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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: Welcome to Paradise - -Author: Allyn Donnelson - -Release Date: September 27, 2021 [eBook #66397] - -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 WELCOME TO PARADISE *** - - - - - WELCOME TO PARADISE - - By Allyn Donnelson - - A civilian like me has no business getting - mixed up in top secret government projects. But - this one I got into--and you should be as lucky! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - September 1954 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -President of the United States - -The White House - -Washington, D.C. - -Dear Mr. President: - -I don't know who else to appeal to about the fix I'm in, because I'm -afraid I would be revealing top secret material to someone who isn't -entitled to hear it. That's why I wouldn't tell the FBI anything and -that's why I told them I don't want a lawyer. - -I know you've got lots on your mind, Mr. President, and I hope hearing -about my blunder doesn't throw you off your game this weekend or -anything like that, but I sure would appreciate it if you could find -time to help me out. - -You see, I'm not a spy, and I sure didn't stumble into this stuff of my -own accord, but how was I to know I was setting off a spark that had -something to do with space travel? After all, when you stop to think -about it, I only did what the foreman told me to, but he didn't know -any better either, so I wouldn't want to get him in Dutch. - -You see, I work at the Diversified Metal Products Co. up here in -Chicago. I'm a spot welder and one job I had to do about every six -weeks was make six welds on a geedunk we called a "manhole cover." We -didn't know what they were, except that they were something special for -the Signal Corps, and they looked about as much like manhole covers as -anything else. - -Well, the way the work is supposed to be scheduled, my welding job is -the first thing after it comes off the presses, just before the little -coils are put in. So the foreman comes over to me one night--it was -October 10, the last day of the World Series--and shows me one of the -covers after it's been wired up. One of the welds has come loose--maybe -because the material was dirty or something like that--and it looks -like the whole thing will have to be scrapped. - -So he says to me "Tuck" (my name is Joe Peters, but they call me Tuck -for Kentucky where I come from)--he says, "Tuck, do you suppose you -can save this piece by welding it again, right there between those two -coils?" - -I look the geedunk over, and there isn't much room to play around, but -I decide it's not near enough the coils to melt the wires. So if I -spoil it, so what? It'd be scrap anyhow. How was I to know the points -of the welder would establish an electrical contact? - -So I take the piece and tell him I'll try it after I finish the -truckload of stuff I'm working on. But along about coffee time, I go -and burn my hand kind of bad on the welder, and have to get the nurse -to bandage it up for me, and that slows me up a good bit. - -Everybody else in the department had left for washup by the time I put -the gismo in the machine. I kicked the pedal just like I always do, and -whoosh! I was out like a rookie the first time he faces Allie Reynolds. -Seems like I saw a flash of bluish-greenish light, but I don't know for -sure. - - * * * * * - -Next thing I knew, a squatty guy with broad shoulders and bushy -eyebrows was standing over me. He said, "Well, did the Yankees win the -Series?" and his accent sounded like he should be following the Dodgers -instead. - -I looked around. It was kinda dark, like just after the sun goes down. -I was sitting on a big strip of limestone, and I could see a few trees -and some small hills, and lots more of those limestone rocks, or -cliffs. It wasn't like any part of the country I've ever seen before. - -The guy starts giving me the once over, too. "What monkey in that zoo -they call the Pentagon picked _you_ for a job like this? I knew the -Defense Department was hard up, but I didn't think they were _that_ -hard up!" - -Then I notice this geezer has a uniform sporting top sergeant's -stripes. I jump up and back away from him. - -"Look," I says, "I don't know what happened, but I know I didn't -volunteer for no army job, and I'm too old to be drafted again. I must -have had amnesia. I wanna lawyer. Lemmee out of here--you're not giving -me that army routine again--no siree." - -(Mr. President, please don't misunderstand me. I'm as patriotic as the -next guy, and I assure you I won't shirk no duty if I'm needed, but I -don't have to _like_ it, do I?) - -The guy's dumbfounded. He doesn't give me a strong-arm deal like I'd -expect from a top-sarge--he just looks as if he can't figure it out. -Then he grabs me by the shoulder. - -"Wait a minute, Mac, let's sit down and talk this over. Who the hell -are you? Where did you come from? Who sent you?" - -I'm about to say "Groucho sent me," but I decide maybe I'd better be -serious. I tell him my name, and that I ain't got the faintest idea -where I am. - -"Okay, Tuck," he says. "They call me Yogi. Now let's take it from the -beginning, slow and easy, huh?" - -So I tell him what happened in the plant, and before I get done Yogi is -laughing like crazy, in fact he sits down on the rock and almost knocks -himself out. - -"Well, what in Sam Hill is so all-fired funny? Who kidnapped me while I -was knocked out and dumped me on this God-forsaken army post?" - -Yogi manages to stop laughing. He takes me across a strip of this -funny-looking, bare limestone rock, where a contraption is standing -that looks like a radio tower about ten feet high. Inside it is a -box about the size and shape of those reducing cabinets you see in -cartoons. The top to the box is open, and Yogi points to it. - -"Is this the kind of doohicky you're talking about--what you call a -manhole