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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: Dalrymple's Equation - -Author: Paul W. Fairman - -Illustrator: W. E. Terry - -Release Date: November 19, 2021 [eBook #66756] - -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 DALRYMPLE'S EQUATION *** - - - - - - You meet a lot of screwy people when you - do police work. Like the guy who popped up in - a murder job. Offered to solve the case with-- - - Dalrymple's Equation - - By Paul W. Fairman - - Illustrated by W. E. Terry - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - June 1956 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It's the not knowing that gets you. The wondering. Thinking sometimes -one way and sometimes the other. But never knowing for sure. Being -suckered is bad enough but _wondering_ whether you've been suckered is -rougher. Or whether you've let the biggest thing since fingerprints -slide right by you. - -Someday the case may be solved. Then we'll know for sure--one way or -the other--Donovan and I. What case? Wait 'til I tell you. It won't -take long. - -The thing started with as crazy a murder as two Homicide cops ever -got called in on. In a bar on Tenth Avenue near Grand--you probably -know the place and you probably read about the case. It was in all the -papers. But the whole story never saw print. - -We were rung into it by a call from the squad car boys who got there -first. We walked in and a cop I didn't know pointed a thumb at a young -guy lying with his head on the bar and said, "Deader than a lamp post -for my money." - -A young lad--around twenty-three or four--lying there as though he'd -had one too many and was sleeping it off. He _had_ downed one too many. -And he would spend all eternity sleeping it off. - -He was all through. - -The barkeep stood there with his apron hanging out and a baffled look -on his face. A look that had all the earmarks of being genuine. I said, -"Kennedy--Homicide. What happened?" - -The barkeep shrugged and licked his dry lips. "I dunno. He just keeled -over. I got scared and called the cops." - -The kid certainly looked like a morgue job, as I said, but we -don't take things like that for granted. The squad car boys had -called General Hospital and now a couple of internes came in with a -respirator. They didn't use it, though. One of them put his nose close -down to the kid's mouth and then looked at the barkeep. "You served him -a drink?" - -The barkeep nodded. "That's what he came in for." - -"Let's see the bottle." - -The barkeep gave that a little thought and then took a bottle off the -rack and pushed it over the bar. The interne sniffed it, made a face -and said, "There's enough arsenic in there to depopulate New Jersey." - -"Arsenic!" the barkeep croaked. "You're crazy! We don't serve nobody no -arsenic here!" - -The interne looked at Donovan and me and said, "Call your meat wagon, -lads. This one is beyond us." - -He had identification--an Arthur Davis, with nothing at all sinister -in his wallet. The lab men came and there was a lot of activity for -an hour or so and then we padlocked the joint and took the barkeep -downtown with us. His on-the-spot story was simple. Davis had come in -and ordered a drink. The barkeep served it up. Davis knocked it off. -The drink, in turn, knocked Davis off. - -The barkeep's name was Timothy Garver. He was a middle-aged cork puller -who had been in the business most of his life. We ran him through R and -I and found him clean. Then we sat him down in the interrogation room -and started digging into him. - -"What did you have against Davis?" - -Garver looked like a flabby-jowled ghost. His hands shook. "Nothing. So -help me. I never seen the guy before." - -"You think we'll swallow that?" Donovan asked. "You think you're -playing with school kids? Telling us you poison a guy you never saw -before?" - -I said, "Maybe he did it for laughs." - -"I didn't poison him!" Garver pleaded. "You got to believe me!" - -"You mean there wasn't any poison in that bottle?" - -"Sure there was--if you say so. What I mean is I didn't put it there. I -didn't know it was there. I--" - -"What you mean is you'd planned to get the guy out into the alley after -he was dead and you lost your nerve after he keeled over." - -"No--no! Nothing like that." - -"You had that bottle spiked, waiting for Davis to come in." - -"No--no! It was just an ordinary bar bottle." - -"What do you mean by that?" - -"Every tavern has a brand of whisky they push--their bar whisky. When a -customer isn't particular about his brand we give him the bar liquor." - -It seemed to me the guy was gaining courage. He wasn't quite as nervous -as he'd been. "You served other people out of that same bottle?" I -asked. - -He licked his lips and dropped his eyes before he answered. "Sure I -did." - -"But that was before you put the arsenic in it." - -"I didn't put any poison in that bottle. And you guys can't pin this on -me!" - -"What makes you think we can't?" - -"Because I never knew the fellow and you can't prove I did. So how are -you going to make anybody believe I killed somebody I didn't know and -had nothing against. You think I'm nuts or something?" - -"It's a possibility," I said. - - * * * * * - -Donovan narrowed his eyes at Garver and said, "You're holding -something back. Come on! Out with it." - -Again that guilty look as Garver shook his head. But you can't send a -guilty look to the chair and it seemed Garver had us stymied. At least -for a while. We jugged him on suspicion but we knew unless we got -something else to strengthen the case we wouldn't get an indictment -against him. There just wasn't enough. - -Donovan and I chewed it over with the Captain and he couldn't give us -any help except the advice to keep plugging. We told him we'd try to -come up with something and went on back to the tavern. - -The owner had been there and gone and we still had a patrolman -stationed in front. Donovan unlocked the door and released the -patrolman for his regular beat and we went inside. - -It was very quiet. Naturally. Nothing is quieter in this world than an -empty bar. I said, "Well, where do we start?" - -Donovan shrugged. "You got me. And you know damn well nothing's going -to happen on this case until it breaks from the outside." - -"That's right." What he meant was a new angle coming from a stoolie. -Or something opening up while we investigated Davis' background or -Garver's. - -But something new was added right there in the tavern. Very