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Decision, by Frank M. Robinson
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Title: Decision
Author: Frank M. Robinson
Illustrator: H. R. Smith
Release Date: August 12, 2009 [EBook #29680]
Language: English
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DECISION
BY FRANK M. ROBINSON
ILLUSTRATED BY H. R. SMITH
The captain had learned to hate. It was his profession--and his personal reason for going on. But even hatred has to be channeled for its maximum use, and no truths exist forever.
The battle alarm caught him in the middle of a dream, a dream that took place in a white house in a small town in Ohio, when both he and Alice had been very young and the grown adults he now called his children had really been little more than babies.
He rolled out of his bed immediately on hearing the gong, as any good sailor would, and slipped into his pants and shoes and felt around the bulkhead for his life jacket. He slipped into it and tightened the buckles, then put on his cap with the captain's insignia.
He opened the hatch and stepped out into the passageway, blinking for a moment in the unaccustomed light and trying to shake away the remnants of his dream. Officers were boiling up the passageway and up