, please. This is important." - -"I'm sorry, sir. Mr. Bareen has taken the sub-spacer back to the -interplanetary sub-space tunnel." - -"Thank you," Jansen said automatically. There was a small sub-space -tunnel connecting the irrigation station with the big interplanetary -space-warp, Jansen knew. Even now Bareen and Wendy Hilliard, having -inspected the plant, were a hundred thousand miles away, in deep space, -at the tunnel station. - -While Jansen was thinking, the communications system board flashed and -a voice said: - -"Emergency! Emergency! Someone has stolen a buggy and is believed -heading for the irrigation station. He may be armed and is probably -dangerous." - -Jansen acknowledged the information, then said: "The buggy just passed -this way, but it kept going." - -"You're sure?" - -"Positive." - -"Thanks. We'll relay the information." - -That ruse would give him a few minutes, Jansen knew. But for what -purpose? - -Bareen and Wendy Hilliard! If they used the sub-space tunnel, why -couldn't he? - -He left the alcove and charged down a brightly-lit hallway, passing a -cavern-sized room a-throb with banks of machinery. A technician looked -up at him and Jansen said: - -"The sub-spacer. Hurry, man. This is urgent." - -The technician pointed, spoke. Jansen followed his directions on the -dead run. - - * * * * * - -When he reached it, he saw what looked like a vidiphone booth in a -large, otherwise empty room. But vidiphone booths don't usually have -armed guards.... - -"This is for Mr. Bareen's private use," the guard said, brandishing a -blasting rifle. "Better beat it." - -No ruses here. This guard would know. This was one of Bareen's private -thugs, probably. Jansen took a breath and dove at him. - -The blaster roared, searing air over Jansen's head. He hit the guard's -middle and they went down together, the rifle falling from the guard's -grasp. They rolled over and over, then the guard got to his knees and -clubbed an elbow at Jansen's jaw. Jansen rolled on his back, his face -suddenly numb. The guard dove for him, pinned him and called for help. - -Jansen struggled frantically. He heard footsteps pounding toward them, -then brought his legs up and scissored the guard's throat, pulling him -down and away. Jansen released the scissors abruptly and scrambled to -his feet. He made it to the sub-space booth and pulled the door open. -There was a single lever inside and he yanked at it as he slammed the -transparent door. He felt nothing at first. He saw the guard retrieve -his rifle, pointing it at the booth and firing. - -But the blast of raw energy never reached Jansen. For he was already -being transported through sub-space.... - -He had no time to marshall his thoughts. The first thing he saw through -the transparent door of the twin booth a hundred thousand miles away on -the sub-space station, was Bareen. Bareen was standing just outside the -booth, holding a blaster. - -He was pointing the blaster at Wendy Hilliard, whose face was white. -Jansen opened the door and Bareen's deep voice ended with: "... to kill -you now." - -Jansen turned quickly and fired his blaster not at Bareen but at the -controls of the sub-space booth. This way, he hoped, they wouldn't be -interrupted. This way-- - -"Jansen!" Wendy screamed. - -Bareen whirled, facing Jansen. His eyes widened and as he fired the -blaster Jansen felt a numbing pain in his right leg. The blaster had -merely seared him, he knew. But if Bareen had time for another try.... - -Jansen leaped at him and they went crashing across the room toward -another, and larger, sub-space booth. Jansen was exhausted. The quick -pursuit, the fight at the irrigation center, the unfamiliar activity at -the chlorella bogs, had drained most of the energy from his body. And -Bareen was strong. - -He slowly forced Jansen back, choking him. Jansen's hands waved weakly -in front of his face, fluttering uselessly. Bareen was going to kill -him, as he had killed his brother.... - -Jansen's vision swam. Balls of flame seared before his eyes. He was -dimly aware of Wendy clawing at Bareen's back, but the big man pushed -her away, then hurled her across the room with one out-flung arm. - -Jansen butted with his head. He brought his knee up. He swung his fists -and felt contact with Bareen's face. But Bareen held onto his throat -with one large hand, getting the other