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But the audio-advertiser, outside, was reiterating: "Choice whiskies, two hundred dollars a sixth and up!" and pulling in the customers, who, when they discovered that the two-hundred-dollar bargain was Old Atom-Bomb, were shelling out five hundred to a grand a sixth for good liquor. He finished his coffee and got to his feet. Be a good idea to look in on Liquor, and see how things were going.
If an Invader's flying ship descended at the villa, everything that happened would be heard and seen by microphones and concealed television cameras. If the Invaders were too arrogant, or if they were arbitrary, there would be a test to see if their ship could exist in the heart of an atom-bomb explosion. Coburn and Janice, then, were happy after a fashion.
He started toward a counter, to speak to a clerk, but one of the stocky, quietly-dressed young men stepped in front of him. "Gimme a bottle of Atom-Bomb," he said. "Don't bother wrapping it." "Yes, sir." The clerk seemed worried, too. He got the bottle and set it on the counter. "That'll be two C, sir." "I see you're wearing a Radical-Socialist button," the customer commented.
He returned to his lunch, watching, with satisfaction, the crowd that was packing into the Liquor Department, next to the restaurant. That special loss-leader, Old Atom-Bomb Rye, had been a good idea. In the first place, the stuff was fit for nothing but cleaning drains and removing varnish; if he were Pelton, he would have fired that fool buyer who got them overstocked on it.
An air attack could only mean an atom-bomb attack. And if there was an atom bomb dropped on the Shed, there'd be no use getting outside. It wouldn't be merely a fission bomb. It would be a hell bomb a bomb which used the kind of bomb that shattered Hiroshima only as a primer for the real explosive. Nobody could hope to get beyond the radius of its destruction before it hit!
Set up an atom-bomb booby-trap, and I'll sit on it. If they try to contact me, you can either listen in or try to blow them up, and me with them!" There was buzzing comment. Perhaps Coburn's nails bit into his palms when this was suggested perhaps this was a proposal to let the Invaders examine an atomic bomb, American-style. It was said in earnest simplicity.
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