suddenly. A -guy popped up from behind the bar and said, "Hello." - -We whirled around and looked at him and Donovan snorted, "Who the hell -are you?" - -"My name is Tennyson Dalrymple." - -"What kind of a label is that?" - -The man came around from behind the bar. "I liked it--I took it. If it -annoys you I'm sorry." But you could tell by the sneer on his face that -he wasn't sorry at all. - -He was a medium-sized unattractive figure of a man and yet you couldn't -put your finger on just where the unattractiveness came from. He wasn't -good looking but neither was he repulsive. He didn't have a superman's -frame but neither was he a cripple nor a malformed freak. There was -just something about him you took an instant dislike to and the dislike -stayed with you. - -And Dalrymple seemed to enjoy increasing the antagonism. He wore a -habitual sneer and his voice had a cutting quality to it. - -I said, "What the hell are you doing in here?" - -"Going about my business." - -"Entrance is prohibited. There was a policeman in front. The door was -locked." - -"There's a back door." - -"That was locked too." - -"Locks are silly things. Any fool should be able to handle such feeble -devices." - -Donovan was snarling. "Look, brother. You're talking yourself right -into trouble. Now tell us what you're doing here and tell it quick." - -"Reading the gas meter." - -"Why?" - -"Why would anyone read a gas meter? I work for the gas company. This -place is on my route." - -"I think you're lying." - -"It will be easy enough to find out." - -"We'll find out at headquarters." - -"You're taking me in?" - -"What do you think?" - -Dalrymple certainly wasn't afraid of cops. He shook his head in disgust -and said, "This is certainly a stupid world you live in. A world of -idiots. Really it is." - -Normally I'm pretty easy going but this punk with his talent for -rubbing people the wrong way, just plain got me. "If you're so damn -smart why are you reading meters for the gas company?" - -He grinned, and his grin said he was happy at getting a rise out of me. -"I just arrived recently. The job will do until I get around to what -I'm planning." - - * * * * * - -Donovan vented his hostility by hauling the guy out to the car. -Dalrymple made no resistance but Donovan managed to get mildly rough -regardless. This also seemed to make the little intruder happy. As -though he took the roughness as a sign he'd got under Donovan's skin -too. Which he had. - -He threw a few insults at us while we rode to headquarters but we held -in, knowing if we gave ourselves an inch we'd take a mile and slug him -and have it over with. - -In the interrogation room we went at him with all the fixings. A strong -light in his eyes--cigarette smoke in his face. - -Donovan, with a snarl on his puss said, "All right, buster. Let's cut -out the jokes. What were you doing in that tavern?" - -"Reading the gas meter." - -"I said cut out the jokes." - -"You've got my identification. What makes you think I had any other -reason for going there?" - -"I'll ask the questions. Maybe you don't realize what a spot you're in." - -"This is idiotic. This whole procedure emanates from your personal -dislike of me. All you have to do is call the company." - -"What do you know about the Davis killing?" - -"Only what I heard in the neighborhood. Intriguing little equation, -isn't it?" - -I think we'd realized from the beginning that we had nothing on -Dalrymple and that we wouldn't be able to involve him. He'd hit it on -the nose when he said our motivation was personal dislike. Finally I -went out and called the gas company, realizing we'd delayed doing this -because we knew it would lose Dalrymple for us. - -When I went back and told Donovan, he still hated to let go. "You -know," he told the sneering little meter-reader, "we can still throw -you in the can." - -"What for?" - -"Trespassing, Breaking and entering." - -"Oh, yes. But you won't." - -"And why not?" - -"Because it would be too small a triumph and you know you would be -acting from spite. It would diminish your stature in your own eyes." - -Donovan was trying to swallow his helpless wrath when I remembered -something Dalrymple had said. "Listen, punk. Exactly where did you come -from?" - -"That's right. You made some funny cracks. You said, to quote, 'This -is certainly a stupid world you live in. A world of idiots.' You also -said, 'I've just arrived recently.' Now it occurs to me--" - -"That I might have come from a place beyond this planet you call Earth?" - -"No. That you're a crackpot--a psycho--and maybe we'd _better_ hold -you." - -He sneered at me and ticked off his replies on his fingers. "I did come -from a world far away from yours. I'm not a crackpot--not a psycho. And -you will not hold me." - -I looked at Donovan. Donovan looked at me. His voice gentled into a -tone of soft contempt. - -"Just where _do_ you come from, punk?" - -"From Arva Majoris and don't bother looking it up. It's a planet in a -galaxy beyond the conception of your most brilliant minds. And I use -the term _brilliant_ very loosely." - -"And how did you get here?" - -"You couldn't possibly understand if I told you. Your elemental mind -simply couldn't grasp the mathematical accident that brought me here; -nor the ten-million-to-one chance of it ever happening again." - -Donovan grinned in anticipation. "And you actually think we aren't -going to turn you over to Psycho?" - -"Of course you're not." - -"And for what reason will we refrain from such?" - -"Because if you do that, you'll never get your stupid little murder -solved." - -I found myself poised and ready to pounce. "Then you _have_ been -holding out." - -"If you mean do I know who killed Davis--no. If you mean can I find -out--yes." - -"Well, well," Donovan growled. "He's a detective too." - -Dalrymple split a sneer between us. "It's nothing but a mathematical -problem. In the world I come from, students corresponding to your -first-graders are started out on far harder equations." - -"So you can just take a pencil and figure it out, eh?" - -"Certainly." - - * * * * * - -I've tried to remember since, exactly what my reaction to Dalrymple -was at that time. Hatred transcended any other emotion I may have had. -But there was something else. A feeling of almost personal discomfort -springing from the certainty that he wanted us to hate him, or at least -didn't care whether or not we did. This was a part of my reaction. And -wondering why, also. - -There was an element of vague fear, too, and of this I'm sure--a vague -senseless conviction this crackpot could do all he claimed he could. - -I remember that when this last came to my conscious mind, I rejected it -with indignation. And I knew Donovan was rejecting something too. He -turned from Dalrymple with a sneer and said, "We haven't got time to -fool with psychos. We've got a murder to solve. Kick this guy out and -let the white coats find him all over again." - -I was sneering too. I took out a pencil and threw it at him and said, -"All right, wise guy. There's one. Let's see what you can do." - -"Have you got a piece of paper?" - -Almost savagely, Donovan ripped a page off the calendar. It was blank -on the back. He threw it on the table and all the time I could see his -eyes. They were asking, _Why in the hell am I doing this?