one free to use the blaster. -He brought it up slowly, and Jansen forgot about the hand about his -throat. He reached for the blaster, struggling for possession of it -with Bareen. He butted again and saw a bloody smear where Bareen's -mouth had been. The blaster was between them.... - -And roared.... - -Bareen slumped against him and the pressure was suddenly gone from his -throat. When he looked down at Bareen he saw that the man's entire face -had been shot away-- - -"I was working for your brother," Wendy sobbed. "I never gave up. I -was gathering evidence about what Bareen planned. You--you came just -in time. He was going to give his ultimatum to Earth today. Triple the -price, or no chlorella. They'd have had to say yes." - -Feet pounded in a corridor, came closer. - -"We won," Jansen said. "But now--we're finished." - -"Quick!" Wendy cried, pulling him toward the larger sub-space booth. -"It connects with Earth." - -"I can't return to Earth. I've just killed a man. I--" - -"Self-defense. I saw you. Besides, we have the proof that Bareen was -going to bleed Earth dry for chlorella." - -"... the outworlds...." he said. - -"You don't have to hide on the outworlds now." - -"Hide, nothing," Jansen said, smiling weakly but happily the -split-second before they were whisked seventy million miles through -sub-space. "If you're not a fugitive, the outworlds are wonderful. -Maybe you'd like...." - -He was going to say, _like to join me_. 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Tenneshaw</h2> - -<p>Jansen came to Mercury to find one man,<br /> -and that seemed an easy enough task; the hitch<br /> -was that as a hunter he was also being hunted!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -October 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>Jansen began to sweat as soon as he left the spaceship. The bloated, -swollen sun hovering near the horizon here in twilight zone was -dazzling even through his protective goggles. Jansen knew he would have -to get used to it: Mercury's twilight zone, like it or not, would be -his home for the indefinite future.</p> - -<p>Stowing his gear in the barracks while sweat streamed from his body, -Jansen realized for the first time that his luggage had been examined -aboard the spaceship. That was bad; it could mean anything; it -certainly meant trouble.</p> - -<p><i>I have to hurry</i>, Jansen thought. <i>In a day or so, they're liable to -haul me in for questioning.</i></p> - -<p>"Still time for me to go out and join the work force?" Jansen asked the -barracks orderly as the old man came shuffling by.</p> - -<p>"Eager, ain't you, mister. They'll get along without you till -tomorrow, you can bet."</p> - -<p>"Well, can I go take a look, then?"</p> - -<p>The old man studied him with surprise. Apparently gold-bricking and not -eager-beavering was the order of the day here. "What's your rating?" -the orderly asked.</p> - -<p>"Twelve."</p> - -<p>"Well, nobody would push you around, I guess," admitted the barracks -orderly with grudging respect. "Why don't you see the town, though? -Town's all right. Don't go out to the bogs unless you have to."</p> - -<p><i>Bogs</i>, thought Jansen. <i>Bogs on Mercury's sun-side.</i> He still couldn't -get over it.</p> - -<p>Jansen changed into a skin-tight white insulsuit and went outside. The -insulsuit covered him almost like an additional layer of skin: he wore -trousers and a shirt over it. Without the insulsuit, exposure this -close to Mercury's sun-side would be impossible for more than a few -moments.</p> - -<p>It took Jansen twenty minutes to realize he was being followed. His -tail wore an insulsuit and a pair of colorful shorts. This seemed to be -the universal garb in Sun-side City, so that the hundreds of loungers -and shoppers all looked alike, with the skull-cap cowls of their -insulsuits even hiding the distinctiveness of their hair. Jansen's tail -was a man bigger than most, though, and it was only because he was -wandering aimlessly in the sun-dazzled streets that Jansen became aware -of pursuit at all.</p> - -<p>He ducked into an alley between two cafes. Two women in skin-tight -insulsuits came by, then a man and a boy, then the big man who had been -following Jansen. Abruptly Jansen stepped from the alley.</p> - -<p>"Just a minute," he said.</p> - -<p>The man whirled, a blank expression on his face.