cover?" - -I look close, and sure enough, that's just what it is. I nod to Yogi, -and he sighs real serious like. - -"Well, Tuck, my boy, you maybe made yourself famous tonight. One thing -for sure--you're the first civilian to travel by HHF, and the first one -to set foot on Lunette." - -"And where on God's green earth is Lunette?" - -"That's what's so funny, Tuck. It's not on God's green earth at all. -Lunette is a satellite of the Earth, discovered just a few months ago. -It's a sort of little moon--that's why we named it Lunette. It's got -enough atmosphere so we don't need space suits, and it's about half-way -between Earth and the moon." - - * * * * * - -I guess I was giving him a "tell me another" look. He pointed in back -of me. "Look at the moon coming up over there, if you don't believe me. -Did you ever see anything like that on Earth?" - -That convinced me. The old moon was huge, and I could see mountains and -rivers and seas on it, and even that natural bridge I'd read about. -Besides, I could even see the curve of the ground on Lunette! - -But how in blazes did I get here? - -"This contraption," Yogi explains, "we call a Matter BARS, short for -Matter Broadcasting and Receiving Station. It works on HHF--hyper -high frequency--and instead of sending out the ordinary type of -radio wave lengths it broadcasts matter. It won't work between two -points on Earth; it has to have a distance of at least 200,000 miles -to bounce from. We bounce stuff off the moon, and broadcast people, -equipment--anything of less than 250 pounds--between Earth and Lunette." - -"Who bounces them? Who in tarnation bounced me here?" - -"You bounced yourself, friend. Your spotweld machine set up a contact -here between these two coils. Our regular operators establish contact -by moving these two balls near each other like a Leyden jar. Your -machine had the same effect, and whoosh, here you are." - -"Look, Bud, I remember a Leyden jar from high school science, but -durned if I follow the rest of that malarky." - -Yogi's getting impatient with me. "It's very simple, Peters. Suppose -you wandered into a TV studio when the circuits were open--your picture -and voice would be broadcast over that station. Well, that Matter BARS -cover was set at the right frequency for sending objects or people to -Lunette and you were broadcast here. You wouldn't have been knocked out -if you had been inside the insulating cabinet; it would have just felt -like a sneeze." - -"So what are you doing here?" This guy is selling me fast. - -"Guess I'd probably better let the CO talk to you about that. But first -tell me about the Series." - -So we bat the breeze a while about what is going on back on Earth, -and I start to wonder how am I going to get back there. Yogi tells me -to let the CO worry about that, and in the meantime offers to show me -around the joint. - -There's not much to see on Lunette--nothing but salt water lakes, -limestone cliffs, a few scrawny trees, and some weird bushes with round -things dangling from them that you'd think was grapefruit, or something -like that, until you found out they were hard as coconuts. - -All of the plant life looked like the chlorophyll people had been there -already, and had taken a big haul back to their toothpaste factories. -The grass and leaves were either a kind of chartreuse or a pale color -like weak orangeade. Finally we take off for the CO. - - * * * * * - -The Captain turned out to be a right guy, but he sure was upset about -the security angle. He couldn't help grinning, though, when Yogi said, - -"I still think it's damned funny that a civilian could stumble into a -top secret army base 100,000 miles from home!" - -"Well, Peters," the Captain said, "we can't very well send you back -tonight anyway, because both the regular station and the test station -at your plant in Chicago are closed now. Under ordinary circumstances -I'd have to lock you up, but I don't see how you can escape from us! Go -bunk with Yogi and let me think it over." - -He stopped us as we started out of the tent. "And men, keep your lips -buttoned." - -We join the fellows and talked about baseball for a couple hours. We -organized a game for the next day, and I agreed to play shortstop, -even though I'm hoping I won't be around for it. The Captain's remarks -hadn't made me feel too easy on that score. - -I ask Yogi how come all the bicycles over by the pueblo castle and he -explains that they can be broadcast, unassembled, where the parts to a -jeep or any other big vehicle would be too heavy for the Matter BARS -to handle. He says they're used by the crews assigned to surveying and -mapping Lunette, making geological and botanical surveys, and that sort -of thing. - -Yogi gets me a sleeping bag and we stretch out under the stars in front -of the limestone castle. (Man, that thing is pretty in the moonlight, -Mr. President.) Lanterns hanging in some of the caves made it sparkle -here and there like a giant hunk of jewelry. And I never breathed such -fresh, sweet air as that, anyplace. - -The next day the CO calls Yogi in for a conference that doesn't include -me, so I get in on the baseball game after all. It was a lot of fun, -too. Lunette's gravity is much less that of Earth so I made some pretty -wild throws until I got oriented. - -At chow time I latched onto Yogi. "Hey, kid, when do I get out of here? -This is a fine adventure, but after all, I got obligations back on -Earth." - -"It may not be that easy, Tuck. The Captain doesn't know what to do. HQ -is going to bust a gasket when they find out about you. After all, the -Captain is the only one who has made any trips back since we got here, -and the project is so secret that not more than 20 people on Earth have -any inkling of it." - -I began to flip my lid. "Yogi," I said, "how much does this project -cost?" - -"Plenty, Tuck, more than you'd imagine. The equipment the guys use for -their surveys is pretty high-powered