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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: Traumerei - -Author: Charles Beaumont - -Release Date: February 7, 2022 [eBook #67341] - -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 TRAUMEREI *** - - - - - - _Had any bad nightmares lately? - That's nothing; you'll be afraid to - dream at all after you read ..._ - - Traumerei - - By CHARLES BEAUMONT - - Illustrated by REMINGTON - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Infinity Science Fiction, February 1956. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -At the sound, Henry Ritchie's hand jerked. Most of the martini sloshed -out over his robe. He jumped up, swabbing furiously at the spots. -"Goddam it!" - -"Hank!" His wife slammed her book together. - -"Well, what do you expect? That confounded buzzer--" - -"--is a perfectly natural normal buzzer. You're just terribly upset, -dear." - -"No," Mr. Ritchie said, "I am _not_ 'just terribly upset, dear'--for -seven years I've been listening to that banshee's wail every time -somebody wants in. Well, I'm through. Either it goes--" - -"All right, all _right_," Mrs. Ritchie said. "You don't have to make a -production out of it." - -"Well?" - -"Well what?" - -Mr. Ritchie sighed ponderously, glared at his wife, set what was left -of the martini down on a table and went to the door. He slipped the -chain. - -"Be this the marster of 'arfway 'ouse?" - -Mr. Ritchie opened the door. "Max--what the devil are you doing up at -this hour?" - -A large man, well built, in his forties, walked in, smiling. "I could -ask you the same question," he said, flinging his hat and scarf in the -direction of a chair, "but I'm far too thoughtful." - -They went back into the living room. Mrs. Ritchie looked up, frowned. -"Oh, swell," she said. "Dandy. All we need now is a bridge four." - -"Ruth's just terribly upset," Mr. Ritchie said. - -"Well," the large man said, "it's nice to see unanimity in this house -for once anyway. Hi, Ruth." He walked over to the bar and found the -martini mix and drained the jar's contents into a glass. Then he -drained the glass. - -"Hey, take it easy!" - -Max Kaplan turned to face his hosts. He looked quite a bit older than -usual: the grin wasn't boyish now. "Dear folkses," he said, "when I -die, I don't want to see any full bottles around." - -"Oh, ha-ha, that's just so very deliriously funny," Mrs. Ritchie said. -She was massaging her temples. - -"I am glad to see her ladyship amused." Kaplan followed Mr. Ritchie's -gaze. "Hickory dickory dock, the mice looked at the clock...." - -"Oh, shut up." - -"Oop, sorry." The big man mixed up a new batch silently, then refilled -the three glasses. He sat down. The clock's tick, a deep sharp bass -sound, got louder and louder in the room. Kaplan rested his head on the -couch arm. "Less than an hour," he said. "Not even an hour--" - -"I knew it." Mrs. Ritchie stood up. "I knew it the minute you walked -in. We're not nervous enough, oh, no, now we've got to listen to the -great city editor and his news behind the news." - -"Very well!" Kaplan rose shakily. He was drunk; it showed now. "If I'm -not welcome here, then I shall go elsewhere to breathe my last." - -"Never mind," Mrs. Ritchie said. "Sit down. I've had a stomach full of -this wake. If you two insist on sitting up until X-hour like a couple -of ghouls, well, that's your business. I'm going to bed. And to sleep." - -"What a woman," Kaplan muttered, polishing off the martini. "Nerves of -chilled steel." - -Mrs. Ritchie looked at her husband for a moment. Then she said, "Good -night, dear," and started for the door. - -"See you in the morning," Mr. Ritchie said. "Get a good sleep." - -Then Max Kaplan giggled. "Yeah, a real good sleep." - -Mrs. Ritchie left the room. - - * * * * * - -The big man fumbled for a cigarette. He glanced at the clock. "Hank, -for Chrissake--" - -Henry Ritchie sighed and slumped in the chair. "I tried, Max." - -"Did you? Did you try--I mean with everything?" - -"With everything. Might as well face it: the boy's going to burn, right -on schedule." - -Kaplan opened his mouth. - -"Forget it. The governor isn't about to issue a commutation. With the -public's blood up the way it is, he knows what it would mean to his -vote. We were stupid even to try." - -"Lousy vultures." - -Ritchie shrugged. "They're hungry, Max. You forget, there hasn't been -an execution in this state for over two years. They're hungry." - -"So