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I said, "What was a little less? Major, are you talking about the bandits'
attack on the bus? Or about something that went on inside the bus?"
"Don't put words into my mouth! Marcy-you tell them!"
Having said that, Bozell looked blank. He started to add something,
stopped.
I most carefully kept quiet. Presently Mao said, "Well, Captain Marcy?"
"What do you want from me, sir? The director of the port, when he sent me
here, told me to cooperate fully... but not to volunteer anything you did not
ask for."
"I want everything relevant to this case. Did you give Major Bozell a
figure of eighty kilometers?"
"Yes, sir. Seventy-eight kilometers."
"How did you get that figure?"
"I measured it on a monitor at my console. Ordinarily we don't print a
satellite photograph, just display it. This man- you say his name is Johnson; I
knew him as 'Midnight'-if he's the same man. He called me last night at oh one
twenty-seven, stated that he was in the Lucky Dragon bus, reported that bandits
had attacked the bus-"
"Hah!"
"-and that the attack had been driven off but the driver, Aunt
Lilybet-Mistress Washington-was hurt and that the turret gunner was-"
"We know all that. Captain. Tell us about the photograph."
"Yes, Mr. Moderator. From what Midnight told me, I was able to direct the
satellite camera onto target
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