</p> - -<p>"What do you want?" Jansen asked.</p> - -<p>"I don't get you, mister. You stopped me, I didn't stop you. What do -<i>you</i> want?"</p> - -<p>"You were following me," Jansen said.</p> - -<p>"I never saw you before in my life."</p> - -<p>Before Jansen could answer, the sun went down. It did not set, as the -sun sets on Earth. It disappeared, due to the sudden unpredictable -wobbles of Mercury's twilight zone. It was an astronomical phenomena. -And, despite the sun's great apparent size, Jansen suddenly found -himself in pitch darkness. It alarmed him at first, until he realized -that Mercury had no atmosphere, except for the artificial pockets under -the man-made domes. There was no layer of air to retain the sun's glow. -One moment, dazzling light; the next, almost total darkness.</p> - -<p>"Where are you?" Jansen called. He groped his way toward where the man -had been standing. He heard a girl's laughter on the street nearby, -heard an old woman's shout.</p> - -<p>Something struck the side of his head, summoning blinding pain. Jansen -staggered and fell to the sidewalk on hands and knees. He felt himself -being frisked expertly in his half-conscious state. Something was -removed from his trouser-pocket: his wallet probably. He tried to get -up but fell forward, scraping his jaw. He heard retreating footsteps.</p> - -<p><i>Number one botch-job</i>, he thought, and lost consciousness.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When he came to, he was not alone. He was no longer on the sidewalk, -either. He had been taken into a house.</p> - -<p>He found himself looking at a girl in insulsuit and shorts. The -forehead-piece of the girl's skin-tight cowl came down in a sharp -widow's peak, in the current feminine fashion. It made her entire face, -with its high cheek bones and long narrow eyes and small, stubborn, -pointed chin, look somewhat aquatic. She was a very pretty girl and her -figure under the revealing insulsuit was breath-taking.</p> - -<p>"You're all right, Mr. Jansen?" she asked.</p> - -<p>Jansen. She'd called him by his name. He was on his guard at once. He'd -gotten work at the Sun-station employment office on Earth as Wilson. -His name was unknown here on Mercury—except to the person who'd gone -through his bags aboard ship and the big man who'd taken his wallet on -the street.</p> - -<p>He nodded his head slowly. His head ached and he felt weak and washed -out, but he could feel the strength flowing back into him.</p> - -<p>The woman smiled. Then the smile left her face so quickly, it startled -Jansen. "We don't want you here," she said. "We don't want you on -Mercury, Jansen."</p> - -<p>He stood up. "Thanks for dragging me in off the street. I'll get out of -here now."</p> - -<p>"Leave Mercury, Mr. Jansen. While you still can."</p> - -<p>He headed for the door, his temple throbbing with pain. She helped him -across the room coolly, efficiently, supporting his shoulder but barely -seeming to touch him. He wished his head was clearer. He wanted to -question this girl. She knew him; she'd had him tailed.</p> - -<p>"Get out while you can," she was saying. "Remember what happened to -your brother."</p> - -<p>He whirled on the threshold and pushed her back into the room ahead of -him. "Go ahead," he said coldly. "Tell me about my brother."</p> - -<p>Her face told him she knew she'd blundered. "Just get out of here, you -fool!" she cried.</p> - -<p>"Tell me about my brother."</p> - -<p>"He's dead. What does it matter except he's dead?"</p> - -<p>"How did he die, Miss Hilliard?"</p> - -<p>She gave him a startled look. "You know me?"</p> - -<p>"A guess. You're Wendy Hilliard, aren't you?"</p> - -<p>"Y-yes."</p> - -<p>"He used to write me about you," Jansen said bitterly. "Girl Friday -or something. But when he started to go down you took off like the -well-known rats. Didn't you, Wendy?"</p> - -<p>Her hand struck his cheek stingingly. "Now clear out," she said, her -voice catching on a sob.</p> - -<p>He laughed harshly. "Well, what did you expect? It's why you had my -things searched on the ship, isn't it? It's why you had that big guy -follow me."</p> - -<p>Wendy Hilliard's face was white. "I didn't have your things searched on -the ship," she said.</p> - -<p>He looked at her searchingly: she meant that, he knew.