stuff. Why?" - -"Because it's coming out of my pocket, that's why. And me and a lot of -my buddies who are paying the freight on these deals are getting sick -of hearing that only two or three or twenty people in the whole USA -knows about this or that secret project. Security is okay, but don't -you think we ought to know something about what our money's going for?" - -Boy, am I a genius at putting my foot in it! The lighter gravity on -Lunette must of gone to my head. Yogi gave me a real funny look, got up -from the mess table, and walked off. - - * * * * * - -I started to sweat. What the heck made me blow off like that? Now they -really would think I was a security risk, and maybe they'd decide not -to let me go back at all, at least not until they had a court-martial -or something. Naturally I have plenty of respect for military secrets; -it's just that I think voters should have a little more information and -a little more say-so about how our money is spent. It's a sore point -with me. But what a stupid time I pick to sound off about it! - -A soldier comes along and tells me the CO wants to see me. Now I know -this is it. - -But Yogi and the Captain both looked as friendly as ever. "Peters," the -CO said, "I think you can be useful to us." - -Oh, oh, here it comes. They're going to try to talk me into staying up -here. - -"I suppose you have figured out by now what the Lunette Project is all -about," the Captain went on. "You remember stories in the papers a few -years ago on the possibility of creating an artificial satellite to use -as a base for guided missiles in case of war?" - -I nodded. - -"The stories were hushed up pretty fast, and the reason was that -Lunette was discovered just about then. They stopped talking about it -just as they stopped talking about atomic research after the Manhattan -project started." - -"Listen, Captain, please," I said. "Beg pardon for interrupting, but -please don't tell me anything a civilian isn't supposed to know, -because--no offense--I don't want to get roped into the Army just -because I know too much." - -"No offense to _you_, Peters--I'm not trying to get you into the Army." -He grinned, and I felt a lot better. "Let me go on. Yogi tells me that -he explained to you something about the Matter BARS. Did you understand -it?" - -"Pretty well, sir. He should have been a teacher if he could make me -see a glimmer of light in that stuff." - -The Captain laughed and Yogi got red. - -"He was. Assistant Professor of Electronics at Columbia, before the -Signal Corps persuaded him to become a Space Cadet." - -My face was red then. - -"Well, on the military nature of our mission we have just a few more -wrinkles to iron out," the Captain went on, "but something else has -come up that we think has a lot more significance than guided missiles." - -"I told the Captain I thought you'd help us," Yogi said, "because of -what you said about secret projects a while ago." - -Now I _am_ confused. So I don't like so much secrecy, so they think I -can help their project? I don't get it. I don't get it at all. - -"Yogi will explain the science part," the Captain said. "I'm just a -publicity man myself, not a teacher. But as a publicity man, Peters, I -think we can use you. Would you be game to try a job that could be very -important?" - -I nodded, still confused but willing. - -Yogi started by explaining that Lunette came into existence about a -hundred million years ago, a figure the geologists came up with by -measuring the radioactivity of the uranium here and comparing it with -that of uranium on Earth. - -"But, in studying the radioactivity of the elements here," he said, "we -have discovered something else ... something that could change the -whole picture of things back on Earth. We found out about it, at least -a glimmer of it, almost as soon as we got up here, but we wanted to run -a whole slew of experiments before we let ourselves believe that it was -true. - -"Say, Tuck, what's that bandage on your hand for?" - - * * * * * - -I was surprised at his sudden change of subject, but I told him how I -had burned my hand on the spotweld machine the night before. - -"Does it hurt now?" - -"Heck, it ain't nothing, Yogi. Let's get on with my physics lesson." - -"Do me a favor, please. Take off the bandage." - -He was real serious, so I unwound the bandage the nurse put on. There -was just a tiny white scar where the burn had been. It looked like I -had done it at least a couple of weeks ago! - -Yogi and the Captain looked at each other and grinned like they were -real proud of something. - -"That's part of the lesson, Tuck. Our big discovery is that the -increased radioactivity of the elements here on Lunette seems to have -a miraculous healing power on any infectious or communicable disease, -and on any injury to body tissues. Maybe you remember reading a little -about the strange effect that the Bikini tests had on some of the -animals used experimentally." - -I nodded. - -Yogi continued. "We don't know yet just how this radioactivity works on -the body. In fact, we're not even sure it is the radioactivity alone. -There may be some added effect from the Lunette climate or water. But -we have proved, to the satisfaction of everyone here, that almost all -Earth diseases and most injuries can be cured on Lunette. - -"The mess sergeant had a trick knee when he came here. The trouble -disappeared completely when we arrived. One of the geologists had an -ulcer. Hasn't felt a pain since the second day. Another guy had some -bad powder burns from a lab experiment that disappeared over night, -just like your burn did. - -"When we first suspected what was going on, we asked the crew at Silver -Spring to send up white rats, guinea pigs, and dogs, with everything -from cancer and T.B. through rabies to polio, and the results were one -hundred per cent perfect, with complete recovery in every case inside -of a week. _And_, this is important, they stayed cured when sent back -to Earth." - -Yogi's eyes were burning like one of them gospel preachers at a -revival, and his voice was shaking. I was catching the excitement -myself. The Captain took over the story. - -"I suppose you're wondering what we want of you?" - -"I sure am. This is a big deal, isn't it?" I looked at the little scar -on my hand again, to convince myself nobody was kidding. - -"Here's our problem, and our plan, Tuck. Yogi told me what you said -about the taxpayers' right to know where their money is going, and it -ties in with what a lot of us up here have been discussing. - -"Most of our fellows are like Yogi--technicians who chose their line -of work because they thought they could help make the world a better -place to live in. Now that they have the chance to make the biggest -contribution of their whole lives, they're all hemmed in by military -rigamarole and red tape. It goes against the grain for scientists." - -"You mean the Army is keeping the place top secret, so it can't be used -for a ... well, a health resort?" - -The Captain nodded. "I'm not arguing with the military reasons for -security. Maybe they're right on that score. But in the meantime, -thousands of people are dying every day of disease, needlessly, while -the Army keeps the secret that could end those deaths. The people -will find out about it eventually, and I don't think they'll like it. -Suppose your mother were to die of cancer a few months from now, and -you were to find out later that her death was unnecessary, and that -your own government could have stopped it. What would you think? How -about it, Peters, are you with us? What do you say?" - - * * * * * - -The Captain had been talking louder and faster till he was practically -out of breath. - -"I got just one thing to say, Captain. My baby sister died of T.B. -just before her eighteenth birthday last year. You can bet your bottom -nickel I'm with you on this deal, right down the line. Just give me the -scoop. I'll go along." - -Yogi and the CO slapped me on the back. - -They explained to me, Mr. President, all about this secret -Congressional hearing to be held on the Lunette project next week, and -how I should go to Washington and get my Congressman to spring me as a -surprise witness--a civilian who had been to Lunette and knew the score. - -They knew all about what strings to pull to be sure I could get in, -and they helped me figure out what I should say. They seemed to think -that my word, you know, the guy on the street or something like that, -would carry some weight and make Congress see that the health angle on -this Lunette project is a darned sight more important than keeping the -secret of a guided missile station. Why, for Pete's sake, Mr. President -Uncle Sam owns Lunette, doesn't he? When the other side hears about -this they'll want to get in on it so bad they'll be awful anxious -to stay in our good graces. Probably turn out to be an even better -military defense than guided missiles. - -Time was important now, so just at five o'clock, when I generally -report for work, Yogi and I walked down to the Matter BARS and shook -hands. Yogi took a polaroid picture of me standing there and gave me -the print. You know, Mr. President, I kind of hated to leave. That -Lunette sure is a pretty place. - -Yogi moved the two little balls together, and sure enough, like he had -told me, I felt like I was catching a fit of sneezing. That was all, -and there I was back at Diversified, in the restricted Signal Corps -section, with the inspector staring at me. - -He looks ready to pull a gun on me, so I laugh at him, nervous as -heck inside but trying not to show it. "What's the matter, you seen a -ghost?" - -"How did you get in that cabinet, Peters?" He's really mad, and I'm -wondering if I can pull it off. - -"Well, I know you spend all your time over here by yourself, so I -thought maybe someone should break the monotony. I just crawled in -there a couple of minutes ago to surprise you." (That was true in a -way, wasn't it?) - -"Don't do that again, Peters. No harm done, I guess, but if I had moved -those two little balls together without seeing you in there I don't -know what would have happened to you!" - -Mebbe you don't, but I do, I thought to myself. I scrammed out of there -as soon as I was sure I had him sold on my story. - -And that's all there is to the story, Mr. President, except that last -week like a darned fool I had to drop that picture. It was one Yogi -took of me with his Polaroid, standing by the Matter BARS with a bunch -of Lunette coconuts (the boys call them Ikenuts, sir). - -So my foreman sees the manhole cover in the picture and thinks that -something must be funny and turns it in to our personnel manager. And -_he_ turns it over to the FBI, and I wouldn't tell em anything, and -here I am in the clink. - -So it looks like I've fouled up the boys' plans to use me as a secret -weapon, and it looks like I've fouled up my own life real good unless -you can figure out a way to help me. - -I think I will close now and leave the whole mess up to you. - - Obediently yours, - - Joe Peters. - - * * * * * - -THE WHITE HOUSE - -Washington, D. C. - -Dear Mr. Peters: - -We are happy to learn that, in accordance with instructions from this -office, you have been reinstated in your job and that the FBI and your -employer are reassured as to your loyalty. - -The President has asked me to extend his personal invitation to you to -have lunch at the White House next Friday when you are in Washington -for the hearing. - -Your story interested him so much that he investigated it personally -and thoroughly. As a result he has a special surprise in store for -Congress and the American people on Friday. All I can divulge to you at -this time is that his barber fainted this morning when he called at the -White House to give the President his weekly trim. - - Very truly yours, - - Robert Kenwood - - Special Assistant to the - - President of the United States - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WELCOME TO PARADISE *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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But<br /> -this one I got into—and you should be as lucky!