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    The Marooner
    The Marooner
    The Marooner
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    The Marooner

    By Charles A. Stearns and Leo Summers

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Marooner - Charles A. Stearns

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      Title: The Marooner

      Author: Charles A. Stearns

      Illustrator: Leo Summers

      Release Date: March 9, 2008 [EBook #24791]

      Language: English

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      The

      MAROONER

      By CHARLES A. STEARNS

      ILLUSTRATOR SUMMERS

      Wordsley and Captain DeCastros crossed half a universe—suffered hardship—faced unknown dangers; and all this for what—a breath of rare perfume?

      Steadily they smashed the mensurate battlements, in blackness beyond night and darkness without stars. Yet Mr. Wordsley, the engineer, who was slight, balding and ingenious, was able to watch the firmament from his engine room as it drifted from bow to beam to rocket's end. This was by virtue of banked rows of photon collectors which he had invented and installed in the nose of the ship.

      The creature was more pitiful than fearsome.

      And Mr. Wordsley, at three minutes of the hour of seventeen over four, tuned in a white, new star of eye-blinking magnitude and surpassing brilliance. Discovering new stars was a kind of perpetual game with Mr. Wordsley. Perhaps more than a game.

      I wish I may, I wish I might ... Mr. Wordsley said.

      The fiddly hatch clanged. DeCastros, that gross, terrifying clown of a man, clumped down the ladder from the bridge to defeat the enchantment of the moment. DeCastros held sway. He was captain. He did not want Mr. Wordsley to forget that he was captain.

      The worst of Captain DeCastros was that he had moods. Just now he was being a sly leprechaun, if one can imagine a double-chinned, three-hundred pound leprechaun. He came over and dug his fingers into Mr. Wordsley's shoulder. A wracking pain in the trapezius muscle.

      The ertholaters are plugged, he said gently. "The vi-lines are giving

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