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Wu steed by FIKAY Complete Short Novel By A. BERTRAM CHANDLER When the Dream Dies, What of the Dreamer? CHAPTER 1 dream that is not uncommon among spacemen, especially such IT was Kemp's dream, al- spacemen as ply their trade out though we shared part of it. and away from the well serviced It was Kemp's dream, but Jim shipping routes. It was a dream Larsen participated in it, and that some few spacemen have Dudley Hill, and myself. It was a made come true. Alan Kemp, when I first met him, wan Chief Officer of the old Rimhound. He was a typical enough Rim Runners officer inasmuch as he, like most of us in that employ, had served in big ships before coming out to the Rim. He retained a dignity, almost a pomposity of bearing that didn't quite match either the shabbiness of his uniform or the decrepitude of his vessel. For the rest, he was a big man, tall, grey haired and with the bleak blue eyes that spacemen always seem to own in fiction but so seldom do in fact. But he was, when you got to know him, when you got past his reserve, a good shipmate, a good friend. Had he not been that, the rest of us would never have
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