Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
The _Lunar Star_ got through safely. It was turned aside by a last
minute warning from the Pluto Lamp beacon. This impressed the
importance of the Lamp in the minds of the authorities, as is attested
to by history, for it was in service well over one hundred years after
Salvor-Jones's ordeal.
In Selena City there is a small monument, equally dedicated to the
two heroes, Salvor-Jones and Smith. For the professor declared that
Smith had been as much responsible for the success of the Lamp as he,
himself. Hadn't he saved the day, there at the very last?
As for Knucklebone Smith, his frozen body still lies in simple state on
Pluto. There is a faint, fixed smile on his face; or presumably there
is, for Salvor-Jones attests that it was there that night. And it can
hardly have escaped him now.
For it was just as Knucklebone had always said. Every man is good for
something.
Even if it is only to be used for a lever.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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