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headquarters in it, and filled it in. There are two entrances, a
vertical shaft and a horizontal tunnel."

"When they pulled out, they probably filled the shaft and[Pg 41]
vitrified the rock at the outer ends," his father added. "That was what
they did at Tenth Army."

Another idea hit him. "Mr. Mayor, do you think you could set up some
kind of a public-works program here in Litchfield? We can't start this
till after the wine-pressing's over, and we'll need a lot of labor, as I
pointed out. Now, it's important that we keep all our projects a secret
until we can get our claims filed. If we start this municipal
fix-up-and-clean-up program, we can give work to a lot of these drifters
who haven't been able to get jobs on the plantations, get them organized
into gangs, and keep them together till we're ready for the Force
Command job."