THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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him an idea of the sort of booby-traps that tunnel could be filled with.
He knew what he'd have put into it if he'd been defending that place.

Colonel Zareff had sent one last message from Force[Pg 76] Command when
he lifted off with a flight of recon-cars. After that, he maintained a
communication blackout. It was an hour and a half before he got close
enough to be detected from the outlaw stronghold. Immediately, the
volcano began spewing out missiles. Poole hastily took the /Lester
Dawes/ ten miles down the rift-valley in sixty seconds, while Stefan
Jorisson put out a nuclear-warhead missile and left it circling about
where the ship had been. From their respective positions, Fred Karski
and Charley Gatworth filled the airspace midway to the volcano with
counter-missiles, each loaded with four rockets. There were explosions,
fireballs in the air and rising cumulus clouds of varicolored smoke and
dust. Only about half the enemy missiles reached the /Lester Dawes'/
former position.