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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: Patrol - -Author: Richard H. Nelson - -Release Date: July 26, 2021 [eBook #65925] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PATROL *** - - - - - - PATROL - - By Richard H. Nelson - - MacMartree knew that Man was omnipotent--Master - of the Universe. But could he expect his - patrol to fight and conquer an invisible enemy? - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1952 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -They made their camp high on the breast of the gently swelling hill. As -the small planet turned toward the sunset, MacMartree stood a moment on -the hillside, watching. Far out on the grass-covered plain their ship -stood gleaming, a slender candle, touched by the flame of the sinking -sun. Then, quickly, the far horizon caught the sun and pulled it under, -and the gloom of night rushed in to drown the pale twilight. - -"Night comes so fast here," Abner said, at MacMartree's side. - -"Yes," MacMartree agreed, turning to him. "And day comes even faster. -Time for sleep now, with morning only four hours away." - -"I can't get used to it," Abner said as they moved back into the camp -area. "Sleeping and waking in four hour bits!" - -MacMartree laughed at that. "Abner, you're getting old. You can't adapt -anymore." - -Abner laughed, too, and unrolled his sleep-kit for the night. - -MacMartree walked to the place where Phillips and Cole lay on the -ground, talking casually and watching the stars. - -"Time to switch on the screen, Phillips," MacMartree reminded the -younger man. - -Phillips nodded, sat up and reached for the control box that lay on the -earth beside him. He closed the circuit, and the force-screen bloomed -around them, glimmering softly like a thin veil of glowing fireflies. - -"Kind of useless, that, don't you think?" Cole asked. - -MacMartree sat down beside them. - -"It's one of the rules, and no patrol ever came to grief by following -the rules." - -Phillips lay back on the turf. "No patrol ever came to grief at all, -you mean. I'm bored to death." - -MacMartree smiled tolerantly. "I know. It's a quiet life." - -Abner came over and joined them, completing the party. "What're you -three up to?" he wanted to know. - -MacMartree yawned. "They're trying to get me to argue with them, as an -excuse for not sleeping." - -"Not a bad idea, either," Cole grinned. - -"You youngsters will be the death of me," MacMartree complained. "Don't -you know an old man needs his sleep?" - -"Come on, Mac," Phillips teased. "Tell us why the patrols are -necessary." - - * * * * * - -They all laughed then, and MacMartree grinned. "I know how it is with -you young ones," he said. "You're tired of the dull and safe life back -home and joined the Service, only to find it just as dull and safe as -anything else." - -"Tell me," Phillips put in, "can't anything happen to us anymore?" - -"Yes," Cole said. "We can die of old age." - -It didn't take much. The three young men had known it wouldn't take -much to get MacMartree started ... it seldom did. - -"Youth never fails to amaze me," he said. The younger men recognized it -as a preamble, and settled themselves comfortably in the warm darkness -to listen. - -"Look at you now," he went on. "You complain that your life here on -Patrol is tedious and uninteresting. Nothing ever happens, you say. -And it means nothing to you that the dangers and misfortunes you talk -of never threaten you because you have been given the power to prevent -and cope with anything." - -He sat up now, warming to his subject. "You take no pride in your -heritage. Man is completely sufficient unto himself, and beyond that. -There is an old word I have found in my reading...." He paused, trying -to remember. - -"Omnipotent," he said at last. "Man is omnipotent." - -"All-potent?" Abner asked. "All-powerful?" - -"That's right ... it's an archaic word, but it fits," MacMartree told -them. "But you don't appreciate your power, because you don't realize -what your life would be without it. - -"In my books, I've read of the things our species suffered, before our -knowledge reached fulfillment. When we were bound to Earth, there were -wars; men--killed one another." - -The young men shook their heads, wondering at the folly of their kind -many thousands of years before. - -"And there were other things, too. As we cut ourselves loose from -Earth, and burrowed into the farthest reaches of the Galaxies, looking -for new worlds like this one, there were terrible dangers, dreadful -enemies and elements to cope with. And at first, man was foolish ... -continually meeting his enemies on their own ground. Until at last, our -wisdom prevailed. - -"We devised ways and means to detect and destroy anything that -endangered us, long before the danger could be manifested. Like here, -on this planet ... but you know about that." - -"Radiation, wasn't that it?" said Cole. - -"Yes," MacMartree said. "The discovery ship took its readings from out -there somewhere, out where this place was only a dust mote in the glare -of its sun. They drained off the radiation, scattered it into the void, -then seeded the place with