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -September 1954<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>President of the United States<br /> -The White House<br /> -Washington, D.C.</p> - -<p>Dear Mr. President:</p> - -<p>I don't know who else to appeal to about the fix I'm in, because I'm -afraid I would be revealing top secret material to someone who isn't -entitled to hear it. That's why I wouldn't tell the FBI anything and -that's why I told them I don't want a lawyer.</p> - -<p>I know you've got lots on your mind, Mr. President, and I hope hearing -about my blunder doesn't throw you off your game this weekend or -anything like that, but I sure would appreciate it if you could find -time to help me out.</p> - -<p>You see, I'm not a spy, and I sure didn't stumble into this stuff of my -own accord, but how was I to know I was setting off a spark that had -something to do with space travel? After all, when you stop to think -about it, I only did what the foreman told me to, but he didn't know -any better either, so I wouldn't want to get him in Dutch.</p> - -<p>You see, I work at the Diversified Metal Products Co. up here in -Chicago. I'm a spot welder and one job I had to do about every six -weeks was make six welds on a geedunk we called a "manhole cover." We -didn't know what they were, except that they were something special for -the Signal Corps, and they looked about as much like manhole covers as -anything else.</p> - -<p>Well, the way the work is supposed to be scheduled, my welding job is -the first thing after it comes off the presses, just before the little -coils are put in. So the foreman comes over to me one night—it was -October 10, the last day of the World Series—and shows me one of the -covers after it's been wired up. One of the welds has come loose—maybe -because the material was dirty or something like that—and it looks -like the whole thing will have to be scrapped.</p> - -<p>So he says to me "Tuck" (my name is Joe Peters, but they call me Tuck -for Kentucky where I come from)—he says, "Tuck, do you suppose you -can save this piece by welding it again, right there between those two -coils?"</p> - -<p>I look the geedunk over, and there isn't much room to play around, but -I decide it's not near enough the coils to melt the wires. So if I -spoil it, so what? It'd be scrap anyhow. How was I to know the points -of the welder would establish an electrical contact?</p> - -<p>So I take the piece and tell him I'll try it after I finish the -truckload of stuff I'm working on. But along about coffee time, I go -and burn my hand kind of bad on the welder, and have to get the nurse -to bandage it up for me, and that slows me up a good bit.</p> - -<p>Everybody else in the department had left for washup by the time I put -the gismo in the machine. I kicked the pedal just like I always do, and -whoosh! I was out like a rookie the first time he faces Allie Reynolds. -Seems like I saw a flash of bluish-greenish light, but I don't know for -sure.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Next thing I knew, a squatty guy with broad shoulders and bushy -eyebrows was standing over me. He said, "Well, did the Yankees win the -Series?" and his accent sounded like he should be following the Dodgers -instead.</p> - -<p>I looked around. It was kinda dark, like just after the sun goes down. -I was sitting on a big strip of limestone, and I could see a few trees -and some small hills, and lots more of those limestone rocks, or -cliffs. It wasn't like any part of the country I've ever seen before.</p> - -<p>The guy starts giving me the once over, too. "What monkey in that zoo -they call the Pentagon picked <i>you</i> for a job like this? I knew the -Defense Department was hard up, but I didn't think they were <i>that</i> -hard up!"</p> - -<p>Then I notice this geezer has a uniform sporting top sergeant's -stripes. I jump up and back away from him.</p> - -<p>"Look," I says, "I don't know what happened, but I know I didn't -volunteer for no army job, and I'm too old to be drafted again. I must -have had amnesia. I wanna lawyer. Lemmee out of here—you're not giving -me that army routine again—no siree."</p> - -<p>(Mr. President, please don't misunderstand me. I'm as patriotic as the -next guy, and I assure you I won't shirk no duty if I'm needed, but I -don't have to <i>like</i> it, do I?)</p> - -<p>The guy's dumbfounded. He doesn't give me a strong-arm deal like I'd -expect from a top-sarge—he just looks as if he can't figure it out. -Then he grabs me by the shoulder.</p> - -<p>"Wait a minute, Mac, let's sit down and talk this over. Who the hell -are you? Where did you come from? Who sent you?"</p> - -<p>I'm about to say "Groucho sent me," but I decide maybe I'd better be -serious. I tell him my name, and that I ain't got the faintest idea -where I am.</p> - -<p>"Okay, Tuck," he says. "They call me Yogi. Now let's take it from the -beginning, slow and easy, huh?"</p> - -<p>So I tell him what happened in the plant, and before I get done Yogi is -laughing like crazy, in fact he sits down on the rock and almost knocks -himself out.</p> - -<p>"Well, what in Sam Hill is so all-fired funny? Who kidnapped me while I -was knocked out and dumped me on this God-forsaken army post?"</p> - -<p>Yogi manages to stop laughing. He takes me across a strip of this -funny-looking, bare limestone rock, where a contraption is standing -that looks like a radio tower about ten feet high. Inside it is a -box about the size and shape of those reducing cabinets you see in -cartoons. The top to the box is open, and Yogi points to it.</p> - -<p>"Is this the kind of doohicky you're talking about—what you call a -manhole cover?"