THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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equipment nearest the tunnel exit and nearest the vertical shaft, and
ambulances and decontamination units and equipment for relief and
rebuilding next. Storerooms, mile on circular mile of them. Not the
hasty packrat cramming he'd seen at Tenth Army; everything had been
brought in in order, carefully piled or racked, and then left. More
stores for the next three levels up; then living quarters. Enlisted
men's and women's quarters, no signs of occupancy. Enlisted kitchens and
mess halls, untouched.

Most of the officers' quarters were similarly unused, but here and there
some had been occupied. A sloppily made bed. A used cake of soap in the
bathroom. An empty bottle in a closet. Officers' commissary stores had
been used from and replaced; the officers' mess hall and kitchen had
been in constant use, and the officers' club had a comfortably scuffed
and lived-in look. There had been a few people there all the time of the
War.