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Speaker 2: Have a nice trip. The seat numbers fifteen.
Speaker 3: Next, please.
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Speaker 5: These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll
Speaker 5: live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,
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Speaker 5: Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
Speaker 6: HE minus one.
Speaker 5: On the night story jay Walker by Ross Rockland.
Speaker 7: In the Galactic flight number fourteen, now loading at ramp ten.
Speaker 7: In a Galactic flight number fourteen, now loading at ramp ten,
Speaker 7: Please have your flight validation.
Speaker 3: You walk from the waiting room down the long ramp
Speaker 3: number ten. The flight pack is in one hand, the
Speaker 3: validation papers in the other. Other passengers chatter behind you.
Speaker 3: You turn a corner and there's the ship, a cylinder
Speaker 3: of glistening silver aimed at the moon. You feel yourself
Speaker 3: carried up the moving stair to the gaping entrance lock.
Speaker 3: A pretty stewardess in a blue uniform smiles at you.
Speaker 2: Validation papers, Please your papers.
Speaker 3: Madam, oh papers?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, here there, this is Marsha Foster.
Speaker 2: You feeling well, Miss Foster?
Speaker 3: Yes quite well, Thank you.
Speaker 2: We have to make sure. Once in a while somebody
Speaker 2: slips aboard with an other person's validation papers.
Speaker 3: What difference would it make if I felt well or not?
Speaker 2: A great deal, I'm afraid you see the effect of
Speaker 2: a free fall in space without gravity. It can do
Speaker 2: quite a bit of damage in certain glandular conditions. I
Speaker 2: see you've passed your physical Yes, I'm quite all right,
Speaker 2: It's fine. Have a nice trip. Your seat number is fifteen. Next, please.
Speaker 3: You walk down the carpeted aisle to the plastic on seat.
Speaker 3: Her words make a ringing pattern in your brain. Are
Speaker 3: you feeling well, Missus Foster. Missus Foster's feeling quite well.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Missus Foster has past her physical examination. There's
Speaker 3: only one thing wrong with the picture. You are not,
Speaker 3: Missus Foster.
Speaker 2: Attention, please attention. In one minute, the flash walls will
Speaker 2: be raised around the ship. If for any reason, the
Speaker 2: passenger is not feeling well or does not wish to
Speaker 2: make the trip, please speak up.
Speaker 3: One minute. You begin to wonder if you ought to
Speaker 3: go after all. You begin to think of how it happened.
Speaker 3: Why you're here sitting in the silver vessel waiting to
Speaker 3: blast off for the moon. What happened between you and Jack?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 8: Honey, Honey, I'm back Jack. Oh, darling, you miss me?
Speaker 3: Did I miss you?
Speaker 8: I brought you a little present from the moon. Try
Speaker 8: it on.
Speaker 3: Oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 9: It took us two hours to pick it out. U oh,
Speaker 9: me and Sue Sueigan? Who's she the stewards on the ship?
Speaker 3: Oh? How long has she been on the earth? Moon run.
Speaker 8: I guess about a year now.
Speaker 3: It's funny you never mentioned her, Oh haven't I?
Speaker 8: Well, what's the difference?
Speaker 3: Odd?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 8: Well? You're not jealous, are you? Is she pretty monstrous?
Speaker 9: Four feet high and three feet around and she has
Speaker 9: a big blue eye right in the middle of her feet.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're insane?
Speaker 8: Come on, how about a kiss? No, old lady, I've
Speaker 8: been away for four months.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 8: I guess I'll just have to go back to Suwegan
Speaker 8: and her three blue eyes.
Speaker 3: In that case, here, Oh, I have been away a
Speaker 3: long time. Jack, I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 9: That, okay, but could it wait till tonight? I am
Speaker 9: taking you to dinner, missus McLain.
Speaker 3: I'd rather talk about it now. Okay, Jack, we've been
Speaker 3: married for six years, now, is it that long? Seven
Speaker 3: in July? For the last two you've been skippering that
Speaker 3: rocket to the moon three weeks at a time, with
Speaker 3: only a week in between.
Speaker 8: I do get a month vacation.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is no kind of life.
Speaker 8: Oh, Musha, I don't know what I can do about it.
Speaker 3: You haven't tried to do anything about it.
Speaker 8: I guess you're right.
