Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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Curtis went around, finding the officers, issuing orders. There were the scene with a ghostly radiance. The men of the Comerford had Commander Bob Curtis roused himself from his doze, got up from his The hurried rat-a-tat entire Comerford . complement of two hundred and twenty men were present—except Navigating Officer Nelson, and Bos'n's Mate Bradford! And Zukor Androka Curtis got a glimpse of the design on which he was working, and his The wizened face of the older man was molded in intent lines of whose mind had been turned by the horror that had come to his country under the domination of the Nazi gestapo . At other times, the man seemed a genius. Perhaps that was the answer—a mad genius! him. It was Nelson, his shaggy blond brows drawn scowlingly down over his pale eyes his thin face a mass of tense lines his big hands fumbling at the neck of his slicker. Rain was coursing down his white cheeks, streaking them with glistening furrows. The fellow was a headache to Curtis. He was overfriendly with a black-browed bos'n's mate named Joe Bradford—the worst trouble maker on board. But there was no question of his ability. He was a good navigating officer—dependable, accurate, conscientious. Nevertheless, his taut face, restless, searching eyes, and eternally nervous manner got Curtis' goat. "Come in, Nelson!" he said. hard on his latest invention to pull Hitler's teeth and re-establish the Czech Republic!" Nelson had no answering smile, although there had been a great deal experiments. "I'm worried, sir!" Nelson said. "I'm not sure about my dead reckoning. This storm—" Curtis threw his arm around Nelson's dripping shoulders. "Forget it! "But this storm, sir!" Nelson avoided Curtis' friendly eyes and slipped out from under his arm. "It's got me worried. Quartering wind of undetermined force, variable and gusty. There's a chop to the sea—as if from unestimated currents among the islets. No chance to check by observation, and now there is a chance—look at me!" Commander Curtis shrugged good-naturedly and reached for the "Here's what I make it," the commander told his navigating officer. Curtis stared, frowned, grabbed his own sheet again. "Any time I'm declared, frowning at the two papers and hastily rechecking his own figures. to move in these waters with such a possibility of error!" Nelson complied, and the throbbing drive of the engines lessened old eyes twinkling behind their thick lenses. "Go ahead and try it. See how much you can get! It will be no more than Hitler can get when Zukor that had recently been established to insure safety to naval vessels, but there was no answer on any of the bands—not even the blare of a high-powered commercial program in the higher reach, nor the chatter of ships or amateurs on the shorter. "Dead!" Androka muttered, with a bitter laugh. "Yet not dead, Curtis was the first to speak. "Your secrecy might well cost the United States navy one of its best light cruisers—and us our lives!" he said angrily. "We need that check by radio at once! If you're not talking nonsense, call off your dogs till we learn just where we are!" Cruiser Comerford !" Curtis sighed with relief. He saw that Nelson was staring fiercely Comerford calling Curtis frowned and shook his head. Slowly he forced a reluctant grin as "You have seen a miracle, commander!" he shouted at Curtis. " as much as your enemies." The scientist drew himself up to his full height—which was only a little over five feet. His voice grew shrill. "Wait! Just wait! There are other inventions to supplement this one. Put them together, and they will defeat the Nazi hordes which have ravaged my country!" Curtis was a little shocked by the hatred that gleamed in Androka's eyes, under their bushy brows. There was something of the wild animal in the man's expression, as his lips drew back from his yellowed teeth. So are my sister and her husband, and their two daughters. If the Curtis said: "I understand." on his slicker as he went. The shout from the watch forward had been picked up, and was being relayed all over the ship. The words struck on Curtis' ears with a note of impending tragedy. keep her up!" And then he became aware of a deadly stillness. A vast wall of silence enveloped the entire cruiser. Looking over the side, he could no longer ship. The Comerford Comerford were becoming thicker. stricken helpless. And then Curtis saw other forms flitting about the Two words, in particular, registered clearly on his mind. One was " began to throb, as if someone were pounding on them from the inside. He couldn't get his breath a cloud seemed to be mounting within him until Nelson spoke in a low tone, his lips close to Bradford's ear. "It worked, Joe!" got a neutralizing chemical in one of them tanks of his that'll clear everything up inside half an hour." —lives that'd have been lost if the forts had to be taken by our storm troopers!" " Ja! accented English. "Your father?" "My father dedicated me to a career of revenge—to wipe out his wrongs," Nelson continued. "If America hadn't gone into the First bitterly. "But it won't do Curtis any good—a commander who's lost Comerford ?" Comerford with him, and dynamos and batteries that looked like something out of a scientific nightmare. And bustling all over the place, barking excited commands in German, pushing and pulling and pointing to emphasize his directions, was the "Yes," Nelson said. "That came through all right. And won't Curtis have thousand tons. The orders are to take her not sink her." "What's the idea?" "Her cargo," Brandt explained. "It iss more precious than rubies. It includes a large shipment of boarts." "Boarts," Brandt told him, "are industrial diamonds—black, imperfectly crystallized stones, but far more valuable to us than in his voice. "Yes," Brandt assured him. "Of all men—we can trust Androka!" misfires, if there is the slightest suspicion of treachery on his part, his daughter and the others will suffer. Androka's loyalty is assured!" Nelson turned to watch the forward fighting top of the Comerford . the Comerford's out his hand. "Congratulations, Herr Kommander Nelson!" he said. "Ve have stolen one of the United States navy's newest and fastest cruisers!" He made a gesture as if raising a beer stein to drink a toast. " Prosit! " he " Prosit! of gray cloud were skudding before the east wind. Commander Bob Curtis as if a wave of searing heat had scorched them. According to his last calculations, the Comerford a moment in Curtis' face, and the familiar voice of Ensign Jack Dillon spoke: "Commander Curtis! Are you O. K., sir?" "I think so!" Curtis' heart warmed at the eager expression in Dillon's face at the heartfelt concern in his friendly brown eyes. The young ensign was red-headed, impetuous, thoroughly genuine in his emotions. "How about yourself, Jack?" Curtis added. Curtis thought for a moment. "Muster the crew, as best you can. We'll The words struck Curtis with the numbing shock of a blow on some nerve swept down on him. He had lost his ship—one of the United States navy's fastest and newest small light cruisers—under circumstances which smelled strongly of treachery and sabotage. As he thought back, he realized that he loss, if he had been more alert, more suspicious. For it was clear to him now that the Comerford Curtis' mind. He had never liked the man

<question>:
What word best describes Commander Curtis?

<options>:
A Collaborative
B Egotistical
C Authoritative
D Fierce

<answer>:

C