THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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feet on the ground, using personal weapons."

"We'll have to win this one pretty soon," Rodney Maxwell said. "The
amount of nuclear energy we've been releasing will be detectable
anywhere on the planet by now. The Government has a ship like the
/Lester Dawes/ in commission; if this keeps on, she'll be coming out for
a look."

"Then we'll have help," Captain Poole said.

"We need Government help like we need the polka-dot fever," Rodney
Maxwell said. "If they get in it, they'll claim the spaceport
themselves, and we'll have fought a battle for nothing."

Well, that was it, then. The spaceport was essential to the[Pg 78]
Maxwell Plan. He'd gotten seven men killed?eight, if the recon-car that
was taking Abe Samuels to the hospital in Litchfield didn't make it in