grass and went away." - -"But that's what I don't understand," Phillips objected. "Why must we -patrol? When the discoverers found this planet, they destroyed the only -thing about it that could be harmful to man ... so why must we be here?" - - * * * * * - -MacMartree shrugged. "Caution, boy ... call it caution. We are here -to see and observe. The discoverers do not accept their readings as -infallible, though I suspect that they are. We're here on the one -chance in a hundred million that somewhere on this little world, -there's a being or an element that might bear enmity toward mankind." - -Abner sighed. "And so we patrol ... for a year." - -"Yes," MacMartree agreed. "For a year. And after the year, another -patrol, and another year, and so on through a hundred patrols and -years, until the place is classified safe for colonization." - -"I think my species is cowardly," Cole said, a trifle hotly. - -"Cautious," MacMartree corrected gently. "Only cautious. It's as it -should be ... they have set up rules of caution, and we've never -suffered for it." - -"Except from boredom," Phillips cut in, and they all laughed again. - -"Really though," said MacMartree, "you should be proud, not bored. -Think of it, if the sun that just rolled down the horizon should -suddenly begin to expand into a super-nova, it's within our ability -to restore it to its normal status. Should a comet sweep this planet -tonight and drag a tail of poisonous gases over us as we sleep, our -force screen would protect us, and our mechanisms and devices would -make the air sweet and clean for us in minutes. If--oh, but you know. -Appreciate your power, your ability. Be glad you are what you are!" - -The young men smiled in the darkness, because, of course, they _were_ -proud, and satisfied, and pleased with their own omnipotence. - -MacMartree slept the sleep of the aged, curled in the clinging, billowy -warmth of his sleep-kit. It took him a minute to rouse, when Cole came -and shook him by the shoulder. - -"It's Phillips," Cole was saying. "Come and see him, Mac, come and see." - -"Eh?" MacMartree questioned. "What about Phillips?" - -"There's something--something wrong with him. I don't know ... come and -see, Mac!" - -Abner lighted the lamp, and MacMartree blinked against the glare that -flooded the area within the screen. Then, as his eyes grew accustomed -to the brilliance, he saw what was happening to Phillips. - -"You see?" Cole said, in great agitation. "Something is wrong with him." - -As they watched, the stricken Phillips retched and vomited again. -MacMartree's nostrils crinkled at the offensive odor of it. - -"Throw a disposal over that," he directed Abner. The younger man went -to his pack and returned with the disposal unit. One of the disposal -wafers took care of the mess Phillips had made. - -"What's wrong with him?" Abner asked, completely bewildered. - -MacMartree searched his memory for the word. "Sick," he said at last. -"Phillips is sick." - -"Sick?" Cole echoed. - -"What's that?" Abner wanted to know. - -"I don't know, exactly. I've only read about it, in my books. A long -time ago, men got sick, like this." - -"But why?" Abner and Cole said it together. - -"I don't know." He bent down over Phillips. "Are you going to do that -anymore?" he asked. - -Phillips looked up at him dully. "I ... I don't think so," he said, -weakly and breathlessly. - -"Lie back," MacMartree commanded. "Close your eyes. Sleep if you can. -Maybe we can help you." - - * * * * * - -Phillips nodded, lips bluish and tight, his whole face a ghastly pewter -hue. He put his head down, eyelids fluttered shut. MacMartree regarded -him in silence for several minutes. - -"This could be what you've been wanting," he said at last to Cole and -Abner. - -"Wanting?" - -"Something's happening, isn't it? Something we didn't look for. Maybe -there's reason for patrols after all, eh?" - -Cole frowned. "You mean...." He didn't finish it. He got up quickly, -and strode to the scanner. - -"Everything's all right outside," he said, after a moment. "Everything -outside the screen is just as it was at sundown." - -MacMartree shrugged. "Nothing from out there could do this to Phillips -anyway. Nothing gets through the screen." - -Cole returned and squatted down with the others. He picked up a handful -of pebbles and began flicking them, one at a time, at the force-screen, -watching them bounce back into the area. - -"There's an explanation for this, of course," MacMartree said, with a -tone of confidence he did not feel. - -The others nodded. After a time, Phillips' breathing grew more regular -and he slept. As they watched, the rest of them saw the color creep -back into his face, and sensed that he was better now. But still, it -was a puzzling thing. Phillips had been ... what was the word?... -Sick. According to MacMartree's histories, no man had been sick for the -last thousand years. - -They decided to return to their sleep-kits for the remaining hour of -darkness, but they never got there. - -Rising from his position beside the sleeping Phillips, Abner's long -frame lurched suddenly forward. He sprawled at the feet of MacMartree -and Cole ... and both men heard the dull snap as Abner hit the