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Updated: June 14, 2025
Byng and Hawkes had tried to block the doorway and they had been shot down. Hawkes was killed instantly; Byng died an hour later in the hospital. At least two other members of the gang had been apprehended Jensen and Smith, both trapped by the roboguards. It was known that at least two other men and possibly more had participated in the attempt, and these were being traced now.
Shortly after noon, Hawkes and Alan left the apartment and boarded the Undertube, their destination the downtown section of York City where the World Reserve Bank was located. They reached the bank about 1230. The armored truck was parked outside, looking sleek and impregnable, and four massive roboguards stood watch, one by each wheel.
The roboguards were in the act of directing the locking of the truck; the loading had been carried out precisely on schedule. The truck was shut and sealed. The roboguards froze. Webber had been right on time. Alan tensed, caught up in the excitement of the moment and thinking now only of the part he was to play. The three policemen glanced at each other in some confusion.
None of the others were visible. Webber, Alan knew, was at this moment sitting in an office overlooking the bank entrance, staring out the window at the scene below. At precisely 1240, Webber was to throw the switch on the wave-damper that would paralyze the four roboguards. The instant the roboguards froze, the other conspirators would go into action.
There were three human policemen too, but they were strictly for effect; in case of any trouble, the roboguards were expected to handle the rough work. The bank was a mighty edifice indeed over a hundred stories high, rising in sweeping setbacks to a point where its tapering top was lost in the shimmering noonday sky. It was, Alan knew, the center of global commerce.
Jensen and McGuire came leaping out at them And the roboguards returned to life. The sound of blaster shots was heard within the bank; Alan whirled, startled. Four guards came racing out of the building, blasters drawn. What had happened to Hawkes and Byng why weren't they obstructing the entrance, as it had been arranged? The street was a scene of wild confusion now; people milled everywhere.
At least ten million credits are going to be picked up by an armored truck and taken to branch banks for distribution. "Hollis, here, happens to have found out the wave-patterns of the roboguards who'll be protecting the currency shipment. And Al Webber has some equipment that can paralyze roboguards if we know their operational wavelength.
A daring robbery had been attempted, but police detection methods had yielded advance warning, and the robbers had been frustrated. The roboguards had been specially equipped ones which could shift to an alternate wavelength in case of emergency; they had blanked out only momentarily. And special guards had been posted within the bank, ready to charge out.
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