id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 61781 Kummer, Frederic Arnold Star Pirate .txt text/plain 7860 725 90 huge wall-safe behind me were stacks of the gray ingots, Uncle John's I was supposed to guard the palladium until Uncle John returned, My father; his brother-in-law, Uncle John; and and my Uncle John entered, his face gray, a gun in his hand. stood there, flame-gun in hand, as my father disappeared into the liner at Verlis, Uncle John and I would have left Ceres for earth. And Uncle John, who had been like a father the oxy-hydrogen torch, cutting into the big wall-safe where my uncle's making off with the ship, leaving my father and Taon marooned on Ceres, the steel doors of the safe, Taon had said. "Good evening, John," my father said pleasantly. Uncle John swung about, noticing the girl for the first time as she "Your ship is outside," Uncle John said with an unctuous smile. My Uncle John whom I had trusted, who had been a father ./cache/61781.txt ./txt/61781.txt