Speaker 3: Do you intend to try?
Speaker 8: Marsh? I need to know Marsha Flying is my whole life,
Speaker 8: but it isn't mine.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to spend three weeks out of four
Speaker 3: sitting here wondering if you'll come back alive.
Speaker 8: Oh no, that's ridiculous, is it.
Speaker 3: What about my father who died on the elsinir when
Speaker 3: it missed mars.
Speaker 9: Your father died as the result of a space maneuver
Speaker 9: that no Pilon in his right mind would try.
Speaker 3: They missed the planet. That could happen to anybody.
Speaker 8: They missed it because they tried to warp the ship around.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't understand. Well, it isn't very hard
Speaker 3: to understand.
Speaker 9: A spaceship takes off with everything calculated to the last
Speaker 9: decimal point. It has exactly enough fuel to take it
Speaker 9: to a planet if it follows an exact course, an
Speaker 9: ironclad mathematical orbit.
Speaker 8: Well, well, there was a jaywalker aboard the Elsinar.
Speaker 3: A jwalker.
Speaker 9: Well, that's what we call somebody who boards a ship
Speaker 9: knowing that he has no business doing so. In this
Speaker 9: particular case, it was a senator going to a convention
Speaker 9: on the Moon. He had been taking endocream treatments and
Speaker 9: kept it secret on his validation papers. He felt he
Speaker 9: had to attend this convention to muster some votes for
Speaker 9: his campaign. He didn't consider that he was jeopardizing his life.
Speaker 3: I still don't see how they missed the planet.
Speaker 9: Six hours out, the senator began to die. The effect
Speaker 9: of the free fall on his glands was catching up
Speaker 9: with him. And the only way to reverse that effect
Speaker 9: is to reverse the spin of the ship. Turn it
Speaker 9: end over end. That creates artificial gravity, reverses the stress
Speaker 9: on the glands.
Speaker 8: The pilot took a chance, he did just that.
Speaker 3: Is that why they missed the planet.
Speaker 8: They lost their trajectory.
Speaker 9: By the time they recalculated their cost, they'd passed Mars.
Speaker 9: They ran out of fuel and kept going until well
Speaker 9: until they fell into the gravity of the Sun.
Speaker 3: And that couldn't happen today.
Speaker 8: A pilot would have to be out of his mind
Speaker 8: to try a maneuver like that.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't try it risk.
Speaker 8: An entire ship to save the life of one fool.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't.
Speaker 8: Marsha, I can't say. I definitely wouldn't it. Right now.
Speaker 8: It's inconceivable, just.
Speaker 3: As inconceivable for you to give up spaceflight for my sake.
Speaker 9: Isn't it equally inconceivable for you to put up with it?
Speaker 8: For my sake?
Speaker 3: I've put up with it for two years. Jack, this
Speaker 3: is the end of it.
Speaker 8: No, what exactly do you mean?
Speaker 3: I mean you have to decide whether you want a
Speaker 3: marriage in a family or a career as a space jockey.
Speaker 8: Why do I have to decide? Why can't I have both?
Speaker 3: Because I won't live this way? Nobody else does, except
Speaker 3: a handful of wives whose husbands are crazy. I'd have
Speaker 3: to have picked a profession like this.
Speaker 8: Well, you knew this was my profession when you're married.
Speaker 8: I didn't know it was like this, Marsha. What you're
Speaker 8: asking me to do I simply can't do. Wouldn't make
Speaker 8: you happy.
Speaker 9: If I did, I'd just be walking around resenting you.
Speaker 8: Now, come on, let's have dinner and forget this for
Speaker 8: a while.
Speaker 3: No, we're not having dinner.
Speaker 8: You'd rather stay home tonight?
Speaker 3: No, I'm going to Los Angeles to my mother's house.
Speaker 3: What I have tickets on the six o'clock flight tonight? Yes, Jack,
Speaker 3: I'm quite determined. It's made up my mind that I'd
Speaker 3: put it to you squarely, and if you refused, I
Speaker 3: was leaving just like that. Yes, I've had all I
Speaker 3: can take, mash.
Speaker 8: For Heaven's sake, can't we talk this over and make
Speaker 8: some kind of a compromise.
Speaker 3: Is no compromise, Jack. It's all very exciting for you,
Speaker 3: tearing back and forth through the moon with glamorous stewardesses
Speaker 3: and all sorts of celebrities, But sitting here waiting isn't
Speaker 3: much fun for me.