</p> - -<p>I look close, and sure enough, that's just what it is. I nod to Yogi, -and he sighs real serious like.</p> - -<p>"Well, Tuck, my boy, you maybe made yourself famous tonight. One thing -for sure—you're the first civilian to travel by HHF, and the first one -to set foot on Lunette."</p> - -<p>"And where on God's green earth is Lunette?"</p> - -<p>"That's what's so funny, Tuck. It's not on God's green earth at all. -Lunette is a satellite of the Earth, discovered just a few months ago. -It's a sort of little moon—that's why we named it Lunette. It's got -enough atmosphere so we don't need space suits, and it's about half-way -between Earth and the moon."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I guess I was giving him a "tell me another" look. He pointed in back -of me. "Look at the moon coming up over there, if you don't believe me. -Did you ever see anything like that on Earth?"</p> - -<p>That convinced me. The old moon was huge, and I could see mountains and -rivers and seas on it, and even that natural bridge I'd read about. -Besides, I could even see the curve of the ground on Lunette!</p> - -<p>But how in blazes did I get here?</p> - -<p>"This contraption," Yogi explains, "we call a Matter BARS, short for -Matter Broadcasting and Receiving Station. It works on HHF—hyper -high frequency—and instead of sending out the ordinary type of -radio wave lengths it broadcasts matter. It won't work between two -points on Earth; it has to have a distance of at least 200,000 miles -to bounce from. We bounce stuff off the moon, and broadcast people, -equipment—anything of less than 250 pounds—between Earth and Lunette."</p> - -<p>"Who bounces them? Who in tarnation bounced me here?"</p> - -<p>"You bounced yourself, friend. Your spotweld machine set up a contact -here between these two coils. Our regular operators establish contact -by moving these two balls near each other like a Leyden jar. Your -machine had the same effect, and whoosh, here you are."</p> - -<p>"Look, Bud, I remember a Leyden jar from high school science, but -durned if I follow the rest of that malarky."</p> - -<p>Yogi's getting impatient with me. "It's very simple, Peters. Suppose -you wandered into a TV studio when the circuits were open—your picture -and voice would be broadcast over that station. Well, that Matter BARS -cover was set at the right frequency for sending objects or people to -Lunette and you were broadcast here. You wouldn't have been knocked out -if you had been inside the insulating cabinet; it would have just felt -like a sneeze."</p> - -<p>"So what are you doing here?" This guy is selling me fast.</p> - -<p>"Guess I'd probably better let the CO talk to you about that. But first -tell me about the Series."</p> - -<p>So we bat the breeze a while about what is going on back on Earth, -and I start to wonder how am I going to get back there. Yogi tells me -to let the CO worry about that, and in the meantime offers to show me -around the joint.</p> - -<p>There's not much to see on Lunette—nothing but salt water lakes, -limestone cliffs, a few scrawny trees, and some weird bushes with round -things dangling from them that you'd think was grapefruit, or something -like that, until you found out they were hard as coconuts.</p> - -<p>All of the plant life looked like the chlorophyll people had been there -already, and had taken a big haul back to their toothpaste factories. -The grass and leaves were either a kind of chartreuse or a pale color -like weak orangeade. Finally we take off for the CO.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Captain turned out to be a right guy, but he sure was upset about -the security angle. He couldn't help grinning, though, when Yogi said,</p> - -<p>"I still think it's damned funny that a civilian could stumble into a -top secret army base 100,000 miles from home!"</p> - -<p>"Well, Peters," the Captain said, "we can't very well send you back -tonight anyway, because both the regular station and the test station -at your plant in Chicago are closed now. Under ordinary circumstances -I'd have to lock you up, but I don't see how you can escape from us! Go -bunk with Yogi and let me think it over."</p> - -<p>He stopped us as we started out of the tent. "And men, keep your lips -buttoned."</p> - -<p>We join the fellows and talked about baseball for a couple hours. We -organized a game for the next day, and I agreed to play shortstop, -even though I'm hoping I won't be around for it. The Captain's remarks -hadn't made me feel too easy on that score.</p> - -<p>I ask Yogi how come all the bicycles over by the pueblo castle and he -explains that they can be broadcast, unassembled, where the parts to a -jeep or any other big vehicle would be too heavy for the Matter BARS -to handle. He says they're used by the crews assigned to surveying and -mapping Lunette, making geological and botanical surveys, and that sort -of thing.</p> - -<p>Yogi gets me a sleeping bag and we stretch out under the stars in front -of the limestone castle. (Man, that thing is pretty in the moonlight, -Mr. President.) Lanterns hanging in some of the caves made it sparkle -here and there like a giant hunk of jewelry. And I never breathed such -fresh, sweet air as that, anyplace.</p> - -<p>The next day the CO calls Yogi in for a conference that doesn't include -me, so I get in on the baseball game after all. It was a lot of fun, -too. Lunette's gravity is much less that of Earth so I made some pretty -wild throws until I got oriented.</p> - -<p>At chow time I latched onto Yogi. "Hey, kid, when do I get out of here? -This is a fine adventure, but after all, I got obligations back on -Earth."</p> - -<p>"It may not be that easy, Tuck. The Captain doesn't know what to do. HQ -is going to bust a gasket when they find out about you. After all, the -Captain is the only one who has made any trips back since we got here, -and the project is so secret that not more than 20 people on Earth have -any inkling of it."