a poor dumb kid's got to fry alive in order for them to get their -kicks...." - -"Wait a second now. Don't get carried away. This same poor dumb kid is -the boy who killed George Sanderson in cold blood and then raped his -wife, not too very long ago. If I recall, your word for him then was -Brutal Murderer." - -"That was the paper. This is you and me." - -"Well, get that accusatory look off your face. Murder and rape--those -are stiff raps to beat, pal." - -"You did it with Beatty, you got him off," Kaplan reminded his friend. - -"Luck. Public mood--Beatty was an old man, feeble. Look, Max--why don't -you stop beating around the bush?" - -"Okay," Kaplan said slowly. "They--let me in this afternoon. I talked -with him again." - -Ritchie nodded. "And?" - -"Hank, I'm telling you--it gives me the creeps. I swear it does." - -"What did he tell you?" - -Kaplan puffed on his cigarette nervously, kept his eyes on the clock. -"He was lying down when I went in, curled up tight. Trying to sleep." - -"Go on." - -"When he heard me, he came to. 'Mr. Kaplan,' he says, 'you've got to -make them believe me, you've got to make them understand--' His eyes -got real big then, and--Hank, I'm scared." - -"Of what?" - -"I don't know. Just him, maybe. I'm not sure." - -"He carrying the same line?" - -"Yeah. But worse this time, more intense somehow...." - -Ritchie tried to keep the smile. He remembered, all right. Much too -well. The whole story was crazy, normally enough to get the kid off -with a life sentence in the criminally insane ward. But it was a little -_too_ crazy, so the psychiatrists wouldn't buy. - -"Can't get his words out of my mind," Kaplan was saying. His eyes were -closed. "'Mister, tell them, tell them. If you kill me, then you'll all -die. This whole world of yours will die....'" - -_Because_, Ritchie remembered, _you don't exist, any of you, except in -my mind. Don't you see? I'm asleep and dreaming all this. You, your -wives, your children, it's all part of my dream--and when you kill me -then I'll wake up and that will be the end of you...._ - -"Well," Ritchie said, "it's original." - -Kaplan shook his head. - -"Come on, Max, snap out of it. You act like you never listened to a -lunatic before. People have been predicting the end of the world ever -since Year 1." - -"Sure, I know. You don't have to patronize me. It's just that--well, -who _is_ this particular lunatic anyway? We don't know any more about -him than the day he was caught. Even the name we had to make up. Who is -he, where'd he come from, what's his home?" - -_My home ... a world of eternities, an eternity of worlds.... I must -destroy, hurt, kill before I wake always ... and then once more I must -sleep ... always, always...._ - -"Look, there's a hundred vagrants in every city. Just like our boy: no -name, no friends, no relatives." - -"Then he doesn't seem in the least odd to you, is that it? Is that what -you're telling me?" - -"So he's odd! I never met a murderer that wasn't!" Ritchie recalled the -lean hairless face, the expressionless eyes, the slender youthful body -that moved in strange hesitant jerks, the halting voice. - - * * * * * - -The clock bonged the quarter hour. Fifteen to twelve. Max Kaplan wiped -the perspiration from his forehead. - -"And besides," Ritchie said, somewhat too loudly, "it's plain -ridiculous. He says--what? We're a dream he's having, right? Okay--then -what about our parents, and their parents, everybody who never heard of -the kid?" - -"First thing I thought of. And you know his answer." - -Ritchie snorted. - -"Well, think it over, for God's sake. He says _every_ dream is a -complete unit in itself. You--haven't you ever had nightmares about -people you'd never seen before?" - -"Yes, I suppose so, but--" - -"All right, even though they were projections of your subconscious--or -whatever the hell it's called--they were complete, weren't they? Going -somewhere, doing something, all on their own?" - -Ritchie was silent. - -"Where were they going, what were they doing? See? The kid says every -dream, even ours, builds its own whole world--complete, with a past -and--as long as you stay asleep--a future." - -"Nonsense! What about _us_, when _we_ sleep and dream? Or is the period -when we're unconscious the time _he's_ up and around? And keep in mind -that everybody doesn't sleep at the same time--" - -"You're missing the point, Hank. I said it was complete, didn't I? And -isn't sleeping part of the pattern?" - -"Have another drink, Max. You're slipping." - - * * * * * - -_"What will you wake up to?"