A Question of Courage, by Jesse Franklin Bone

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Title: A Question of Courage

Author: Jesse Franklin Bone

Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

Release Date: October 4, 2008 [EBook #26772]

Language: English

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A Question Of Courage

By J. F. BONE

Illustrated by FINLAY

I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was something wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it but

five years in the Navy gives a man a feeling for these things. From the outside the ship was beautiful, a gleaming shaft of duralloy, polished until she shone. Her paint and brightwork glistened. The antiradiation shields on the gun turrets and launchers were folded back exactly according to regulations. The shore uniform of the liftman was spotless and he stood at his station precisely as he should. As the lift moved slowly up past no-man's country to the life section, I noted a work party hanging precariously from a scaffolding smoothing out meteorite pits in the gleaming hull, while on the catwalk of the gantry standing beside the main cargo hatch a steady st

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