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.] As he finished he saw an officer come upthe ramp.'Did you get them?' Holt asked.'Yeah,' the officer said.'Both of them.Where's your visiphone? You've got this place so shieldedI can't use my suit radio.'Before Holt could answer, Larry interrupted with the thought that he wanted to contact theofficer.Holt asked the man over and Larry made the transfer.The man was the sergeant in chargeof the group.The sergeant went back down the ramp while Holt made his report for him toSecurity's control center.Using the officer's eyes, Larry looked around.At the foot of the ramp a drum that had fallen offa hand cart immediately caught his eye.The label on the side of the drum said 'Special FerrousCompound'.Ferrous - Iron - Generators.The association was that fast.They checked the hopper ofthe emergency power generator.Instead of little iron ingots, it was filled with green powder.[Find out if there's any way to keep the generator from turning on.Fast! There may be a powerfailure at any moment, and when there is, the hopper will explode like a bomb.] Larry instructedthe sergeant.Then he transferred to Holt.Holt didn't know how to keep the generator from turning on when the power went off but he pointedout that there were two generators downstairs.[There's so much duplicate gear down there that weonly have a repairman during the prime shift, that's 0800 to 1700.][Call him.Now!][I'll try to find his name,] Holt answered.Larry turned to the sergeant.[Any luck?][There are a bunch of leads that go into an armored cable.The cable goes into the floor anddisappears.I don't dare cut the leads because if I cut the wrong one first, the generator maystart.][There's a second generator around here somewhere.Find it, and while we're trying to get somehelp, try to clean the powder out of the hoppers.Use a vacuum cleaner,] Larry instructed.Holt was still looking for a name, so Larry Lensed Robert Niven of Maintenance.Niven was at homewatching late television.Niven knew the maintenance man.Larry had no way of reaching him soNiven made the phone call.Larry went back to the sergeant at Copernicus Control.[Call the control center and find out thelocation of the power substation that supplies Copernicus Control.Get some guards over there.]'Lieutenant?' [There's also an apartment.]'Lieutenant?'Larry suddenly realized that someone was talking to him.The driver of the transporter.'What?'Larry asked.'This is the hotel.Didn't you say you wanted to get off here?' the driver asked.'No,' Larry answered.'Would you mind driving me over to City Hall instead?'The driver pulled out of line, around the transporter that had brought the first suspect into theDome, waved, and called, 'I'm going on ahead.'That reminded Larry and he Lensed Officer Bratmon.[What's happening?][He made a stop at an apartment complex, got something out of their mechanical room and loaded itinto his transporter.] Officer Bratmon said.[He's headed toward the south end of town now.Ican't figure out where yet.][Does he know you're following him?]file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/E.iam%20B.%20%20Ellern%20-%20New%20Lensman.txt (64 of 80) [10/15/2004 2:31:41 PM] file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/E.%20E.%20Doc%20Smith%20-%20William%20B.%20%20Ellern%20-%20New%20Lensman.txt[I doubt it.][Got your armor on yet?][No,] the officer answered.[Get it on, even if you have to park to do it.It isn't doing any good on the floor back there andwe've already lost too many good officers.]There was a slight glow of pride from the officer and he stopped to hurriedly carry out Larry'sorder.Larry checked Niven.[Have you found your man yet?][Yes,] Niven answered.[I got him out of bed.He's calling Copernicus Control right now.][Good.Thank you.]Larry went back to the sergeant at Copernicus Control.[Found out where the power substation is?][Yes,] the sergeant answered.[There are four men on their way over there right now.They alsotold me about the apartment.Two men are heading over.]The visiphone rang and Holt answered.It was the repair man.Through Holt, Larry probed for theman but somehow he couldn't contact his mind.So Larry acted as a relay between Holt and thesergeant.Holt acted as the ears of the trio and asked questions while the sergeant acted as theeyes and hands.Between the three of them they found the proper leads and pulled them.Thensuddenly the repairman came in directly.He described to the officer how to clear out the hoppers.The lights went out.[It's all right, Mr.McQueen.When you told me that the power was going off,I put everything in the permanent storage mode.When the power comes back on, we'll get back onthe air in half a.agh!] Holt disappeared from the linkage.[What happened?] Larry asked.[I don't know,] the sergeant answered.'Lieutenant, we're here,' the driver announced.[I'll be back in a minute.Can you find out?] Larry asked.