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    Stalemate
    Stalemate
    Stalemate
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    Stalemate

    By Leo Summers and Basil Wells

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Stalemate - Leo Summers

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stalemate, by Basil Eugene Wells

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Stalemate

      Author: Basil Eugene Wells

      Illustrator: Leo Summers

      Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32594]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STALEMATE ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      STALEMATE

      BY BASIL WELLS

      Illustrated by Leo Summers

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction November 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The rules of a duel between gentlemen are quite different from the rules of war between nations. Is it because gentlemen do not fight wars, or is it that men in war cease to be gentlemen?

      The bullet slapped rotted leaves and dirt into Gram Treb's eyes. He wormed backward to the bole of a small tree.

      Missed! he shouted. He used English, the second tongue of them both. Throw away your carbine and use rocks.

      You tasted it anyhow, Harl Neilson's shrill young voice cried. How was the sample?

      That leaves you two cartridges, taunted Treb. Or is it only one?

      The sixth sense that had brought him safely through two of these bloody war duels here in space made him fling his body to the left. He rolled over once and lay huddled in a shallow depression. He knew all the tiny hollows and ridges—they were his insurance on this mile-wide island high above Earth.

      Something thudded into the tree roots behind him. He hugged the ground, body flattened. His breath eased raggedly outward, and caught. The waiting—the seconds that became hours! If the grenade rolled after him, down the slope into his shelter, he was finished.

      There was nothing he could do. His palms oozed sweat....

      The grenade exploded. It was like a fist slammed against his skull. He was numbed

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