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But the opportunity offered by Leider's present withdrawal was one we could not afford to miss. We were drowning people, I said, and we must clutch at straws. And my friends were good enough to agree.
I don't suppose the destruction of one little mesh of wires had ever created such a disturbance before. Leider's cruiser rested in the hangar two caverns away. "Play hide-and-seek with them!" I shouted against the turmoil. The initial wave of the attack struck us as we tore from the laboratory corridor into the first power room.
They had lent themselves readily to Leider's fierce plans to make trouble for Earth. As to what Leider's plan of war was, Hargrib could not tell us much, for his duties kept him absorbed in other work, not connected with the campaign. He stated definitely, however, that Leider had almost completed the development of apparatus which would enable him to strike his blow without ever leaving Orcon.
With Leider's cruiser already headed toward the tunnel which led out from the underground hangar, I knew that it could be taken into space with a minimum loss of time. I believed that I could get an atomic gun going in our hold quickly, too.
If I could find a way to get close to the box on the table without rousing Leider's suspicion, the outlook might not be so black! "Leider," I exclaimed all at once, and there was a vigor in my words, "it's all very well for you to be saying these mighty things, but do you know what? I don't believe you can draw the energy out of the human race or disintegrate the Earth, either!"
You shall come with me and with your own eyes watch the de-energizing of New York and Paris and Berlin. For I am ready to do away with your paltry Earth now!" I felt the last energy ooze out of me and I sunk, all in a heap, on the floor of Ludwig Leider's cavern. Death in a Box New York. We did see it with our own eyes.
In the center of that cavern, with her nose pointing toward a wide tunnel down which showed a glimmer of daylight, rested the long, needle-like, bright hull of the most beautifully designed space flier I had ever seen. We did not need to be told that this was Leider's own cruiser. A ship of such magnitude and exceeding beauty could have been nothing else.
They only uttered tremendous hoarse sounds that might have been laughter. I stood up. "Koto, Leider's found means of protecting both raw materials and living beings against the atomic gun!" Captain Crane was beside us now, and I saw that she did not need to be told of the disaster. As Koto turned away from the gun, I thought of LeConte below.
I guessed that we would die, too, when Earth was gone probably here in this room. And it seemed likely that the destruction would begin at a not distant moment, for there was some quality of fanatical evil lurking even now in Leider's face. Then, however, I stiffened in my chair very suddenly indeed.
I said that I hoped to be able to locate Leider's headquarters and learn what method of attack he intended to use against Earth; and that I hoped further that at least one of us would be able to bring word back to LeConte, who could send it to Earth. Finally I indicated that we would see what could be done with our two tons of kotomite as soon as we had made the attempt to send information home.
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