_ and trying -to cover the question by showing contempt. - -We glanced swiftly at each other and there was guilt in both our -faces; like two realists meeting outside a fortune teller's tent. Then -Dalrymple took over. - -"We have certain facts," he began. "A dead man; the person who admits -he went through the physical motions of killing him. We also have the -method of producing death--poison--and the setting of the crime." - -"I think we've had enough of this clowning," Donovan said in a husky -voice. - -Dalrymple ignored the interruption, not even bothering to sneer at -Donovan. "As every school child on my planet knows, each of these -facts must be given a symbol and must become a part of our exploratory -equation." - -I was a little rusty on such things but it sounded to me about the -same way school children on our planet went about solving problems in -algebra. I didn't say anything though. - -Dalrymple had the pencil racing over the paper, laying out a series of -weird symbols the like of which I had never seen. They were neither -numbers nor letters; nor the kind of geometric or algebra symbols used -on earth either. Of that I was sure. - -The closest I can come is to compare them to Egyptian hieroglyphics and -yet that's far from the mark. But whatever they were, Dalrymple seemed -to know exactly what he was doing. - -After a few minutes, he leaned back and said, "There--the exploratory -equation is complete. Now we search it for flaws." - -Donovan and I had got interested to the point that hostilities were -temporarily suspended. Donovan asked, "Search what for which flaws." - -"You haven't the mental scope to understand even the basics of what -I'm doing, but maybe you can understand this: There is no such thing -as chance in a civilization or a culture which is properly based upon -mathematics. In such a civilization lies and evasions are unheard of -because all action and motivation past, present, or future, can be -evaluated and revealed in complete exactitude." - - * * * * * - -We were trying to follow along. I said, "We've got things like that. -Robot brains, we call them. They figure out impossible problems." - -And it came to me at that moment how we were taking for granted, -through our conversation, our statements, and even our thinking, that -this Dalrymple was exactly what he'd said he was--a man from another -world. - -He said, "I know what you refer to, but they are so childishly -conceived as to be almost useless." The old sneer again. - -Donovan growled. "You talk a lot but you haven't proved a damn thing." - -"On the contrary. The flaws in this equation stand out by themselves. -For instance, our _zong_ is implicated but must obviously be -supplemented in order to balance the _terz_ shading of the exploratory -equation." - -"Are you kidding?" Donovan rasped. - -"I'll forego technical terms and translate into realities you can -grasp. It amounts to this: The bartender poured the actual poison into -the glass, but all unknowing. However, as a dominant factor of the -equation he must be further developed along the lines of secondary -motivation. In other words, a completely unrelated motivation on his -part cleared the way for the crime." - -Dalrymple's fingers were flying. More of the weird symbols were -appearing. "The motivation for the weight he bears in the case is made -up of two characteristics--habit and greed." - -"And where does that get us?" I asked. - -"It reveals the fact that the bartender poured the poison into the -bottle. But without knowledge that it was poison nor with malicious -intent." - -"That's impossible!" I said. - -"Not at all. The whole sequence becomes clear when we strive to -complete our equational balance in the first phase. The bartender -poured an unconsumed drink back into the bottle after whoever ordered -it walked out without drinking it." - -Of course! The logic of it hit Donovan and me at the same moment. -Donovan said, "How in the hell did you ever think of that?" - -He meant it as a compliment but Dalrymple did not take it as such. "I -didn't think of it, you fool. I worked it out. Haven't you understood -anything I've told you? It's all here in the progression of the -equation. Incidentally, that factor is the pivot of the whole sequence. -Your stupid logic should carry you on from there." - -"Somebody was trying to poison somebody else!" Donovan said. - -"There had to be two men," I added. "They came in and ordered drinks. -One poured poison in the other's drink. Then they left without--" - -Dalrymple was leering at me. "How about one man and--suicide?" - -I swore at myself inwardly for giving him the opening. But he turned -back to his symbols and said, "By sheer blundering chance you hit it, -though. It was two men and attempted murder." - -Donovan wasn't having much to say. Dalrymple threw down the pencil. -"I'll be going now. I have more important things to do." - -"Can you give us the names of the two men?" I asked, and again swore at -myself for being over-eager. - -Dalrymple gave me a long, disgusted clinical look. "I can, but I won't. -It would take another hour to round out the equation and I don't feel -like doing all your work for you. If you can't take what I've given you -and tie up the case, then you'd better both resign." - -He got up and started to leave. At the door, he turned. "I live at the -Crestwood Hotel if you want to get in touch with me again." He sneered. -"Maybe you'll need help some day in tying your shoes." - -He left. Neither Donovan nor I made any attempt to stop him. After a -long minute Donovan said, "We can't let him go. He's involved in that -killing. He's got to be. How else would he know?" - -"Are you sure he's involved?" - -Donovan didn't answer. He picked up