Speaker 8: Well, you could get a job, you could develop some interesting.
Speaker 3: Reason why I married you. I want a home and
Speaker 3: a family and a man who comes home every night
Speaker 3: and talks to me about little, unimportant things.
Speaker 8: And I'm not that man.
Speaker 3: No, No, you're not Okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: I don't like people walking out on me, So I'm
Speaker 8: leaving first.
Speaker 3: Would you mind telling me where you'll be?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: You can reach me through intergalactic If you change your mind, Marsha,
Speaker 9: maybe we'll both be better off. We didn't have much
Speaker 9: of a home life anyway, just the two of us.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. I know how you
Speaker 8: feel about not having children. Goodbye, marsh.
Speaker 3: There it was you learned when you came back from
Speaker 3: Los Angeles two months later that he'd been seen in
Speaker 3: the company of one Susan Egan Steward is for Intergalactic
Speaker 3: on numerous occasions. You learned too, that he'd applied for
Speaker 3: the Earth Venus Run, the newest and most difficult run
Speaker 3: in the galaxy. You learned something else, something that was
Speaker 3: going to change the whole course of your life.
Speaker 10: Come in, missus McClane, sit down, thank you, doctor. Hi
Speaker 10: have some good news for you. Yes, you're going to
Speaker 10: have a child. Well, I thought you'd be happy about that.
Speaker 3: Happy. Oh, yes, yes, I am. Naturally. You debated for
Speaker 3: a long time, and then you called the Intergalactic Office.
Speaker 3: Mister mc leanan was out on the Earth Moon Run.
Speaker 3: He'd be back on the twelfth, but only for an afternoon.
Speaker 3: He was taking off again. Immediately. They were so sorry.
Speaker 3: You were sorry yourself. It seemed as if life would
Speaker 3: not be worth living without Jack, especially now with a
Speaker 3: child on the way. You had to talk to him
Speaker 3: to be with him. That was when you first began
Speaker 3: to formulate the idea of going to the Moon with
Speaker 3: him on this run.
Speaker 2: Attention, please, attention, we're about to count down for Blastorf.
Speaker 2: Fasten your seat belts and reclined back as far as possible.
Speaker 2: The next sound will be that of the first stage
Speaker 2: rockets heating up. Do not be alarmed by the vibration
Speaker 2: of the ship.
Speaker 3: From the bulkheads. Overhead. Everywhere comes the deep rumbling sound.
Speaker 3: Some of the passengers look anxious, some excited. Some leaf
Speaker 3: casually through magazines as they line their backs in the
Speaker 3: reclining seats.
Speaker 2: Those of you who've never been in rockets will find
Speaker 2: it an experience that will make you proud to belong
Speaker 2: to the human race.
Speaker 11: Count down for blast off x minus five minus four
Speaker 11: minus three minus two minus one zero.
Speaker 3: The rumble heightens all emotion, leaves you cold, ravening fear
Speaker 3: takes over. To try to close your eyes, your ears
Speaker 3: against it, at your mind won't respond. Look out the
Speaker 3: port and the scene is suddenly splashed with a rushing
Speaker 3: sheet of flame that darkens the sky and is torn
Speaker 3: from your vision, snatched away. The buildings, the trees, the
Speaker 3: roads vanish. A great, soft, uniform weight presses down on you.
Speaker 3: You push with all your might, but it smothers you,
Speaker 3: presses your back, drives your blood down down inside of you,
Speaker 3: and then quiet.
Speaker 2: We are now one hundred and two miles over New
Speaker 2: York City. You may unfasten your safety belt. The pull
Speaker 2: of gravity will no longer trouble you.
Speaker 3: You unfasten the safety belt and sit in the seat
Speaker 3: wondering what to do next.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to inter Galactic Flight number fourteen
Speaker 2: out of New York Rocket Port, destination Moon. I'm your hostess,
Speaker 2: Miss Susan Egan. Your pilots for this flight is Captain
Speaker 2: Jack mc lean. Opposition at the moment is approximately five
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty miles above Earth, and in less than
Speaker 2: one half hour we'll be in free fall completely without gravity.
Speaker 2: Our speed is currently twenty nine thousand miles per hour.