</p> - -<p>"Oh, don't you see?" she said, clutching his arm. "Don't you see? It -was Bareen, Mr. Jansen. I know you're here and Bareen knows it. It was -Bareen who had your brother killed and—"</p> - -<p>"Why?" Jansen asked.</p> - -<p>"Because he knew too much. Because Bareen is going to become the -richest man in the solar system and—and Ted got an inkling of what was -happening."</p> - -<p>"You seem to know," Jansen said dryly. "But you're still here. So what -happened to Ted?"</p> - -<p>"Look, Mr. Jansen. Let me give you about a five minute course in -Mercurian economics. Here at Sun-side station, we produce food for -Earth's teeming billions. Since directly or indirectly, all food is -stored solar energy and since we're much closer to the sun here, -food-energy is produced abundantly and not expensively."</p> - -<p>"I know all that," Jansen said irritably.</p> - -<p>"Let me finish. You'll see why. What we grow in the sun-side bogs is -chlorella, millions of tons of chlorella, which is converted into -synth-steak and other pseudo-meats on Earth. Now, there are two keys to -the production. The first, of course, is water. Chlorella must grow in -bogs, which means artificial irrigation. The second is the sub-space -tunnel. You know about that, Jansen. Call it a hole in space which -shortcuts the distance between Mercury and Earth. The chlorella is -shipped Earthward through this sub-space tunnel, not only instantly, -but cheaply.</p> - -<p>"Bareen works the tunnel, Mr. Jansen. Bareen's men control the -irrigation station. Bareen is now in a position to demand any price -he wishes from Earth for the chlorella. If Earth doesn't agree, Earth -starves. That's why your brother was killed. He learned about this -before Bareen was ready to strike. He's almost ready now, Mr. Jansen."</p> - -<p>"Where do you fit in? If Ted was killed—"</p> - -<p>Wendy's face colored. "I wanted to go on living, Mr. Jansen. I didn't -want to die. I can't be an idealist if my own life—"</p> - -<p>"What did you do?" His hand gripped her wrist. "Did you turn Ted over -to Bareen?"</p> - -<p>She struck his face a second time. "I loved your brother. I wouldn't -have done a thing like that."</p> - -<p>"Then what?"</p> - -<p>"I told you what you wanted to know. I don't have to tell you more. Now -get out of here." She followed him to the door. "But you have to leave -Mercury at once, you see," she said. "Bareen can't afford to let you -live. Bareen will have you killed."</p> - -<p>"The way they tell it on Earth, Bareen's a loner. If he goes, the whole -outfit folds and will play ball with Earth the way it ought to. Is that -the way you see it?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, but—"</p> - -<p>"You thought I was here for revenge? I am, baby. Don't get any wrong -ideas. But I've also got a job to do. Earth needs that chlorella." He -opened the door.</p> - -<p>"Jansen—"</p> - -<p>"Well?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing. Just be careful."</p> - -<p>He laughed harshly and walked out into the darkness.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The man's name was Dinnison. He had the bunk next to Jansen's in the -barracks and he, like Jansen, was a newcomer. He'd shipped to Mercury -from the Venusian dust-desert in search of greener pastures. Jansen -felt sorry for him, then ruthlessly beat down the feeling. He had no -time for pity.</p> - -<p>While it was still dark he followed Dinnison outside the barracks and -thrust a mugging arm around his neck. Dinnison struggled, his arms -flailing, his legs drumming. Once he almost broke loose, but Jansen -held him until he had lost consciousness. <i>A day</i>, Jansen thought. -<i>Bareen knows I'm here, so all I can expect is a day now.</i></p> - -<p>He dragged Dinnison into a storage shed. The slight effort left him -drenched with sweat, despite the insulsuit. He found rope and bound -Dinnison, then took tape from his pocket and gagged him.</p> - -<p>Ten minutes later he returned to the barracks with Dinnison's -identification papers. <i>Andrew Dinnison</i>, he thought. <i>I'm Dinnison -now.</i> Bareen's men would be looking for Frank Jansen, he knew. But -unless Wendy Hilliard told them, they wouldn't know what Jansen looked -like.</p> - -<p><i>I'm Dinnison....</i></p> - -<p>He slept poorly. He dreamed but in the morning did not remember his -dreams. When he awoke, Mercury had wobbled sufficiently for the -twilight zone to be in sunlight again.