the pencil and snapped it in two -with a savage gesture. "The sneering little son-of-a--" - -"Besides, we've got no proof he was right in anything he said." - -"Let's go find out." - -We found out. It didn't take long and we got a citation. We hit Garver -with one question--"Who was in the bar just before Davis entered?" and -he collapsed right in our laps. We got all he knew and it wasn't hard -to trace down two guys named Kinder and Walpole. - -They were both drunk when they came in and Walpole had some arsenic -with him that he was going to make a bug spray with. He got sore at -Kinder for some drunken reason and poured some of the stuff into his -drink while Kinder was in the washroom. Then something pulled them back -into the street before they had their drinks. Garver heard metal grind -and thought that was probably it. Once outside, they probably forgot -what tavern they'd been in because they didn't return. - -Garver was glad to get rid of them. He hadn't seen the poison-pouring -bit and dumped the shots into the bottle. When Davis keeled over as a -result of the next shot out of the bottle, Garver was scared. He could -lose his job and his boss could have lost his license for serving -drunks and for pouring the whisky back. - -So that was the case. A tragic incident, with Walpole not even -remembering what he'd done. And with Davis dead. - - * * * * * - -We would have been better off leaving it there--charging Dalrymple -off as a crackpot who had made a lucky guess and taking the credit -for breaking the case. We _did_ take the credit, but it was hard to -believe, once he'd gone, that Dalrymple was actually for real. So one -afternoon a couple of weeks later we were passing the Crestwood Hotel. -Donovan braked the car and squinted at the building. - -"This is where he said he lived." - -I knew who Donovan meant. "Uh-huh." - -"Let's go up." - -"Why not?" - -We went in and got the room number from the clerk and went on up. We -knocked. Dalrymple opened the door. He hadn't changed a bit. There was -a sneer on his face, hostility in his voice when he said, "Ha--the -police force. What happened? Somebody steal your squad car?". - -He turned around before we could answer and went back into the room. We -followed him and stood there looking at the layout. He had a big table -in the middle of the floor and there was a huge sheet of paper on it. -The sheet was almost completely covered with the funny symbols he'd -used in solving the bar poisoning. Or had he solved it? - -Anyhow, he went back to his work as though we hadn't even come--adding -more symbols along one edge--and finally Donovan asked, "What in the -hell are you doing?" - -Dalrymple looked up as though annoyed at being disturbed. "I'm -arranging to stay on your planet. I like it here." - -"But what's all that got to do with staying?" - -"I have to have money. The way things are done here, money is vitally -necessary." - -"How are you going to get it?" - -Dalrymple looked up and his sneer brightened. "I'm going to steal it." - -Donovan and I looked at each other in a kind of double-take. Then I -said, "I don't suppose you'd care to tell us how and where you're going -to do the stealing?" - -"I won't tell you how--that would be silly. I don't mind telling you -where." He put down another symbol. - -"All right--where?" - -"I'm not quite sure yet. Chicago, or New York, or Pittsburgh, or.... -This is the master plan. I've almost finished. It involves the -principals--the method of operation. There is much more to be done of -course. Assistants will have to be approached, analyzed mathematically -as to capabilities--" - -"How much money are you thinking of stealing?" - -"I figure I'll need about five million," Dalrymple said calmly. - -Donovan and I looked at each other again and our eyes asked the -questions. What should we do about this? Haul the guy in and get -laughed at? Or did we have a right to haul him in if we wanted to? Just -call him a crackpot and let it go at that? - -Sure. It was the obvious thing to do. And the easiest. Why stick our -necks out. And at that moment I saw Dalrymple smile ever so slightly -as though he knew exactly what was going on in our minds--had made -allowances for it on his damned chart. - -Donovan shrugged. "Let's get away from this creep," he said. - -We turned and walked out. - - * * * * * - -And we never saw Dalrymple again. In fact I'd practically forgotten -about him, when a year later--the date was January 17, 1951--I came -back to the squad-room late in the afternoon and there was a paper -lying on the desk Donovan and I used. Its headline read: - - STICKUP MEN GET SEVEN MILLION IN BOSTON - -And the story went on to tell of the now famous Brinks holdup in -that city; a holdup that had not been solved to this day; a seemingly -perfect crime. - -Still nothing for me to get excited about. Not until I saw the letter -that had been lying under the paper. It was addressed to both Donovan -and me--the names and destination printed in lead pencil. There was no -return address. I tore it open. A white card fell out. On the card was -printed two words--nothing else. The words read: - ---OR BOSTON. - - * * * * * - -So that's where we sit now. Almost seven years ago that stickup -occurred. For seven years Donovan and I had waited for the law to -crack it so we could quit wondering; so we could tell ourselves that -Dalrymple was just another screwball. - -But the statute of limitations nearly ran out on the great Brinks -robbery and now we're beginning to wonder if it really was solved. -Wondering if we could have stopped it by stopping Dalrymple, the brain -behind it all. - -Wondering if he really was a man from another--oh hell! 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Terry</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November 19, 2021 [eBook #66756]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DALRYMPLE'S EQUATION ***</div> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<p>You meet a lot of screwy people when you<br /> -do police work. Like the guy who popped up in<br /> -a murder job. Offered to solve the case with—</p> - -<h1>Dalrymple's Equation</h1> - -<h2>By Paul W. Fairman</h2> - -<p class="center">Illustrated by W. E. Terry</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -June 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" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It's the not knowing that gets you. The wondering. Thinking sometimes -one way and sometimes the other. But never knowing for sure. Being -suckered is bad enough but <i>wondering</i> whether you've been suckered is -rougher. Or whether you've let the biggest thing since fingerprints -slide right by you.