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Updated: May 21, 2025
He plucked down the microphone exactly like somebody picking up an interoffice telephone and reported the waybill number and description of the case that had been an extra bomb. The ship carrying the pilot gyros had been booby-trapped probably with a number of other ships and a bomb had been shipped on it, and a special saboteur with a private plane had shot at it with rockets.
Bors heard heavy materials being loaded aboard. Each object was being examined by a detector. The loading process stopped. Bors pressed a button. "What happened?" he demanded. "Looks like a booby-trapped box, sir," said a voice. "Among the supplies, sir." "Take it off a hundred yards and riddle it," ordered Bors. "This may settle a problem for us." "Yes, sir." Bors fidgeted again.
Unfortunately, I have every reason to believe that this new machine is so booby-trapped and tamper-protected that the first interference by someone other than James Holden will cause its destruction." "Um. It might be possible to impound this machine as a device of high interest to the State," mused Manison.
Coombes looked that over carefully, decided that it wasn't booby-trapped and agreed. A deputy marshal went over to the witness stand, made some adjustments and snapped on a switch at the back of the chair. Immediately the two-foot globe in a standard behind it lit, a clear blue.
The pilot gyros, which had to be perfect, had been especially gunned at by saboteurs. An attack with possibly stolen proximity-fused rockets. The plane was booby-trapped, and somebody at an airfield had had a chance to spring the trap. So it was wreckage. Crashed and burned on landing. The Chief growled. Haney pressed his lips together. The eyes of Mike were burning.
The pilot made an examination down the floor-plate hole, with a flashlight to see by and two mirrors to show him the contents of a spot he could not possibly reach with any instrument. Joe heard his report, made to the ground by radio. "It's a grenade," he said coldly. "It took time to fix it the way it is. At a guess, the ship was booby-trapped at the time of its last overhaul.
But darkness fell, and he scrambled back to the Niccola's hull as a disorderly parade of stars went by above him. He pantingly waited fresh attack. He felt something and it was the object Taine had meant to offer as a return present to the Plumies. It was unquestionably explosive, either booby-trapped or timed to explode inside the Plumie ship.
And the whole thing sealed up in a can and booby-trapped in case you have any ideas of going into business for yourself. "The cover sounds like it is double walled, and from your description I would say that it has one of the vesicant war gases, like mustard gas, sealed inside there in liquid form. Anyone who tries to cut their way in will quickly forget their ambitions after a dose of that.
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