</p> - -<p>I began to flip my lid. "Yogi," I said, "how much does this project -cost?"</p> - -<p>"Plenty, Tuck, more than you'd imagine. The equipment the guys use for -their surveys is pretty high-powered stuff. Why?"</p> - -<p>"Because it's coming out of my pocket, that's why. And me and a lot of -my buddies who are paying the freight on these deals are getting sick -of hearing that only two or three or twenty people in the whole USA -knows about this or that secret project. Security is okay, but don't -you think we ought to know something about what our money's going for?"</p> - -<p>Boy, am I a genius at putting my foot in it! The lighter gravity on -Lunette must of gone to my head. Yogi gave me a real funny look, got up -from the mess table, and walked off.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I started to sweat. What the heck made me blow off like that? Now they -really would think I was a security risk, and maybe they'd decide not -to let me go back at all, at least not until they had a court-martial -or something. Naturally I have plenty of respect for military secrets; -it's just that I think voters should have a little more information and -a little more say-so about how our money is spent. It's a sore point -with me. But what a stupid time I pick to sound off about it!</p> - -<p>A soldier comes along and tells me the CO wants to see me. Now I know -this is it.</p> - -<p>But Yogi and the Captain both looked as friendly as ever. "Peters," the -CO said, "I think you can be useful to us."</p> - -<p>Oh, oh, here it comes. They're going to try to talk me into staying up -here.</p> - -<p>"I suppose you have figured out by now what the Lunette Project is all -about," the Captain went on. "You remember stories in the papers a few -years ago on the possibility of creating an artificial satellite to use -as a base for guided missiles in case of war?"</p> - -<p>I nodded.</p> - -<p>"The stories were hushed up pretty fast, and the reason was that -Lunette was discovered just about then. They stopped talking about it -just as they stopped talking about atomic research after the Manhattan -project started."</p> - -<p>"Listen, Captain, please," I said. "Beg pardon for interrupting, but -please don't tell me anything a civilian isn't supposed to know, -because—no offense—I don't want to get roped into the Army just -because I know too much."</p> - -<p>"No offense to <i>you</i>, Peters—I'm not trying to get you into the Army." -He grinned, and I felt a lot better. "Let me go on. Yogi tells me that -he explained to you something about the Matter BARS. Did you understand -it?"</p> - -<p>"Pretty well, sir. He should have been a teacher if he could make me -see a glimmer of light in that stuff."</p> - -<p>The Captain laughed and Yogi got red.</p> - -<p>"He was. Assistant Professor of Electronics at Columbia, before the -Signal Corps persuaded him to become a Space Cadet."</p> - -<p>My face was red then.</p> - -<p>"Well, on the military nature of our mission we have just a few more -wrinkles to iron out," the Captain went on, "but something else has -come up that we think has a lot more significance than guided missiles."</p> - -<p>"I told the Captain I thought you'd help us," Yogi said, "because of -what you said about secret projects a while ago."</p> - -<p>Now I <i>am</i> confused. So I don't like so much secrecy, so they think I -can help their project? I don't get it. I don't get it at all.</p> - -<p>"Yogi will explain the science part," the Captain said. "I'm just a -publicity man myself, not a teacher. But as a publicity man, Peters, I -think we can use you. Would you be game to try a job that could be very -important?"</p> - -<p>I nodded, still confused but willing.</p> - -<p>Yogi started by explaining that Lunette came into existence about a -hundred million years ago, a figure the geologists came up with by -measuring the radioactivity of the uranium here and comparing it with -that of uranium on Earth.</p> - -<p>"But, in studying the radioactivity of the elements here," he said, "we -have discovered something else ... something that could change the -whole picture of things back on Earth. We found out about it, at least -a glimmer of it, almost as soon as we got up here, but we wanted to run -a whole slew of experiments before we let ourselves believe that it was -true.</p> - -<p>"Say, Tuck, what's that bandage on your hand for?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I was surprised at his sudden change of subject, but I told him how I -had burned my hand on the spotweld machine the night before.</p> - -<p>"Does it hurt now?"</p> - -<p>"Heck, it ain't nothing, Yogi. Let's get on with my physics lesson."</p> - -<p>"Do me a favor, please. Take off the bandage."</p> - -<p>He was real serious, so I unwound the bandage the nurse put on. There -was just a tiny white scar where the burn had been. It looked like I -had done it at least a couple of weeks ago!</p> - -<p>Yogi and the Captain looked at each other and grinned like they were -real proud of something.</p> - -<p>"That's part of the lesson, Tuck. Our big discovery is that the -increased radioactivity of the elements here on Lunette seems to have -a miraculous healing power on any infectious or communicable disease, -and on any injury to body tissues. Maybe you remember reading a little -about the strange effect that the Bikini tests had on some of the -animals used experimentally."</p> - -<p>I nodded.</p> - -<p>Yogi continued. "We don't know yet just how this radioactivity works on -the body. In fact, we're not even sure it is the radioactivity alone. -There may be some added effect from the Lunette climate or water. But -we have proved, to the satisfaction of everyone here, that almost all -Earth diseases and most injuries can be cured on Lunette.</p> - -<p>"The mess sergeant had a trick knee when he came here. The trouble -disappeared completely when we arrived. One of the geologists had an -ulcer. Hasn't felt a pain since the second day. Another guy had some -bad powder burns from a lab experiment that disappeared over night, -just like your burn did.