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"And just how long would it take them to dismantle a big base?" that officer countered. "At least a month. If we shoot a team in there in a hurry " Millaird folded his huge hands over his barrel-shaped body and laughed, without a trace of humor. "Just where do we send that team, Kelgarries? Northeast of a coastal point in Britain is a rather vague direction, to say the least.
Gordon Ashe, one of the four men peering unhappily at the display, shook his head slightly as if to free his mind of such cobwebs. His neighbor to the right, Colonel Kelgarries, leaned forward to ask harshly: "No chance of a mistake?" "You saw the detector." The thin gray string of a man behind the desk answered with chill precision. "No, no possible mistake.
This time he made no attempt to put on an act. He was not in the least sorry he had tried to get away. Had Kurt been on the level, it would have been a bright play. That Kurt was not, was just plain bad luck. Kelgarries and Ashe entered, and at the sight of Ashe the taut feeling in Ross's middle loosened a bit.
As soon as he fastened the last zipper his companion jammed one of the domed helmets on his head. The pilot looked in the door. "We'd better scramble, Kelgarries, or we may be grounded for the duration!" They hurried back to the flying field.
"Back safe " The voice from behind the face mask was a rusty croak. "Back, safe," the major assured him. "Dark dark all around again " protested the croak. "Just a power failure, man. Everything's all right now. We'll get you into bed." The mitten pawed again until it touched Kelgarries' arm; then it flexed a little as if the hand under it was trying to grip. "Safe ?" "You bet you are!"
It was on the morning of the fifth day while the three were studying a map Webb had produced that Kelgarries, followed at his own weighty pace by Millaird, burst in upon them. "We have it! This time we have the luck! The Reds slipped. Oh, how they slipped!" Webb watched the major, a thin little smile pulling at his pursed mouth. "Miracles sometimes do happen," he remarked.
You know every argument we can use and all the proof on our side, and you're authority enough to make it count." "If I can do all that, I will." Ashe was alert and eager. The colonel, seeing his change of expression, felt easier. But Kelgarries stood a moment watching Ashe as he hurried down a side corridor, before he moved on slowly to his own box of office.
Ashe glanced around at his three companions Kelgarries, colonel in command of one sector of Project Star, Florian Waldour, the security head on the station, Dr. James Ruthven.... "Camdon!" he said, hardly able to believe this answer to which logic had led him. Waldour nodded. For the first time since he had known and worked with Kelgarries Ashe saw him display open astonishment. "Camdon?
Yet Kelgarries appeared to accept every word, and there was no expression of disbelief on Ashe's face. "So that's how you got those burns," said the major slowly when Ross had finished his story.
Kelgarries seized upon it with the relief of one who needed action. "And they will be waiting for just such a move on our part," Webb continued deliberately. "All right, so they'll be watching!" the major said, about to lose his temper, "but it is about the only move we can make to back up the boys when they do go in." He whipped around the door and was gone. Webb got up slowly.
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