The Pistol
“Less than a week, in fact. He had been tricked, lied to and cheated, bribed, and manhandled, in that order. He thought he knew, and had become experienced in, just about every method. But there was one he had never considered: the honest man. In many ways this one was the worst.
But out of it came something else, something good for Mast. And that was confidence: for the first time, real, genuine confidence.
It was now more than three months since the Pearl Harbor attack and Mast’s arrival at Ma...kapuu Head with the pistol. During that three months, in which Mast had battled so desperately to keep it, two things had emerged. One was that no one had ever actually assaulted him physically and taken it from him by force; even Grace hadn’t done that. And no one had tried to kill him for it. Not that, Mast suspected, someone wouldn’t have been willing to try. But the efficiency of Authority precluded that. There was hope to be seen in this, Mast felt.
The second thing which had emerged during the three desperate months was that never yet had anyone gone to higher authority, such as the lieutenant or the two platoon sergeants, about the pistol.MoreLess
But out of it came something else, something good for Mast. And that was confidence: for the first time, real, genuine confidence.
It was now more than three months since the Pearl Harbor attack and Mast’s arrival at Ma...kapuu Head with the pistol. During that three months, in which Mast had battled so desperately to keep it, two things had emerged. One was that no one had ever actually assaulted him physically and taken it from him by force; even Grace hadn’t done that. And no one had tried to kill him for it. Not that, Mast suspected, someone wouldn’t have been willing to try. But the efficiency of Authority precluded that. There was hope to be seen in this, Mast felt.
The second thing which had emerged during the three desperate months was that never yet had anyone gone to higher authority, such as the lieutenant or the two platoon sergeants, about the pistol.MoreLess
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