No answer.
“Scott! Can you hear me?”
Silence.
Hendricks relaxed, sagging. “Faded out. Must be radiation pools.”
- - - -
Hendricks and Klaus looked at each other. Neither of them said anything. After a time Klaus said, “Did it sound like any of your men? Could you identify the voice?”
“It was too faint.”
“You couldn’t be certain?”
“No.”
“Then it could have been—”
“I don’t know. Now I’m not sure. Let’s go back down and get the lid closed.”
They climbed back down the ladder slowly, into the warm cellar. Klaus bolted the lid behind them. Tasso waited for them, her face expressionless.
“Any luck?” she asked.
Neither of them answered. “Well?” Klaus said at last. “What do you think, Major? Was it your officer, or was it one of them?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then we’re just where we we