</p> - -<p>"Rise and shine, men!" a supervisor's voice blared over the -loudspeaker. "Got some gunk to harvest!"</p> - -<p>Jansen watched the men get up, groaning and complaining, in the -barracks. Gunk was the supervisor's word for chlorella, Jansen thought. -Looking at the men he decided they had other words for it, none of them -printable. For, although the pay was good, it was sheer hell working on -Mercury and the average employee at the chlorella bogs didn't stay more -than three months.</p> - -<p>With the others Jansen went outside and piled onto one of the half -dozen swamp-buggies which came for them. The buggies were surplus Army -amphibian vehicles and rattled noisily over dry ground. They formed -a line, single file, and headed through the domed corridor that -connected Sun-side city, which was actually in the twilight zone, with -the bogs themselves, which were on the sun-side of Mercury.</p> - -<p>If it had been hot in the city, despite man's best air-conditioning -efforts, it was murderously hot in the bogs. The sun burned down on -the dome and through it; the irrigation water evaporated rapidly, so -rapidly that the dehumidifiers could not carry it away quickly enough. -As a result, the bogs were not only terribly hot, but humid as the -inside of a Turkish bath. Jansen felt washed out before he'd even begun -his work.</p> - -<p>The swamp-buggies took them to a field of chlorella, the valuable plant -growing like a thick coating of slime on the bogs. The men, moving -slowly to conserve energy in the heat, climbed down from the buggies -and attacked the chlorella by sweeping the surface of the bogs with -their muscle-powered harvesters.</p> - -<p>Jansen smiled in spite of himself. Agricultural methods five thousand -and more years old! It couldn't be helped on Mercury, of course. -Most available machinery was needed on Earth, for Earth's billions. -The metal for machinery was at a premium; the great iron mines of -two centuries before were almost exhausted and no new supply had -been found on any of the planets—at least none which could be mined -productively at slight enough cost. Result: the outworlds got along -with primitive methods or didn't get along at all.</p> - -<p>Dinnison, Jansen discovered, had a rating of Six. It was not as bad as -it could have been, but a good deal worse than Jansen's own twelve. At -least Dinnison wasn't a harvester. Instead, Dinnison had been assigned -to the packing platforms, and that was where Jansen found himself -working. Here the chlorella was dried in the fierce sun and baled. The -baling, of course, was done by hand and the chlorella, dry enough for -baling but still sodden, was heavy. Afterwards, Jansen knew, it would -be taken to the sub-space tunnel and shipped to Earth without even the -necessity of dehydration.</p> - -<p>All morning Jansen worked in hot, stifling silence. Whenever a -supervisor came in his direction he half-expected a heavy hand to fall -on his shoulder and an accusing voice to call out his real name.</p> - -<p>At lunch hour he wandered off, all but exhausted, into the scant shade -of one of the compound shacks. He sat there, popping energy tablets -into his mouth. He was too weak to eat food although he saw it being -served from big trays perhaps fifty yards away.</p> - -<p>"Jansen," a voice called softly.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He looked up quickly, his eyes taking seconds to focus in the almost -blinding glare. It was Wendy Hilliard, looking amazingly cool in her -insulsuit and shorts.</p> - -<p>He reached up and grabbed her arm, pulling her down alongside him. "How -did you find me?" he demanded.</p> - -<p>"It was an accident, although—" her voice trailed off.</p> - -<p>"Although what?"</p> - -<p>"You're hurting me!"</p> - -<p>"Although what, Miss Hilliard?"</p> - -<p>"I—well, I was looking for you, Jansen. I want to help you."</p> - -<p>"Sure," he said, a trace of bitterness in his voice.</p> - -<p>She smiled. "I'd say you need some help. You look all washed out."</p> - -<p>"Your sympathy is touching. Did you say the same thing to Ted, before -he was killed?"</p> - -<p>"You fool. I liked your brother."</p> - -<p>"He used a different word."</p> - -<p>"All right. I loved him. He's dead now. We can't bring him back to -life."</p> - -<p>"So what do you want?"