_ - -"_My home. You would not understand._" - -"_Then what?_" - -"_Then I sleep again and dream another world._" - -"_Why did you kill George Sanderson?_" - -"_It is my eternal destiny to kill and suffer punishment._" - -"_Why?_ Why?" - -"_In my world I committed a crime; it is the punishment of my world, -this destiny...._" - -"Then try this on for size," Ritchie said. "That kid's frozen stiff -with fear. Since he's going to have to wake up no matter what, then -why not sit back and enjoy it?" - -Kaplan's eyes widened. "Hank, how soundly do you sleep?" - -"What's that got to do with it?" - -"I mean, do you ever dream?" - -"Of course." - -"Ever get hold of any particularly vivid ones? Falling down stairs -like, being tortured, anything like that?" - -Ritchie pulled at his drink. - -"Sure you have." Kaplan gazed steadily at the clock. Almost midnight. -"Then try to remember. In that kind of dream, isn't it true that the -pleasure--or pain--you feel is almost as real as if you were actually -experiencing it? I remember once I had a nightmare about my old man. -He caught me in the basement with a cigarette--I was eight or nine, -I guess. He took down my pants and started after me with his belt. -Hank--that hurt, bad. It really hurt." - -"So what's the point?" - -"In my dream I tried to get away from my old man. He chased me all over -that basement. Well, it's the same with the kid--except his dream is a -hundred times more vivid, that's all. He knows he'll feel that electric -chair, feel the jolts frying into him, feel the death boiling up in -his throat just as much as if he were honest-to-God sitting there...." - -Kaplan stopped talking. The two men sat quietly watching the clock's -invisible progress. Then Ritchie leaped up and stalked over to the bar -again. "Doggone you, Max," he called. "You're getting _me_ fidgety now." - -"Don't kid me," Kaplan said. "You've been fidgety on your own for -quite a while. I don't know how you ever made the grade as a criminal -lawyer--you don't know the first thing about lying." - -Ritchie didn't answer. He poured the drink slowly. - -"Look at you and Ruth, screaming at each other. And then there was the -other tip-off. The way you defended the kid--brilliantly, masterfully. -You'd never have done that for a common open-and-shut little killer." - -"Max," Ritchie said, "you're nuts. Tell you what: at exactly 12:01 I'll -take you out for the biggest, juiciest, rarest steak you ever saw. On -me. Then we'll get loaded and fall all over ourselves laughing--" - -Ritchie fought away the sudden picture of steak, rare steak, with the -blood sputtering out, sizzling on an electric stove. - -The clock began to strike. Henry Ritchie and Max Kaplan stood very -still. - - * * * * * - -He uncoiled. The dry pop of hardened joints jabbed wakefulness into him -until finally the twenty-foot long shell lay straight upon the steaming -rocks. He opened his eyes, all of them, one by one. - -Across the bubbling pools, far away, past the white stone geysers, he -could see them coming. Many of them, swiftly, giant slithering things -with many arms and many legs. - -He tried to move, but rock grew over him and he could not move. By -looking around he could see the cliff's edge, and he remembered the -thousand bottomless pits below. Gradually the rest formed, and he -remembered all. - -He turned to the largest creature. "Did you tell them?" He knew this -would be a horrible punishment, worse than the last, the burning, far -worse. Fingers began to unhinge the thick shell, peel it from him, -leaving the viscous white tenderness bare to the heat and pain. "Tell -them, make them understand, this is only a dream I'm having--" - -They took the prisoner to the precipice, lingered a moment to give him -a view of the dizziness and the sucking things far below. Then nervous -hands pressed him forward into space. - -He did not wake for a long time. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRAUMEREI *** - -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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Most of the martini sloshed -out over his robe. He jumped up, swabbing furiously at the spots. -"Goddam it!"</p> - -<p>"Hank!" His wife slammed her book together.</p> - -<p>"Well, what do you expect? That confounded buzzer—"</p> - -<p>"—is a perfectly natural normal buzzer. You're just terribly upset, -dear."