</p> - -<p>Someday the case may be solved. Then we'll know for sure—one way or -the other—Donovan and I. What case? Wait 'til I tell you. It won't -take long.</p> - -<p>The thing started with as crazy a murder as two Homicide cops ever -got called in on. In a bar on Tenth Avenue near Grand—you probably -know the place and you probably read about the case. It was in all the -papers. But the whole story never saw print.</p> - -<p>We were rung into it by a call from the squad car boys who got there -first. We walked in and a cop I didn't know pointed a thumb at a young -guy lying with his head on the bar and said, "Deader than a lamp post -for my money."</p> - -<p>A young lad—around twenty-three or four—lying there as though he'd -had one too many and was sleeping it off. He <i>had</i> downed one too many. -And he would spend all eternity sleeping it off.</p> - -<p>He was all through.</p> - -<p>The barkeep stood there with his apron hanging out and a baffled look -on his face. A look that had all the earmarks of being genuine. I said, -"Kennedy—Homicide. What happened?"</p> - -<p>The barkeep shrugged and licked his dry lips. "I dunno. He just keeled -over. I got scared and called the cops."</p> - -<p>The kid certainly looked like a morgue job, as I said, but we -don't take things like that for granted. The squad car boys had -called General Hospital and now a couple of internes came in with a -respirator. They didn't use it, though. One of them put his nose close -down to the kid's mouth and then looked at the barkeep. "You served him -a drink?"</p> - -<p>The barkeep nodded. "That's what he came in for."</p> - -<p>"Let's see the bottle."</p> - -<p>The barkeep gave that a little thought and then took a bottle off the -rack and pushed it over the bar. The interne sniffed it, made a face -and said, "There's enough arsenic in there to depopulate New Jersey."</p> - -<p>"Arsenic!" the barkeep croaked. "You're crazy! We don't serve nobody no -arsenic here!"</p> - -<p>The interne looked at Donovan and me and said, "Call your meat wagon, -lads. This one is beyond us."</p> - -<p>He had identification—an Arthur Davis, with nothing at all sinister -in his wallet. The lab men came and there was a lot of activity for -an hour or so and then we padlocked the joint and took the barkeep -downtown with us. His on-the-spot story was simple. Davis had come in -and ordered a drink. The barkeep served it up. Davis knocked it off. -The drink, in turn, knocked Davis off.</p> - -<p>The barkeep's name was Timothy Garver. He was a middle-aged cork puller -who had been in the business most of his life. We ran him through R and -I and found him clean. Then we sat him down in the interrogation room -and started digging into him.</p> - -<p>"What did you have against Davis?"</p> - -<p>Garver looked like a flabby-jowled ghost. His hands shook. "Nothing. So -help me. I never seen the guy before."</p> - -<p>"You think we'll swallow that?" Donovan asked. "You think you're -playing with school kids? Telling us you poison a guy you never saw -before?"</p> - -<p>I said, "Maybe he did it for laughs."</p> - -<p>"I didn't poison him!" Garver pleaded. "You got to believe me!"</p> - -<p>"You mean there wasn't any poison in that bottle?"</p> - -<p>"Sure there was—if you say so. What I mean is I didn't put it there. I -didn't know it was there. I—"</p> - -<p>"What you mean is you'd planned to get the guy out into the alley after -he was dead and you lost your nerve after he keeled over."</p> - -<p>"No—no! Nothing like that."</p> - -<p>"You had that bottle spiked, waiting for Davis to come in."</p> - -<p>"No—no! It was just an ordinary bar bottle."</p> - -<p>"What do you mean by that?"</p> - -<p>"Every tavern has a brand of whisky they push—their bar whisky. When a -customer isn't particular about his brand we give him the bar liquor."</p> - -<p>It seemed to me the guy was gaining courage. He wasn't quite as nervous -as he'd been. "You served other people out of that same bottle?" I -asked.</p> - -<p>He licked his lips and dropped his eyes before he answered. "Sure I -did."</p> - -<p>"But that was before you put the arsenic in it."</p> - -<p>"I didn't put any poison in that bottle. And you guys can't pin this on -me!"</p> - -<p>"What makes you think we can't?"</p> - -<p>"Because I never knew the fellow and you can't prove I did. So how are -you going to make anybody believe I killed somebody I didn't know and -had nothing against. You think I'm nuts or something?"</p> - -<p>"It's a possibility," I said.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Donovan narrowed his eyes at Garver and said, "You're holding -something back. Come on! Out with it."</p> - -<p>Again that guilty look as Garver shook his head. But you can't send a -guilty look to the chair and it seemed Garver had us stymied. At least -for a while. We jugged him on suspicion but we knew unless we got -something else to strengthen the case we wouldn't get an indictment -against him. There just wasn't enough.</p> - -<p>Donovan and I chewed it over with the Captain and he couldn't give us -any help except the advice to keep plugging. We told him we'd try to -come up with something and went on back to the tavern.</p> - -<p>The owner had been there and gone and we still had a patrolman -stationed in front. Donovan unlocked the door and released the -patrolman for his regular beat and we went inside.</p> - -<p>It was very quiet. Naturally. Nothing is quieter in this world than an -empty bar. I said, "Well, where do we start?"</p> - -<p>Donovan shrugged. "You got me. And you know damn well nothing's going -to happen on this case until it breaks from the outside."</p> - -<p>"That's right." What he meant was a new angle coming from a stoolie. -Or something opening up while we investigated Davis' background or -Garver's.</p> - -<p>But something new was added right there in the tavern. Very suddenly. A -guy popped up from behind the bar and said, "Hello."</p> - -<p>We whirled around and looked at him and Donovan snorted, "Who the hell -are you?"</p> - -<p>"My name is Tennyson Dalrymple."</p> - -<p>"What kind of a label is that?"</p> - -<p>The man came around from behind the bar. "I liked it—I took it. If it -annoys you I'm sorry." But you could tell by the sneer on his face that -he wasn't sorry at all.