《Grimes 026 Grimes and the Great Race 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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Worlds-this from a series of Commodore Grimes's reminiscences of his days in the Survey Service. . . . "I didn't think that I'd be seeing you again," said Grimes. "Or I you," Kitty Kelly told him. "But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn. . . . So when my bosses learned that you're stuck here until your engineers manage to fit a new rubber band to your inertial drive they said, in these very words, 'Get your arse down to the spaceport, Kitty, and try to wheedle another tall tale out of the old bastard!' " "Mphm," grunted Grimes, acutely conscious that his prominent ears had reddened angrily. Kitty smiled sweetly. She was an attractive girl, black Irish, wide-mouthed, creamy-skinned, with vivid blue eyes. Grimes would have thought her much more attractive had she not been making it obvious that she still nursed the resentment engendered by his first story, a tale of odd happenings at long-ago and far-away Glenrowan where, thanks to Grimes, an ancestral Kelly had met his downfall. She said tartly, "And lay off the Irish this time, will you?" Grimes looked at her, at her translucent, emerald green blouse that concealed little, at the long, shapely legs under the skirt that concealed even less. He thought, There's one of the Irish, right here, that I'd like to lay on. With deliberate awkwardness he asked, "If I'm supposed to avoid giving