ground, -his left arm caught beneath his body. - -MacMartree cursed. "Blast it, Abner, pick up your feet!" Then to Cole: -"Is the bone-mending stuff here, or in the ship?" - -Cole started to say that he had brought it along, all right, but he was -interrupted by Abner's scream. - -The sound of it rasped across their nerves. They stared down at -the writhing Abner, their brains numbed by that horrible, entirely -unfamiliar sound. - -"What is it?" Cole questioned, finding his voice after a moment. -MacMartree ignored him, kneeling beside Abner. - -Abner's wind sucked into his lungs, and was expelled in another fearful -scream. In spite of himself, MacMartree felt a prickling along the back -of his neck.... - -"Abner," he said intensely, "Abner, listen to me!" - -But the younger man was doubled in a knot of agony, screaming and -screaming and screaming. - - * * * * * - -MacMartree struck him in the face, with his open palm at first, but -when that did no good, with doubled fists, hard. Finally Abner's -screams stopped. Then MacMartree tried again. - -"Listen, Abner ... can you hear me now?" - -Abner's voice came twisting up, thin and quavery. - -"I--hear you ... yes, I hear you...." - -"Your arm, is that what makes you scream? Your arm?" - -"Yes, yes," moaning now ... "yes, my arm ... I want to die ... let me -die, please Mac, please...." - -"Listen to me," MacMartree commanded fiercely. "Get hold of yourself -and listen! This thing in your arm, it's a _hurt_. Your brain should -be blocking it from your consciousness, but somehow it isn't. Do you -understand me?" - -"Hurt," Abner echoed. Then he began to croon it, as though there was -something soothing in the sound of it: "Hurt, hurt, hurt in my arm...." -He made a twisted little hymn of it, singing it over and over again. - -"That's right," MacMartree was saying, "Your brain isn't killing the -hurt, as it should. You must _think_, Abner, think of your arm, whole -and well, and with no hurt in it. _Think!_" - -But Abner only repeated that ancient, awful word: "Hurt in my arm ... -hurt, _hurt_...." - -MacMartree shrugged, and looked up at Cole, who was still standing -helplessly by. - -"Fetch the serum," MacMartree said. "I'll try setting the bone...." He -grasped the twisted arm as he spoke, and one, tearing, final scream -broke out of Abner's throat. Before MacMartree could react, Abner went -rigid in every limb, then as suddenly relaxed and was still. - -"He's dead," Cole choked. "Abner is dead!" - -MacMartree felt for the heartbeat, shook his head. - -"Only unconscious. The hurt did that, I suppose." He sat back on his -haunches, thoroughly baffled. Cole sat, too, and a few yards away, -where they had left him, Phillips stirred. He rolled over on his side -and propped himself shakily on one elbow, roused by that last, ringing -shriek of Abner's. - -"It isn't right," MacMartree said, to neither of them. "The hurt, that -went with sickness--a thousand years ago." He looked up at them. - -"I read about these things, you see," he told them. "There was hurt, -and there was sickness. When they knew enough about the human brain, -scientists simply bred into the part of our minds that makes us aware -of hurt the power to shut it off, automatically, before we're even -conscious it exists. And as for sickness...." He looked at Phillips, -shaking his head. "They got rid of that, too, and now...." - -Neither of the younger men said anything for a time. They waited, -desperately relying on the older man to help them, to bring them -through this, whatever it was, into familiar ground again. At length, -Cole spoke. - -"Mac," he began softly. - -MacMartree looked at him, waiting. - -"Mac, I ... I feel something ... I don't know ... perhaps it's -sickness ... or hurt ... I've never known those things...." He held -forth his hands, and they were twitching and trembling. - -MacMartree's teeth ground together. "Another obsolescent word I'll have -to teach you," he said to them. "It is _fear_." - -He went to work on Abner's broken arm, setting it and injecting the -serum that would cause the fracture to knit in a matter of minutes. -And as he worked, he tried to drive the nagging thought from his -mind ... sickness for Phillips, hurt for Abner, fear for Cole ... -_what for MacMartree?_ He was the oldest. He was leader of the patrol. -Perhaps a little of _all_ these horrors? - -To keep his mind occupied, he counted off the required minutes for -the serum to take effect. Then, when the time had passed, he gave the -injured arm an experimental twist. - -It flapped loosely at the break, as before, and Abner stirred and -moaned behind the veil of his unconsciousness. - -The serum had failed. _Unheard of!