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Updated: June 11, 2025
"You will swing the rim of the wheel into that alignment as rapidly as it can possibly be done." The captain's voice practically lifted the two men off the bridge, and they were on their way to the engineering quarters with every appearance of the urgency they should have felt if they had not known who or rather what was the real saboteur.
"I wonder what Tom is up to?" said Roger thoughtfully. "He said he knew who the saboteur was, but he needed help to prove it." "I'd give a full year's leave just to get my hands on that guy for ten minutes," said Astro. "Yeah," grunted Roger. "Well, come on, hot-shot, we still got a lot of cleaning to do."
"We shouldn't be too far off-orbit by the time the flare's over, either, even with that jet constant. It'll take quite a bit of work, but we should be able to get her back into position with not too many hours of lost worktime. "Except for Thule, I'd say we got off fairly light. "Yes," he added grimly, "it looks like that's what your saboteur was.
This I shall leave," he added dryly, "to your rather ... fertile ... imagination. "There is reason to believe that Project Hot Rod was turned on by a saboteur. Your method must be proof against him, and if he exists, he will not be stupid." The captain switched off. Mike turned to the control panel, and after a few minutes thought busied himself for some time.
Avoiding the convenience of the monorail, he struck out on foot over the rugged countryside for Space Academy. He had a plan, but the plan required that he talk to Roger and Astro first, and then to Captain Strong, but it had to be done secretly. He realized that his knowledge of the identity of the saboteur would be a more effective weapon if everyone still believed he was on Mars.
They've got just so much time left, and they'll use it! But Mike's plan would offer them a diversion under cover of which they could pull their own stuff! And besides that, you know your office leaks! You couldn't set up a trick like this through security methods. And for a third fact, this is the one sort of thing no saboteur would expect from your security organization!
"No, he doesn't," snapped Professor Hemmingwell. "This is something I developed that only the commander and myself know about." "So, if you and Commander Walters are the only ones that know about it," said Steve Strong slowly, "then a saboteur would have thought it unimportant and concentrated on the rest of the mechanism." "Looks that way," mused Connel.
In other words, the saboteur abandons mass action in favor of ineffective and futile assaults upon men or property. And, in fact, the syndicalists are most interesting when they leave their own theories and turn their guns upon the socialist parties of the present day.
As Rick walked back to his barracks he pondered over the meaning of the day's development. For one thing, theft of the transistors put a new light on the Earthman's activities. It added a profit motive to whatever else motivated the mysterious saboteur. Or did it? How Big Mac and Pancho fitted into all this remained to be determined.
Who would have anything to gain but an enemy?" "If we had the answers, we could find the saboteur," Gordon pointed out. "If we knew why he calls himself 'The Earthman' we might also have a lead. But as it is, we're stumped. It could be anyone on the base, including me." "Is it you?" Barby asked in a stage whisper. Gordon looked around, as though to make sure there were no eavesdroppers.
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