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Otherwise the ship on the landing strip would destroy shack and Pop and the colony together. "I'd guess," said Pop painstakingly, "that Sattell figured it out. He's probably got some sort of gun to keep you from holding him down there. But he won't know his friends are here not right this minute he won't." A shaking voice asked questions from the vision-phone.
After various vision-phone calls, he passed Calhoun and Murgatroyd. They went a short distance and another sentry stopped them. A little farther, and another sentry. "Tight security," said Calhoun. "They know me," said the Minister heavily, "but they are checking my certificate that as of morning I wasn't a para." "I've seen quarantines before," said Calhoun, "but never one like this!
Pop reached the dust-heap which was his shack and went in the air lock. Inside, he went to the vision-phone and called the mine-colony down in the Crack. He gave the message he'd been told to pass on. Sattell to come up, with what diamonds had been dug since the regular cannister was sent up for the Lunar City ship that would be due presently.
Once a mass of steel plating fell only yards from him, but it did not interrupt his search. When he went into the shack, he grinned to himself. The call-light of the vision-phone flickered wildly. When he took off his helmet the bell clanged incessantly. He answered. A shaking voice from the mining-colony panted: "We felt a shock! What happened? What do we do?" "Don't do a thing," advised Pop.
He switched on the vision-phone which sent radiation along the field to a balloon two hundred odd light-years from Earth that was the balloon near the glacier planet and then switched to the field traveling to a second balloon then the last hundred seventy-odd light-years back to the moon, and then from Luna City down to Earth. He put in his call.