Speaker 2: We should arrive at Moonport at exactly six p m
Speaker 2: tomorrow Earth time. I wish you a pleasant voyage. If
Speaker 2: there's anything you need into galactic is at your service.
Speaker 3: Well, you think to yourself, everybody's here. Your husband is
Speaker 3: loved one, and his wife. You watch her. She walks
Speaker 3: back along the rows of seats with an armful of
Speaker 3: the latest magazine recordings. A tall girl about twenty nine
Speaker 3: or thirty, dark brown hair, dark eyes. I'm not very pretty,
Speaker 3: the sort of would be able to talk to him
Speaker 3: about steam tubes and beautiful landings and solar storms.
Speaker 2: Missus Fowlster, would you like something to read?
Speaker 3: Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 2: No, first time in the rocket ship?
Speaker 3: Yes? Could you tell look a little green? You're feeling well?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm quite a right.
Speaker 2: There's just a touch of space sickness. Come along the
Speaker 2: ship's hospital and we'll fix you up in the diffy
Speaker 2: I'd rather just sit here a minute, of course. Oh
Speaker 2: come on me help him to the ship's hospital. That's
Speaker 2: come on, come on now, you just lie down here.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling?
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to be afraid of.
Speaker 3: I think there is.
Speaker 12: What is it?
Speaker 3: I'm pregnant? What affect my validation papers?
Speaker 2: Do you know what you've done to you?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 3: I hoped it wouldn't affect me.
Speaker 2: There's much I can say, Missus Faust. I'll have to
Speaker 2: tell captain that's what would it be?
Speaker 3: I mean? Could I tell him myself?
Speaker 2: If you'd rather, I'll call him Steward is to Captain McClean.
Speaker 2: What is it, thal Jack? There's a passenger in the
Speaker 2: ship's hospital. You'd better come down here.
Speaker 11: Look, Susie, I've got my correction.
Speaker 2: I think you'd better come right down.
Speaker 8: Okay, Charlie, take it, will you. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: He'll be here in a minute or two. Yeah, let
Speaker 2: me put this pillow into your head.
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Now, what made you do it?
Speaker 3: You wouldn't understand you.
Speaker 2: Loved him and he stationed on the moon and you
Speaker 2: wanted to be near him. Is that it?
Speaker 3: Could you understand that?
Speaker 2: You mean not being able to have the man you love? Yes,
Speaker 2: I think I could understand.
Speaker 3: You wanted to scream at her, to claw her face.
Speaker 3: She was going to live and you were going to die.
Speaker 3: She was going to share a life with Jack when
Speaker 3: you were only a dim sort of memory in his mind.
Speaker 3: He came in, moving fast, with that kind of schoolboy
Speaker 3: gait in his His dark face was frowning, but handsome
Speaker 3: as ever.
Speaker 8: Not just why did you? Whyshia?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 8: Honey?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 12: Jack?
Speaker 8: What are you doing about it? Sue? This is my wife, Marsha.
Speaker 8: This is Sue Egan.
Speaker 3: Hello, I'll be getting out.
Speaker 8: Excuse me? What's going on?
Speaker 6: Jack?
Speaker 3: Sit down? I want to tell you something.
Speaker 9: I'd like to say something first much. I've had a
Speaker 9: chance to do a lot of thinking lately, and if
Speaker 9: you think we could work it.
Speaker 8: Out, I'd like to try again. You mean that, yes,
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 3: What about miss Egan Sue?
Speaker 8: What about her?
Speaker 3: I thought? I mean I heard I'm.
Speaker 8: Very fond of Sue.
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought you were.
Speaker 8: But she isn't my wife?
Speaker 6: You are.
Speaker 12: Was?
Speaker 3: What do you mean I'm going to die? Jack?
Speaker 8: What are you talking about? Jack?
Speaker 3: I'm pregnant. We're a little too late.
Speaker 8: Did you know this when you came aboard?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 8: But weren't you aware that? What about the physical?
Speaker 3: I used another woman's validation papers, I paid her for them.
Speaker 8: Why how could you do with it?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. All I knew was
Speaker 3: that I had to see you. I had to be
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 8: If you'd only talked, I couldn't reach you. Didn't you
Speaker 8: know what would happen if you took a rocket flight?
Speaker 3: I thought somehow it wouldn't happen to me. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that pregnancy was.
