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Sixty or seventy men, mostly in white coveralls and all wearing identification badges and carrying dosimeters in their breast pockets and midget Geigers strapped to their wrists, were crowded about the bulletin-board in front of the makeshift office. There was a hum of voices some perplexed or angry, but mostly good-humored and bantering.
Personally, I believe that both King Orgzild and Prince Gorkrink were aboard her when she blew up. That's something we'll never know, positively, of course. That ship and everything and everybody in her were simply vaporized, and the particles are registering on our geigers now. But I'm as sure as I am of anything about these geeks that one or both of them accompanied her."
The meaning of Braun's warning that his tip was "hot" was definite. It was "hot" in the sense that it dealt with radioactivity! The plane dipped down and landed by the great doors again. It taxied up and the pilot killed the motor. "We've been using Geigers for months," he said pleasedly, "and never got a sign before. This is one time we were set for something." "What?" asked Joe. But he knew.
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