</p> - -<p>He was a medium-sized unattractive figure of a man and yet you couldn't -put your finger on just where the unattractiveness came from. He wasn't -good looking but neither was he repulsive. He didn't have a superman's -frame but neither was he a cripple nor a malformed freak. There was -just something about him you took an instant dislike to and the dislike -stayed with you.</p> - -<p>And Dalrymple seemed to enjoy increasing the antagonism. He wore a -habitual sneer and his voice had a cutting quality to it.</p> - -<p>I said, "What the hell are you doing in here?"</p> - -<p>"Going about my business."</p> - -<p>"Entrance is prohibited. There was a policeman in front. The door was -locked."</p> - -<p>"There's a back door."</p> - -<p>"That was locked too."</p> - -<p>"Locks are silly things. Any fool should be able to handle such feeble -devices."</p> - -<p>Donovan was snarling. "Look, brother. You're talking yourself right -into trouble. Now tell us what you're doing here and tell it quick."</p> - -<p>"Reading the gas meter."</p> - -<p>"Why?"</p> - -<p>"Why would anyone read a gas meter? I work for the gas company. This -place is on my route."</p> - -<p>"I think you're lying."</p> - -<p>"It will be easy enough to find out."</p> - -<p>"We'll find out at headquarters."</p> - -<p>"You're taking me in?"</p> - -<p>"What do you think?"</p> - -<p>Dalrymple certainly wasn't afraid of cops. He shook his head in disgust -and said, "This is certainly a stupid world you live in. A world of -idiots. Really it is."</p> - -<p>Normally I'm pretty easy going but this punk with his talent for -rubbing people the wrong way, just plain got me. "If you're so damn -smart why are you reading meters for the gas company?"</p> - -<p>He grinned, and his grin said he was happy at getting a rise out of me. -"I just arrived recently. The job will do until I get around to what -I'm planning."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Donovan vented his hostility by hauling the guy out to the car. -Dalrymple made no resistance but Donovan managed to get mildly rough -regardless. This also seemed to make the little intruder happy. As -though he took the roughness as a sign he'd got under Donovan's skin -too. Which he had.</p> - -<p>He threw a few insults at us while we rode to headquarters but we held -in, knowing if we gave ourselves an inch we'd take a mile and slug him -and have it over with.</p> - -<p>In the interrogation room we went at him with all the fixings. A strong -light in his eyes—cigarette smoke in his face.</p> - -<p>Donovan, with a snarl on his puss said, "All right, buster. Let's cut -out the jokes. What were you doing in that tavern?"</p> - -<p>"Reading the gas meter."</p> - -<p>"I said cut out the jokes."</p> - -<p>"You've got my identification. What makes you think I had any other -reason for going there?"</p> - -<p>"I'll ask the questions. Maybe you don't realize what a spot you're in."</p> - -<p>"This is idiotic. This whole procedure emanates from your personal -dislike of me. All you have to do is call the company."</p> - -<p>"What do you know about the Davis killing?"</p> - -<p>"Only what I heard in the neighborhood. Intriguing little equation, -isn't it?"</p> - -<p>I think we'd realized from the beginning that we had nothing on -Dalrymple and that we wouldn't be able to involve him. He'd hit it on -the nose when he said our motivation was personal dislike. Finally I -went out and called the gas company, realizing we'd delayed doing this -because we knew it would lose Dalrymple for us.</p> - -<p>When I went back and told Donovan, he still hated to let go. "You -know," he told the sneering little meter-reader, "we can still throw -you in the can."</p> - -<p>"What for?"</p> - -<p>"Trespassing, Breaking and entering."</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes. But you won't."</p> - -<p>"And why not?"</p> - -<p>"Because it would be too small a triumph and you know you would be -acting from spite. It would diminish your stature in your own eyes."</p> - -<p>Donovan was trying to swallow his helpless wrath when I remembered -something Dalrymple had said. "Listen, punk. Exactly where did you come -from?"</p> - -<p>"That's right. You made some funny cracks. You said, to quote, 'This -is certainly a stupid world you live in. A world of idiots.' You also -said, 'I've just arrived recently.' Now it occurs to me—"</p> - -<p>"That I might have come from a place beyond this planet you call Earth?"</p> - -<p>"No. That you're a crackpot—a psycho—and maybe we'd <i>better</i> hold -you."</p> - -<p>He sneered at me and ticked off his replies on his fingers. "I did come -from a world far away from yours. I'm not a crackpot—not a psycho. And -you will not hold me."</p> - -<p>I looked at Donovan. Donovan looked at me. His voice gentled into a -tone of soft contempt.</p> - -<p>"Just where <i>do</i> you come from, punk?"</p> - -<p>"From Arva Majoris and don't bother looking it up. It's a planet in a -galaxy beyond the conception of your most brilliant minds. And I use -the term <i>brilliant</i> very loosely."</p> - -<p>"And how did you get here?"</p> - -<p>"You couldn't possibly understand if I told you. Your elemental mind -simply couldn't grasp the mathematical accident that brought me here; -nor the ten-million-to-one chance of it ever happening again."</p> - -<p>Donovan grinned in anticipation. "And you actually think we aren't -going to turn you over to Psycho?"</p> - -<p>"Of course you're not."</p> - -<p>"And for what reason will we refrain from such?"</p> - -<p>"Because if you do that, you'll never get your stupid little murder -solved."</p> - -<p>I found myself poised and ready to pounce. "Then you <i>have</i> been -holding out."</p> - -<p>"If you mean do I know who killed Davis—no. If you mean can I find -out—yes."</p> - -<p>"Well, well," Donovan growled. "He's a detective too."</p> - -<p>Dalrymple split a sneer between us. "It's nothing but a mathematical -problem. In the world I come from, students corresponding to your -first-graders are started out on far harder equations."</p> - -<p>"So you can just take a pencil and figure it out, eh?"</p> - -<p>"Certainly."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I've tried to remember since, exactly what my reaction to Dalrymple -was at that time. Hatred transcended any other emotion I may have had. -But there was something else. A feeling of almost personal discomfort -springing from the certainty that he wanted us to hate him, or at least -didn't care whether or not we did. This was a part of my reaction. And -wondering why, also.