[Yes, I think so.]Larry broke contact.Holding three minds together, even for a few minutes, was now a tremendousstrain.The day would come when it was only a minor effort but that would be after a lot ofpractice.Right now he felt as if he had gone through the spin cycle of an automatic washer.Heasked the driver to wait for him and hurried into the City Hall as fast as he could go withoutrunning into a wall.[Hanovich?] he called ahead.[I need a suit of armor.]Hanovich indicated where he could get the armor.'While he did so, the sergeant at CopernicusControl called in and reported.There was a flurry of action as the control center dispatchedambulances and requested an emergency repair crew from Maintenance.Larry listened in throughHanovich.Moments later one of the officers sent to the power substation reported in.They had arrived justas the agent there set off an explosive charge on the side of the main transformer for theCopernicus Control area.The man had been shot in the attempt to capture him.They needed anambulance.Larry mentioned the possibility of suicide to Hanovich, who warned the officers.'I'll go in with him,' one officer said.'He isn't conscious right now, and by the time he is,we'll have him in new clothes and in the prison ward - if he survives.'The control center asked the Maintenance dispatcher to send out another repair team to look at thepower sub-station to see what they could do.The dispatcher did so and started calling in peoplefrom the day shift.The officers who had been sent to the apartment that the suspect from Customs had phoned, reportedthat they found two people dead in the apartment, apparently the residents, and a hole cut throughthe floor into a ventilation duct.There was a cylinder, apparently of V2, being fed into theduct.They turned it off.In the darkness that covered that portion of Copernicus when the substation went out, they hadmissed the person who had remained behind in the apartment.Larry checked with Officer Bratmon at the south end of Copernicus.[He's parked in front of a public visiphone booth, waiting,] Officer Bratmon answered.[He keepslooking at his wrist watch.]Larry looked at his wristwatch.What had the Customs officer said? That spaceship should have beenin about midnight.The attack had occurred about 00:15, which would have given the liner time toget in.Larry Lensed the Customs officer.[Did that liner ever get in?][No.1 haven't seen it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.] As he finished he saw an officer come upthe ramp.'Did you get them?' Holt asked.'Yeah,' the officer said.'Both of them.Where's your visiphone? You've got this place so shieldedI can't use my suit radio.'Before Holt could answer, Larry interrupted with the thought that he wanted to contact theofficer.Holt asked the man over and Larry made the transfer.The man was the sergeant in chargeof the group.The sergeant went back down the ramp while Holt made his report for him toSecurity's control center.Using the officer's eyes, Larry looked around.At the foot of the ramp a drum that had fallen offa hand cart immediately caught his eye.The label on the side of the drum said 'Special FerrousCompound'.Ferrous - Iron - Generators.The association was that fast.They checked the hopper ofthe emergency power generator.Instead of little iron ingots, it was filled with green powder.[Find out if there's any way to keep the generator from turning on.Fast! There may be a powerfailure at any moment, and when there is, the hopper will explode like a bomb.] Larry instructedthe sergeant.Then he transferred to Holt.Holt didn't know how to keep the generator from turning on when the power went off but he pointedout that there were two generators downstairs.[There's so much duplicate gear down there that weonly have a repairman during the prime shift, that's 0800 to 1700.][Call him.Now!][I'll try to find his name,] Holt answered.Larry turned to the sergeant.[Any luck?][There are a bunch of leads that go into an armored cable.The cable goes into the floor anddisappears.I don't dare cut the leads because if I cut the wrong one first, the generator maystart.][There's a second generator around here somewhere.Find it, and while we're trying to get somehelp, try to clean the powder out of the hoppers.Use a vacuum cleaner,] Larry instructed.Holt was still looking for a name, so Larry Lensed Robert Niven of Maintenance.Niven was at homewatching late television.Niven knew the maintenance man.Larry had no way of reaching him soNiven made the phone call.Larry went back to the sergeant at Copernicus Control.[Call the control center and find out thelocation of the power substation that supplies Copernicus Control.Get some guards over there.]'Lieutenant?' [There's also an apartment.]'Lieutenant?'Larry suddenly realized that someone was talking to him.The driver of the transporter.'What?'Larry asked.'This is the hotel.Didn't you say you wanted to get off here?' the driver asked.'No,' Larry answered.'Would you mind driving me over to City Hall instead?'The driver pulled out of line, around the transporter that had brought the first suspect into theDome, waved, and called, 'I'm going on ahead.'That reminded Larry and he Lensed Officer Bratmon.