Speaker 8: Affected, and if you hadn't.
Speaker 3: I would have come along anyway.
Speaker 8: I suppose in the way I'm to blame. I'm the
Speaker 8: one who walk down.
Speaker 3: Don't take the blame on yourself. I'm over twenty one, Monsia.
Speaker 8: What did you hope to accomplish by this?
Speaker 9: I'm not sure there's only one possibility. Yes, excuse me,
Speaker 9: miss Agan, Yes, come into the ship's hospital.
Speaker 8: Please bring Petrack Shelley from maintenance. Tell them to come
Speaker 8: up here with a crescent wretch.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 8: Do nothing much. I'm going to warp the ship around,
Speaker 8: that's all.
Speaker 3: Petric Kelly was a big, easy going man. Jack left
Speaker 3: me alone with him and Miskeen while he went back
Speaker 3: to the control room. Petri Kelly started to build a
Speaker 3: metal bed to the side wall of the cabin. Why
Speaker 3: are you putting the bed on the wall.
Speaker 10: Because, lady, when he starts to spend the ship, that
Speaker 10: outside bulk is going to be down out sideways centrifugal forcing.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 1: Well, that's too bad because I got out of things
Speaker 1: to do besides explained.
Speaker 3: Okay, sirs, it's all he.
Speaker 6: Is.
Speaker 3: He always that rude.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it occur to you that maybe he's under a
Speaker 2: slight strain?
Speaker 3: Strain?
Speaker 2: Look, missus, McLean, your husband's going to warp the ship around.
Speaker 2: The chances of his pulling off a maneuver like that
Speaker 2: without piling us up in the sun or in deep
Speaker 2: space or about a thousand to one. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: wanted to see him and show him that he ought
Speaker 2: to be ashamed of himself for leaving you. But does
Speaker 2: it occur to you that all of us may lose
Speaker 2: our lives because of it, including Petrocelli.
Speaker 3: No, I hadn't thought about it. Let's go.
Speaker 2: I've got to strap you into that there.
Speaker 3: No, wait, what will happen to me if the ship
Speaker 3: isn't worked?
Speaker 2: Sudden floods of the adrenal glands, convulsions, panics, spastic secretions,
Speaker 2: and eventually death.
Speaker 3: What causes it?
Speaker 2: Lack of gravity? We are sure just how purpose of
Speaker 2: spinning the ship is to press you up against the
Speaker 2: outer wall and create the effect of gravity through centrifugal force.
Speaker 3: To you, do you think he can do it?
Speaker 2: I think he's the best skipper in the intergalactic fleet.
Speaker 2: That isn't the answer to my question? Can he spin
Speaker 2: the ship without killing everyone?
Speaker 12: I have faith in him.
Speaker 3: She loved him, She had faith in him. And you, you,
Speaker 3: to whom he was married, you who carried his child
Speaker 3: inside you? Did you have faith in him?
Speaker 8: Everything's set in here? Yes, good Jack?
Speaker 3: Could could we talk alone for a minute.
Speaker 8: We have to get the new data into the computers, Susie.
Speaker 8: Will you excuse us please?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 8: Well, Jack, don't do it, mars.
Speaker 3: I mean it. You've no right to risk all those lives.
Speaker 9: Just for me, Marsha. I'm captain of this ship. I
Speaker 9: do as I see fit, and I can't do other one.
Speaker 3: But it isn't fair to them. It isn't fair to you.
Speaker 9: When we were born into this life, we don't make
Speaker 9: any agreement that says everything is going to be fair
Speaker 9: and equip I.
Speaker 3: Refuse to let you do it.
Speaker 8: You can't stop me.
Speaker 3: I'll take my life.
Speaker 8: I'm going to ask Sue to stay with her.
Speaker 3: What about her? Don't you love her?
Speaker 8: Well, Marsha, Whether I love Sue Egan is not the point.
Speaker 9: Just now, I've decided to spend ship to save you
Speaker 9: and my son or daughter.
Speaker 8: If it means risking the lives of others, I have
Speaker 8: to take that risk.
Speaker 3: Jack. Yes, why are you doing it?
Speaker 8: Because I love you?