</p> - -<p>"Bareen's here. In the bogs today."</p> - -<p>Instantly, Jansen was alert. He could feel fresh strength surge -through his muscles, his blood. Bareen! At last, he thought, Bareen! -For Ted....</p> - -<p>And for Earth.</p> - -<p>Ted had been an Earth agent on Mercury. Jansen was not: Jansen had been -prospecting in the asteroids when he heard of Ted's death. But he'd -gone to Ted's agency at once and offered his services. Now he was here, -where Ted had been. Now he was in Ted's place. What would Ted have -done? He didn't know. But he had his orders. They were explicit—and -ruthless.</p> - -<p>"You will report to Sun-side City," they had told him. "You will seek -Bareen out. Without Bareen, the organization he has built up will -crumble. With Bareen, it will gain control, complete control instead -of managerial control, of the irrigation system and the sub-space -tunnel. Bareen will become a fabulously wealthy and powerful man, at -the expense of Earth's starving billions. You will find Bareen and kill -him."</p> - -<p>Assassination, Jansen thought now. Legally, it would be a crime. -The civilized worlds would forever be closed to Jansen. But morally -it would be anything but a crime. Morally, Jansen would be helping -billions of people he would never see—and, if he helped them, he would -be from that day forth an outcast who must live out the rest of his -life on the far outworlds.</p> - -<p>For Ted, he thought. And Earth....</p> - -<p>"Why'd Bareen come here?" Jansen asked the girl suspiciously. "I -thought he runs this show from the sub-space tunnel."</p> - -<p>"Sure he does. But periodically he comes here to check on his men. You -must have known it: why did you come here?"</p> - -<p>"I couldn't get assigned to the sub-space tunnel. I'm no technician. I -was going to figure a way in, later."</p> - -<p>"There's no later for you. How much time do you think you have, Jansen?"</p> - -<p>He shrugged, and asked a question of his own. "Why are you pretending -to help me?"</p> - -<p>"Ted and I—"</p> - -<p>"He's dead now, remember?"</p> - -<p>Wendy stood up angrily. "All right, have it your way. Bareen is here. -You're here. I thought that was what you wanted. I told you. I—"</p> - -<p>Just then the one streamlined swamp-buggy Jansen had seen came chugging -up through the brackish water. A hatch opened and as it did so Wendy -moved quickly away from Jansen. She waded toward the buggy, smiling. A -man appeared in the hatch, a big man, big as Jansen and wider. He was -younger than Jansen thought he would be. He was handsome and somehow -cold-looking.</p> - -<p>"Wendy, my dear," Jansen heard him say. "This is a pleasant surprise."</p> - -<p>Wendy reached the swamp-buggy. Bareen—for it was Bareen—leaned over -and offered her a hand. He drew her up to him and she turned her cheek -for his kiss. Then they disappeared inside the buggy and it chugged -away.</p> - -<p>Jansen sat there for a moment. Bareen, he thought. Bareen and Wendy -Hilliard. Well, why not? Hadn't Ted been killed?</p> - -<p><i>But why did she come to me?</i></p> - -<p>Jansen stood up. His limbs trembled with heat-fatigue and he popped two -salt tablets into his mouth. He began to walk.</p> - -<p>"Hey, you!" a supervisor called. "Lunch hour's almost over. Where you -going?"</p> - -<p>Jansen didn't answer. The swamp-buggy, moving slowly through the brown -water, was almost out of sight. A dome corridor led from the chlorella -bogs to the irrigation station, Jansen knew. The buggy was headed in -that direction.</p> - -<p>"I said, where you going?"</p> - -<p>Jansen didn't answer the shouted question. There wasn't time. He ran, -splashing through the thigh-deep water, moving clumsily and slowly. -Instead of following Bareen's buggy, he headed for where the other -vehicles were parked. He climbed on one and began to unbolt the hatch -when he heard boots on metal behind him.</p> - -<p>It was the supervisor. "For the last time, buddy—"</p> - -<p>Jansen turned and hit him. The supervisor, an astonished look on his -face, stumbled back off the amphibious vehicle and into the swamp. -Jansen waited to see that he got up, then slid in through the hatch and -started the buggy.</p> - -<p>There would be an alarm, he knew. But Bareen's buggy hadn't been -hurrying. If he could overtake it....