</p> - -<p>"No," Mr. Ritchie said, "I am <i>not</i> 'just terribly upset, dear'—for -seven years I've been listening to that banshee's wail every time -somebody wants in. Well, I'm through. Either it goes—"</p> - -<p>"All right, all <i>right</i>," Mrs. Ritchie said. "You don't have to make a -production out of it."</p> - -<p>"Well?"</p> - -<p>"Well what?"</p> - -<p>Mr. Ritchie sighed ponderously, glared at his wife, set what was left -of the martini down on a table and went to the door. He slipped the -chain.</p> - -<p>"Be this the marster of 'arfway 'ouse?"</p> - -<p>Mr. Ritchie opened the door. "Max—what the devil are you doing up at -this hour?"</p> - -<p>A large man, well built, in his forties, walked in, smiling. "I could -ask you the same question," he said, flinging his hat and scarf in the -direction of a chair, "but I'm far too thoughtful."</p> - -<p>They went back into the living room. Mrs. Ritchie looked up, frowned. -"Oh, swell," she said. "Dandy. All we need now is a bridge four."</p> - -<p>"Ruth's just terribly upset," Mr. Ritchie said.</p> - -<p>"Well," the large man said, "it's nice to see unanimity in this house -for once anyway. Hi, Ruth." He walked over to the bar and found the -martini mix and drained the jar's contents into a glass. Then he - -<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> - - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - - -drained the glass.</p> - -<p>"Hey, take it easy!"</p> - -<p>Max Kaplan turned to face his hosts. He looked quite a bit older than -usual: the grin wasn't boyish now. "Dear folkses," he said, "when I -die, I don't want to see any full bottles around."</p> - -<p>"Oh, ha-ha, that's just so very deliriously funny," Mrs. Ritchie said. -She was massaging her temples.</p> - -<p>"I am glad to see her ladyship amused." Kaplan followed Mr. Ritchie's -gaze. "Hickory dickory dock, the mice looked at the clock...."</p> - -<p>"Oh, shut up."</p> - -<p>"Oop, sorry." The big man mixed up a new batch silently, then refilled -the three glasses. He sat down. The clock's tick, a deep sharp bass -sound, got louder and louder in the room. Kaplan rested his head on the -couch arm. "Less than an hour," he said. "Not even an hour—"</p> - -<p>"I knew it." Mrs. Ritchie stood up. "I knew it the minute you walked -in. We're not nervous enough, oh, no, now we've got to listen to the -great city editor and his news behind the news."</p> - -<p>"Very well!" Kaplan rose shakily. He was drunk; it showed now. "If I'm -not welcome here, then I shall go elsewhere to breathe my last."</p> - -<p>"Never mind," Mrs. Ritchie said. "Sit down. I've had a stomach full of -this wake. If you two insist on sitting up until X-hour like a couple -of ghouls, well, that's your business. I'm going to bed. And to sleep."</p> - -<p>"What a woman," Kaplan muttered, polishing off the martini. "Nerves of -chilled steel."</p> - -<p>Mrs. Ritchie looked at her husband for a moment. Then she said, "Good -night, dear," and started for the door.</p> - -<p>"See you in the morning," Mr. Ritchie said. "Get a good sleep."</p> - -<p>Then Max Kaplan giggled. "Yeah, a real good sleep."</p> - -<p>Mrs. Ritchie left the room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The big man fumbled for a cigarette. He glanced at the clock. "Hank, -for Chrissake—"</p> - -<p>Henry Ritchie sighed and slumped in the chair. "I tried, Max."</p> - -<p>"Did you? Did you try—I mean with everything?"</p> - -<p>"With everything. Might as well face it: the boy's going to burn, right -on schedule."</p> - -<p>Kaplan opened his mouth.</p> - -<p>"Forget it. The governor isn't about to issue a commutation. With the -public's blood up the way it is, he knows what it would mean to his -vote. We were stupid even to try."</p> - -<p>"Lousy vultures."</p> - -<p>Ritchie shrugged. "They're hungry, Max. You forget, there hasn't been -an execution in this state for over two years. They're hungry."</p> - -<p>"So a poor dumb kid's got to fry alive in order for them to get their -kicks...."</p> - -<p>"Wait a second now. Don't get carried away. This same poor dumb kid is -the boy who killed George Sanderson in cold blood and then raped his -wife, not too very long ago. If I recall, your word for him then was -Brutal Murderer."</p> - -<p>"That was the paper. This is you and me."</p> - -<p>"Well, get that accusatory look off your face. Murder and rape—those -are stiff raps to beat, pal."</p> - -<p>"You did it with Beatty, you got him off," Kaplan reminded his friend.