[The Red Planet by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Planet CHAPTER V 35/40
Presently he turned. "Physical fear is a very curious thing," he said in a voice unnecessarily loud.
"I've seen it take hold of men of proved courage and paralyse them.
It's just like an epileptic fit--beyond a man's control.
I've known a fellow--the most reckless, hare-brained daredevil you can imagine--to stand petrified with fear on the bank of a river, and let a wounded comrade drown before his eyes.
And he was a good swimmer too." "What happened to him ?" I asked. He met my gaze for a moment, looked away, and then met it again--it seemed defiantly. "What happened to him? Well--" there was the tiniest possible pause--a pause that only an uneasy, suspicious repository of the abominable story of Vilboek's Farm could have noticed--"Well, as he stood there he got plugged--and that was the end of him.
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