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Title: Into the Sun

Author: John L. Chapman

Illustrator: Michael Mirando

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                             INTO THE SUN

                          by JOHN L. CHAPMAN

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                             Comet May 41.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


"There's nothing like having a good quart of scotch with you when
you're falling into the sun," said Lejeune. "Won't you join me,
gentlemen?"

"Listen to him," sputtered Geitz. "He's enjoying this. He likes being
cooked in a cubby-holed space ship; he likes to sit here day after day
while the floor beneath him is burning his shoes."

Lejeune, the wiry French biologist, lowered the half-empty bottle from
his lips and scowled at the ship's doctor. "But not for long, my dear
Geitz, not for long. Our fate lies within a few hours. The ship will be
drawn closer and closer to the sun. The heat will become unbearable.
Then--pffffft!--the ship will be a little spark--"

"You're a pain," growled Captain Rogers.

Lejeune raised his eyebrows quizzically and grinned. He said nothing,
walked to a bunk, and sat down beside Lane, the pilot.

The silence continued for some time, broken only by the footfalls of
Captain Rogers in his nervous pacing. There was nothing to do but wait.
The four of them knew that. The ship couldn't hold out much longer; it
would burst under the terrific strain, would be reduced instantly to a
cinder by the sun's blistering heat.

They were trapped, falling into the sun inevitably.

"One meteorite," said Lejeune casually, "one hurtling fragment of some
interstellar gadabout which chose to cross our path at the wrong time.
That's all it took to smash our jets and send the four of us toward
that fiery mass."

"Shut up!" snapped Rogers. "It's bad enough without your moaning!"

Oblivious to the captain's words, Lejeune patted his bottle
affectionately.

"In the name of heaven!" growled Geitz, leaping to his feet. "Why do we
sit here like a lot of mummies? There's a rocket capsule aboard, you
say, with sufficient power to carry one of us to Mercury. Why don't we
use it? I ask you, Rogers."

"You answered that yourself," the captain said bluntly. "True,
that rocket capsule can carry one of us to Mercury. Just one,
understand--there's room for but one person in a capsule. I ask
you--which one of us would that be?"

"That's beside the point," muttered Geitz, as he wiped beads of
perspiration from his forehead. "You don't seem to realize what
valuable information we possess. Think of that cylinder in the supply
room. It contains all the photographs we took of Mercurian plant and
animal life, and the photos of Vulcan. To say nothing of the data
concerning the sun's corona--why, our analysis would be of infinite
value to earth scientists!"

"Quite so," Rogers said crisply. "But while you're thinking about
that, don't forget the three men who would be left aboard this
ship--think of what would happen to them." He stopped his pacing and
shook a finger under the doctor's imposing Van Dyke. "Do you know what
would happen to them, Geitz? They'd burn alive--they'd cook--while on
earth your scientists would hop around in glee over a few photographs
of Mercury!"

Geitz sat down heavily, exhausted.

"The doc's right, Rogers," Lane interposed. "There's no reason for all
four of us dying when it's possible for one to gain freedom. And for
God's sake if you're going to do something do it in a hurry! We'll burn
before you make up your mind!"

"My mind's made up," Rogers retorted. "I'm staying. In case you've
forgotten, a captain is the last man to leave his ship. As for you
three, fight it out among yourselves. Draw straws--anything. The
consequences will be your worry."

"I'll stay," murmured Lejeune, lifting his bottle to his lips.

"You don't mean that," said the youthful Lane. "You want to go--we all
want to go--but it can only be one of us."

He fell silent, placing his head in his hands. Rogers resumed his
pacing.

The ship drifted on, slowly it seemed, ever nearing the solar furnace,
falling toward the flames that were eager to dissolve the tiny cruiser
locked in an unyielding gravitational pull.

"Soon," mused Lejeune. "Soon we'll be too close for the rocket capsule
to break free of the sun's drag. Then there will be no doubt as to what
will be done. Ha!"

"Damnation!" yelled Lane, jerking erect. "How can you be so confounded
happy about it all? We're falling into the sun, man--doesn't that have
any effect upon you?"

Lejeune shrugged. "Perhaps. We are falling into the sun, yes. We'll
die, no doubt, so my future is definite. I know what is coming. Soon I
shall be but a tiny spark, drifting nowhere in a big sun. Do I regret
being a tiny spark? Not when I have my scotch with me."

"You're a smart guy," Lane thrust at him. "Maybe you can tell us how to
choose the rocket capsule's passenger."

"Simple, my friend. The captain won't go--he must stay with the ship. I
have no relatives, only my scotch, so I am satisfied. The doctor must
stay--he's too fat to get in the capsule. M'sieu Lane, the honor is
yours. Au revoir."