[What's happening?][He made a stop at an apartment complex, got something out of their mechanical room and loaded itinto his transporter.] Officer Bratmon said.[He's headed toward the south end of town now.Ican't figure out where yet.][Does he know you're following him?]file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/E.iam%20B.%20%20Ellern%20-%20New%20Lensman.txt (64 of 80) [10/15/2004 2:31:41 PM] file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/E.%20E.%20Doc%20Smith%20-%20William%20B.%20%20Ellern%20-%20New%20Lensman.txt[I doubt it.][Got your armor on yet?][No,] the officer answered.[Get it on, even if you have to park to do it.It isn't doing any good on the floor back there andwe've already lost too many good officers.]There was a slight glow of pride from the officer and he stopped to hurriedly carry out Larry'sorder.Larry checked Niven.[Have you found your man yet?][Yes,] Niven answered.[I got him out of bed.He's calling Copernicus Control right now.][Good.Thank you.]Larry went back to the sergeant at Copernicus Control.[Found out where the power substation is?][Yes,] the sergeant answered.[There are four men on their way over there right now.They alsotold me about the apartment.Two men are heading over.]The visiphone rang and Holt answered.It was the repair man.Through Holt, Larry probed for theman but somehow he couldn't contact his mind.So Larry acted as a relay between Holt and thesergeant.Holt acted as the ears of the trio and asked questions while the sergeant acted as theeyes and hands.Between the three of them they found the proper leads and pulled them.Thensuddenly the repairman came in directly.He described to the officer how to clear out the hoppers.The lights went out.[It's all right, Mr.McQueen.When you told me that the power was going off,I put everything in the permanent storage mode.When the power comes back on, we'll get back onthe air in half a.agh!] Holt disappeared from the linkage.[What happened?] Larry asked.[I don't know,] the sergeant answered.'Lieutenant, we're here,' the driver announced.[I'll be back in a minute.Can you find out?] Larry asked.[Yes, I think so.]Larry broke contact.Holding three minds together, even for a few minutes, was now a tremendousstrain.The day would come when it was only a minor effort but that would be after a lot ofpractice.Right now he felt as if he had gone through the spin cycle of an automatic washer.Heasked the driver to wait for him and hurried into the City Hall as fast as he could go withoutrunning into a wall.[Hanovich?] he called ahead.[I need a suit of armor.]Hanovich indicated where he could get the armor.'While he did so, the sergeant at CopernicusControl called in and reported.There was a flurry of action as the control center dispatchedambulances and requested an emergency repair crew from Maintenance.Larry listened in throughHanovich.Moments later one of the officers sent to the power substation reported in.They had arrived justas the agent there set off an explosive charge on the side of the main transformer for theCopernicus Control area.The man had been shot in the attempt to capture him.They needed anambulance.Larry mentioned the possibility of suicide to Hanovich, who warned the officers.'I'll go in with him,' one officer said.'He isn't conscious right now, and by the time he is,we'll have him in new clothes and in the prison ward - if he survives.'The control center asked the Maintenance dispatcher to send out another repair team to look at thepower sub-station to see what they could do.The dispatcher did so and started calling in peoplefrom the day shift.The officers who had been sent to the apartment that the suspect from Customs had phoned, reportedthat they found two people dead in the apartment, apparently the residents, and a hole cut throughthe floor into a ventilation duct.There was a cylinder, apparently of V2, being fed into theduct.They turned it off.In the darkness that covered that portion of Copernicus when the substation went out, they hadmissed the person who had remained behind in the apartment.Larry checked with Officer Bratmon at the south end of Copernicus.[He's parked in front of a public visiphone booth, waiting,] Officer Bratmon answered.[He keepslooking at his wrist watch.]Larry looked at his wristwatch.What had the Customs officer said? That spaceship should have beenin about midnight.The attack had occurred about 00:15, which would have given the liner time toget in.Larry Lensed the Customs officer.[Did that liner ever get in?][No.1 haven't seen it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]