</p> - -<p>There was an element of vague fear, too, and of this I'm sure—a vague -senseless conviction this crackpot could do all he claimed he could.</p> - -<p>I remember that when this last came to my conscious mind, I rejected it -with indignation. And I knew Donovan was rejecting something too. He -turned from Dalrymple with a sneer and said, "We haven't got time to -fool with psychos. We've got a murder to solve. Kick this guy out and -let the white coats find him all over again."</p> - -<p>I was sneering too. I took out a pencil and threw it at him and said, -"All right, wise guy. There's one. Let's see what you can do."</p> - -<p>"Have you got a piece of paper?"</p> - -<p>Almost savagely, Donovan ripped a page off the calendar. It was blank -on the back. He threw it on the table and all the time I could see his -eyes. They were asking, <i>Why in the hell am I doing this?</i> and trying -to cover the question by showing contempt.</p> - -<p>We glanced swiftly at each other and there was guilt in both our -faces; like two realists meeting outside a fortune teller's tent. Then -Dalrymple took over.</p> - -<p>"We have certain facts," he began. "A dead man; the person who admits -he went through the physical motions of killing him. We also have the -method of producing death—poison—and the setting of the crime."</p> - -<p>"I think we've had enough of this clowning," Donovan said in a husky -voice.</p> - -<p>Dalrymple ignored the interruption, not even bothering to sneer at -Donovan. "As every school child on my planet knows, each of these -facts must be given a symbol and must become a part of our exploratory -equation."</p> - -<p>I was a little rusty on such things but it sounded to me about the -same way school children on our planet went about solving problems in -algebra. I didn't say anything though.</p> - -<p>Dalrymple had the pencil racing over the paper, laying out a series of -weird symbols the like of which I had never seen. They were neither -numbers nor letters; nor the kind of geometric or algebra symbols used -on earth either. Of that I was sure.</p> - -<p>The closest I can come is to compare them to Egyptian hieroglyphics and -yet that's far from the mark. But whatever they were, Dalrymple seemed -to know exactly what he was doing.</p> - -<p>After a few minutes, he leaned back and said, "There—the exploratory -equation is complete. Now we search it for flaws."</p> - -<p>Donovan and I had got interested to the point that hostilities were -temporarily suspended. Donovan asked, "Search what for which flaws."</p> - -<p>"You haven't the mental scope to understand even the basics of what -I'm doing, but maybe you can understand this: There is no such thing -as chance in a civilization or a culture which is properly based upon -mathematics. In such a civilization lies and evasions are unheard of -because all action and motivation past, present, or future, can be -evaluated and revealed in complete exactitude."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We were trying to follow along. I said, "We've got things like that. -Robot brains, we call them. They figure out impossible problems."</p> - -<p>And it came to me at that moment how we were taking for granted, -through our conversation, our statements, and even our thinking, that -this Dalrymple was exactly what he'd said he was—a man from another -world.</p> - -<p>He said, "I know what you refer to, but they are so childishly -conceived as to be almost useless." The old sneer again.</p> - -<p>Donovan growled. "You talk a lot but you haven't proved a damn thing."</p> - -<p>"On the contrary. The flaws in this equation stand out by themselves. -For instance, our <i>zong</i> is implicated but must obviously be -supplemented in order to balance the <i>terz</i> shading of the exploratory -equation."</p> - -<p>"Are you kidding?" Donovan rasped.</p> - -<p>"I'll forego technical terms and translate into realities you can -grasp. It amounts to this: The bartender poured the actual poison into -the glass, but all unknowing. However, as a dominant factor of the -equation he must be further developed along the lines of secondary -motivation. In other words, a completely unrelated motivation on his -part cleared the way for the crime."</p> - -<p>Dalrymple's fingers were flying. More of the weird symbols were -appearing. "The motivation for the weight he bears in the case is made -up of two characteristics—habit and greed."</p> - -<p>"And where does that get us?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"It reveals the fact that the bartender poured the poison into the -bottle. But without knowledge that it was poison nor with malicious -intent."</p> - -<p>"That's impossible!" I said.</p> - -<p>"Not at all. The whole sequence becomes clear when we strive to -complete our equational balance in the first phase. The bartender -poured an unconsumed drink back into the bottle after whoever ordered -it walked out without drinking it."</p> - -<p>Of course! The logic of it hit Donovan and me at the same moment. -Donovan said, "How in the hell did you ever think of that?"</p> - -<p>He meant it as a compliment but Dalrymple did not take it as such. "I -didn't think of it, you fool. I worked it out. Haven't you understood -anything I've told you? It's all here in the progression of the -equation. Incidentally, that factor is the pivot of the whole sequence. -Your stupid logic should carry you on from there."</p> - -<p>"Somebody was trying to poison somebody else!" Donovan said.</p> - -<p>"There had to be two men," I added. "They came in and ordered drinks. -One poured poison in the other's drink. Then they left without—"</p> - -<p>Dalrymple was leering at me. "How about one man and—suicide?"</p> - -<p>I swore at myself inwardly for giving him the opening. But he turned -back to his symbols and said, "By sheer blundering chance you hit it, -though. It was two men and attempted murder."</p> - -<p>Donovan wasn't having much to say. Dalrymple threw down the pencil. -"I'll be going now. I have more important things to do."</p> - -<p>"Can you give us the names of the two men?" I asked, and again swore at -myself for being over-eager.</p> - -<p>Dalrymple gave me a long, disgusted clinical look. "I can, but I won't. -It would take another hour to round out the equation and I don't feel -like doing all your work for you. If you can't take what I've given you -and tie up the case, then you'd better both resign."