"Don't be crazy--"

"Do not worry about us, my friend. We will find something to do.
Perhaps I can interest the doctor and the captain in three-handed
bridge. If not, we'll wait. We'll go soon--sssss! Like that."

Lane buried his face in his hands again.

For a few moments there was an unbroken silence. From the
double-insulated hulls emanated a dry hotness that scorched the already
blistered air. The hotness increased, rising to a fierce, intolerable
degree. It grew, inexorably, pressing against their lungs--

Lane floundered crazily, leaped across the control room and plucked a
gun from his locker. "This'll make it easier," he gasped, lifting the
weapon to his head. "Somebody's got to fly that capsule--"

[Illustration: _Lane plucked a gun from his locker. "This'll make it
easier," he gasped, lifting the weapon to his head._]

       *       *       *       *       *

For ten minutes no one spoke. It was hard to speak--each breath was a
torture to the lungs.

"Lejeune," said Geitz finally, in short gasps, "in God's name will you
get into the capsule and take that cylinder to Mercury? One of us has
got to go--for Lane's sake!"

Lejeune, sprawled out on the pilot's bunk, made no reply. The captain
stood before the dull gray view-screen, watched him a moment,
thoughtfully. "Can't you reverse the field?" he asked at length. "I'd
like to see the System just once more."

Rogers had already made a few deft motions on the instrument panel.
Presently, the screen came to life. Its scope possessed a bright
halo--the sun's glow. In the center of the screen Mercury was visible,
a faint, receding globe. Rogers moved the scope slowly until he found
the feeble point of light that designated the earth. He watched it
grimly. "Satisfied, Geitz?"

"Dr. Geitz is dead," came Lejeune's monotone.

Rogers turned. The doctor lay on his face, immobile and silent.

"The heat," said Rogers, "and his age."

They carried him to the supply room, laid him beside the inert form of
Lane.

The two men stood watching earth's dull glimmer on the screen. The heat
pressed them relentlessly, always increasing--

"Take the capsule, Lejeune. You've no reason to remain."

"I prefer to stay, Captain Rogers. You have relatives--it is only
proper that you should fly the capsule."

"Under any circumstances, Lejeune, the captain does not leave his ship
in distress. Should I return to earth without the rest of you, I would
lose my rank unquestionably. Now, before we draw too close, take the
cylinder to Mercury! You're a fool not to!"

"M'sieu Rogers, I possess magnificent renown as a fool. I shall remain."

"But the cylinder--"

"The cylinder, Captain Rogers, be damned."

They looked at each other a long minute. Rogers, stripped to the waist,
perspiring, his thick black hair hanging in his eyes; Lejeune, small,
wiry, faint traces of a smile lurking on his lips.

Suddenly the floor shook beneath them. A violent shudder passed through
the ship from stem to stern. The momentum of the sunward fall increased.

Regaining his balance, Rogers gasped, "Good God--the capsule!"

They saw a flash of light on the screen, saw the tiny rocket streak
for Mercury in a flare of brilliance. It dwindled rapidly to a
receding speck that was swallowed in the depths of space.

Speechless, Rogers and Lejeune raced to the supply room. They found
Lane there, but no Geitz and no cylinder. Needles on the face of the
capsule compartment jutting out from the wall registered zero.

"He was faking," said Rogers. "He wasn't dead--he merely pretended, the
coward!"

Lejeune took a quick drink, threw a sidelong glance at Lane's bloody
form, and walked slowly back to the control room. Rogers followed. The
clicking of their heels made a sullen echo upon the blistered walls.

On the screen, something dim and remote was moving, growing in size.
Rogers hastened forward in amazement.

"It's Geitz!" he breathed. "Lord--he was too late--he's falling back!"

"A pity," said Lejeune. "He has so much longer to wait now. It must be
horrible."

"And the cylinder," Rogers sighed. "All that information will be lost."
His tired, bloodshot eyes followed the little capsule's course across
the screen, back toward the flaming sun.

"Perhaps," remarked Lejeune, "there will be another expedition to
Mercury some day, another group of scientists, with a better ship and
better equipment. And no meteorite will prevent their safe return to
earth." He hesitated, took two tumblers from a nearby cabinet and
filled them with the remaining contents of his bottle. He handed one of
them to Rogers, took the other himself. "A final toast, Captain?"

Rogers accepted. "To the next Mercurian expedition, Lejeune."

"The next expedition, Captain Rogers."

They drank, and Lejeune sucked in a breath. "I say--it's getting a bit
warm in here, isn't it?"



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