</p> - -<p>"When we first suspected what was going on, we asked the crew at Silver -Spring to send up white rats, guinea pigs, and dogs, with everything -from cancer and T.B. through rabies to polio, and the results were one -hundred per cent perfect, with complete recovery in every case inside -of a week. <i>And</i>, this is important, they stayed cured when sent back -to Earth."</p> - -<p>Yogi's eyes were burning like one of them gospel preachers at a -revival, and his voice was shaking. I was catching the excitement -myself. The Captain took over the story.</p> - -<p>"I suppose you're wondering what we want of you?"</p> - -<p>"I sure am. This is a big deal, isn't it?" I looked at the little scar -on my hand again, to convince myself nobody was kidding.</p> - -<p>"Here's our problem, and our plan, Tuck. Yogi told me what you said -about the taxpayers' right to know where their money is going, and it -ties in with what a lot of us up here have been discussing.</p> - -<p>"Most of our fellows are like Yogi—technicians who chose their line -of work because they thought they could help make the world a better -place to live in. Now that they have the chance to make the biggest -contribution of their whole lives, they're all hemmed in by military -rigamarole and red tape. It goes against the grain for scientists."</p> - -<p>"You mean the Army is keeping the place top secret, so it can't be used -for a ... well, a health resort?"</p> - -<p>The Captain nodded. "I'm not arguing with the military reasons for -security. Maybe they're right on that score. But in the meantime, -thousands of people are dying every day of disease, needlessly, while -the Army keeps the secret that could end those deaths. The people -will find out about it eventually, and I don't think they'll like it. -Suppose your mother were to die of cancer a few months from now, and -you were to find out later that her death was unnecessary, and that -your own government could have stopped it. What would you think? How -about it, Peters, are you with us? What do you say?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Captain had been talking louder and faster till he was practically -out of breath.</p> - -<p>"I got just one thing to say, Captain. My baby sister died of T.B. -just before her eighteenth birthday last year. You can bet your bottom -nickel I'm with you on this deal, right down the line. Just give me the -scoop. I'll go along."</p> - -<p>Yogi and the CO slapped me on the back.</p> - -<p>They explained to me, Mr. President, all about this secret -Congressional hearing to be held on the Lunette project next week, and -how I should go to Washington and get my Congressman to spring me as a -surprise witness—a civilian who had been to Lunette and knew the score.</p> - -<p>They knew all about what strings to pull to be sure I could get in, -and they helped me figure out what I should say. They seemed to think -that my word, you know, the guy on the street or something like that, -would carry some weight and make Congress see that the health angle on -this Lunette project is a darned sight more important than keeping the -secret of a guided missile station. Why, for Pete's sake, Mr. President -Uncle Sam owns Lunette, doesn't he? When the other side hears about -this they'll want to get in on it so bad they'll be awful anxious -to stay in our good graces. Probably turn out to be an even better -military defense than guided missiles.</p> - -<p>Time was important now, so just at five o'clock, when I generally -report for work, Yogi and I walked down to the Matter BARS and shook -hands. Yogi took a polaroid picture of me standing there and gave me -the print. You know, Mr. President, I kind of hated to leave. That -Lunette sure is a pretty place.</p> - -<p>Yogi moved the two little balls together, and sure enough, like he had -told me, I felt like I was catching a fit of sneezing. That was all, -and there I was back at Diversified, in the restricted Signal Corps -section, with the inspector staring at me.</p> - -<p>He looks ready to pull a gun on me, so I laugh at him, nervous as -heck inside but trying not to show it. "What's the matter, you seen a -ghost?"</p> - -<p>"How did you get in that cabinet, Peters?" He's really mad, and I'm -wondering if I can pull it off.</p> - -<p>"Well, I know you spend all your time over here by yourself, so I -thought maybe someone should break the monotony. I just crawled in -there a couple of minutes ago to surprise you." (That was true in a -way, wasn't it?)</p> - -<p>"Don't do that again, Peters. No harm done, I guess, but if I had moved -those two little balls together without seeing you in there I don't -know what would have happened to you!"</p> - -<p>Mebbe you don't, but I do, I thought to myself. I scrammed out of there -as soon as I was sure I had him sold on my story.</p> - -<p>And that's all there is to the story, Mr. President, except that last -week like a darned fool I had to drop that picture. It was one Yogi -took of me with his Polaroid, standing by the Matter BARS with a bunch -of Lunette coconuts (the boys call them Ikenuts, sir).</p> - -<p>So my foreman sees the manhole cover in the picture and thinks that -something must be funny and turns it in to our personnel manager. And -<i>he</i> turns it over to the FBI, and I wouldn't tell em anything, and -here I am in the clink.</p> - -<p>So it looks like I've fouled up the boys' plans to use me as a secret -weapon, and it looks like I've fouled up my own life real good unless -you can figure out a way to help me.</p> - -<p>I think I will close now and leave the whole mess up to you.</p> - -<p class="ph1">Obediently yours,<br /> -Joe Peters.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>THE WHITE HOUSE<br /> -Washington, D. 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