_ - - * * * * * - -Straightening, MacMartree felt his particular affliction engulf him. -Anger, wild, unreasoning anger at this intangible, invisible enemy that -tormented them so. Cursing, he scooped up the vial of serum, flung -it to clatter against the shimmering force-screen. But it did not. -It passed through the curtain which was suddenly nothing more than -thinning mist ... and then not even that. - -"Weapons!" MacMartree cried, his voice a hoarse bellow. "Weapons and -positions! Quickly!" - -Phillips and Cole scrambled to obey. The three conscious men huddled -back to back around the body of the unconscious one. Their weapons -were small and unfamiliar in their waiting hands, and not the least -bit reassuring. They waited for whatever it was that stalked them from -beyond the ring of their glaring lamplight to come for them, battle -with them, make itself known. - -"MacMartree," Phillips whispered in the throbbing stillness. - -"Well? Are you sick again?" - -"No, no--I just thought...." - -"Yes?" - -"The screen, the serum ... failing that way. What if ... the -_weapons_...." - -A piece of eternity passed them by before MacMartree could make his -lips form the command. - -"Test--your weapons." - -Nothing. - -Tentatively, fearfully, the three squeezed the metal in their icy -hands. _Nothing._ No rush of power, no leaping death to meet their -adversary when it came. Their weapons, too, had failed them. - -Behind him, MacMartree heard the racking sobs begin in Cole. He did -not recognize them as sobs, but he sensed their meaning, and knew, of -course, what caused them. - -He also heard Phillips scramble to his feet, his wind sucking in and -out of his throat in short, gasping shudders. He waited for Phillips -to break and run into the darkness, fleeing in blind panic for the -distant sanctuary of the ship on the plain below. But the darkness that -surrounded them stared Phillips down, sent him grovelling back to the -earth, a whipped and whimpering cur. - -And then, MacMartree was alone. He had never felt so lonely in his life -before. The three younger men were there, of course, but they, too, -were lost in voids of aloneness. He envied the unconscious Abner, until -he felt Abner stir slightly on the ground behind him, and then go tense -with waking. So they were all to meet it, and be aware when it came. - -But, such _loneliness_! Such a need he felt, for something to hold to, -to reach for, to depend on. Another of their weapons? He knew better. - -There had to be something, there had to be. But what? Beaten, -vanquished, he covered his face with his hands, and waited. - -The little planet rolled steadily toward the sunrise, the cold stars -glided above them. Quietly, the dawn breeze simpered among the grasses. - -Quite slowly, MacMartree raised his head. - -"Abner, Phillips, Cole...." They didn't answer, but he knew they heard -him, and were listening, within their individual worlds of aching -loneliness and fear. - -"I ... I know what our Enemy is," MacMartree said. - -They came a little closer to him then, venturing out of themselves a -fraction to hear what he said. - -"Our Enemy," MacMartree told them, "is God." - - * * * * * - -After a pause, the inevitable question came. Phillips voiced it for the -rest. - -"What is--God?" - -MacMartree shook his head. "A myth--a legend--I thought. There were so -many things in all those ancient books I read ... how was I to know?" - -"This is something you read, too?" - -"Yes, in a very old book. In many of them, actually, but one in -particular. A book called--" the name eluded him. He let it go. "God -was a deity. People worshipped Him, thousands of years ago." - -Cole had stopped his crying. - -"The book was written as the Word of God. I--I remember a part of -it...." - -"Tell us," dully, from Abner. - -"'I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.' I think that explains it best." -He sighed. "It's my fault, I suppose. Man is omnipotent, I said. Man is -all-powerful. Man can do _anything_! Yes, it was enough to rouse the -anger of a jealous God." - -"Is He going to kill us, then?" - -"I don't know, Phillips. He could have, long before this...." - -"How can we fight Him," Cole whispered. "How?" - -"We can't," the old man said. "God is the only omnipotent One. We are -not." He got to his feet, came around to face them. - -"One thing we can do." - -"What?" they wanted to know. "What can we do?" - -"We can try to--talk to Him." - -The grassy world sped softly toward its dawning. Beyond the hill that -rose above them, lean fingers of light came creeping from the lifting -sun. It seemed to come in answer to those stumbling, clumsy, fervent -prayers--the first prayers that had touched the lips of men in a -thousand years. - -Lost in concentration, MacMartree felt the sweet breath of the sun's -first warmth upon his back. He opened his eyes, found them dimmed -somehow, and a wetness on his cheeks. - -Wonderingly, they looked at one another, awed by what they read upon -each other's faces. - -"I forgot," MacMartree said softly. "I forgot that He is also -merciful...." - -Abner slowly raised his arm. - -"It's healed," he said. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PATROL *** - -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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But could he expect his<br /> -patrol to fight and conquer an invisible enemy?</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -October 1952<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They made their camp high on the breast of the gently swelling hill. As -the small planet turned toward the sunset, MacMartree stood a moment on -the hillside, watching. Far out on the grass-covered plain their ship -stood gleaming, a slender candle, touched by the flame of the sinking -sun. Then, quickly, the far horizon caught the sun and pulled it under, -and the gloom of night rushed in to drown the pale twilight.