</p> - -<p>"Luck. Public mood—Beatty was an old man, feeble. Look, Max—why don't -you stop beating around the bush?"</p> - -<p>"Okay," Kaplan said slowly. "They—let me in this afternoon. I talked -with him again."</p> - -<p>Ritchie nodded. "And?"</p> - -<p>"Hank, I'm telling you—it gives me the creeps. I swear it does."</p> - -<p>"What did he tell you?"</p> - -<p>Kaplan puffed on his cigarette nervously, kept his eyes on the clock. -"He was lying down when I went in, curled up tight. Trying to sleep."</p> - -<p>"Go on."</p> - -<p>"When he heard me, he came to. 'Mr. Kaplan,' he says, 'you've got to -make them believe me, you've got to make them understand—' His eyes -got real big then, and—Hank, I'm scared."</p> - -<p>"Of what?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know. Just him, maybe. I'm not sure."</p> - -<p>"He carrying the same line?"</p> - -<p>"Yeah. But worse this time, more intense somehow...."</p> - -<p>Ritchie tried to keep the smile. He remembered, all right. Much too -well. The whole story was crazy, normally enough to get the kid off -with a life sentence in the criminally insane ward. But it was a little -<i>too</i> crazy, so the psychiatrists wouldn't buy.</p> - -<p>"Can't get his words out of my mind," Kaplan was saying. His eyes were -closed. "'Mister, tell them, tell them. If you kill me, then you'll all -die. This whole world of yours will die....'"</p> - -<p><i>Because</i>, Ritchie remembered, <i>you don't exist, any of you, except in -my mind. Don't you see? I'm asleep and dreaming all this. You, your -wives, your children, it's all part of my dream—and when you kill me -then I'll wake up and that will be the end of you....</i></p> - -<p>"Well," Ritchie said, "it's original."</p> - -<p>Kaplan shook his head.</p> - -<p>"Come on, Max, snap out of it. You act like you never listened to a -lunatic before. People have been predicting the end of the world ever -since Year 1."</p> - -<p>"Sure, I know. You don't have to patronize me. It's just that—well, -who <i>is</i> this particular lunatic anyway? We don't know any more about -him than the day he was caught. Even the name we had to make up. Who is -he, where'd he come from, what's his home?"</p> - -<p><i>My home ... a world of eternities, an eternity of worlds.... I must -destroy, hurt, kill before I wake always ... and then once more I must -sleep ... always, always....</i></p> - -<p>"Look, there's a hundred vagrants in every city. Just like our boy: no -name, no friends, no relatives."</p> - -<p>"Then he doesn't seem in the least odd to you, is that it? Is that what -you're telling me?"</p> - -<p>"So he's odd! I never met a murderer that wasn't!" Ritchie recalled the -lean hairless face, the expressionless eyes, the slender youthful body -that moved in strange hesitant jerks, the halting voice.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The clock bonged the quarter hour. Fifteen to twelve. Max Kaplan wiped -the perspiration from his forehead.</p> - -<p>"And besides," Ritchie said, somewhat too loudly, "it's plain -ridiculous. He says—what? We're a dream he's having, right? Okay—then -what about our parents, and their parents, everybody who never heard of -the kid?"</p> - -<p>"First thing I thought of. And you know his answer."</p> - -<p>Ritchie snorted.</p> - -<p>"Well, think it over, for God's sake. He says <i>every</i> dream is a -complete unit in itself. You—haven't you ever had nightmares about -people you'd never seen before?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I suppose so, but—"</p> - -<p>"All right, even though they were projections of your subconscious—or -whatever the hell it's called—they were complete, weren't they? Going -somewhere, doing something, all on their own?"</p> - -<p>Ritchie was silent.</p> - -<p>"Where were they going, what were they doing? See? The kid says every -dream, even ours, builds its own whole world—complete, with a past -and—as long as you stay asleep—a future."</p> - -<p>"Nonsense! What about <i>us</i>, when <i>we</i> sleep and dream? Or is the period -when we're unconscious the time <i>he's</i> up and around? And keep in mind -that everybody doesn't sleep at the same time—"</p> - -<p>"You're missing the point, Hank. I said it was complete, didn't I? And -isn't sleeping part of the pattern?"</p> - -<p>"Have another drink, Max. You're slipping."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>"What will you wake up to?"</i></p> - -<p>"<i>My home. You would not understand.