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I've been studying the design of the Election Tabulator, and I've discovered a wonderful opportunity for you and me. "Now listen it's possible to replace two transmitters on the main teletype trunk so that a winning percentage of the incoming votes will be totaled up for my party. Simple little job, isn't it? Worth a hundred thousand!"

And Mike's secret pride was the vocoder circuit with which he had terminated his link, originated because a teletype system similar to that used at the control console would have been too obvious; and his nimble fingers got all tangled up on a keyboard anyhow.

"Happy New Year both of you! Interesting news this morning. Take a look at these." They were teletype sheets. Rick saw that a machine was now in one corner of the control room, where technicians had finished installing it during the night. He and Scotty read the messages.

"You've got twelve hours to get rid of him." The three doctors huddled around the teletype, watching as the decoded message was punched out on the tape. "It started coming in just now," Tiger said. "And they've been beaming the signal in a spherical pattern, apparently trying to pick up the nearest ship they could get. There's certainly some sort of trouble going on."

"Just push the switch in the corner and talk to it." Ishie turned, glanced at the panel, and went over to the switch, pushing it. "I wondered how you were concealing the teletype," he said. "You mean you really talk to it?" The Sacred Cow's voice came back. "Reference not understoo-od. Ple-ease explai-ain." "Oy!" said Ishie. "It even sounds like a cow!" "Ye-es, si-ir," said the Cow.

Bessie might speak to the Cow through the teletype link and switches of her control console, but only Mike had the distinction of being able to speak directly to the big computer, and get the complacent, somewhat mooing answers; and only Mike knew of the existence of the vocoder aboard.

Unless the two men hid the car somewhere it's sure to be found. The teletype will flash the word all through the state." The following morning the Police Chief telephoned Tom to tell him that no trace of the mysterious Jones and Brown could be discovered, nor had any witness to the accident been located. Later Ned went to the hospital where he found Mr.