</p> - -<p>"Night comes so fast here," Abner said, at MacMartree's side.</p> - -<p>"Yes," MacMartree agreed, turning to him. "And day comes even faster. -Time for sleep now, with morning only four hours away."</p> - -<p>"I can't get used to it," Abner said as they moved back into the camp -area. "Sleeping and waking in four hour bits!"</p> - -<p>MacMartree laughed at that. "Abner, you're getting old. You can't adapt -anymore."</p> - -<p>Abner laughed, too, and unrolled his sleep-kit for the night.</p> - -<p>MacMartree walked to the place where Phillips and Cole lay on the -ground, talking casually and watching the stars.</p> - -<p>"Time to switch on the screen, Phillips," MacMartree reminded the -younger man.</p> - -<p>Phillips nodded, sat up and reached for the control box that lay on the -earth beside him. He closed the circuit, and the force-screen bloomed -around them, glimmering softly like a thin veil of glowing fireflies.</p> - -<p>"Kind of useless, that, don't you think?" Cole asked.</p> - -<p>MacMartree sat down beside them.</p> - -<p>"It's one of the rules, and no patrol ever came to grief by following -the rules."</p> - -<p>Phillips lay back on the turf. "No patrol ever came to grief at all, -you mean. I'm bored to death."</p> - -<p>MacMartree smiled tolerantly. "I know. It's a quiet life."</p> - -<p>Abner came over and joined them, completing the party. "What're you -three up to?" he wanted to know.</p> - -<p>MacMartree yawned. "They're trying to get me to argue with them, as an -excuse for not sleeping."</p> - -<p>"Not a bad idea, either," Cole grinned.</p> - -<p>"You youngsters will be the death of me," MacMartree complained. "Don't -you know an old man needs his sleep?"</p> - -<p>"Come on, Mac," Phillips teased. "Tell us why the patrols are -necessary."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They all laughed then, and MacMartree grinned. "I know how it is with -you young ones," he said. "You're tired of the dull and safe life back -home and joined the Service, only to find it just as dull and safe as -anything else."</p> - -<p>"Tell me," Phillips put in, "can't anything happen to us anymore?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," Cole said. "We can die of old age."</p> - -<p>It didn't take much. The three young men had known it wouldn't take -much to get MacMartree started ... it seldom did.</p> - -<p>"Youth never fails to amaze me," he said. The younger men recognized it -as a preamble, and settled themselves comfortably in the warm darkness -to listen.</p> - -<p>"Look at you now," he went on. "You complain that your life here on -Patrol is tedious and uninteresting. Nothing ever happens, you say. -And it means nothing to you that the dangers and misfortunes you talk -of never threaten you because you have been given the power to prevent -and cope with anything."</p> - -<p>He sat up now, warming to his subject. "You take no pride in your -heritage. Man is completely sufficient unto himself, and beyond that. -There is an old word I have found in my reading...." He paused, trying -to remember.</p> - -<p>"Omnipotent," he said at last. "Man is omnipotent."</p> - -<p>"All-potent?" Abner asked. "All-powerful?"</p> - -<p>"That's right ... it's an archaic word, but it fits," MacMartree told -them. "But you don't appreciate your power, because you don't realize -what your life would be without it.</p> - -<p>"In my books, I've read of the things our species suffered, before our -knowledge reached fulfillment. When we were bound to Earth, there were -wars; men—killed one another."</p> - -<p>The young men shook their heads, wondering at the folly of their kind -many thousands of years before.</p> - -<p>"And there were other things, too. As we cut ourselves loose from -Earth, and burrowed into the farthest reaches of the Galaxies, looking -for new worlds like this one, there were terrible dangers, dreadful -enemies and elements to cope with. And at first, man was foolish ... -continually meeting his enemies on their own ground. Until at last, our -wisdom prevailed.</p> - -<p>"We devised ways and means to detect and destroy anything that -endangered us, long before the danger could be manifested. Like here, -on this planet ... but you know about that."</p> - -<p>"Radiation, wasn't that it?" said Cole.</p> - -<p>"Yes," MacMartree said. "The discovery ship took its readings from out -there somewhere, out where this place was only a dust mote in the glare -of its sun. They drained off the radiation, scattered it into the void, -then seeded the place with grass and went away."</p> - -<p>"But that's what I don't understand," Phillips objected. "Why must we -patrol? When the discoverers found this planet, they destroyed the only -thing about it that could be harmful to man ... so why must we be here?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>MacMartree shrugged. "Caution, boy ... call it caution. We are here -to see and observe. The discoverers do not accept their readings as -infallible, though I suspect that they are. We're here on the one -chance in a hundred million that somewhere on this little world, -there's a being or an element that might bear enmity toward mankind."