  This is a consecutive paper on the timelike geodesic structure of static
spherically symmetric spacetimes. First we show that for a stable circular
orbit (if it exists) in any of these spacetimes all the infinitesimally close
to it timelike geodesics constructed with the aid of the general geodesic
deviation vector have the same length between a pair of conjugate points. In
Reissner--Nordstr\"{o}m black hole metric we explicitly find the Jacobi fields
on the radial geodesics and show that they are locally (and globally) maximal
curves between any pair of their points outside the outer horizon. If a radial
and circular geodesics in R--N metric have common endpoints, the radial one is
longer. If a static spherically symmetric spacetime is ultrastatic, its
gravitational field exerts no force on a free particle which may stay at rest;
the free particle in motion has a constant velocity (in this sense the motion
is uniform) and its total energy always exceeds the rest energy, i.~e.~it has
no gravitational energy. Previously the absence of the gravitational force has
been known only for the global Barriola--Vilenkin monopole. In the spacetime of
the monopole we explicitly find all timelike geodesics, the Jacobi fields on
them and the condition under which a generic geodesic may have conjugate
points.
