THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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The jeep moved over. A moment later his father cried, "He's getting me;
I'm getting him. What's the matter with the radio in here? The snooper's
all right, isn't it?"

It was. Conn reactivated it and put it up above the tops of the vehicles.

"Sure. We just can't transmit out."

"But only half a mile of rock; that set's good for more than that. It'll
transmit clear through Snagtooth."

"It won't transmit through collapsium."

His father swore disgustedly, repeating it to Zareff outside. Conn could
hear the old soldier, in the radio, make a similar remark. They should
have all expected that, in the first place. If the Third Force High
Command was expecting to sit out a nuclear bombardment in this place,