</p> - -<p>Abner sighed. "And so we patrol ... for a year."</p> - -<p>"Yes," MacMartree agreed. "For a year. And after the year, another -patrol, and another year, and so on through a hundred patrols and -years, until the place is classified safe for colonization."</p> - -<p>"I think my species is cowardly," Cole said, a trifle hotly.</p> - -<p>"Cautious," MacMartree corrected gently. "Only cautious. It's as it -should be ... they have set up rules of caution, and we've never -suffered for it."</p> - -<p>"Except from boredom," Phillips cut in, and they all laughed again.</p> - -<p>"Really though," said MacMartree, "you should be proud, not bored. -Think of it, if the sun that just rolled down the horizon should -suddenly begin to expand into a super-nova, it's within our ability -to restore it to its normal status. Should a comet sweep this planet -tonight and drag a tail of poisonous gases over us as we sleep, our -force screen would protect us, and our mechanisms and devices would -make the air sweet and clean for us in minutes. If—oh, but you know. -Appreciate your power, your ability. Be glad you are what you are!"</p> - -<p>The young men smiled in the darkness, because, of course, they <i>were</i> -proud, and satisfied, and pleased with their own omnipotence.</p> - -<p>MacMartree slept the sleep of the aged, curled in the clinging, billowy -warmth of his sleep-kit. It took him a minute to rouse, when Cole came -and shook him by the shoulder.</p> - -<p>"It's Phillips," Cole was saying. "Come and see him, Mac, come and see."</p> - -<p>"Eh?" MacMartree questioned. "What about Phillips?"</p> - -<p>"There's something—something wrong with him. I don't know ... come and -see, Mac!"</p> - -<p>Abner lighted the lamp, and MacMartree blinked against the glare that -flooded the area within the screen. Then, as his eyes grew accustomed -to the brilliance, he saw what was happening to Phillips.</p> - -<p>"You see?" Cole said, in great agitation. "Something is wrong with him."</p> - -<p>As they watched, the stricken Phillips retched and vomited again. -MacMartree's nostrils crinkled at the offensive odor of it.</p> - -<p>"Throw a disposal over that," he directed Abner. The younger man went -to his pack and returned with the disposal unit. One of the disposal -wafers took care of the mess Phillips had made.</p> - -<p>"What's wrong with him?" Abner asked, completely bewildered.</p> - -<p>MacMartree searched his memory for the word. "Sick," he said at last. -"Phillips is sick."</p> - -<p>"Sick?" Cole echoed.</p> - -<p>"What's that?" Abner wanted to know.</p> - -<p>"I don't know, exactly. I've only read about it, in my books. A long -time ago, men got sick, like this."</p> - -<p>"But why?" Abner and Cole said it together.</p> - -<p>"I don't know." He bent down over Phillips. "Are you going to do that -anymore?" he asked.</p> - -<p>Phillips looked up at him dully. "I ... I don't think so," he said, -weakly and breathlessly.</p> - -<p>"Lie back," MacMartree commanded. "Close your eyes. Sleep if you can. -Maybe we can help you."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Phillips nodded, lips bluish and tight, his whole face a ghastly pewter -hue. He put his head down, eyelids fluttered shut. MacMartree regarded -him in silence for several minutes.</p> - -<p>"This could be what you've been wanting," he said at last to Cole and -Abner.</p> - -<p>"Wanting?"</p> - -<p>"Something's happening, isn't it? Something we didn't look for. Maybe -there's reason for patrols after all, eh?"</p> - -<p>Cole frowned. "You mean...." He didn't finish it. He got up quickly, -and strode to the scanner.</p> - -<p>"Everything's all right outside," he said, after a moment. "Everything -outside the screen is just as it was at sundown."</p> - -<p>MacMartree shrugged. "Nothing from out there could do this to Phillips -anyway. Nothing gets through the screen."</p> - -<p>Cole returned and squatted down with the others. He picked up a handful -of pebbles and began flicking them, one at a time, at the force-screen, -watching them bounce back into the area.</p> - -<p>"There's an explanation for this, of course," MacMartree said, with a -tone of confidence he did not feel.</p> - -<p>The others nodded. After a time, Phillips' breathing grew more regular -and he slept. As they watched, the rest of them saw the color creep -back into his face, and sensed that he was better now. But still, it -was a puzzling thing. Phillips had been ... what was the word?... -Sick. According to MacMartree's histories, no man had been sick for the -last thousand years.</p> - -<p>They decided to return to their sleep-kits for the remaining hour of -darkness, but they never got there.</p> - -<p>Rising from his position beside the sleeping Phillips, Abner's long -frame lurched suddenly forward. He sprawled at the feet of MacMartree -and Cole ... and both men heard the dull snap as Abner hit the ground, -his left arm caught beneath his body.</p> - -<p>MacMartree cursed. "Blast it, Abner, pick up your feet!" Then to Cole: -"Is the bone-mending stuff here, or in the ship?"