《No Room In the Stable 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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NO ROOM IN THE STABLE by A. Bertram Chandler A Briton by birth, the author worked most of his life in the merchant marine: tramp steamers in the Indian Ocean, passenger liners on the England-Australia service, and finally in the Australian coastal trade. Now retired from the sea and living in Australia, Captain Chandler continues with the writing career which began in 1944 and continues to this day. Many of his stories have been set in the Rim Worlds at the outer reaches of the Galaxy; this tale, however, is another matter entirely .. . It was a cold night, and dark, with wind and driving rain. The refugees, sheltering in the old barn with its leaky roof, had lit a fire. This was risky, but not too risky. It was unlikely that They would be out in force in this kind of weather. They did not like water in any shape or form. They never had liked water. The two men and the three women huddled around the flickering flame, grateful for its feeble warmth. They were in rags, all of them, with broken, disintegrating shoes. Their clothing, when