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But eventually one of them sort of rebels, and that frees any of the others that are offbeat, so the bad ones all show at once and we can spot them. When we get all the bad ones adjusted, the system remains stable for the operating life of the system." "And that's the purpose of a shakedown cruise?" "One of the reasons," agreed Mike.
"No," said Mike the Angel. "Once the system is stabilized, the tubes tend to keep each other in line. But because of that very tendency, an offbeat tube won't show itself for a while. The system tries to keep the bad ones in phase in spite of themselves.
"What do you expect to see?" "I don't know," Rick admitted. "I'm just hoping for an idea." He drove through the trees, across the picnic ground, and came to a stop before the mine shaft. There was no one in sight, and the grounds were just as they had left them. Rick studied the scene, searching for anything offbeat, any anomaly.
Finally, it dropped suddenly to a low of point-oh-five cycles, hovered there for a moment, then vanished altogether. "By the beard of my sainted maiden aunt," said Chief Multhaus in awe. "A three-tube offbeat solved in less than half an hour! If that isn't a record, I'll dye my uniform black and join the Chaplains' Corps."
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