</p> - -<p>Cole started to say that he had brought it along, all right, but he was -interrupted by Abner's scream.</p> - -<p>The sound of it rasped across their nerves. They stared down at -the writhing Abner, their brains numbed by that horrible, entirely -unfamiliar sound.</p> - -<p>"What is it?" Cole questioned, finding his voice after a moment. -MacMartree ignored him, kneeling beside Abner.</p> - -<p>Abner's wind sucked into his lungs, and was expelled in another fearful -scream. In spite of himself, MacMartree felt a prickling along the back -of his neck....</p> - -<p>"Abner," he said intensely, "Abner, listen to me!"</p> - -<p>But the younger man was doubled in a knot of agony, screaming and -screaming and screaming.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>MacMartree struck him in the face, with his open palm at first, but -when that did no good, with doubled fists, hard. Finally Abner's -screams stopped. Then MacMartree tried again.</p> - -<p>"Listen, Abner ... can you hear me now?"</p> - -<p>Abner's voice came twisting up, thin and quavery.</p> - -<p>"I—hear you ... yes, I hear you...."</p> - -<p>"Your arm, is that what makes you scream? Your arm?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, yes," moaning now ... "yes, my arm ... I want to die ... let me -die, please Mac, please...."</p> - -<p>"Listen to me," MacMartree commanded fiercely. "Get hold of yourself -and listen! This thing in your arm, it's a <i>hurt</i>. Your brain should -be blocking it from your consciousness, but somehow it isn't. Do you -understand me?"</p> - -<p>"Hurt," Abner echoed. Then he began to croon it, as though there was -something soothing in the sound of it: "Hurt, hurt, hurt in my arm...." -He made a twisted little hymn of it, singing it over and over again.</p> - -<p>"That's right," MacMartree was saying, "Your brain isn't killing the -hurt, as it should. You must <i>think</i>, Abner, think of your arm, whole -and well, and with no hurt in it. <i>Think!</i>"</p> - -<p>But Abner only repeated that ancient, awful word: "Hurt in my arm ... -hurt, <i>hurt</i>...."</p> - -<p>MacMartree shrugged, and looked up at Cole, who was still standing -helplessly by.</p> - -<p>"Fetch the serum," MacMartree said. "I'll try setting the bone...." He -grasped the twisted arm as he spoke, and one, tearing, final scream -broke out of Abner's throat. Before MacMartree could react, Abner went -rigid in every limb, then as suddenly relaxed and was still.</p> - -<p>"He's dead," Cole choked. "Abner is dead!"</p> - -<p>MacMartree felt for the heartbeat, shook his head.</p> - -<p>"Only unconscious. The hurt did that, I suppose." He sat back on his -haunches, thoroughly baffled. Cole sat, too, and a few yards away, -where they had left him, Phillips stirred. He rolled over on his side -and propped himself shakily on one elbow, roused by that last, ringing -shriek of Abner's.</p> - -<p>"It isn't right," MacMartree said, to neither of them. "The hurt, that -went with sickness—a thousand years ago." He looked up at them.</p> - -<p>"I read about these things, you see," he told them. "There was hurt, -and there was sickness. When they knew enough about the human brain, -scientists simply bred into the part of our minds that makes us aware -of hurt the power to shut it off, automatically, before we're even -conscious it exists. And as for sickness...." He looked at Phillips, -shaking his head. "They got rid of that, too, and now...."</p> - -<p>Neither of the younger men said anything for a time. They waited, -desperately relying on the older man to help them, to bring them -through this, whatever it was, into familiar ground again. At length, -Cole spoke.</p> - -<p>"Mac," he began softly.</p> - -<p>MacMartree looked at him, waiting.</p> - -<p>"Mac, I ... I feel something ... I don't know ... perhaps it's -sickness ... or hurt ... I've never known those things...." He held -forth his hands, and they were twitching and trembling.</p> - -<p>MacMartree's teeth ground together. "Another obsolescent word I'll have -to teach you," he said to them. "It is <i>fear</i>."</p> - -<p>He went to work on Abner's broken arm, setting it and injecting the -serum that would cause the fracture to knit in a matter of minutes. -And as he worked, he tried to drive the nagging thought from his -mind ... sickness for Phillips, hurt for Abner, fear for Cole ... -<i>what for MacMartree?</i> He was the oldest. He was leader of the patrol. -Perhaps a little of <i>all</i> these horrors?</p> - -<p>To keep his mind occupied, he counted off the required minutes for -the serum to take effect. Then, when the time had passed, he gave the -injured arm an experimental twist.</p> - -<p>It flapped loosely at the break, as before, and Abner stirred and -moaned behind the veil of his unconsciousness.</p> - -<p>The serum had failed. <i>Unheard of!</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Straightening, MacMartree felt his particular affliction engulf him. -Anger, wild, unreasoning anger at this intangible, invisible enemy that -tormented them so. Cursing, he scooped up the vial of serum, flung -it to clatter against the shimmering force-screen. But it did not. -It passed through the curtain which was suddenly nothing more than -thinning mist ... and then not even that.