Speaker 3: It seemed to me during the next hour, through the
Speaker 3: haze of the drug they gave me, that I could
Speaker 3: see him. There was the curved silver board before it
Speaker 3: sat Jack hunched like a harried bookkeeper on the last
Speaker 3: day of the month.
Speaker 8: Okay, Charley we'll come to the moon obliquely. At zero
Speaker 8: point three oh seven, we pass it.
Speaker 9: Stop, spin the ship over once to check speed, then
Speaker 9: put the tail down when we feel gravity at seven
Speaker 9: point oh three five. And if we can do it
Speaker 9: with the fuel we've got, it'll be a miracle, all right.
Speaker 9: Start the calculators, engine room, reverse tubes. Wait for new
Speaker 9: COSS vector seven oh seven three new costactor set firing
Speaker 9: formula two six three five seven two six firing coming
Speaker 9: into cossbactor counting down seven oh seven seven seven six
Speaker 9: seven seven five seven five seven four seven.
Speaker 8: Seven three fire.
Speaker 3: You don't recall much after that. There's the bulkhead pressing
Speaker 3: against you like a magnet, pressing harder and harder. Then
Speaker 3: there's the needle, and then sudden relaxation. Throw it all
Speaker 3: the stars and the moon, and Jack and Sue egan
Speaker 3: dance and a pattern of mist, and the words come
Speaker 3: back to you from long ago, the things he said
Speaker 3: to you when you were both in love, many years ago.
Speaker 8: When I fly the ship, it seems that all earth
Speaker 8: watches me through your eyes.
Speaker 3: A man comes to love the things he has to
Speaker 3: fight for.
Speaker 2: I guess how is she hold tight? Marcia hold tight
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: She calls you Marcia. This woman who hates you, who
Speaker 3: loves your husband, She calls you.
Speaker 6: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, Marsa, Marcia, Marcia.
Speaker 3: The curved ceiling, but a new curve and soft rose
Speaker 3: instead of chrome metal, a new feeling, unlike Earth or
Speaker 3: the ship.
Speaker 8: Honey, you wake up, Jack. That's all right, honey. We
Speaker 8: made it where the moon moon. Yes, you're in the
Speaker 8: new Lunar City Hospital.
Speaker 3: You did it, You really did it well.
Speaker 8: I've been telling you for years that I was the
Speaker 8: best pilot in the fleet.
Speaker 3: Oh, you don't have to pretend. I know how you
Speaker 3: must feel about what I did. I'm not pretending it
Speaker 3: was a selfish coward. I wasn't concerned about anything but
Speaker 3: my own happiness, Masha.
Speaker 9: There isn't any absolute scale for courage, or kindness or goodness.
Speaker 9: I couldn't pretend to judge you or anybody else.
Speaker 8: I only know that I believe you're a good person,
Speaker 8: and I love you with your false and your good points.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to be with you, Jack, That's all
Speaker 3: I ever wanted. I'm sorry. I'm not brave and strong
Speaker 3: like Susan or Yule or the others.
Speaker 9: Oh, honey, nobody expects you to be Come on, you've
Speaker 9: got to save your strength.
Speaker 8: We've got to take take care of you.
Speaker 3: He reaches down and touches your lips with his fingers.
Speaker 3: It's like a benediction. You know that you'll never again
Speaker 3: question his right to do the things that fulfill him.
Speaker 3: To take a silver ship above the earth and guide
Speaker 3: it to new planets. Our child will be born on
Speaker 3: the moon, he whispered to him, and our grandchildren and
Speaker 3: the stars.
Speaker 5: You have just heard X minus one presented by the
Speaker 5: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,
Speaker 5: which this month features the Arthur Sellings tale entitled one Across,
Speaker 5: the story of a man who thought that doing puzzles
Speaker 5: was an escape until he suddenly found himself completely boxed
Speaker 5: in Galaxy Magazine on your new stand day the night.
Speaker 5: By transcription, X minus one has brought you j Walker,
Speaker 5: a story from the pages of Galaxy, written by Ross
Speaker 5: Rockland and adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured in
Speaker 5: the cast were Bob Hastings.
Speaker 8: Terry Keene, Raymond.
Speaker 5: Edward Johnson, Connie Lemke, and Eugene Francis. You're announcer Fred Collins.
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Speaker 1: In the daytime, NBC's Weekday reports the civil wedding ceremony
Speaker 1: as it happens, with simultaneous English translation