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Then what?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Then I sleep again and dream another world.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Why did you kill George Sanderson?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>It is my eternal destiny to kill and suffer punishment.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Why?</i> Why?"</p> - -<p>"<i>In my world I committed a crime; it is the punishment of my world, -this destiny....</i>"</p> - -<p>"Then try this on for size," Ritchie said. "That kid's frozen stiff -with fear. Since he's going to have to wake up no matter what, then -why not sit back and enjoy it?"</p> - -<p>Kaplan's eyes widened. "Hank, how soundly do you sleep?"</p> - -<p>"What's that got to do with it?"</p> - -<p>"I mean, do you ever dream?"</p> - -<p>"Of course."</p> - -<p>"Ever get hold of any particularly vivid ones? Falling down stairs -like, being tortured, anything like that?"</p> - -<p>Ritchie pulled at his drink.</p> - -<p>"Sure you have." Kaplan gazed steadily at the clock. Almost midnight. -"Then try to remember. In that kind of dream, isn't it true that the -pleasure—or pain—you feel is almost as real as if you were actually -experiencing it? I remember once I had a nightmare about my old man. -He caught me in the basement with a cigarette—I was eight or nine, -I guess. He took down my pants and started after me with his belt. -Hank—that hurt, bad. It really hurt."</p> - -<p>"So what's the point?"</p> - -<p>"In my dream I tried to get away from my old man. He chased me all over -that basement. Well, it's the same with the kid—except his dream is a -hundred times more vivid, that's all. He knows he'll feel that electric -chair, feel the jolts frying into him, feel the death boiling up in -his throat just as much as if he were honest-to-God sitting there...."</p> - -<p>Kaplan stopped talking. The two men sat quietly watching the clock's -invisible progress. Then Ritchie leaped up and stalked over to the bar -again. "Doggone you, Max," he called. "You're getting <i>me</i> fidgety now."</p> - -<p>"Don't kid me," Kaplan said. "You've been fidgety on your own for -quite a while. I don't know how you ever made the grade as a criminal -lawyer—you don't know the first thing about lying."</p> - -<p>Ritchie didn't answer. He poured the drink slowly.</p> - -<p>"Look at you and Ruth, screaming at each other. And then there was the -other tip-off. The way you defended the kid—brilliantly, masterfully. -You'd never have done that for a common open-and-shut little killer."</p> - -<p>"Max," Ritchie said, "you're nuts. Tell you what: at exactly 12:01 I'll -take you out for the biggest, juiciest, rarest steak you ever saw. On -me. Then we'll get loaded and fall all over ourselves laughing—"</p> - -<p>Ritchie fought away the sudden picture of steak, rare steak, with the -blood sputtering out, sizzling on an electric stove.</p> - -<p>The clock began to strike. Henry Ritchie and Max Kaplan stood very -still.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He uncoiled. The dry pop of hardened joints jabbed wakefulness into him -until finally the twenty-foot long shell lay straight upon the steaming -rocks. He opened his eyes, all of them, one by one.</p> - -<p>Across the bubbling pools, far away, past the white stone geysers, he -could see them coming. Many of them, swiftly, giant slithering things -with many arms and many legs.</p> - -<p>He tried to move, but rock grew over him and he could not move. By -looking around he could see the cliff's edge, and he remembered the -thousand bottomless pits below. Gradually the rest formed, and he -remembered all.</p> - -<p>He turned to the largest creature. "Did you tell them?" He knew this -would be a horrible punishment, worse than the last, the burning, far -worse. Fingers began to unhinge the thick shell, peel it from him, -leaving the viscous white tenderness bare to the heat and pain. "Tell -them, make them understand, this is only a dream I'm having—"</p> - -<p>They took the prisoner to the precipice, lingered a moment to give him -a view of the dizziness and the sucking things far below. Then nervous -hands pressed him forward into space.</p> - -<p>He did not wake for a long time.</p> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRAUMEREI ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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