</p> - -<p>"Weapons!" MacMartree cried, his voice a hoarse bellow. "Weapons and -positions! Quickly!"</p> - -<p>Phillips and Cole scrambled to obey. The three conscious men huddled -back to back around the body of the unconscious one. Their weapons -were small and unfamiliar in their waiting hands, and not the least -bit reassuring. They waited for whatever it was that stalked them from -beyond the ring of their glaring lamplight to come for them, battle -with them, make itself known.</p> - -<p>"MacMartree," Phillips whispered in the throbbing stillness.</p> - -<p>"Well? Are you sick again?"</p> - -<p>"No, no—I just thought...."</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"The screen, the serum ... failing that way. What if ... the -<i>weapons</i>...."</p> - -<p>A piece of eternity passed them by before MacMartree could make his -lips form the command.</p> - -<p>"Test—your weapons."</p> - -<p>Nothing.</p> - -<p>Tentatively, fearfully, the three squeezed the metal in their icy -hands. <i>Nothing.</i> No rush of power, no leaping death to meet their -adversary when it came. Their weapons, too, had failed them.</p> - -<p>Behind him, MacMartree heard the racking sobs begin in Cole. He did -not recognize them as sobs, but he sensed their meaning, and knew, of -course, what caused them.</p> - -<p>He also heard Phillips scramble to his feet, his wind sucking in and -out of his throat in short, gasping shudders. He waited for Phillips -to break and run into the darkness, fleeing in blind panic for the -distant sanctuary of the ship on the plain below. But the darkness that -surrounded them stared Phillips down, sent him grovelling back to the -earth, a whipped and whimpering cur.</p> - -<p>And then, MacMartree was alone. He had never felt so lonely in his life -before. The three younger men were there, of course, but they, too, -were lost in voids of aloneness. He envied the unconscious Abner, until -he felt Abner stir slightly on the ground behind him, and then go tense -with waking. So they were all to meet it, and be aware when it came.</p> - -<p>But, such <i>loneliness</i>! Such a need he felt, for something to hold to, -to reach for, to depend on. Another of their weapons? He knew better.</p> - -<p>There had to be something, there had to be. But what? Beaten, -vanquished, he covered his face with his hands, and waited.</p> - -<p>The little planet rolled steadily toward the sunrise, the cold stars -glided above them. Quietly, the dawn breeze simpered among the grasses.</p> - -<p>Quite slowly, MacMartree raised his head.</p> - -<p>"Abner, Phillips, Cole...." They didn't answer, but he knew they heard -him, and were listening, within their individual worlds of aching -loneliness and fear.</p> - -<p>"I ... I know what our Enemy is," MacMartree said.</p> - -<p>They came a little closer to him then, venturing out of themselves a -fraction to hear what he said.</p> - -<p>"Our Enemy," MacMartree told them, "is God."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After a pause, the inevitable question came. Phillips voiced it for the -rest.</p> - -<p>"What is—God?"</p> - -<p>MacMartree shook his head. "A myth—a legend—I thought. There were so -many things in all those ancient books I read ... how was I to know?"</p> - -<p>"This is something you read, too?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, in a very old book. In many of them, actually, but one in -particular. A book called—" the name eluded him. He let it go. "God -was a deity. People worshipped Him, thousands of years ago."</p> - -<p>Cole had stopped his crying.</p> - -<p>"The book was written as the Word of God. I—I remember a part of -it...."</p> - -<p>"Tell us," dully, from Abner.</p> - -<p>"'I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.' I think that explains it best." -He sighed. "It's my fault, I suppose. Man is omnipotent, I said. Man is -all-powerful. Man can do <i>anything</i>! Yes, it was enough to rouse the -anger of a jealous God."</p> - -<p>"Is He going to kill us, then?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know, Phillips. He could have, long before this...."</p> - -<p>"How can we fight Him," Cole whispered. "How?"</p> - -<p>"We can't," the old man said. "God is the only omnipotent One. We are -not." He got to his feet, came around to face them.</p> - -<p>"One thing we can do."</p> - -<p>"What?" they wanted to know. "What can we do?"</p> - -<p>"We can try to—talk to Him."</p> - -<p>The grassy world sped softly toward its dawning. Beyond the hill that -rose above them, lean fingers of light came creeping from the lifting -sun. It seemed to come in answer to those stumbling, clumsy, fervent -prayers—the first prayers that had touched the lips of men in a -thousand years.</p> - -<p>Lost in concentration, MacMartree felt the sweet breath of the sun's -first warmth upon his back. He opened his eyes, found them dimmed -somehow, and a wetness on his cheeks.</p> - -<p>Wonderingly, they looked at one another, awed by what they read upon -each other's faces.</p> - -<p>"I forgot," MacMartree said softly. 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