The Moon is Hell! (Jerry eBooks) by John W. Campbell

Author:John W. Campbell [Campbell, John W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jerry eBooks
Published: 2015-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

January 12

10 A.M.

The plan has been proposed and accepted. Ripe disconnected the lock feed wires, and now entrance cannot be gained from without till we restore this power. Bender is outside with 12 hours oxygen in his tank, so he believes. Actually he has but one hour’s supply. Garner, from inside the lock is pushing notes through. We have demanded that he tell us where the stolen food is, and told him of the tampering with his tank.

He threatens to destroy the photo-cell banks. He hasn’t oxygen enough to climb to them and back to a lock.

10:30 A.M. Bender cursing us, and refuses to tell where it is. Says he’s going to keep us from it. He wants enough of us to die off so there’ll be load capacity enough on the rocket ship to carry back precious metals. If he is the sole survivor, as he hopes to be, he will claim the mines. At least he can take thousands of dollars’ worth of osmiridium. Calls us fools and insane to take loads of instruments back when we could take precious metal to outfit half a dozen expeditions. Only reason he joined was to get a share in the mines he had heard would be found, and when he learned we intended to turn all the mines over to our backers and keep nothing for ourselves, he began to steal the food, hoping he could live to file a claim.

10:45. Oxygen giving out. Bender is weakening.

10:50. He has told us where the food is, inside his pneumatic mattress, and demands to be let in. Investigating. He told the truth. Almost the whole hour had passed, and Bender was unconscious when brought in. The food has been put in my care, and I have hidden it, telling only Garner and Moore where it is. Moore says by conversion he can get more out of it than nature put in. We don’t need it’s food value now.

Bender is raving; he threw us off when he regained consciousness. It seems he intended to come in before he became unconscious, and re-capture the food. Bender must be eliminated. We are not safe.

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