</p> - -<p>He got up and started to leave. At the door, he turned. "I live at the -Crestwood Hotel if you want to get in touch with me again." He sneered. -"Maybe you'll need help some day in tying your shoes."</p> - -<p>He left. Neither Donovan nor I made any attempt to stop him. After a -long minute Donovan said, "We can't let him go. He's involved in that -killing. He's got to be. How else would he know?"</p> - -<p>"Are you sure he's involved?"</p> - -<p>Donovan didn't answer. He picked up the pencil and snapped it in two -with a savage gesture. "The sneering little son-of-a—"</p> - -<p>"Besides, we've got no proof he was right in anything he said."</p> - -<p>"Let's go find out."</p> - -<p>We found out. It didn't take long and we got a citation. We hit Garver -with one question—"Who was in the bar just before Davis entered?" and -he collapsed right in our laps. We got all he knew and it wasn't hard -to trace down two guys named Kinder and Walpole.</p> - -<p>They were both drunk when they came in and Walpole had some arsenic -with him that he was going to make a bug spray with. He got sore at -Kinder for some drunken reason and poured some of the stuff into his -drink while Kinder was in the washroom. Then something pulled them back -into the street before they had their drinks. Garver heard metal grind -and thought that was probably it. Once outside, they probably forgot -what tavern they'd been in because they didn't return.</p> - -<p>Garver was glad to get rid of them. He hadn't seen the poison-pouring -bit and dumped the shots into the bottle. When Davis keeled over as a -result of the next shot out of the bottle, Garver was scared. He could -lose his job and his boss could have lost his license for serving -drunks and for pouring the whisky back.</p> - -<p>So that was the case. A tragic incident, with Walpole not even -remembering what he'd done. And with Davis dead.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We would have been better off leaving it there—charging Dalrymple -off as a crackpot who had made a lucky guess and taking the credit -for breaking the case. We <i>did</i> take the credit, but it was hard to -believe, once he'd gone, that Dalrymple was actually for real. So one -afternoon a couple of weeks later we were passing the Crestwood Hotel. -Donovan braked the car and squinted at the building.</p> - -<p>"This is where he said he lived."</p> - -<p>I knew who Donovan meant. "Uh-huh."</p> - -<p>"Let's go up."</p> - -<p>"Why not?"</p> - -<p>We went in and got the room number from the clerk and went on up. We -knocked. Dalrymple opened the door. He hadn't changed a bit. There was -a sneer on his face, hostility in his voice when he said, "Ha—the -police force. What happened? Somebody steal your squad car?".</p> - -<p>He turned around before we could answer and went back into the room. We -followed him and stood there looking at the layout. He had a big table -in the middle of the floor and there was a huge sheet of paper on it. -The sheet was almost completely covered with the funny symbols he'd -used in solving the bar poisoning. Or had he solved it?</p> - -<p>Anyhow, he went back to his work as though we hadn't even come—adding -more symbols along one edge—and finally Donovan asked, "What in the -hell are you doing?"</p> - -<p>Dalrymple looked up as though annoyed at being disturbed. "I'm -arranging to stay on your planet. I like it here."</p> - -<p>"But what's all that got to do with staying?"</p> - -<p>"I have to have money. The way things are done here, money is vitally -necessary."</p> - -<p>"How are you going to get it?"</p> - -<p>Dalrymple looked up and his sneer brightened. "I'm going to steal it."</p> - -<p>Donovan and I looked at each other in a kind of double-take. Then I -said, "I don't suppose you'd care to tell us how and where you're going -to do the stealing?"</p> - -<p>"I won't tell you how—that would be silly. I don't mind telling you -where." He put down another symbol.</p> - -<p>"All right—where?"</p> - -<p>"I'm not quite sure yet. Chicago, or New York, or Pittsburgh, or.... -This is the master plan. I've almost finished. It involves the -principals—the method of operation. There is much more to be done of -course. Assistants will have to be approached, analyzed mathematically -as to capabilities—"</p> - -<p>"How much money are you thinking of stealing?"</p> - -<p>"I figure I'll need about five million," Dalrymple said calmly.</p> - -<p>Donovan and I looked at each other again and our eyes asked the -questions. What should we do about this? Haul the guy in and get -laughed at? Or did we have a right to haul him in if we wanted to? Just -call him a crackpot and let it go at that?</p> - -<p>Sure. It was the obvious thing to do. And the easiest. Why stick our -necks out. And at that moment I saw Dalrymple smile ever so slightly -as though he knew exactly what was going on in our minds—had made -allowances for it on his damned chart.</p> - -<p>Donovan shrugged. "Let's get away from this creep," he said.</p> - -<p>We turned and walked out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And we never saw Dalrymple again. In fact I'd practically forgotten -about him, when a year later—the date was January 17, 1951—I came -back to the squad-room late in the afternoon and there was a paper -lying on the desk Donovan and I used. Its headline read:</p> - -<p class="ph1">STICKUP MEN GET SEVEN MILLION IN BOSTON</p> - -<p>And the story went on to tell of the now famous Brinks holdup in -that city; a holdup that had not been solved to this day; a seemingly -perfect crime.</p> - -<p>Still nothing for me to get excited about. Not until I saw the letter -that had been lying under the paper. It was addressed to both Donovan -and me—the names and destination printed in lead pencil. There was no -return address. I tore it open. A white card fell out. On the card was -printed two words—nothing else. The words read:</p> - -<p>—OR BOSTON.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>So that's where we sit now. Almost seven years ago that stickup -occurred. For seven years Donovan and I had waited for the law to -crack it so we could quit wondering; so we could tell ourselves that -Dalrymple was just another screwball.</p> - -<p>But the statute of limitations nearly ran out on the great Brinks -robbery and now we're beginning to wonder if it really was solved. -Wondering if we could have stopped it by stopping Dalrymple, the brain -behind it all.</p> - -<p>Wondering if he really was a man from another—oh hell! 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