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He chugged along, expecting pursuit momentarily. He rode with the hatch -open and his body half out, for best visibility. He saw the other swamp -vehicle, perhaps three hundred yards ahead. It reached the narrow neck -of the domed corridor and paused at the check-point there, then went -through.</p> - -<p>Soon Jansen reached the check-point. Two men with blasting rifles stood -in his path, looking suspicious.</p> - -<p>"Get out of the way!" Jansen called boldly. "I'm Bareen's bodyguard."</p> - -<p>"Behind him?"</p> - -<p>"Where would you stay, friend?"</p> - -<p>The guards exchanged glances. One of them grinned. But the other one -said, "We got a report of a guy who—"</p> - -<p>"I wouldn't be interested in any reports," Jansen said curtly. "Now, do -you let me through or do I report you to Bareen?"</p> - -<p>Glances were exchanged again. One of the guards shrugged. They didn't -want trouble. Jansen's very boldness was his best weapon. Finally, -exchanging glances once more, they waved him on.</p> - -<p>The second swamp-buggy was by then out of sight down the domed -corridor. But half an hour later Jansen reached the big, white, -squat structure which housed the irrigation machinery. And Bareen's -streamlined swamp-buggy was parked outside on the dry ground.</p> - -<p>He went inside and an armed man stood in his path. "Well?"</p> - -<p>"Bareen," Jansen said.</p> - -<p>"Come and gone, with Miss Hilliard."</p> - -<p>"But his buggy—"</p> - -<p>"Who're you?"</p> - -<p>"Bodyguard," Jansen said promptly. It had worked once.</p> - -<p>"Hell, then you ought to know. Why ask me?"</p> - -<p>"You know Mr. Bareen," Jansen said, smiling. "Impulsive."</p> - -<p>"Is he? I guess I wouldn't know."</p> - -<p>"Look. Ordinarily I wouldn't mind passing the time of day with you, -but I'm not supposed to let Bareen out of my sight. So if you'll just -tell me where he is...."</p> - -<p>"Show me."</p> - -<p>"What did you say?" Jansen asked with a sickening realization of what -the guard wanted.</p> - -<p>"You say you're his bodyguard. Show me."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Jansen swung his fist in a quick, blurring arc and hit the man. He felt -the pain of good contact and the man went over on his back, striking -the ground hard. Jansen knelt quickly by his side: he was breathing -normally. Quickly Jansen searched him and found a small hand-blaster. -He pocketed it and got up, dragging the unconscious man into an alcove -which housed an inter-office communications system. On impulse, Jansen -picked up the microphone and said:</p> - -<p>"Mr. Bareen, please. This is important."</p> - -<p>"I'm sorry, sir. Mr. Bareen has taken the sub-spacer back to the -interplanetary sub-space tunnel."</p> - -<p>"Thank you," Jansen said automatically. There was a small sub-space -tunnel connecting the irrigation station with the big interplanetary -space-warp, Jansen knew. Even now Bareen and Wendy Hilliard, having -inspected the plant, were a hundred thousand miles away, in deep space, -at the tunnel station.</p> - -<p>While Jansen was thinking, the communications system board flashed and -a voice said:</p> - -<p>"Emergency! Emergency! Someone has stolen a buggy and is believed -heading for the irrigation station. He may be armed and is probably -dangerous."</p> - -<p>Jansen acknowledged the information, then said: "The buggy just passed -this way, but it kept going."</p> - -<p>"You're sure?"</p> - -<p>"Positive."</p> - -<p>"Thanks. We'll relay the information."</p> - -<p>That ruse would give him a few minutes, Jansen knew. But for what -purpose?</p> - -<p>Bareen and Wendy Hilliard! If they used the sub-space tunnel, why -couldn't he?</p> - -<p>He left the alcove and charged down a brightly-lit hallway, passing a -cavern-sized room a-throb with banks of machinery. A technician looked -up at him and Jansen said:</p> - -<p>"The sub-spacer. Hurry, man. This is urgent."</p> - -<p>The technician pointed, spoke. Jansen followed his directions on the -dead run.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When he reached it, he saw what looked like a vidiphone booth in a -large, otherwise empty room. But vidiphone booths don't usually have -armed guards....</p> - -<p>"This is for Mr. Bareen's private use," the guard said, brandishing a -blasting rifle. "Better beat it."</p> - -<p>No ruses here. This guard would know. This was one of Bareen's private -thugs, probably. Jansen took a breath and dove at him.