标题: 《Grimes 029 Grimes and the Jailbirds 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-22 16:03 标题: 《Grimes 029 Grimes and the Jailbirds 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 In which Commodore Grimes (whose last appearance here was in "Grimes and the Odd Gods" June 1983) takes on a temporary job — shipping supplies to a prison satellite —with unusual consequences... Grimes and the Jailbirds BY A. BERTRAM CHANDLER "Have you ever, in the course of your long and distinguished career, been in jail, Commodore?" asked Kitty Kelly after she had adjusted the lenses and microphones of her recording equipment to her satisfaction. "As a matter of fact I have," said Grimes. He made a major production of filling and lighting his pipe. "It was quite a few years ago, but I still remember the occasion vividly. It's not among my more pleasant memories...." "I should imagine not," she concurred sympathetically. "What were you in for? Piracy? Smuggling? Gunrunning?" "I wasn't in in the sense that you assume," he told her. "After all, there are more people in a jail than the convicts. The governor, the warders, the innocent bystanders...." "Such as yourself?" "Such as myself." It was (he said) when I was owner-master of Little Sister. She was the flagship and the only ship of Far Traveler Couriers, the business