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There are ample water, light, power, air-conditioning and toilet facilities, and they can be sealed off completely from the rest of the building. If General Maith's agreeable, I'll take his shoonoon off his hands." "What in blazes will you do with them?" "Try a little experiment in psychological warfare.
He wanted to know how things were going. "Just about finished. I'm going to look in at a couple more native villages, and then I'm going to Sanders' plantation to see Gonzales. I hope I'll have a personal statement from him, and the final situation-progress map, in time for the 'cast. I take it Maith's still agreeable to releasing the story at twelve-hundred?" "Sure; he was always agreeable.
He had black eyes and black hair and mustache, and a slightly equine face that went well with his Old Terran Spanish name. There was another officer with him, considerably younger Captain Foxx Travis, Major General Maith's aide. "Well, is there anything we can do for you, Miles?" Gonzales asked, after they had exchanged greetings and sat down. "Why, could I have your final situation-progress map?
The lieutenant mopped his face on a bedraggled handkerchief. "They'll have to struggle along somehow for a while; we have orders to round up all the shoonoon and send them in to Bluelake." "Yes." That hadn't been General Maith's idea; the governor had insisted on that. "I hope it doesn't make more trouble than it prevents."
As soon as the uniformed girl who appeared in it saw him, her hands moved quickly; the screen flickered, and the general appeared in it. "We have it made, general. They're sold; we're ready to start them out in three hours." Maith's thin, weary face suddenly lighted. "You mean they are going to co-operate?" He shook his head.
Foxx Travis was singing softly, almost inaudibly: "You will eeeeat ... in the sweeeet ... bye-and-bye, You'll get oooom ... phel in the sky ... when you die!" Inside, Edith Shaw slumped dispiritedly in a chair. Foxx Travis went to the coffee-maker and started it. Miles snapped on the communication screen and punched the combination of General Maith's headquarters.
After a while, he returned, almost crackling with suppressed excitement. "Well, it's finally happened! Maith's forced Kovac to declare martial rule!" he said in an exultant undertone. "Forced him?" Edith was puzzled. "The Army can't force the Civil Government " "He threatened to do it himself. Intervene and suspend civil rule." "But I thought only the Navy could do that."
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