</p> - -<p>The blaster roared, searing air over Jansen's head. He hit the guard's -middle and they went down together, the rifle falling from the guard's -grasp. They rolled over and over, then the guard got to his knees and -clubbed an elbow at Jansen's jaw. Jansen rolled on his back, his face -suddenly numb. The guard dove for him, pinned him and called for help.</p> - -<p>Jansen struggled frantically. He heard footsteps pounding toward them, -then brought his legs up and scissored the guard's throat, pulling him -down and away. Jansen released the scissors abruptly and scrambled to -his feet. He made it to the sub-space booth and pulled the door open. -There was a single lever inside and he yanked at it as he slammed the -transparent door. He felt nothing at first. He saw the guard retrieve -his rifle, pointing it at the booth and firing.</p> - -<p>But the blast of raw energy never reached Jansen. For he was already -being transported through sub-space....</p> - -<p>He had no time to marshall his thoughts. The first thing he saw through -the transparent door of the twin booth a hundred thousand miles away on -the sub-space station, was Bareen. Bareen was standing just outside the -booth, holding a blaster.</p> - -<p>He was pointing the blaster at Wendy Hilliard, whose face was white. -Jansen opened the door and Bareen's deep voice ended with: "... to kill -you now."</p> - -<p>Jansen turned quickly and fired his blaster not at Bareen but at the -controls of the sub-space booth. This way, he hoped, they wouldn't be -interrupted. This way—</p> - -<p>"Jansen!" Wendy screamed.</p> - -<p>Bareen whirled, facing Jansen. His eyes widened and as he fired the -blaster Jansen felt a numbing pain in his right leg. The blaster had -merely seared him, he knew. But if Bareen had time for another try....</p> - -<p>Jansen leaped at him and they went crashing across the room toward -another, and larger, sub-space booth. Jansen was exhausted. The quick -pursuit, the fight at the irrigation center, the unfamiliar activity at -the chlorella bogs, had drained most of the energy from his body. And -Bareen was strong.</p> - -<p>He slowly forced Jansen back, choking him. Jansen's hands waved weakly -in front of his face, fluttering uselessly. Bareen was going to kill -him, as he had killed his brother....</p> - -<p>Jansen's vision swam. Balls of flame seared before his eyes. He was -dimly aware of Wendy clawing at Bareen's back, but the big man pushed -her away, then hurled her across the room with one out-flung arm.</p> - -<p>Jansen butted with his head. He brought his knee up. He swung his fists -and felt contact with Bareen's face. But Bareen held onto his throat -with one large hand, getting the other one free to use the blaster. -He brought it up slowly, and Jansen forgot about the hand about his -throat. He reached for the blaster, struggling for possession of it -with Bareen. He butted again and saw a bloody smear where Bareen's -mouth had been. The blaster was between them....</p> - -<p>And roared....</p> - -<p>Bareen slumped against him and the pressure was suddenly gone from his -throat. When he looked down at Bareen he saw that the man's entire face -had been shot away—</p> - -<p>"I was working for your brother," Wendy sobbed. "I never gave up. I -was gathering evidence about what Bareen planned. You—you came just -in time. He was going to give his ultimatum to Earth today. Triple the -price, or no chlorella. They'd have had to say yes."</p> - -<p>Feet pounded in a corridor, came closer.</p> - -<p>"We won," Jansen said. "But now—we're finished."</p> - -<p>"Quick!" Wendy cried, pulling him toward the larger sub-space booth. -"It connects with Earth."</p> - -<p>"I can't return to Earth. I've just killed a man. I—"</p> - -<p>"Self-defense. I saw you. Besides, we have the proof that Bareen was -going to bleed Earth dry for chlorella."</p> - -<p>"... the outworlds...." he said.</p> - -<p>"You don't have to hide on the outworlds now."</p> - -<p>"Hide, nothing," Jansen said, smiling weakly but happily the -split-second before they were whisked seventy million miles through -sub-space. "If you're not a fugitive, the outworlds are wonderful. -Maybe you'd like...."</p> - -<p>He was going to say, <i>like to join me</i>. 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