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    A Question of Courage
    A Question of Courage
    A Question of Courage
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    A Question of Courage

    By Jesse F. Bone

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    A story about a lieutenant assigned to a new ship during a war with rebel colonies. He finds his new captain is famous--as a regulation quoter and possible coward.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateDec 27, 2015
    ISBN9783956766411
    A Question of Courage
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    Jesse F. Bone

    Jesse Franklin Bone (geboren am 15. Juni 1916 in Tacoma, Washington; gestorben am 6. Januar 2006 in Sierra Vista, Arizona) war ein amerikanischer Veterinärmediziner und Science-Fiction-Autor.

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      A Question of Courage - Jesse F. Bone

      A Question

      Of Courage

      By J. F. BONE

      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 stream of supplies disappeared into the ship's belly.

      I returned the crisp salutes of the white-gloved sideboys, saluted the colors, and shook hands with an immaculate ensign with an O.D. badge on his tunic.

      Glad to have you aboard, sir, the ensign said.

      I'm Marsden, I said. Lieutenant Thomas Marsden. I have orders posting me to this ship as Executive.

      Yes, sir. We have been expecting you. I'm Ensign Halloran.

      Glad to meet you, Halloran.

      Skipper's orders, sir. You are to report to him as soon as you come aboard.

      Then I got it. Everything was SOP. The ship wasn't taut, she was tight! And she wasn't happy. There was none of the devil-may-care spirit that marks crews in the Scouting Force and separates them from the stodgy mass of the Line. Every face I saw on my trip to the skipper's cabin was blank, hard-eyed, and unsmiling. There was none of the human noise that normally echoes through a ship, no laughter, no clatter of equipment, no deviations from the order and precision so dear to admirals' hearts. This crew was G.I. right down to the last seam tab on their uniforms. Whoever the skipper was, he was either bucking for another cluster or a cold-feeling automaton to whom the Navy Code was father, mother, and Bible.

      The O.D. stopped before the closed door, executed a mechanical

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