 
                
(Cover Charles Durant)
                
 
            
                Short Stories - Jul 25th 1948
            
            
                Short Story
                Could the Telescopic Foretopmast be sent down without help from power of any sort? For an answer to that last question there would be a reward; after the last war - wealth. After this war - a Captain's ticket.
It might have seemed a trick question in seamanship, but the presiding officer knew there was an answer all right.